Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
One of the biggest is Microsofts habit of fucking with perfectly serviceable UIs. They seem to just change things around without a clear goal or direction, just changing things so they can say they changed something. This is not only true for Windows, but a lot of Microsoft products like Outlook, Teams and Visual Studio among others.
They also have a habit of half assing the changes they made, with crucial features missing at time of release. There’s also infuriating bugs which thousands complain about on their feedback platforms (which they also change constantly for no reason), but often don’t get fixed for years. Often they don’t even complete the changes before running on to the next thing. For example they still haven’t fully replaced the old Control Panel with the new Settings system and it’s been over a decade.
Microsoft also seems to have forgotten their place in the world. They make primarily business software. People using their systems for productivity. A lot of it is people at work or working from home. But also people needing to be productive at home, for hobby or for example their personal administration. A large screen (or multiple), powerful computer, big keyboard and mouse is exactly what’s needed for this. And since forever Microsoft was the software to have to make it happen. However since they lost their dominant position on mobile, a bug has crawled up their asses. They seem to be desperate to not be the business software, but also the thing people use for everything. So they created Windows Phone, which was a huge flop. Then they tried to turn Windows into a mobile/tablet OS with Windows 8 which was a huge flop.
And now with Windows 11 they seem to just randomly copy design choices from Apple. Because Apple is successful with their phones, tablets and notebooks, Microsoft seems to think just randomly shoving in designs from Apple will make them successful as well. But there is no rhyme or reason to the changes, just poorly thought out even worse executed failures. All the while this is destroying what they were good at to start with, productivity. Using multiple screens has gotten much worse since Windows 7. Running a lot of apps at the same time, same deal. They are continually hiding shit away, leaving the user with more and more steps to actually do something. Once useful features get gutted or are simply left to rot, not being maintained and not integrating into the new changes.
I really hope someone at Microsoft wakes up and they stop with all this nonsense. Go back to what they were good at to start with. I can go into hours explaining how Microsoft got to where they are right now, but this wall of text is long enough already.
Greed. That’s all that needs to be said. MS will never go back. It’s a loot piñata for the dickheads at the top. They’ll crash and burn before ever returning to their roots. Fuck em.
There is a looong list of why it’s bad.
One of the biggest is Microsofts habit of fucking with perfectly serviceable UIs. They seem to just change things around without a clear goal or direction, just changing things so they can say they changed something. This is not only true for Windows, but a lot of Microsoft products like Outlook, Teams and Visual Studio among others.
They also have a habit of half assing the changes they made, with crucial features missing at time of release. There’s also infuriating bugs which thousands complain about on their feedback platforms (which they also change constantly for no reason), but often don’t get fixed for years. Often they don’t even complete the changes before running on to the next thing. For example they still haven’t fully replaced the old Control Panel with the new Settings system and it’s been over a decade.
Microsoft also seems to have forgotten their place in the world. They make primarily business software. People using their systems for productivity. A lot of it is people at work or working from home. But also people needing to be productive at home, for hobby or for example their personal administration. A large screen (or multiple), powerful computer, big keyboard and mouse is exactly what’s needed for this. And since forever Microsoft was the software to have to make it happen. However since they lost their dominant position on mobile, a bug has crawled up their asses. They seem to be desperate to not be the business software, but also the thing people use for everything. So they created Windows Phone, which was a huge flop. Then they tried to turn Windows into a mobile/tablet OS with Windows 8 which was a huge flop.
And now with Windows 11 they seem to just randomly copy design choices from Apple. Because Apple is successful with their phones, tablets and notebooks, Microsoft seems to think just randomly shoving in designs from Apple will make them successful as well. But there is no rhyme or reason to the changes, just poorly thought out even worse executed failures. All the while this is destroying what they were good at to start with, productivity. Using multiple screens has gotten much worse since Windows 7. Running a lot of apps at the same time, same deal. They are continually hiding shit away, leaving the user with more and more steps to actually do something. Once useful features get gutted or are simply left to rot, not being maintained and not integrating into the new changes.
I really hope someone at Microsoft wakes up and they stop with all this nonsense. Go back to what they were good at to start with. I can go into hours explaining how Microsoft got to where they are right now, but this wall of text is long enough already.
Greed. That’s all that needs to be said. MS will never go back. It’s a loot piñata for the dickheads at the top. They’ll crash and burn before ever returning to their roots. Fuck em.