If readers recall, earlier this year in mid-March, Microsoft stopped automatically installing its Microsoft 365 Copilot App on Windows 11 by default. Instead, the company decided to leave this option to users, which makes sense considering it is their operating system. However, Microsoft is now reve...
    • herrvogel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 month ago

      Last week I almost missed my train because of windows update.

      Every day my hatred for Windows, well Microsoft as a whole really, grows. Every time I launch the almost incomprehensibly bad piece of shit that is Outlook, every time I have to restart explorer.exe because of some dumb bug that I remember from Windows 7, every time I try to mount a network share that has the same hostname as an already mounted one, every time the start bar launches Edge (not my default browser) to look something up on Bing (not my default search engine) despite my having turned that feature off, every time I have to dive into some settings to disable yet another copilot button, my desire to break into Satya Nutella’s home when he’s on vacation and spill old milk all over his furniture increases by a noticeable degree.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        I’m an engineer and all my coworkers got laptop “upgrades” at work. They’ve all had similar experiences. Everything is just slower on them.

        For some reason I wasn’t included in the same round of upgrades, and I’m happy for it.

    • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      Due to work security policies, using remote VMs, I’m technically using like 3 windows systems at the same time for work every day 💀

      I bump the stupid copilot key far too often, but since it’s not installed it just brings up a window going “uh… you need to update copilot or something idk”