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by nelsondev 1034 days ago
Apple employs “Release Managers”, where a single person is ultimately responsible for deciding which features ship in new projects.

Apple also, due to the hardware business, adheres to a release schedule where features must all be consolidated onto single branches (“convergence”), rather than letting individual teams ship incrementally.
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roneythomas6 1034 days ago
Not to mention Apple only has to support a limited number of hardware and they regularly drop support for older hardware with each new major release.
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vladvasiliu 1034 days ago
That may be so, but all the annoyances I have with windows don't seem hardware-support related. The laggy menus, the clock in the taskbar that slides to the right outside of view, etc. This can't possibly be related to the fact I have a shiny, brand-new Wi-Fi card.
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FirmwareBurner 1034 days ago
>the clock in the taskbar that slides to the right outside of view, etc.

What? I've never seen the taskbar clock ever move.

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vladvasiliu 1034 days ago
How this usually happens is that there's a notification indication. I'd click on the clock to show the notification center, dismiss the notification, and the clock would slide "too much" to the right, so that almost half of it is outside the screen.

A quick google search doesn't bring my issue up (I'll try to take a screenshot next time it happens, but I'm usually too annoyed of having to use windows to think about it). But it did bring up a separate issue, where the right-hand side icons area (system tray?) and the clock are moved down so that only the top of the date is showing. I've never had that one.

I think these are lag-related, as in things move when something opens. But if the thing before didn't complete or something, the new thing happening doesn't get to remove the old one as expected.

The other day, on a PC that was doing whatever it is that windows does when the CPU fan goes full tilt while pretending to be asleep (complete with the blinking power light), after waking it up, I managed to have both the notification center and the quick settings displayed. I mistakenly clicked on the notification, then immediately on the settings. The notification panel took forever to show up, and it showed while the settings panel was still showing.

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veec_cas_tant 1034 days ago
These issues from the original comment are not related to Microsoft supporting a wide variety of hardware:

> ...the UI with Bing/Ads/telemetrics/etc integration is so crap...

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FirmwareBurner 1034 days ago
Those issues are because some exec in Microsoft decided that they can monetize user data and since users already don't care their data being monetized by Google, then they themselves not monetizing it as well, means leaving money on the table since users don't care anyway.

That's the logic. Using Windows web components is similar to using Google products.

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