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| james_s:
I stopped updating most software after being burned numerous times by newer versions that are worse than old ones. One of my pet peeves is the search functionality. Up into XP search worked very well, it would easily find any files I was looking for. In Win7 search is a lot more cumbersome and less effective, in Win10 search is worse than useless. I use a tool called "Everything" on Win7 and it works the way search should work. I just don't understand how such a basic and fundamental OS feature as file searching could be so badly bungled. It was perfected decades ago, why can't they get it right now? |
| Electro Detective:
--- Quote from: rdl on March 20, 2020, 12:08:48 pm --- It's actually kind of funny, Microsoft generated so much bad press for themselves with the release of Windows 10 that many people were turned against it without ever seeing it or using it. --- End quote --- It was another Vista train wreck dumped on the initial victims and 'must have it first-ers' that copped it for 'FREE', so it got a bad vibe Anyone with an I.T. clue would not touch it with a 10 foot frozen network cable :scared: Win 10 just needs a few tweaks and or REAL user control options, to make it a Win-ner :D But if MS prefer to keep it as it is, then perhaps they enjoy losing out on OEM pre-paid COA licenses PC income from big players Dell, HP, Acer, and many others who may be running scared from flogging Win10 as they once did with positive consumer OS 2000, XP and 7, and hey 8 and 8.1 are ok too :-+ and MS diehards sticking to their older 'no longer supported' OS with any 3rd party browser and security software that works :clap: or risk customers running for Linux 8) or Mac ( :scared:) salvation It's on them really, not the customer who was at one time 'always right' downgraded now to 'stfu b!tch' |
| james_s:
They pushed it SO hard too, surreptitiously slipping advertisements for it onto users PC using malware-like techniques, downloading gigabytes in the background without user permission or informing them of what was happening, deliberately misleading dialogs intended to trick the user into installing it, repeatedly pushing out the update under different names to catch people who had deliberatly unselected and removed it, then quietly changing it to a recommended update so that users with the default setting would wake up one day to find their whole OS replaced. The whole thing was rude and reeked of incredible hubris and desperation. It made me lose all trust in Windows Update, something that previously I had trusted almost completely. They threw that trust away overnight and have done far too little to earn it back. |
| Marco:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 20, 2020, 12:59:07 am ---I don't think it was a mistake, it was very profitable --- End quote --- That's probably what caused some of the problems, the subscription service was like printing money ... but that business model didn't exactly work on PC. So we got the incredible delays of DirectX 12, until Mantle forced their hand, the dismantling of their PC gaming division etc. Of course when Microsoft finally did decide to modernize the OS we got UWP and Windows RT, so maybe it was just always a lost cause. |
| DimitriP:
--- Quote ---I just don't understand how such a basic and fundamental OS feature as file searching could be so badly bungled. It was perfected decades ago, why can't they get it right now? --- End quote --- Decades ago, the user had unfettered acces to any and all files. So did malware installers :) Now we have "users" like "Local Session ID" and "Trusted Installer". So you can't just go looking for files ...you gotta use the index ... |
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