A few weeks ago, my screen went out. One My work MacBook Air works with an external monitor. So I switched to my 5-year-old Windows desktop and connected another monitor. I love it. Thoroughly increase productivity. But it means I’m finally spending a fair amount of time with Windows 11, Oh no, Are you a junkie?
There are some things Windows does very well compared to macOS and Linux. First, all your games are there, and Windows works on all kinds of hardware with little to no tinkering. You don’t have to spend at least $1,000 to have a non-upgradable machine. It also usually doesn’t require downloading tons of drivers or spending his six hours at the command line assembling an operating system by hand.
But for every headline like “Windows 11 Notepad finally gets spell checking,” there’s always another article that says “Microsoft is stuffing pop-up ads back into Google Chrome on Windows.” Each Windows Subsystem for Linux has a provision: Microsoft begins testing ads in Windows 11 Start menu. Microsoft seems serious about packing Windows 11 with a bunch of “features” that will grab your attention and persuade or trick you into using a Microsoft product instead of the one you were trying to use. It looks like I’m 30 or 40 years old and I don’t need this.
I grew up on Windows 3.1, NT, and 95, and went through college with a Dell desktop.i was working for max pc Thanks to you, the magazine was serialized for five years. I’ve built many PCs. I’m typing this on my main personal computer (his Mini-ITX gaming rig that I lovingly handcrafted in 2019). I’m still using Windows.
But for the past few years, I’ve spent over 40 hours a week using the relatively uncluttered macOS at work, and spent as little time at the computer outside of work as possible. So I upgraded my desktop to Windows 11 about a year ago, but I didn’t spend that much time on it. When I used a PC, it was mostly for home administration or (on rare occasions) playing games, so I didn’t interact much with the OS itself. I’m a frog out of a pot. I jumped right in and got burned.
I’m a frog out of a pot.I jumped on it and got burned.
At some point,[スタート]A button appeared next to the menu. If I click on it or move my mouse over it, his third of the monitor is covered with information I didn’t ask for and have no interest in. There is a huge amount of news flowing in. Stock price. weather. (It’s useful, but it’s available in a lot of places.) The system tray also now has a button for his Copilot, my daily AI companion. This button is present throughout Microsoft products in inverse proportion to its usefulness.
Since Windows 8, the Start Menu has been pretty much garbage, and in its default state it’s almost useless. Half of them are pinned apps that I haven’t pinned or installed. I don’t blame the OEM. I’m an OEM for him, but I didn’t list it here.
It seems like somewhere in the last few versions Windows forgot how to index the files on your computer. So when you try to get a program, file, or setting using the normal method of pressing Windows and start typing, you’ll most likely get results from the web, but since you’re using Bing to search, These are useless.
Microsoft did something Really Support documentation is also extensive. That information used to be built into the OS.Now, if you are in the display settings window (for example), go to the support section and[複数のモニターのセットアップ]If you click , Microsoft Edge will open, even if it’s not your default browser, and you’ll see the phrase .How to add multiple monitors to your Windows 11 PC Site:microsoft.com” will display a page with a single result. You’ll see an information box excerpting the relevant support page from Microsoft’s website, and a link to open the settings screen you just saw.
This is a) outrageous, and b) a huge improvement over the last time I tried this, when a similar link returned no results. This is Microsoft’s corporate synergy. Why keep Windows users to yourself when you can reliably feed your Bing and Edge teams with just one click?
Edge was a slightly improved version of Chrome. Now it’s full of sidebars and bloatware. (It’s probably still an improved version of Chrome.) It keeps asking me to change my default search engine back to Bing (it doesn’t). The default home screen is, yes, full of garbage.
Why would one of the world’s largest technology companies launch such… junky operating systems? Well, some of them have been building new versions of operating systems on top of older versions for over 30 years. I’m sure that’s what I’ve done.it doesn’t explain why it does that at all Already used It appears that the one that works will be replaced by a new system that doesn’t work properly, but something else might be used.
Windows has been a huge success. it makes money. It accounts for more than 70% of the desktop market worldwide. Edge is still a pretty decent browser and Bing is a search engine, but each has a much smaller slice of the market. To pack in as many opportunities for synergy as possible, because it’s great for Microsoft to be able to pester, rant, and trick every Windows user into switching to Edge, Bing, and Copilot over its competitors. It makes sense to use some kind of spreadsheet.
it’s not just Of course it’s Windows. Every app tries to steal your attention millions of times a day. And many cheap cell phones and Windows computers are bloated with pre-installed adware and bloatware that companies pay their OEMs to embed. Ritual banishing of bloatware is a long-standing tradition among Windows users.
But previously, that junk was separate from the OS itself. Samsung’s version of Android has quite a bit of bloat, but that’s Samsung’s version, not Android itself. There’s a reason the phrase “clean version of Android” has stuck with many phone reviewers. And there’s a reason Pixel phones get praised at a much higher rate than reviewers. They are bought by customers.
ars technica We’ve already written a great, practical guide to turning off most of the unnecessary features included in Windows 11. And this isn’t my first rodeo.I can Please turn off most of this junk. Most people have never bothered, don’t know how, or don’t realize it’s an option. They just learn to adjust it most of the time. In some cases, when you click something, Microsoft makes money.
