Re: Dimdows 11 -- I Didn’t Realize It Was This Bad ...

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Long-time Microsoft watcher Ed Bott has put together a summary of the
winding, bumpy and treacherous road Microsoft chose to follow in its
release of Windows 11
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<https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-should-have-been-an-easy-upgrade-microsoft-chose-to-unleash-chaos-on-us-instead/>.
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Honestly, I had no idea it was this bad. First they were going to be
reasonable about it, and offer some leeway for those with machines
just 2-3 years old to keep using them with the new OS. But it seems a
different faction within the company staged a palace coup, and
enforced the hard restrictions we see today. But even the path between
those two states was far from straightforward, with endless amendments
and corrections and just plain backtracking along the way.
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And to top it all off, it seems Microsoft didn’t want to leave a
record that the official position was ever other than what it is now.
“We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”

    Oh man, did that bring back a flood of unpleasant memories. I
    encourage you to read that post and look at the number of
    times I had to update it after Microsoft execs backtracked,
    revised, hemmed and hawed with every detail of the launch.
    They then memory-holed the confusing record they had created,
    doing such a thorough job that even the Internet Archive can't
    locate the original documents.

Is Ed Bott still a Microsoft fan?

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