I remember so many examples of windows doing stuff like this.
Specifically the most annoying I ever ran in to was Microsoft office click to run, like, as far as I understood it, it was a background service to update Microsoft office, it always ran in the background and would routinely eat up system resources, not a ton but way more than something like that should have been. It kept ignoring my instruction to not start on system start up, and kept getting reinstalling when I resorted to just ripping it out.
Now why, you may be wondering would I want to get rid of a program meant to keep office up to date? BECAUSE, I didn’t use office, I didn’t have a license even, I had uninstalled it in fact, but for some reason click to run was still there like a weed. So many other annoyances with attempting to remove other programs I didn’t want or need but windows would just keep reinstalling.
“eDgE Is A cOrE pArT oF tHe Os”
y tho
Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.
I wish I could share your optimism, but we’re so deep in the M$ ecosystem they’ve got us by the balls. Given how conservative our industry is and that we’ve got about 80k people, I think our chances are slim.
I remember so many examples of windows doing stuff like this.
Specifically the most annoying I ever ran in to was Microsoft office click to run, like, as far as I understood it, it was a background service to update Microsoft office, it always ran in the background and would routinely eat up system resources, not a ton but way more than something like that should have been. It kept ignoring my instruction to not start on system start up, and kept getting reinstalling when I resorted to just ripping it out.
Now why, you may be wondering would I want to get rid of a program meant to keep office up to date? BECAUSE, I didn’t use office, I didn’t have a license even, I had uninstalled it in fact, but for some reason click to run was still there like a weed. So many other annoyances with attempting to remove other programs I didn’t want or need but windows would just keep reinstalling.
“eDgE Is A cOrE pArT oF tHe Os” y tho
Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.
Most of my Windows troubles went away with that.
(My work laptop runs Win11, no choice there unfortunately)
Companies will get there eventually. Everyone thought IBM machines were irreplaceable until they weren’t.
I wish I could share your optimism, but we’re so deep in the M$ ecosystem they’ve got us by the balls. Given how conservative our industry is and that we’ve got about 80k people, I think our chances are slim.