Are they going to ask or just do whatever they want with my computer?
This is why I don’t date Microsoft employees.
my computer?
“Your computer?” – Microsoft probably
It certainly feels that way. I uninstall all the stuff I don’t want and the bastards put it right back in the next update, alongside some new crap I didn’t ask for.
Are they going to ask or just do whatever they want with my computer?
There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust Windows. We are controlling Windows. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the firewall. We will control Windows Update. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your computer. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits.
Removed by mod
I’m surprised they didn’t name it Clippy.
Nha, Links was a lot better anyway
The ‘C’ in copilot stands for Clippy
Top o’ the mornin’ to ya. Clippy O’Pilot at yer service.
Hush yer gob, ya bloody robotic arse!
Jokes on them, my win10 setup won’t even update anymore. Can’t be bothered to do a reinstall.
I reinstalled win10 yesterday on a laptop that iam selling. The windows app store doesn’t work out of the box anymore. Just errorcodes. Its such a joke.
I’m in the same boat. My copy can’t see the bootloader, even though it’s booting >.<
Linux is coming, as soon as I can be bothered
They already put it into Edge.
The negative reaction to this kind of thing baffles me. I see it as a neat new feature that’ll make my life easier. But if for whatever reason you don’t like it… don’t use it. No biggie.
We remember Cortana. Hard to not think about it and not expect a similar quality of implementation.
Even today while disabled I continue to open Cortana by mistake… Which won’t work since it’s disabled…
Just this morning I was noodling through my start menu, as you do, and on a lark I right clicked and uninstalled Cortana. (This is on Windows 10.) Windows has never allowed me to do that before. You could disable it, you could hide it, but you could not uninstall it. The option just was not there. Some update somewhere along the line enabled an actual uninstall and I don’t know which one.
Immediately I had a hunch they were planning to replace it with some new bullshit. That’s the only reason Microsoft would ever let it go.
If it follows the same pattern for all MS features, there will be a check box to turn it off, but it will be on by default. So if you don’t like it, turn it off and save your outrage, like me, for the absence of a vertical taskbar in Windows 11.
turn feature off
windows needs to update
feature mysteriously turned back on
repeat ad nauseam
Yeah I feel like people are being surprisingly optimistic about this
As long as it’s not running in the background using a single bit of my RAM then I’m fine with it tbh.
Narrator: it was running in the background in his RAM.
The software did, in fact, run in the background.
But, I shut it off!
No, you’re mistaken.
I remember doing it.
Nah. You didn’t.
Yes, I did.
6 months later…
article about how MS is being fined for manipulative practices and gaslighting users
There are many things on Windows people don’t like: Preinstalled bloatware, Edge, Microsoft spyware. As you simply cannot disable them under Windows, the only way not to use them is to upgrade to Linux, it seems.
