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Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes up (www.techradar.com)
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Microsoft is working on a new project labeled Windows 'K2', intent on removing bloatware, reducing AI, and optimizing Windows 11 for gaming, with three focuses of 'performance, craft, and reliability'.

the issue is not about performance, is about enshitification. I mean, do we need TPM? do we need Microslop account to login our pc/laptop? do they really need to shove Copilot into Windows?

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Strip out all tracking, anti-competitive anti consumerist features, remove all AI, make it secure and with all of the extra and fancy features opt-in.

Literally just make a decent, respectable operating system, and you will win. This is how you win at literally anything right now. Just make it durable and private and secure and not extremely expensive and make sure it WORKS, and people will suck your dick from across the planet.

NOBODY WANTS AI OR MICROTRANSACTIONS OR TO BE PUSHED AROUND OR CONNED, YET THAT'S ALL ANYBODY IS DOING - THE POSITION OF NOT A PIECE OF SHIT IS LITERALLY UP FOR GRABS, YOU JUST NEED TO REACH OUT AND TAKE IT.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago

Even if they did all this, it's still Microslop, the next rugpull is just right around the corner. I'll never go back, i don't care how much better they make their spyware delivery system.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hilarious. Nobody goes through the trouble of achieving multiple monopolies just to give people what they want.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's starting to look as though their monopoly is not as secure as they'd assumed, so they might bend a bit, for a while.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That almost never works. By the time a monopoly starts to crumble the rot is systemic. In this case, every single internal stakeholder at MS is going to sabotage the project as soon as someone tells them their baby cant use 3GB of ram and track every mouse click the user makes while it forces flashing ads onto the screen.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

Also don't be fucking insane or evil? I feel like that doesn't need to be said, but it 100% does, apparently.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I hope they don't do all of this. I just want them to lose you know.

[–] jobbies@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just release an updated version of Win 10, problem solved.

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

like they said they would