Microsoft Reviews 19

iditos, they made the worst operating system in history

THEY STOLE MY 2700kr Windows Key After A BIOS UPDATE!! THEY ARE SCAM ARTISTS!! CANT EVEN CONTACT THEM SO THEY GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING. THEY SHUD BE HAVE TO PAY EVERY LIVING BEING ON THIS PLANET FOR THERE SCAMS

It’s astonishing, in a way, that Windows has survived for decades on a foundation that was never designed for determinism, governance, or sealed behavior. Instead of rebuilding the substrate, the platform has been repeatedly patched, extended, and retrofitted, layer on top of layer, without ever addressing the architectural gaps underneath.
The result is a system that behaves inconsistently because it was never built around a coherent philosophy. File locking, background processes, invisible actors, and nondeterministic state transitions aren’t “bugs.” They’re the natural outcome of an operating system that evolved through accumulation rather than intention.
For twenty years, Windows has been maintained through incremental fixes instead of structural correction. It works well enough for most people, but it doesn’t behave in the way a governed system must. There’s no sealed boundary, no explicit authority chain, no deterministic contract between the OS and the developer. It’s a platform that grew, not one that was designed.
Our system isn’t competing with that.
It’s simply built on different principles, principles Windows never adopted.
When you build with governance, drift is impossible.
When you build without it, drift becomes the operating model.
That’s the difference.

Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til’ ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more -- only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye -- a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself -- forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Windows, even any scantling of your soul is Windows no more, but is now itself the sea! In other words I would rather eat rusted nails then go back to Windows.

Microsoft PC 100% trash dont allow update window 11 .. company want send millions dollar new PC f you scammer

Absoute Scam called Windows 11. Your forced to use an Microsoft Account, Shitty copilot, Have ads and after all of that simple functions not work or look like thier straight from windows 98 times. -1/10 Stars.

A year ago, I switched away from Microsoft Windows, because I just had enough of every feature intentionally designed to PO its users.

And this was Windows 10, which was initially promising after it launched.
While I wasn't there at the start with a Windows 7 PC that kept getting pestered by Microsoft's predatory practices of spamming "free Windows 10 upgrades", Windows 10 still really seemed like a decent operating system.

With every step forwards this OS did, MS took two steps back. Their encroaching desire to make you sign up for an MS account and link all to all of their Xbox and cloud drivel was one back-and-forth that got in the way of using my PC comfortably.

Not to mention, the horrendous update system that by design artificially slows down your computer for as long as you stall it, and the automatic installation of them.
Even if you gave the thing a timeframe of your activity, it would keep turning on my computer when you're not using it, just to install these bloated updates.

Speaking of bloat, Windows 10 just couldn't stay away from inflating my hard drive with superficial garbage I didn't ask for.
No, I don't want to use Edge browser. No, I don't want to buy a license for Office. No, I don't want digital assistants. No, I don't want your godawful AI tools.

This is still Windows 10 I'm talking about, and nowhere near the scale of Windows 11's blatant disregard for consumer rights and wants in favor of using them as a product and data farm.

The staw that broke the camels back for my PC's distro of Windows 10 was the OS often breaking functionality of various apps, whether it be my browsers, Snipping Tool, file explorer, or MS Paint FFS. No amount of installing those system updates or reboots would deal with this issue until it went away on its own.

I made the journey, and migrated to a type of Linux, which is not perfect, but is much needed and satisfactory.

Gotta love how remaining American users of Windows 10 don't even get the benefit of extended security updates as Europe does. Just as another middle finger to those who don't want to update to the sewage pit of Windows 11, that is more advertising and surveillance than a computer OS.

I'm not an expert like some on here. All I know is that - on top of being forced to buy a new computer because Windows 11 does not "support" the old one - multiple tasks take longer than they did with Windows 10. I guess that when you are big and powerful like Microsoft, you can impose second-rate products on users with no comeback.

Windows 11 is all UI and no functionality. Absolutely hates Source games and the keyboard resets to default after a few hours turned off, but not shut down.

Horrible software, braindead

Horrible. Microsoft won't acknowledge I'm should be in charge of my software.

Basically Microsoft currently has a monopoly. Windows 11 is crap. It deletes apps, the taskbars keep changing and program functionality keeps reducing. If you are a serious business user of a pc it is worse than Windows 95 because you cannot rely on it to do what you want. Everyday life with Windows 11 is increasingly looking like living in a semi with Donald Trump next door. If the company does not up its game it will crash and burn. That will make Lehmann Bros look like a small bonfire at the bottom of the garden. Microsoft can change, but will it? If it will not, sell your Microsoft stock pdq.

Laptop very slow. Reloaded windows and it's even slower. Seems to keep working in the background on junk I don't want.
Goes in the bin when a chromebook arrives in the post

Windows is and always will be unreliable and has been a source of stress for years.

I serios not understanding whay the information about operatingsystem without support longer , its aniwable on the sides , so what not take it away one time for ever, the made only trouble for the users

And the supportphone fore avtiwation of windows , its the most hopeles i have try

Spends hours trying and failing to install updates every restart, an unfortunate example what happens if there is no true alternative to a company

WIndows 11 is just a terrible operating system. The entire point of using technology is to make you more productive. Windows 11 entirely misses this concept. There are quite a few simple tasks that were much simpler to navigate in previous WIndows version. Some of the funny (improvements) time wasters are:
- at startup, you must 'like' or 'dislike' a photo before entering your password, within a month the same photos will repeat & the same question is asked. This accomplishes nothing but takes up your time & lets you see some pictures. It could possibly be interesting except why not make it (EASILY) optional?
- Many tasks that could be easily found in prior versions have many more & multiple steps. Often these steps can only be found via web search, not from Help or MSFT. For example; to (copy, still easy) paste is now RMB to get a drop down list, open said list, choose paste & then RMB/paste it. This can be changed IF you want to start changing the registry or download software that will do it.
- They want everyone to have an account so when you sign on they can attempt to sell more stuff. I can understand that but the company often (every 1-2-3 days) decides that you logging into your computer is not secure enough so it tells you to log in (again) & then go to your email for some (arggh) code that they sent to you. This can be bypassed the first time you start up a new computer (IDK about after that) but that also comes with its own situations.
- it is hard to completely uninstall the junk (IE: MSFT One Drive) from YOUR computer.
- the service option was interesting or useless, as they definitely answered quickly. Unfortunately, they gave boiler plate answers, not answers to the actual questions I asked, nor was there any real insight into what I was attempting to do. After 2 or 3 attempts (when laptop was new) I stopped asking them for help as it did (does?) not exist.
I really felt like I bought the computer for MSFT not for myself. There was so much stuff that is only a benefit to MSFT and not their customers using the Windows 11 OS. It is sad really, that a company so huge is so hard up for money they have to disrespect the time of every customer they do business with. If I could make my WIndows 7 computer secure I would go back to using that because WIndows 11 is just a bad, frustrating experience. Besides the graphics, I do not see much that is all the stimulating about WIndows 11.

Although WinUI is a brilliant improvement, much of the OS remains seriously substandard. When compared to DEs such as KDE (and to a lesser extent, GNOME) the interface of Windows 11 (and especially its predecessors until approximately Windows 7) are ridiculously and ultimately unnecessarily inconsistent.

Additionally, the commandline utilities are lacking. For instance, `hostnamectl`, provided by the `systemd` package for the `linux` kernel (rather than the custom, proprietary NT kernel that Windows includes) provides `--pretty`, `--transient` and `--static` hostnames. These are a brilliant invention totally absent in Windows. In fact, in some parts of Windows, the hostname is still limited to 8 characters! How ridiculous is that?

However, my primary gripe is the lack of package standardization. At least the recent innovation of `winget` has allowed non-interactive/silent installation and upgrade to be slightly improved, but “packages” as a concept still don't exist. They're just a collection of binaries in system32 for system software.

MSIX and ProgramData are a brilliant step in the correct direction, but I know 2nd-hand that developing software that supports that format is more difficult than packaging software for `.rpm` or `.deb`.

It doesn't even use UTF-8 unless configured to. Additionally, the Win32 API does not allow paths of more than approximately 64 characters, and severely limits cross-platform naming schemes by mandating that certain characters not be used, despite the former limitation not even being a limitation of NTFS. For comparison, Linux allows any character for paths except / and null, and 4096 bytes of text for a path (255 for a filename) which is even able to be modified simply by modifying $PATH_MAX and recompiling the kernel.

In that regard, whereas most Linux-based distributions/OSes (except Android) support hundreds of filesystems perfectly, Windows 11 solely supports FAT(16/32), exFAT, and NTFS. These are archaic, basic filesystems when compared to the likes of BTRFS.

Despite all of this inconsistency, both in exposed APIs and the GUI, Microsoft itself creates some incredible software for Windows, which makes installation of it worthwhile. The Windows Subsystem for Android and Linux provide perfect Android and Linux compatbility, somewhat mitigating the problems incurred by the legacy compatibility that Microsoft strives for in Windows – the origin of the aforestated problems.