Comment by kyriakos
9 hours ago
If nobody cared about windows there wouldn't be any posts like this one everyday on HN. The problem is people do care and need to use windows which makes all these stupidity by Microsoft the recent years frustrating.
9 hours ago
If nobody cared about windows there wouldn't be any posts like this one everyday on HN. The problem is people do care and need to use windows which makes all these stupidity by Microsoft the recent years frustrating.
I am personally just a lurker. Windows used to be my only OS for a -very- long time (DOS 2.x, yes 2, was my first MS OS). Now I click on these just to see how far it has fallen. It is like that friend you drifted away from and now you look at their FB posts now and again to watch as they get crazier and crazier.
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No
It's more like "nobody cares about Windows" as in: no one is impressed that you added Copilot into Notepad, no one wants you to move the cheese, they just want to get on with their actual work without being interrupted by "good things coming your way" which is inevitably just more annoyance, more bugs, more Copilot buttons.
Most people would probably have preferred if Windows had zero feature updates* since Windows 7, just security patches.
* Well, OK, fine. Task Manager is better now, I'll grant them that one.
I am not going to defend MS but I have to say that the frustration is less than it was in the 90s.
Reinstalling Windows used to take an entire afternoon. Now I can do it in an hour.
Basically Windows and computers in general have always been frustrating.
I'm not certain what point you are attempting to make, The size of Windows install has not smaller and therefore improving install time, but rather the hardware has gotten so much faster. Installing from a USB 3 key is so much faster than floppy or optical media, as well as NVMe drives are receiving the data vs old spinning rust drives.
We need something that just works. I guess Microsoft made me care because their products are unpredictable.