Microsoft Readies Big Feature Updates For Next Month and Beyond (windowscentral.com)
- Reference: 0178791352
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/20/192259/microsoft-readies-big-feature-updates-for-next-month-and-beyond
- Source link: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/whats-next-for-windows-11-microsoft-readies-big-feature-updates-for-next-month-and-beyond
Copilot+ PCs will gain a revamped Recall application with workflow suggestions and File Explorer AI integration through Click To Do. October and November releases will introduce a larger, customizable Start menu allowing removal of the Recommended section and expanded dark mode support for legacy File Explorer dialogs.
[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/whats-next-for-windows-11-microsoft-readies-big-feature-updates-for-next-month-and-beyond
In the immortal words of Yahtzee Croshaw (Score:2)
"Pants down, fist up, pound pound pound!"
Announcements: Do they think they are Apple? (Score:1)
I thought "announcements" was Apple sacred ground.
What has the world come to?
Significant UI refinements? (Score:1)
The Windows 11 desktop is subjectively terrible, if Microsoft wants to offer a significant update allow the UI to be changed, so if you want DWM (I think that's the Microsoft GUI), cool, if you would like to use Gnome, KDE or XFCE, also cool. The best thing Microsoft could do for Windows, allow a user to switch the desktop environment because the current one, is terrible.
Are they also going to fix the insanely high memory usage? The other day my Windows 11 install was using 6GB of memory doing "nothing"
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Windows has a weird situation where having more memory can lead to using less of it. If you try to run Windows 10 x64 with 4GB of memory it will run pretty good, but its memory usage is almost maxed out the whole time. It's probably swapping crap in and out constantly, but you don't notice because we all should have an SSD of some sort as the boot drive... this isn't the stone age. But if you have 8GB+, it will end up using most of it for the first 10 or so seconds of booting up, but then drop to ~2.5GB aft
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I monitored it for a while, and it never dropped below 5.5 GB. The big problem is that I have co-workers who only have 16 GB of memory in the computer, if Windows 11 is taking up 35% of the memory, that's a huge amount. I generally recommend at least 32 GB in any new computer, and I'm not even shying away from 64 GB, just because if you run AI, it can help. Above 64 I need an excellent defence, and to be fair, no one has even tried, or asked for more than 64 GB.
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You don't have to run explorer.exe. You can set Windows to run some other program. This is how most embedded Windows installs work, instead of calling explorer.exe you set the registry to call your program. Completely plausible to have a 3rd party desktop environment on Windows, though I'm not aware of any general purpose ones.
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Yeah, LOL, when someone would piss me off years ago I would hack their registry to make the shell notepad.exe.
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I had two different ones I liked back in the day, a program that would flip the screen upside-down at logon, and a rickroll-style link to loud audio "I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORN!" (when people still had desktop speakers).
Ah, yes, more AI is what Windows need ... (Score:4, Informative)
The foundation of all their modern APIs is fundamentally broken (WinRT, ie. COM, ie. working around C++'s flaws by breaking your OS). Thanks to that they needed to de-mothball WPF to have some slightly modern UI framework which wasn't a fucking joke. Meanwhile OneDrive is a fucking disaster, in an age where a modern OS should have had user friendly sync and versioned backup build in for a decade already.
They don't need AI integration ... they need AGI, so the AI can fix Windows for them. All Nadella can do is count the money he stumbled on from the cloud transition, while the foundations of Windows rot.
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Complain all you want, whatever they're doing is most certainly working. For them.
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Making all the money from Azure and Microsoft 365 while not losing marketshare for their user OS would be working better.
Oh, crap! (Score:2)
And just when I thought moving to Win11 (for some of my systems) might not be so bad.
More bloat (Score:2)
Yay more bloat to add to the existing bloat! I'm going to have to submerge my laptop in liquid nitrogen just to install this update, otherwise it'll run so hot that the fan will cause it to lift off and fly away.
I prostrate myself before my new AI overlords (Score:4)
Seriously, is thee any fucking way at all to stop/remove all the AI in windows?
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windows 7
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You kid, but I've been running a Windows 7 box all along for certain programs I need. It never crashes (thanks to MS not "updating" it any longer), it's incredibly snappy on 6th gen hardware, and it's a pleasure to use. Microsoft lost their way.
Cram it (Score:2)
And you have NO option to say "no I don't want these updates". YOU get them CRAMMED down your throaght. And Windows 11 runs the installs whether you like it or not.
Can't we get Microsoft charge under the RICO statute????
Significant UI Refinements (Score:2)
Playing "Guess where we hid the command bar/ribbon now?"
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i want my vista tiles back
AI improvements? It can be uninstalled?! (Score:2)
And they won't violate my consent an reinstall it at random? Nice! Sign me up. I've been waiting for that ""feature"".
too much redecorating (Score:3)
Microsoft does way too much redecorating. I didn't need a fresh icon and it didn't need to move to a new spot.
A focus on security would be nice.
bwa ha ha (Score:2)
here comes Recall!
Re: bwa ha ha (Score:2)
It's (per the summary) the same Copilot+ machines that already have it. Panic/gloat when it matters.
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Result one of googling "disable recall windows 11" [1]https://geekchamp.com/how-to-completely-disable-or-uninstall-recall-in-windows-11-24h2/ [geekchamp.com]
[1] https://geekchamp.com/how-to-completely-disable-or-uninstall-recall-in-windows-11-24h2/