I am always baffled as to what Microsoft gets away with because of their monopoly in the consumer market. Imagine them releasing Windows for the first time today.
Maybe they shouldn’t have fired their QA department
One is nearly inclined to think that in-house beta testers weren’t a waste of money.
And then Microsoft gets annoyed when people don’t immediately start using Win 10, then Win 11.
Seeing the results, it looks like earlier versions had more QA done before the release, whereas nowaday a bigger part of QA is done by customers after the release.
Only if revenue goes down.
Sacking testers makes nothing but sense if your customers are as dumb as us. My employer continues to sign contracts before the functions we need have been proven. income independent of functionality.
TBF our procurement people don’t seem to think our requirements are any more complex than “big computer” and MS probably offered “really big really good computer, cheap computer, big , nice price, 25% less than oracle, high security, safe computer, cloud, ai, yes fully working with 12 month, you pay now, special discount, extra 10% off if you sign today, hurry rush best deal”.
I suspect negotiations like that drive a disappointingly large amounts of their revenue.
Open shell is a helpful solution that replaces some of the problems in the windows UI at least for the start menu.
It’s pretty easy to customize most things.
Yup I use it, when I must use Windows. So much better than the default, I sometimes forget I am using Win11.
“Microsoft”, who? Certainly not Suleyman, Davuluri, or Nadella.
Can you imagine, what if Microsoft in the future will swap to Linux as their Kernel for Windows? Then WINE and Proton are also much better if Microsoft is actively working on it, as they would need it in a Linux based Windows system. I am talking about something like 20 years from from now. Looking at Android or even SteamOS, it could still be filled with proprietary stuff. But Microsoft would benefit from the superior system and lots of free development. Does anyone else think this could be a possibility?
Would Wine be better with Microsoft working on it? The frequency and severity of regressions in Windows has been increasing for years now. Maybe for Wine to be a more accurate representation of Windows 11 it needs more bugs and less functionality. The Windows team is good at that.
yeah, wine’s trajectory is the complete opposite of MS.
I reject the idea that MS is the expert in MS stuff. corporate structure and institutional knowledge and strategy are not the same as a person knowing something. I’m sure there are people in MS who know more than anyone. but together I suspect they’re far far less than the sum of their parts.
I remember trying to open word-97 .doc files in office 2002.
Surely MS knows how to read it’s own file format? Nope, well, not as well as star/sun/open/libreoffice (whichever one it was at the time).
I’m sure someone in MS was saying “lets do a bit more work on backwards compatibility”; I’m pretty sure that person was immediately tied to the desk with a giant annoying ribbon and forced to become familiar with a whole box of paperclip suppositories.
Oh hang on, that was decades ago, they’ve grown so much since then .
Yes, because Microsoft knows stuff in Windows that can be utilized in WINE. And maybe open sourcing a few parts to add to it. We are talking about WINE, an open source project where Microsoft doesn’t have the entire say. We can check and correct or reject, unlike whatever happens in closed source Windows.
