{"id":56766,"date":"2022-03-21T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=40f0c042423d09a7fb4d8118a7b29fcc"},"modified":"2022-03-21T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T23:39:14","slug":"windows-needs-a-change-in-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=56766","title":{"rendered":"Windows needs a change in priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: \"____ isn\u2019t an ____ designed for its users, it\u2019s an operating system designed to increase ad and services revenue\" is a basic description of why everything commercialized tech touches turns to shit.<\/div>

We need to talk about Windows priorities as a product<\/a>. And I am saying this as someone who wants<\/em> Windows to succeed – it’s a great OS that, despite it’s naysayers, is still one of the best when it comes to backwards compatibility and richness of functionality. I mean, I can literally run a game written for Windows 95 on Windows 11 without major issues (no, I am not going to open the SafeDisc can of worms this time). I can’t do that on macOS or Linux boxes reliably, and yet Windows is doing a-OK with this task. That being said, I am disappointed to see the direction that the OS is taking lately, and it feels like a very odd misplacement of priorities, especially given the advances that other<\/em> Microsoft products are going through.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A detailed post outlining all the problems on Windows – problems that are only getting worse. Using Windows these days feels like visiting Times Square in New York – it’s a cacophony<\/a> of lights and colours and advertisements and noise that, while an experience worth having, I didn’t want to stay for much longer than a few minutes. It doesn’t have much to offer besides<\/em> the lights and colours and advertisements and noise, because those are the very point of Times Square. There’s nothing else of value there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Windows is the same – it isn’t an operating system designed for its users, it’s an operating system designed to increase ad and services revenue. The people in charge at Windows clearly aren’t the people who care about a coherent, welcoming, pleasing, thorough, and well-crafted experience – it’s the advertisement bozos and cloudbros who run the Windows department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s sad.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We need to talk about Windows priorities as a product. And I am saying this as someone who wants Wi…<\/p>\n

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