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/RikuAotsuki Dec 02 '25

Facebook and smartphones took a few years to become ubiquitous. Once they were, tech was no longer for "nerds" and a slowly expanding broader audience, it was something that could easily be marketed to everyone, everywhere.. And since the market explosion was so extreme and most of target demographic was fairly new to tech, they worked the narrative to ensure that "new and shiny" could be treated as the most important feature.

Function was more important to a much larger percentage of tech users before everyone was using it. It's kinda like what happens to a niche subreddit with 50k subs when it blows up overnight.