In an era in which computers, of all kinds including smartphones and tables, are powerful enough to do most things one could ever imagine, it's irritating that manufacturers impose artificial software limitations.
Those include: Being unable to install software from outside of an official app store (iOS and Windows Phone), being unable to uninstall certain bundled programs (You can't uninstall certain Google apps even from unlocked Android phones), being unable to install apps on SD cards (Android), etc... All of them can be summed up as not allowing the user to be root on their own device.
I agree. They surely use the feedback but no matter how hard you protest they're obviously not gonna remove the "features" most people hate because they're central to their strategy.
Those include the telemetry, publicity on the OS, constant pushing of their services (Cortana, OneDrive, MS accounts...), etc.
Yep. I love - not really- how opaque they've made the feedback app in Win 10. You can write whatever you want but there's no search, you can only see a few writeups from other users and the feedback you get from your feedback is "some people voted you up".
It seems to be designed to prevent people from knowing what other people really think about Windows.
Please, someone mod this higher. Android 2.1 and 2.2 represent a tiny fraction of the Android phones in use. According to Google (http://developer.android.com/intl/es/about/dashboards/index.html) 2.2 is about 0.1% and 2.1 is surely lower.
So this will be annoying to those running Android =2.2 but hardly relevant in the great scheme.
I fail to see why an application running in the background all the time is a security problem. It'd be if the OS let it access whatever it wanted but applications in Android usually have limited permissions.
Also, I'd like my smartphone to be more like a PC (what, no daemons?) not less
Given how I dislike windows 10 's she'll I'd rather have kde on of windows' internals and be able to run Windows programs in a "classic " desktop shell
Exactly. you took the words out of my mouth. With the kindle you at least have the option to pay for removing the "bad things". I'd pay money to have windows 7 with windows 10 internals and improvements but it seems Microsoft isn't interested in selling such a thing
I'm sure what you say is true but I still like the 7's ui better (classic start menu).
DirectX 12 is the classic bait Microsoft uses to get gamers on the new version as DirectX 10 was for Vista
My only real roadblock is gaming and I don't like the consoles attractive since I can currently do everything with my PC. Why should I buy hardware just for gaming?
Will Microsoft self-destruct? I don't think so. Sadly, most people don't think like us and just tolerate whatever Microsoft throws at them. But of course I'd be very happy if they were forced to retreat and release a "decent" Windows
Well, up to now I was happy with Ms' business model: I give them money for a Windows license they give me a decent OS which allows me to run the software I want and stays out of my way.
They've now have changed it and it doesn't suit my needs. Was I stupid by trusting that Microsoft was going to update Windows in a way that didn't suck? Maybe, but I repeat, up to now we had an exchange that satisfied both parties, I could've continued that way but Ms no longer want it.
I asked for this? No, I didn't, I asked for the other model to continue. This is enabled by Ms' near monopoly on desktop OS and by people who do upgrade to Windows 10. I everyone refused they'd have no recourse but to back up.
My future? Windows for games and Linux for everything else
A metal phone which keeps the removable battery. THAT is a feature I'd like some other phone manufacturers copying.
I don't care much about metal, plastic is fine by me but since all flagships seem to going to metal it's nice that someone still gives you the posibility of changing the battery on your own.
Also the expansion slot is a nice tech.
Like what happened on PCs, it used to be that the next model was a significant upgrade over the last but that's getting less and less true. We're still at a point where the newer models usually bring something which is nice but it's usually not essential.
What I mean to say is: Yes, for some people having the newest phone is a status thing. I've even seen people admit they have the iPhone because is what cool people have.
Of course I'm not critisizing them, everyone spends their money on whatever they find satisfying. I could keep my Galaxy s4 forever. The hardware is good enough for me.
Customers jumping ship in droves or heavy fines by autorities. I can't understand why the EU gave them such a hard time about Internet Explorer being bundled with Windows but they've said nothing about this abusive spying. I'm sure it breaks some EU laws. It might be time I got involved in politics.
It's fine if that were optional. It's not fine that I'm not allowed to disable all data connections with Microsoft. Firefox also collects telemetry data but informs you upon installation and allows you to disable it. That's the way
Also, they pretend they listen. They've made a few changes requested by people but nothing that clashes with their goals of trying to turn Windows into a data-gathering system similar to what Android does.
They also released an unusable color scheme in one Visual Studio version (I don't remeber which it might be 2012 or thereabouts). When users complained loudly they fixed it. It seems they do pay more attention to users which matter more to them (developers, developers, developers).
The thing is, most of these stupid UI changes, like the unreadable color schemes the Win 8 Start screen, etc. were implemented by political/marketing (Start screen) or fashion (colors) reasons. It was obvious they were disliked but were implemented anyway.
That's the kind of company you want to stay away from.
Unsurprisingly they've gone worse with Win 10.
I've been following ReactOS for years and I'd like it to succeed as much as anyone but they have a very long way to go. Making a Windows clone is a huge task and they have a pretty small number of developers and hence the progress is slow.
Also, you can bet that if they got close to being a decent Windows substitute they'd be sued into Oblivion by Microsoft.
As long as you can opt out it's fine by me but I'm not convinced this'll be an option in the long run.
One thing that gives me some hope is that Twitter is not as populas as Facebook so they're more likely to turn around decisions that most users dislike
That smile at the end might be sarcasm but...I have to correct you: They released Windows Feedback to *pretend* they listen to you. They even show that some of my suggestions have been upvoted but I can't see by whom. I believe it's just a smokescreen so they can pretend they listen while doing the changes they had already planned before.
About Mozilla: The changes against the users are mostly in two categories: Simplifying the browser and changes to generate income. The first kind I guess are to adapt the browser to non-power users who's a larger market than of power users. In my mind it's a mistake since it was power users who made it important in the first place...but I might be biased by my condition of power user.
The second kind needs no explanation: Mozilla needs money and hence the integration of unwanted services and subtle advertising.
I haven't liked many of the latest changes in Firefox but I believe that its decrease in popularity has more to do with Google relentlessly pushing Chrome and the big shift to mobile than any actual faults in Firefox.
Obviously they should still try to please the users and to turn the tide
Yeah, also the reason why Pocket and Hello were introduced. I mean, I understand they have to survive but they must find a balance lest more and more people will go to Chrome
I'm sure it's the future but that doesn't mean that I have to like it.
I don't understand those people who blindly defend that newer implies better. It may or may not be.
You may like the new way better but it doesn't mean its objectively better (that might be impossible to measure on some cases) or that it's the best option for most people
It's very popular nowadays. Microsoft themselves are implementing it in Windows 10. See Edge which has fewer options than if it had to run on a 8086 with 640 kb of RAM
The issue is that getting 20k people to click on an internet link saying "I will move to New Hampshire in the future" is way easier then getting them to move to NH, much less getting them to move to NH and all agree on a single political program.
Yep, Lots of people click "I'll go" to a dinner with friends in Facebook and then don't go. I don't think most of the people who agreed to move to NH will actually do so
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In an era in which computers, of all kinds including smartphones and tables, are powerful enough to do most things one could ever imagine, it's irritating that manufacturers impose artificial software limitations.
Those include: Being unable to install software from outside of an official app store (iOS and Windows Phone), being unable to uninstall certain bundled programs (You can't uninstall certain Google apps even from unlocked Android phones), being unable to install apps on SD cards (Android), etc... All of them can be summed up as not allowing the user to be root on their own device.
I agree. They surely use the feedback but no matter how hard you protest they're obviously not gonna remove the "features" most people hate because they're central to their strategy. ...), etc.
Those include the telemetry, publicity on the OS, constant pushing of their services (Cortana, OneDrive, MS accounts
Yep. I love - not really- how opaque they've made the feedback app in Win 10. You can write whatever you want but there's no search, you can only see a few writeups from other users and the feedback you get from your feedback is "some people voted you up". It seems to be designed to prevent people from knowing what other people really think about Windows.
Please, someone mod this higher. Android 2.1 and 2.2 represent a tiny fraction of the Android phones in use. According to Google (http://developer.android.com/intl/es/about/dashboards/index.html) 2.2 is about 0.1% and 2.1 is surely lower.
So this will be annoying to those running Android =2.2 but hardly relevant in the great scheme.
I fail to see why an application running in the background all the time is a security problem. It'd be if the OS let it access whatever it wanted but applications in Android usually have limited permissions.
Also, I'd like my smartphone to be more like a PC (what, no daemons?) not less
Given how I dislike windows 10 's she'll I'd rather have kde on of windows' internals and be able to run Windows programs in a "classic " desktop shell
Exactly. you took the words out of my mouth. With the kindle you at least have the option to pay for removing the "bad things". I'd pay money to have windows 7 with windows 10 internals and improvements but it seems Microsoft isn't interested in selling such a thing
Good news indeed but it's very very sad that this is even news. This should be the standard.
I'm sure what you say is true but I still like the 7's ui better (classic start menu).
DirectX 12 is the classic bait Microsoft uses to get gamers on the new version as DirectX 10 was for Vista
My only real roadblock is gaming and I don't like the consoles attractive since I can currently do everything with my PC. Why should I buy hardware just for gaming?
Will Microsoft self-destruct? I don't think so. Sadly, most people don't think like us and just tolerate whatever Microsoft throws at them. But of course I'd be very happy if they were forced to retreat and release a "decent" Windows
Well, up to now I was happy with Ms' business model: I give them money for a Windows license they give me a decent OS which allows me to run the software I want and stays out of my way.
They've now have changed it and it doesn't suit my needs. Was I stupid by trusting that Microsoft was going to update Windows in a way that didn't suck? Maybe, but I repeat, up to now we had an exchange that satisfied both parties, I could've continued that way but Ms no longer want it.
I asked for this? No, I didn't, I asked for the other model to continue. This is enabled by Ms' near monopoly on desktop OS and by people who do upgrade to Windows 10. I everyone refused they'd have no recourse but to back up.
My future? Windows for games and Linux for everything else
A metal phone which keeps the removable battery. THAT is a feature I'd like some other phone manufacturers copying.
I don't care much about metal, plastic is fine by me but since all flagships seem to going to metal it's nice that someone still gives you the posibility of changing the battery on your own.
Also the expansion slot is a nice tech.
Like what happened on PCs, it used to be that the next model was a significant upgrade over the last but that's getting less and less true. We're still at a point where the newer models usually bring something which is nice but it's usually not essential.
What I mean to say is: Yes, for some people having the newest phone is a status thing. I've even seen people admit they have the iPhone because is what cool people have.
Of course I'm not critisizing them, everyone spends their money on whatever they find satisfying. I could keep my Galaxy s4 forever. The hardware is good enough for me.
Customers jumping ship in droves or heavy fines by autorities. I can't understand why the EU gave them such a hard time about Internet Explorer being bundled with Windows but they've said nothing about this abusive spying. I'm sure it breaks some EU laws. It might be time I got involved in politics.
It's fine if that were optional. It's not fine that I'm not allowed to disable all data connections with Microsoft.
Firefox also collects telemetry data but informs you upon installation and allows you to disable it. That's the way
Also, they pretend they listen. They've made a few changes requested by people but nothing that clashes with their goals of trying to turn Windows into a data-gathering system similar to what Android does.
They also released an unusable color scheme in one Visual Studio version (I don't remeber which it might be 2012 or thereabouts). When users complained loudly they fixed it. It seems they do pay more attention to users which matter more to them (developers, developers, developers).
The thing is, most of these stupid UI changes, like the unreadable color schemes the Win 8 Start screen, etc. were implemented by political/marketing (Start screen) or fashion (colors) reasons. It was obvious they were disliked but were implemented anyway.
That's the kind of company you want to stay away from.
Unsurprisingly they've gone worse with Win 10.
But since I don't like Windows 10 I'll probably go Linux and keep Windows just for games
I've been following ReactOS for years and I'd like it to succeed as much as anyone but they have a very long way to go. Making a Windows clone is a huge task and they have a pretty small number of developers and hence the progress is slow.
Also, you can bet that if they got close to being a decent Windows substitute they'd be sued into Oblivion by Microsoft.
As long as you can opt out it's fine by me but I'm not convinced this'll be an option in the long run.
One thing that gives me some hope is that Twitter is not as populas as Facebook so they're more likely to turn around decisions that most users dislike
That smile at the end might be sarcasm but...I have to correct you: They released Windows Feedback to *pretend* they listen to you. They even show that some of my suggestions have been upvoted but I can't see by whom. I believe it's just a smokescreen so they can pretend they listen while doing the changes they had already planned before. ...but I might be biased by my condition of power user.
About Mozilla: The changes against the users are mostly in two categories: Simplifying the browser and changes to generate income. The first kind I guess are to adapt the browser to non-power users who's a larger market than of power users. In my mind it's a mistake since it was power users who made it important in the first place
The second kind needs no explanation: Mozilla needs money and hence the integration of unwanted services and subtle advertising.
I haven't liked many of the latest changes in Firefox but I believe that its decrease in popularity has more to do with Google relentlessly pushing Chrome and the big shift to mobile than any actual faults in Firefox.
Obviously they should still try to please the users and to turn the tide
Yeah, also the reason why Pocket and Hello were introduced. I mean, I understand they have to survive but they must find a balance lest more and more people will go to Chrome
I'm sure it's the future but that doesn't mean that I have to like it.
I don't understand those people who blindly defend that newer implies better. It may or may not be.
You may like the new way better but it doesn't mean its objectively better (that might be impossible to measure on some cases) or that it's the best option for most people
It's very popular nowadays. Microsoft themselves are implementing it in Windows 10. See Edge which has fewer options than if it had to run on a 8086 with 640 kb of RAM
The issue is that getting 20k people to click on an internet link saying "I will move to New Hampshire in the future" is way easier then getting them to move to NH, much less getting them to move to NH and all agree on a single political program.
Yep, Lots of people click "I'll go" to a dinner with friends in Facebook and then don't go. I don't think most of the people who agreed to move to NH will actually do so