[amlozano]

The last line of the article is just a stunningly good summary:

"But it's just one more annoying default you need to change to make sure that modern Windows stays out of your way."

Microsoft is constantly pushing the limit of what users will tolerate. I switched non-technical people to Linux OSes after hearing about this, and heard no complaints from them. It's almost like Microsoft wants to lose whatever footholds they have left.

[ajsnigrutin]

I don't use windows at all, but for others (parents, s/o,..) i would install it as a 'default' (because every instruction anyone was written for windows)...

Then they added ads in the start menu, and I found it easier to deal with the "this is linux, not windows, to do this, you have to do that", than to constanty fix and change windows settings making stuff shittier by default.

[phpisthebest]

Microsoft stated goal is to be cloud first, they want people to use their vertical integrated cloud services. Office, OneDrive, Teams, Azure, etc

If you are not a cloud customer they do not really care if you leave windows

At this point people should (and microsoft defacto does) considers Windows as a client for their cloud services, not a Operating system

[lazide]

The problem is, their cloud solutions suck.

[phpisthebest]

Compared to what.... and what services.

Office is still king in the US business world, I bet they have close to 70%+ businesses in the US on Office 365 in some manner.

Compared to Google Apps I would prefer to use Office 365 every single day.

[lazide]

It sucks compared to every other available word processor/spread sheet/email and online ‘office’ service I’ve used, except OpenOffice. Literally even office desktop.

Super buggy, loses data, and steps on things, tons of bizarre formatting issues and out of sync problems, and slow to boot.

The only reason it’s so popular is because it’s been the ingrained monopoly ‘you don’t get fired for’ choice.

Actually using it is terrible.

[phpisthebest]

Literally none of those things is true for the average person

[lazide]

Considering how many people I’ve heard say the same thing?

If you think that, you aren’t listening.

[nhinck]

Office 365 is garbage. We had to ban people opening documents in share point through the web because absolutely destroyed the formatting of templated documents.

[tornato7]

I started using Kubuntu and I absolutely loved it. Leagues ahead of Windows 11 in terms of user experience, customization, and speed.

However, I had to switch back. I just can't get by without Adobe apps and other specific productivity apps and video games that I couldn't get to run on Ubuntu. Maybe some day!

[cdelsolar]

Gimp, figma, Kdenlive, etc

[thedanbob]

I'm as pro-Linux and anti-Windows (and anti-Adobe for that matter) as it gets but even I'll admit that Gimp and Kdenlive are not in the same league as Photoshop and Premiere.

[lazide]

That’s just technical capacity too. Usability is…. Rough.

[lessbergstein]

Because they'e just looking at the metrics in isolation and the people who are responsible for it couldn't care less about long term viability.