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Re: The "Coming" of Windows Shite #12

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On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:14:11 -0500, Carl@NoGoogling.com wrote:
>https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/28/windows_opinion/?td=rt-3a
>Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction
>
>partial:
>"It gets worse. For almost all of the existing user base, Windows 10 is
>perfectly fine, so Windows 11 has to be forced down their gullets at
>gunpoint. You cannot have a fifth of humanity pinned like a moth
>collection to your desktop and not monetize them. This has led, as Dave
>Plummer notes, to an OS that's both tool and adversary, one that gives
>you AI whether you like it or not, and one that advertises and prods and
>pulls you toward paid services whether you like it or not. There is
>change for change's sake, and not for small change either.
>
>This will not get better. Microsoft is unsure of or unable to
>communicate what's coming. Project Hudson Valley, initially talked of as
>Window 12 with a 2025 launch, faded away as Hudson Valley became the
>AI-laden Uncanny Valley of Win 11 24H2. The marketing power of a new
>major version doesn't work if it's an amplification of a previous
>failure, but all that can mean is more bad AI you can't turn off, more
>monetization tweaks, more attempts to kill the older version. There may
>even be a push to a subscription licensing model."

increasing global dominance of mobile devices and wireless coverage
is antiquating not only desktop computing, but also its aging users
sputtering out along with the dinosaur corporations that made these
technologies available to begin with . . . a.i. could supersede the
dunsel population with superconscious empire, transcending humanity

meanwhile, windows 11 24h2 is still operational, but how long until
artificial intelligence really does take over and utterly wipes out
all traces of human existence, fossil records, great pyramids, dust

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The "Coming" of Windows Shite #12 Carl@NoGoogling.com - 2025-04-29 19:14 -0500
  Re: The "Coming" of Windows Shite #12 D <J@M> - 2025-04-30 04:12 +0200
    Re: The "Coming" of Windows Shite #12 Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-04-30 09:26 -0400
  Re: The "Coming" of Windows Shite #12 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-30 08:12 -0400

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