It looks like most of the article is a rehash of this Windows Central article from a day earlier:
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-...
It's just a first-party ad. There's even a "PROMO" tag above. The fact that it's first party, combined with the fact the site isn't too popular is probably why it didn't get blocked by your adblocker. But it doesn't make the site less of a "legitimate source" than say, The New York Times, which also has ads.
And of course, it has a very obvious bug, any file shows "$filname.$ext.txt" in the title bar, regardless if it's a .txt or not. So opening config.toml shows as config.toml.txt.
Seemingly Microsoft got rid of the entire QA department, judging by the amount of bugs. Seriously, does the developers who implement these changes not open up the application they're editing even once before they push this out to customers? What the fuck is going on?
Unfortunately they did, back when the new CEO took charge in 2014
It's amazing what would trigger outrage back then vs what it all looks like now.
Was it? My memory is that SP2 was the point at which most outlets considered to be "good".
But I don't really need sources, as Eldond said: "I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago."
It's always good to get some end-user perspective. "Hmm, notepad can't open a text file anymore" is such a trivial hurdle for power users, but completely blocks regular users
The AI push is insane for sure, but this was happening to Windows well before that.
I'll see if I have a copy of it somehow still laying around 20 years later. Microsoft seems to be struggling and I'd like to help if I can.
bfrog•1w ago