dr_st wrote on Yesterday, 08:36:Don't worry. Someone will find the hack that enables it regardless of anything.
TBH, I find it equally annoying that M$ is trying to rip you off at every turn, and that you have to constantly resort to cheating to get around the ripping-off part.
But the most irritating thing for me is how the quality of M$ products, being paid software, has degraded beyond belief recently.
I have Win11 at work, and it's been awkward to use at best, and error-ridden to devastating effects at worst. To begin with, this month's update broke something that made remote desktop setups that we use via Amazon inoperable, forcing our IT guys to completely reinstall everything from scratch for each user. As a result I lost my custom spellchecking dictionary and autocorrect macros in Word that had been building up over a good number of years -- I never thought to make backups, considering how previously we smoothly migrated from Win8.1 to Win10 and then to Win11. What's worse, MSOffice somehow thought that the "new" custom dictionary from the remote desktop was the most recent version and overwrote the copy I (presumably) had locally on my work PC before I even discovered the issue -- and naturally, there were no backups ever made so it's lost irreversibly. Thanks Microsoft! And now we're stuck with the outdated version of Windows at the remote desktop that does not have the option to ungroup taskbar icons, as well as certain other options, but at least I kind of got used to this setup over the first half of this year so it's okay I guess? But it makes me wonder how they have the guts to charge all the money for their products which are not at all cheap and still deliver this level of subpar quality, and pretend that this is the normal way. Also I already mentioned that Win11 just puts its Copilot thing into every single application and aggressively offers it to the user at every turn. It's not hyper-intrusive yet but I absolutely don't want to use it at all, and I wonder what the IT people are thinking because from what I gather Copilot could access anything, including whatever sensitive information a company might have on its employees' PCs, and then it might end up God knows where? And still every time I start up or lock the OS, Win11 greets me with a fancy photograph or picture telling me how AI is paving the road to better future or whatever. "Winter is over and summer is here, it's GenAI to thank and cheer!"
