Microsoft need to be sued again so they resume making a good windows version again.<p>When I was on Win8 I was hoping Win10 would make me want to get rid of it. Instead it made me want to go back to Win7 (or rather, go Win7 for the first time, I skipped straight from XP to Win8)<p>Now I am "stuck" on Win7 hoping Win11 will fix Win10 issues but... MS seemly is dead set on making them WORSE instead.
The designers of the "settings" screens in Windows should be utterly embarrassed. They are pathetically useless, especially when compared to their predecessors apps like the MMC.
Windows 7 with Media Center was the best Windows. All went downhill from there.<p>I just wish that somehow Microsoft messed up so badly that Windows for desktop goes the way of Windows Mobile. What's that, you ask? Exactly.
I'm curious if this really helps them retain a measurable number of users.<p>Basically, Edge is as good as Chrome (each has minor improvements/features that are not present in the other one), so I don't see that the average user would want to change it without a good reason.<p>The only reason for change would be if they want to take advantage of Chrome sync to their existing profile, or use Chromecast, in which case I doubt they would stick with Edge, regardless of the number of dialogs that they need to confirm/bypass.<p>For others, that prefer Chrome/Firefox/Brave/etc. for some reason, it's clear that they won't switch in any case.
I couldn’t buy the Xbox Game Pass in either Edge or their stand-alone client. I had to switch to Chrome before I could get through the process. I think it was something about billing address not updating country settings correctly but was too annoyed at the time to dig in any deeper.
I am happy on Mac, but MS should just ship WinXP with service pack 4 and 5 and then charge money for it. Backport whatever backend tech is needed and sell it as an ultra performance version of windows.
I've noticed several times that periodically (maybe triggered by updates), the Settings app will have a pop-up asking me to finish configuring Windows 10. In my case, the only "steps" that I have not completed are:<p>- being subscribed to Office 365,<p>- having Bing as my default search engine<p>- having Edge as my default browser.<p>Needless to say, I find this an abuse of the Settings app.
Remember when Google Chrome used to embed itself in unrelated installers? <a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/WWZxj" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/gallery/WWZxj</a><p>Now that Edge is Chromium based, it's just like using Chrome minus all the tracking and data-mining...