It is a cold dark night at Microsoft Headquarters. The moon is blacked out by the clouds and rain and thunder beat relentlessly against the office windows.
The head UX engineer stares at the prompt nervously. He hesitates, his whole life has been building up to this point. He is going to control where windows is going and shape the lives of billions of people.
“You got this,” He mumbles to himself, “you know what to do.”
He grabs a screenshot of his desktop and types the fateful words. Make this desktop make more money
The AI says processing…
I have to use Windows 11 for my school computer, not allowed to change the OS. I didn’t realize how shit awful explorer had gotten between 10 and 11. For anyone reading this who has to use 11: there are explorer alternatives. I use OneCommander and it let me change the default explorer for shortcuts and when other programs bring things up like with “show in folder” options. I don’t have to use windows explorer anymore and while it’s no Linux at least it doesn’t have fucking copilot and it gives me back basic control
Windows, the first ever sloperating system.
At this pace Microsoft will change Windows’ name to Copilot. That’s my prediction.
They’re already changing the name of MS Office to “Microsoft Copilot App”. So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you’ll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.
This is just pure idiocy and desperation at this point.
I’m surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn’t be able to get such ludicrous ideas
All they had to do is built an actually good search into explorer, they didn’t do that for 20 years and now they force this trash on us… Good thing I ditched Windows last year and soon will sell all my Microsoft shares, that company has no future or vision it’s disgusting
Microslop going full “the beatings will continue until morale improves” with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.
MS abandons its other departments development for SLOP 100%. they are on a path to self-destruction.
Stopped using Explorer long time ago. They were unable to implement tabs and color coding of files for the last 30 years. Just use Directory Opus.
Installed Dolphin on my work desktop which runs Win11, definitely not meant for Windows as certain functions like searching or dragging and dropping don’t work, at least it’s 1 step close to making windows slightly more bearable.
Ha, I did the same thing on my work computer. It’s a little broken in some aspects, but a 1000x better the using that dumpster fire know as File Explorer (oh sorry MS let me get it right… Microsoft File Explorer Copilot App)
I have a new naming strategy for Microsoft.
They renamed Office 365 to Copilot 365, right?
But there are so many other cool businessy numbers! I propose this:
Explorer becomes Copilot 360
Edge becomes Copilot24 (24 suffix is/was very common for websites in the 00s here in Estonia, auto24 is our biggest used car marketplace to this day for an example)
Calculator becomes Copilot Pi
Xbox app becomes Copilot Series X
And the Microsoft Store becomes Copilot One X
Be careful here, champ. You’re giving them a lot of ideas. Microsoft might come in and scoop up all these names. However, there’s just one problem with your naming scheme. You forgot to add “App” at the end of all the names.
The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.
Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.
it really is wild that they’re pushing away so many people, who otherwise would just sit with them forever, just because profits must always increase
like all they have to do is stop making things worse and people will stay with them and continue joining them. that’s literally all they have to do. and they can’t do it.
The current version of macOS, Tahoe, is also atrocious. It’s completely unusable on a desktop, it feels like they want to make it work like an iPad.
For the better or worse, the only good OS is now Linux.
Looks cool. But holy crap. Windows search is so bad that you need everything.exe. now it’s gotten to the point where we need a third party explorer to do the most basic tasks without being bombarded with ads or AI crap.
I just really… REALLY wish citrix and epic worked on Linux. I would switch in a heart beat if this gets pushed into the wild.
REALLY wish citrix and epic worked on Linux
Epic games work on Linux via Heroic. GOG, Amazon, and Epic games all work through it.
Epic as in electronic medical records, but did not know that. Pretty neat.
Ah, had never heard of that before. Sounds like we both learned something. <3
