Windows Veteran Chris Titus is angry: “Microsoft is DESTROYING Windows”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7JmN8_URGY&t=1s

https://christitus.com/microsoft-is-driving-users-away/

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Watched the video.

StartAllBack.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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From the aforementioned post:

“I’ve been a lifelong Windows user since the 90s and even MS-DOS back in the 80s, but things are changing. I’ve been using other operating systems more and more. MacOS and Linux are getting mixed into my workflow more and Windows less. “

Like Titus, I had been using Windows since the 90s (Windows 3.0 in 1990), and yeah, I was pretty angry too… nine years ago, when this current era of Windows philosophy began with Windows 10. Windows 11 is just an extension of the blight that began with 10. The writing was on the wall the moment the Threshold II release came around in 2015.

That was the moment I saw that despite being a mostly happy Windows user for a quarter of a century, I could no longer be a part of where Microsoft wanted to go (with my PC) today. It was a betrayal of all that Windows had been, which was what made it as good as it once was for users like me.

I also began mixing Linux into my workflow more (using a dual boot setup) and more starting in 2015, and by early 2016, I realized that I had pretty much completed the migration without even noticing. I had tapered down my Windows use until the day I realized I had not booted Windows in well over a month, and had no reason to do so anymore.

Now all I keep Windows around for is to install firmware updates on my Acer Swift G0 laptop.

 

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SupremeLaW wrote:

Windows Veteran Chris Titus is angry

Was angry, more than a year ago.

SupremeLaW wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7JmN8_URGY&t=1s

6:10 “right click commands not even working for me here — it could be something I did”

Works for me at Settings, Bluetooth & devices, More devices and printer settings.

TL;DR: The whole 8-minute video and 450-word article is a tirade about something he broke but prefers to blame on Microsoft.

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A point of history, possibly irrelevant now, was our intervention in the anti-trust case of USA v. Microsoft.

We were preparing to launch our own copyright lawsuit, and we did an experiment with that anti-trust case, to see what might happen and to test a specific legal theory that we intended to apply in our own lawsuit:

I wrote all of the following, for a trainee in federal litigation:

http://www.supremelaw.org/cc/microsoft/

http://www.supremelaw.org/cc/microsoft/transmittal.htm

Without saying so, we knew that Windows XP was ready for general release, and we did not agree with DOJ’s objective to “break up” Microsoft into multiple different organizations.

Windows XP was written to integrate robust memory management and Plug-and-Play technology — both very significant developments with potential benefits to the entire planet.

In USA v. Microsoft, it only required two short pleadings in support of our intervention,  for the new Federal “robe” to ORDER all Parties to settle.

This outcome was quite surprising, given the sheer amount of litigation that had already accumulated e.g. multiple State AGs had also joined that anti-trust lawsuit.

We intervened right after a Circuit Court disqualified the first judge for bias, and sent the case back down to the District Court to proceed with a different judge.

Then, the new “robe” turned up without any of the four credentials that are required of all Federal Judges!  Thus was launched The Credential Investigation (as it came to be known).

Not once did Bill Gates even offer one penny or even stop to say “thanks” for our intervention.

Reportedly he had been paying his corporate attorney $750 PER HOUR for hundreds of hours of legal representation.

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Cybertooth, cyberSAR

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@SupremeLaw He’s using your money to vaccinate the world

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P.S.  one FTE = 50 weeks @ 40 hours  =  2,000 person-hours

2,000 hours @ $750  =  $1,500,000 USD

USA v. Microsoft continued over multiple years, until the Court’s ORDER to settle.

 

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I feel in two minds about this…

I see where he’s coming from, in that Microsoft are changing the way things are done by moving stuff to the Settings app and therefore having to retrain oneself to do things the new way. But, he says himself that he has lots of certs under his belt and uses Linux, so he’s not averse to re-learning things. The more you fight it, the more painful it gets, because you can’t ever stop change. Believe me, I’ve been there. I’d probably still be using Windows XP (or more specifically, a modernised version of its UI) if I could!

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There are several similar YT videos that display in the rightmost column at the Chris Titus video e.g. Jody Bruchon knows what he’s talking about here — fast-forward to 10:00 and “boiling the frog”:

Windows 11 Must Be Stopped: THE SEQUEL – Jody Bruchon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvaWrmS3Vg4

“guess where you get that software from — Microsoft, Microsoft’s Store, and nowhere else.”

Now THAT does start to look like a monopoly violating applicable Federal laws e.g. see Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the original allegations in USA v. Microsoft.

Just my 2 cents here.

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Jody’s valuable insights bring to my mind the immense benefits that resulted from implementing a philosophy of “open architecture” in the original design of PCI-Express.

Fast-forward to the recent advances in storage performance when x4 M.2 NVMe sockets are wired directly to modern multi-core CPUs.

Similarly, PCIe x16 sockets can be “bifurcated” into 4×4 mode, with matching support in the BIOS or a PLX-type chip on the add-in card.

If all PCIe add-in cards had needed to be purchased from Intel, would that requirement not have constituted a monopoly?

Henry Ford knew a lot about the evils of monopolies:  alcohol Prohibition was secretly financed by the petroleum cartel, to perfect a monopoly in automotive fuels.  Once their monopoly as in place, Prohibition was repealed, leaving alcohol high and dry as the preferred fuel for cars and trucks.

 

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ROTFLMAO!

“It’s the mystical cloud, this bunch of freakin’ water vapor that has terabytes of storage for some reason”

THIS IS WHY I KEEP MY COFFEE CUP ON THE FLOOR, FULL, NOT FULL, ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN.

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