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echinopsis posted:the way word saves now sucks this is so frustrating. And then it shows the explorer dialog as a final step. That and there's no way to really send out a link to your office document that isn't a link that opens in a web browser.
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the narrative that windows phone was killed "too soon" or that there was one thing that led to its failure is pure nostalgia many, many individual bad choices were made over the course of years to get it to what was essentially an untenable market position
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rip lunix archduke
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qirex posted:the narrative that windows phone was killed "too soon" or that there was one thing that led to its failure is pure nostalgia "please support our os - sure you may to completely scrap and redo everything in 18 months, but its totally worth it for that 2% market share we represent" - not a great value proposition
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if I had to point to one, "we're going to charge oems per handset for the operating system" was probably its original sin and worst idea
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qirex posted:if I had to point to one, "we're going to charge oems per handset for the operating system" was probably its original sin and worst idea
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FMguru posted:ballmer-era msft thinking that the leverage that windows/office gave them operated across all technical markets and domains was a reliable source of laughs  "
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qirex posted:if I had to point to one, "we're going to charge oems per handset for the operating system" was probably its original sin and worst idea i'd say the whole policy of "no native code, everyone will rewrite everything in c#/vb.net/silverlight just because we tell them to", which basically ensured that the original winphone had next to no apps or games, was a pretty major factor as well
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but it worked for Google!
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I think the biggest problem with windows phones was just that it's hard to break into the market when there are already iphones and android (i.e. good luck convincing developers to make apps for another platform)
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The_Franz posted:i'd say the whole policy of "no native code, everyone will rewrite everything in c#/vb.net/silverlight just because we tell them to", which basically ensured that the original winphone had next to no apps or games, was a pretty major factor as well If windows phone was successful I can only imagine the wonderful and horrible things that would have come out of the vb.net community.
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Oct 25, 2023 19:00
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given their current development and release practices, i loving pine for balmer era microsoft the products may have been poo poo, but they were poo poo in a consistent and reliable way that you plan around and you knew they'd stay that way until the next major release or service pack
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Windows Phone was too late for phone stuff and too early for general arm stuff. Just stick the phone UI and driver bits back in to win11 arm and bring it back.
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Macrohard should make their own phone OS that's more like iOS/Android but still has a bit of Win11 aesthetix
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JAnon posted:Macrohard should make their own phone OS that's more like iOS/Android but still has a bit of Win11 aesthetix no?
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akadajet posted:no? yes! and by aesthetics I mean VISUAL aesthetics
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I'll only buy the windows phone if the UI resembles windows 2000 or older Any windows after that had no aesthetics
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r u ready to WALK posted:Also bring back Windows 7
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JAnon posted:yes! this is generally called “visual design” fyi also everything is flat and big fonts now and people seem to generally hate it
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infernal machines posted:given their current development and release practices, i loving pine for balmer era microsoft Agreed. The one thing you could depend on MS for was software that worked without problems for it’s intended use case. It might have security problems, gobble up your rams, and have some kludgy attempt at backwards compa~1 but it did its job. Now its all glitchy and in your face along with all the other problems. Oh and windows has also progressed to the point where fiddling with the CLI or registry is part of the normal user experience and not some nerd poo poo. It’s like they gave up on trying to have any kind of brand.
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Internet Old One posted:backwards compa~1 lol
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Internet Old One posted:Agreed. The one thing you could depend on MS for was software that worked without problems for it’s intended use case. It might have security problems, gobble up your rams, and have some kludgy attempt at backwards compa~1 but it did its job. their stock is up 3% cos azure, google is down 10% because gcp. i guess you are just not a business genius like satya
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the Clippy flash-toons MS made with Gilbert Gottfried as Clippy were good
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Internet Old One posted:Agreed. The one thing you could depend on MS for was software that worked without problems for it’s intended use case. It might have security problems, gobble up your rams, and have some kludgy attempt at backwards compa~1 but it did its job. oh for sure. it was boring and predictable and it allowed you to come up with a way to use it to accomplish a task. they're so far up their own asses with rolling release feature bukkake that it's impossible to actually do anything with this garbage. even if you figure out a usable workflow to accomplish a task, it will be broken and in six different places next week. they seem to have no idea what they even make software for anymore. they're just writing code and pushing features for the sake of it.
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user training is literally impossible because nothing is in the same place long enough for documentation to be worthwhile microsoft's own documentation, for literally everything, is now wrong and out of date in thousands of major and subtle ways. it's completely loving useless except as a historical guide for how you might have accomplished whatever in the five minutes around when it was published. they can't even loving sell me licenses to use their products, not the least because no one knows what the gently caress anything is called anymore. and if you do happen to nail down a name, there's basically no way to guarantee you're licensed to use any given subset of features, because half the features are unknown to the people making the licensing requirements infernal machines fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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that's ok, you can go to answers.microsoft.com and some dipshit will have completely failed to read the question and answered something irrelevant
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infernal machines posted:oh for sure. it was boring and predictable l turn on your monitor
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pseudorandom name posted:that's ok, you can go to answers.microsoft.com and some dipshit will have completely failed to read the question and answered something irrelevant run sfc /scannow (accepted answer due to lack of response from the OP)
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pseudorandom name posted:that's ok, you can go to answers.microsoft.com and some dipshit will have completely failed to read the question and answered something irrelevant wait, it's all 3 right
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Internet Old One posted:Agreed. The one thing you could depend on MS for was software that worked without problems for it’s intended use case. It might have security problems, gobble up your rams, and have some kludgy attempt at backwards compa~1 but it did its job.
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wouldn't it be compat~1
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Tankakern posted:wouldn't it be compat~1 THANKYOU. this was bothering me but like 80% of my posts are pedantry and being a dick so I left it
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shitface posted:THANKYOU. this was bothering me but like 80% of my posts are pedantry and being a dick so I left it 
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I like how there's several pixels of padding between the one-pixel wide scrollbar and the edge of the screen in a maximized window, it really highlights that UX design is dead and gone
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pseudorandom name posted:I like how there's several pixels of padding between the one-pixel wide scrollbar and the edge of the screen in a maximized window, it really highlights that UX design is dead and gone quite the contrary, there's more of it than ever it's just all being done in separate silos and not centrally managed or given oversight because that would "create dependencies"
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it’s good how in windows 11 the button you have to press to get to the power restart thing now moves rather than always being in the same place each time. keeps me on my toes
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updated win11 vm and rebooted and they'd jammed "co-pilot" chat-gpt bullshit in. it was able to help me resolve my problem and it was very happy to suicide itself use the gpedit method it suggests to kill it completely (or as completely as any of the bullshit in win 11 can be)
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ask it how to install a good operating system
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r u ready to WALK posted:ask it how to install a good operating system The Kobayashi Maru is a training exercise in the Star Trek franchise designed to test the character of Starfleet Academy cadets in a no-win scenario. The Kobayashi Maru test was first depicted in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and it has since been referred to and depicted in numerous other Star Trek media.
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