I tried this onece. But I have to do it digitally because my caligraphy is terrible and I have to write in a slow manner if I want to understand what I wrote latter.

In the end it would take too much of my time just writing everything, so I stop doing. Maybe I give a go if I find a better way in the future.

This is what happens when you let all decision to the marketing team without any supervision. They became full retarded.

Marketing need as much supervision as a toddler in a cristal store.

I think is funny, because is not the first time I hear about microsoft employees not using the company products.

I worked on a project with some microsoft engineers to create a chatbot plugin for Salesforce, using Microsoft Power Virtual Agent, and the comunication tool they used was Slack and not teams. And I was obligated to use teams because of the consuting company I worked at the time.

And also the version control they used at the time was I think SVN, and not TFS.

In the end is hardto see why they banked so heavy into it. When open AI started t o make promisses and everybody saw what it could do, Microsoft invested heavily on it, seeing some of the largest increase in its shares, and in consequence on big fat bonus for its executives.

NOw that the hype is naturally going down, and people are encountering limitations in what modern AI can do, and having more realistic expectations, Microsoft hype train stoped in middle of the hill climb.

They pretty much exchanged gradual increases in revenue for a quick but ultimally short term profit.

I genuinely think that an "agentic" (I hate that word) OS would be incredibly useful. But both how Copilot was integrated into Windows and it simply being a terrible model destroyed that possibility.

I think it can work. In about what? 10 years, maybe more. Tech is simply not yet on the same page as a star trekk computer that you can talk and make it work.

And the main thing that needs to change for it to work is, that AI agents need to run locally, with your own agent without needing cloud processing. Maybe when we get into this point, is when it will make sense, from a pratical and private way.

Now what could work is making a traditional OS, but exposing ways of its power users maketheir own IA agents with the OS data, and this way choose what they want to share wth the cloud.

Too be honest, thres is too much wrong with win 11 to save it at this point.

Is not only AI bullshit in my notepad.

The excess adds, intrusive online stuff, terriblee performance for basic tasks like the File Explorer or even opening a menu.

Making everything a damn web page...

One clear example is outlook. Talk wathever you want, outlook, is the indistry standart for e-mail. And while not perfect it was very usefull. Then they keep pushing the new interface on everybody throats. The new interface takes like 1 gb of RAM when in use, agaisnt 200mb of the traditional one, while offering less options. Why would anyone who really cares about e-mail use that shit? People who just casually use e-mails dont use Outlook, they use the webmail.

They choose to ignore the users, and push top down changes into them. But the market dont really works this way for most people. Not every tech company needs to be like Apple.

It’s amazing how much worse outlook got and how fast it got so much worse. It also can’t handle screens with different scales, it sometimes inexplicably fails to render an email, printing can produce files of different size - using the web version produces smaller pdfs than the desktop version. I miss thunderbird a lot since the company forced Outlook use and also removed the classic outlook option - or maybe it only has the weird white space version now.

While I did enjoy thunderbird its lack of hability to use microsoft outlook protocol for e-mail and calendas, always keeped me from use it.

Also, to be honest, I dont trust mozilla anymore than microsoft these days.

The problem with windows is not the kernel, as it is preety solid, but user space.

Wathever problems windows have today, retro compatibility was always a strong point in favor of windows. Breaking it with such a change in the kernel, would make most of its users even bitter than they are today.

Windows NT is indeed a pretty solid technical foundation. But I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to destroy that in a push to use AI for ongoing development. Perhaps the kernel team will have enough political sway to avoid that outcome. We'll see.

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At this point I dont trust common sense in anybody inside Microsoft.

They are doing dumb shit for about 5 years now, and killing MS Office, a brand thats market leader for more than 30 years prooves that anybody who had conservative opinion on how software should be built have already abandoned the ship or was kicked out of it.

Now is being run by "visionary" marketing people, and the only way left is down.

5 years? try 10

Windows 10 released with the ability for the user to not consent to updates REMOVED

the direction of travel from that point on was clear

consent was no longer necessary

the OS is purpose is no longer to serve the owner of the computer, it is there to serve Microslop's whims

and that was the point I went full linux everywhere

Its a fair point.

I use it daily. Great little app for taking screenshots on mac, since the macapp is terrible, and the keyboard binding is even worse.

Wifi routers are little magic devices that work only when they want. I talked before here, but I had a Dell Vostro notebook that everytime it connected with my router using windows it would just kill the entire home wifi. It was a TP-Link mesh network. The only thing that would bring the thing up was to reboot every single router in the network and not connect that notebook.

I tried update my routers, tried to update my notebook wifi firmware, tryed to change the router config, the router position, the router order, the wifi channel, the wifi name and password. Nothing worked. But if I connected using linux, things would work just fine.

In the end I divorced my wife and brought a Thinkpad. She keeped the cat, the house, the routers and that dell vostro notebook.

I keeped the dog and the car.

A divorce is a quite radical solution for a WiFi problem. But I am happy it worked.

Anything for a fast internet connection.

They are probably a money laundy scheme this days. I used to donate every year to Mozilla. Of course, small ammounts because Im not rich. Today they would have to beat this money from my hands.