It's part of their secret strategy to turn oldschool Windows dinosaurs into enthusiastic Linux power users. Next they'll introduce middle click pasting.
Third button has been "hidden" below the mouse wheel for well more than those 10 years, just press the wheel down and you'll hear a mouse button click.
> The three button Alto mouse enabled the first bitmapped and overlapping windows display, known as a graphical user interface (GUI). The Alto dates to March of 1973
Because all of Microsoft's people secretly use linux on thier machines.
(No joke. This is a thing. It means when something goes catastrophically wrong with windows, the people in position to fix the problem will still be able to function.)
When one of the senior executives from Bing Search visited my university for a talk, they personally told the director of the computer science department that they envied the fact that the director could use a 27-inch iMac at work, whereas they could only use one at home.
The head of bing search is not ever going to be in position to issue an emergency patch for windows. They are far more likely to cause such a situation than resolve one.
They’re at the last step of their enshittification process, where the focus is to extract money from everyone, not to ship a good product or fix things.
It's part of their secret strategy to turn oldschool Windows dinosaurs into enthusiastic Linux power users. Next they'll introduce middle click pasting.
Now that GNOME wants to abandon it.
GNOME devs really are special. I wonder why.
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*turn it from default-on to default-off
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They already did that by forcing "AI" into the OS.
PC mice haven't had three buttons for decades!
Third button has been "hidden" below the mouse wheel for well more than those 10 years, just press the wheel down and you'll hear a mouse button click.
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Remember Xerox PARC, the people that developed the first computer GUI?
https://archive.is/sKLL
> The three button Alto mouse enabled the first bitmapped and overlapping windows display, known as a graphical user interface (GUI). The Alto dates to March of 1973
My dude, my mouse has 5 buttons. No idea what you're talking about here.
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Because all of Microsoft's people secretly use linux on thier machines.
(No joke. This is a thing. It means when something goes catastrophically wrong with windows, the people in position to fix the problem will still be able to function.)
When one of the senior executives from Bing Search visited my university for a talk, they personally told the director of the computer science department that they envied the fact that the director could use a 27-inch iMac at work, whereas they could only use one at home.
The head of bing search is not ever going to be in position to issue an emergency patch for windows. They are far more likely to cause such a situation than resolve one.
Yeah, sure this is a thing. All of Microsoft's people secretly use Linux...
I can't really add to that one but I do know that many at Cisco turn old Cisco gear into Linux workstations.
The one dev I know at Microsoft runs WSL2
That and forced LLM adoption means they solve problems in text.
CI/CD baby! Deliver early, deliver often, fix it later.
They’re at the last step of their enshittification process, where the focus is to extract money from everyone, not to ship a good product or fix things.