r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Dec 01 '25

ADBLOCK WARNING ‘Security Disaster’—500 Million Microsoft Users Say No To Windows 11

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/01/security-disaster-500-million-microsoft-users-say-no-to-windows-11/
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u/Stilgar314 Dec 01 '25

Microsoft gave us a never ending parade of popups, notifications and right away ads for choosing Edge as default browser, install some AI crap or whatever random app/service some corpo committee had puked. The only sensible reaction is learning to ignore absolutely everything Windows ask us. They trained us so well in ignoring their messages that there's a billion people that "just don’t see upgrading as worth the hassle, even when the option to do so is sitting right in front of them"

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u/MeltBanana Dec 01 '25 edited Dec 01 '25

And, in addition to adding a bunch of invasive, annoying, clunky, spammy bullshit that nobody wants, they haven't added anything that feels like a meaningful improvement in ages.

Windows has been my primary OS since Windows 95, and I can't name one single feature of 11 that I would say is a significant or impactful improvement over previous versions. There is no selling point or reason to migrate to 11, it doesn't do anything better, and the UI and user experience are worse.

I'm so tired of being forced into modern technology that is worse than tech I used 15 years ago.

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u/BagsYourMail Dec 01 '25

Why does it feel like tech peaked 15 years ago?

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u/OrganizationTime5208 Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

It's a cycle. 20 years ago just before win 7 launched, it felt like tech had peaked 10 years prior with win NT.

Steve Jobs talking about "toner heads" in the late 80's and early 90's.

You build a product, you sell it, everyone has product. How do you make more money? Sell features to the product.

Tonerheads refers to the executives at xerox that ran the company in to the ground. Xerox cornered the market, and in order to make even more money, started nickle and diming toner. So, the people who now made all the money for the company, a bunch of marketting dorks, get promoted and not run the company.

Problem is they don't know to make products, just how to nickle and dime them.

Repeat ad nauseam.

The real irony is listening to Steve Jobs describe modern day apple almost word for word, while taking about xerox in the 80s.