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Windows 11 has got to be the worst Operating System I've ever used in my life
I've never ever been this disappointed in a software product as much as I am disappointed with Windows 11. I've always held onto the current WIN for as long as I could, and last month I bit the bullet and thought I'd give WIN11 a go, and I'm regeretting it ever since. It's not even, "omg this is new, I don't know how to use it" type of frustration - no, the OS is a complete mess, it's unstable, messy, unprofessional, and the entire thing felt fake and dysfunctional on so many levels. It really makes my blood boil.
- When I drag the volume all the way down in the sound mixer, it doesn't mute the app, I have to click on the app icon itself
- When I select a lot of files, and I click in that little small gap in-between each file, it deselects all of them
- When I have a lot of windows open and I would hover over them to select one, it rarely catches it from the first try. I'd click the window I want to use and it never selects it
- If I have a file path selected in a window, I click away, and I click back again on that window, I get the drop down list of paths that lead to that path and I end up clicking on a completely different path that would take me out of the window I selected
- When I click on and out of a folder, it updates in the Quick Access bar and in doing so, it glitches the entire UI across all windows open
I could go on and on and on, this has got to be the worst product I've ever used. I have a couple big projects I'm finishing now, but after I'm done, I'm going back to Windows 10, and I'd stay with that until it gets hacked by Anonymous or something. My lord what a joke of a product.
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NO!! Cross Device Resume?? Garbage the chinese own this, they are stealing your details..... Netbios, is from the 90's but yet there it is!! Remote registry on home machines!! Microsoft you have FAILED America and you should be SUED for negligence, the secuirty with the lagacy garbage you wont let go of. IS PATHETIC Do A redesign from the ground up or we are going to sue you!! We are not STUPID!!!
I do agree that the quality of Microsoft software has gone downhill. Try using a BD-RE disc under Windows 11. Terrible. Put a comment in an excel spreadsheet on the first line that is frozen. Terrible. But wait, no health coverage or profit sharing required for machines. Who cares about the quality of the products.
I'm Finance Mgr with decision power, I stood with Windows 10 for as long as I could, but equipment renewal got me into the Windows 11 nightmare. Next week I'm recommeding AWS instead of Azure for the whole company cloud initiative. Nadela should have never forgotten what made Microsoft... Microsoft.
As with most of their OS, they tend to have an agenda that they force on others. They are tone deaf to user feedback until it becomes a crisis. Win 11 is more of a nuisance where you have to tweak it to get it more user friendly. And you should note those tweaks for the future. But what bothers me is that they have a bland media player, a photo app that doesn't provide circular viewing, renaming files could be made simpler, and in general, they should offer users the option of using Windows 10 or the kinds of features people sorely miss.
They know all this yet it doesn't align with what they insist is better for you rather than them. As a windows user, I would like a Windows based smartphone, but they missed out on the most lucrative market. They should also really focus on their internet browser and Bing search engine indexing function to become more relevant.
Yall are too polite. Windows is a piece of crap because they have infused it with all kinds of marketing feature, network presence detection (I.e. cookies/ Pixels to track your spending habits) and of course the usual bloat that always accompanied Windows. Remember the Registry? The integrity of that train wreck usually melts down within a year of a new pc purchase which uses Windows. No matter what anybody has to say about it...Windows is now the stepchild of pretty much every engineer that gets hired at MS. The 'soup' is now the community swill. What's sad, is that I still think of Bill Gates as the face to all these problems even though he has nothing at all to do with this abysmal chain of product version failures. It suggests the other CEOs are hiding out of shame of their next generation jalopy.
Now, Microsoft is a bureaucracy. They don't care about Windows. They don't care about you or me and our frustrations... They will fix the bugs when they get around to it. They STILL own the OS market worldwide and they have no reason whatsoever to improve on anything.I get why it can feel frustrating Windows 11 isn’t perfect and some users face performance issues, UI changes, or compatibility problems. But in many cases, these issues come from outdated drivers, unsupported hardware, or settings that need optimization. After updates and a bit of tweaking, it usually runs smoothly for most users. It really depends on your system and how it’s configured, so it’s not the worst for everyone, just needs the right setup sometimes
That is complete bull*** I never had a system that breaks software as often as WIN 11. Imagine working with Autodesk and after another update all the Autodesk products just stop working. You uninstall the update and everything works again. Autodesk patches the problem so you install the win update again. Everything works until the next win update that breaks everything and more again. And Autodesk is no small backyard company. Imagine working in a big design studio and in a matter of minutes all the work halts for another "quality" update from Microsoft. And everyone scrambles to find a solution to this problem. Most of the time it takes time to uninstall updates from each and every PC. And time is money.
Kind of makes me want to go back to Windows ME and upgrade it with all the Bloat of Vista
I have been a huge Windows fan for decades but I have NEVER had to deal with an OS that is so glitchy that it infuriates me. New glitches show up often.
My three fixes are soon to be put in place
Dump Win 11 on all my company's computers
Consider other operating systems and choose which one will become our standard
Sell all my MS stock
Never have I had to deal with a P O S-OS like Win 11 and I have been using Windows for decades. I am about done with it as will all my employees soon be.
Simply because it has great features such as Task view which is pretty important to make a slide in Power point while finding reference
Windows is the worst operating system I have ever had the displeasure of using. I seriously do not know how or why people defend it.
Much of what I had complained about seems to have been delt with. Yes they better do better with the upcoming updates, but even as crappy as the initial Win 11 was I cannot agree that it is so bad that I would ever go back to using AppleKiddie.
