WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
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@topspin as long as I can ask it to find the registry setting to turn it off, I'm OK with it
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If you've enjoyed the start menu in the cloud, why not enjoy the rest of our cloud range products, served directly from Azure to your computer. Why not tell your friends about it, while you're at it?
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@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Why not tell your friends about it, while you're at it?
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@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
If you've enjoyed the start menu in the cloud, why not enjoy the rest of our cloud range products, served directly from Azure to your computer. Why not tell your friends about it, while you're at it?
Please write a review for our start menu offering (modal dialog).
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Please describe in detail why you are not rating 5 stars.
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Cortana has identified this solution to your problem. Please update your review.
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@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Why not tell your friends about it, while you're at it?
The what now?
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@PleegWat I see Microsoft is going for the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation award.
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@Applied-Mediocrity Alternative punchline, "Because I want to keep them."
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@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Why not tell your friends about it,
Because I want them to remain my friends. Or I suppose I would, if I had any.
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@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Why not tell your friends about it, while you're at it?
Oh, I will. Doesn't mean I'll be saying what you'd like.
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No more expensing WinRAR CDs
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
No more expensing WinRAR CDs
The short blurb in the actual blog post says they're using libarchive for it and not specifically how they're adding support. Cynical me says they'll add a craplet in PowerShell. Explorer gets to keep the existing .zip support that doesn't understand long file paths.
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@Parody and likely that native support will only extend to extracting from, not making new, such archives.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
No more expensing WinRAR CDs
The short blurb in the actual blog post says they're using libarchive for it and not specifically how they're adding support.
I fully expect that native .rar handling will be just as shit as native .zip handling. Microsoft never fails to disappoint.
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Other cynical takes from that Build blog:
Dev Home: A front-end for GitHub with all of your favorite features from the Microsoft Store!
Dev Drive: "Hey, we found a use for ReFS! We also sped things up by automatically disabling Defender on it."
AI: AI AI AI AI AI AI Graph—err—AI AI AI AI.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Dev Drive: "Hey, we found a use for ReFS! We also sped things up by automatically disabling Defender on it."
So they're presenting a bug as a feature. :ill-allow-it.apng:
I wonder what the underlying problem is? Unable to watch for modifications?
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Status: WiNdOwS SuPpOrTs LoNg FiLeNaMeS!1!11!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Status: WiNdOwS SuPpOrTs LoNg FiLeNaMeS!1!11!
:@RaymondChen: We could have fixed it, but someone somewhere relies on this function failing in this particular way.
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Status: why is clicking checkboxes a heavily difficult task in the Settings App?
Chore: tick eight boxes to select the labeled drivers for download and behold...
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Status: the Windows Recovery Environment on this PC doesn't have appropriate drivers for the SSD controller (It's an HP Envy laptop), so I'm curious what would happen if I instructed it to try uninstalling updates or the like...
It's too bad updating said environment's image is such a high-level magic trick.
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Oh goody, Win11 getting more ads.
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@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Oh goody, Win11 getting more ads.
Wait, Cortana was a separate App? That wasn't just the shitty search bar?
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@Tsaukpaetra It was the shitty search bar and a separate app. And before the consumer side got gutted to make it "suitable for business" in 2017, it had full feature parity with Siri and the Google Assistant on both desktop and Windows Phone.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Oh goody, Win11 getting more ads.
Wait, Cortana was a separate App? That wasn't just the shitty search bar?
They broke it out when they removed it from the taskbar Search.
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Tsaukpaetra It was the shitty search bar and a separate app.
And a floor wax and a dessert topping.
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@Applied-Mediocrity they’re a small company, they try their best.
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@Applied-Mediocrity It's more fair this way. Instead of having half-assed translations for non-English speakers only, English speakers now also get to join in on the fun. They only need to find a way to mess up US English so that everybody can have the same subpar experience.
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@cvi said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
They only need to find a way to mess up US English
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@Applied-Mediocrity Literal
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Status: WiNdOwS SuPpOrTs LoNg FiLeNaMeS!1!11!
:@RaymondChen: We could have fixed it, but someone somewhere relies on this function failing in this particular way.
You may laugh at that but a former colleague of mine submitted a jdk bug and got that response from Sun.
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Y’all laugh at the MySQL real_escape_string debacle but originally that was their reasoning too.
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It was time to download Google Chrome on a new Windows 11 computer.
I typed “Chrome” into the Microsoft Edge search bar.
I was greeted with a full-screen Microsoft Bing AI chatbot window, which promptly told me it was searching for . . . Bing Features.
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@Gern_Blaanston is replacing Chrome with an equally shitty version of Chrome.
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@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Y’all laugh at the MySQL real_escape_string debacle but originally that was their reasoning too.
It's both a valid excuse and a convenient one.
The industry did rather quickly transform from compatibility at all costs to casually breaking shit. It seems there's no middle ground to be had.
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Gern_Blaanston is replacing Chrome with an equally shitty version of Chrome.
I did install Edge on my Android phone not long ago. It kind of sucks, but... Science must be done.
Findings (other than it sucks, because everything does):
- It has the settings and tab control at the lower side of the screen. Easier to reach with one hand.
- Not sure how well the built-in ABP works.
- And then there's the stupid Share button that can't be removed and the perpetual "plz set me as default" banner.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I do run three browsers on my work laptop: Firefox for private surfing, Chrome for work (as they use Google services heavily) and Edge as a proxy for MS Office, as that does not exist on Linux yet.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
It has the settings and tab control at the lower side of the screen. Easier to reach with one hand.
What kind of sites are you brows... wait. Don't answer that.
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@Zerosquare I walked right into that. Good job
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Y’all laugh at the MySQL real_escape_string debacle but originally that was their reasoning too.
It's both a valid excuse and a convenient one.
The industry did rather quickly transform from compatibility at all costs to casually breaking shit. It seems there's no middle ground to be had.I agree with your general sentiment, and tend towards the “compatibility at all costs” as a lesser evil. But when the compatibility is literally a security hole facing the web, it must be broken.
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E: *on this site
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@kazitor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
The string pointed to by
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
E: *on this site
:wontfix:
I've seen a site recently which managed to somehow have both "Aceitar cookies" and "Recusar biscoitos" buttons in the dialog.
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@Zecc Facebook manages two have different languages in a single sentence.
Push notifications like:That Guy has posted an update (English so far) that you haven’t seen yet (this part in German).
They’re a small company, after all. And have blown all their money on blackjack and not shipping feet.
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@Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
E: *on this site
:wontfix:
I've seen a site recently which managed to somehow have both "Aceitar cookies" and "Recusar biscoitos" buttons in the dialog.
E_MISSING_CHOCOLATE_CHIPS
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@Zecc !
Because .
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
E: *on this site
:wontfix:
Goes well with your post above...
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Status: I feel like Microsoft's implementation of tabs in File Explorer is a bit... incomplete.
For instance, why can't you drag a tab out of the window to separate it into a new window? For that matter, why is it providing a drop source to begin with when you drag it out when it doesn't actually provide any content to source? Why is re-ordering tabs in the same window so clunky and nonresponsive? Why doesn't Microsoft try using its own software before shoving it out to the public?
Le sigh.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Status: I feel like Microsoft's implementation of
tabs in File Exploreranything is a bit... incomplete.FTFY
Why doesn't Microsoft try using its own software before shoving it out to the public?
They're not allowed to use their own software before it passes all the test of the quality assurance department
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
For instance, why can't you drag a tab out of the window to separate it into a new window?
It's a coming feature. (One of many clickbait articles about it.)
For that matter, why is it providing a drop source to begin with when you drag it out when it doesn't actually provide any content to source?
I'm guessing it provides enough private data to rearrange the tabs, one they used because it's not like there's already a well-known data format that could represent a path to a folder.
I thought I had a utility that accepted all drags to inspect them (just like a Clipboard viewer) but either I can't find it or I made it up.
Why is re-ordering tabs in the same window so clunky and nonresponsive?
They took the code from the "Sets" concept that was also poorly thought-out? The entire shell rewrite was meant for a two-screen touchscreen tablet? Tab reordering is clunky and nonresponsive in almost every program regardless of developer or OS?
Why doesn't Microsoft try using its own software before shoving it out to the public?
That's what the Insiders are for, not that they listen to them.