Microsoft Sucks at Everything

[@NakeyJakey]

Your browser is holding you back. Level up here: operagx.gg/NakeyJakey5 also fear is the only thing holding you back from purchasing every David Cage game on this planet. Happy Halloween anyone reading this

[@Saver310]

No it isn't

[@gabe_0x]

Opera GX is probably one of the worst browsers to use if you care about your privacy at all.

[@hooimansen]

Thank you mr jacobus

[@mix3k818]

This is spyware. Do not download.

[@googleuser5062]

jakey i love you bro, but this add is very ironic considdering the topic of the video its in

[@Exo-riah]

My favourite thing about Windows is that the search function hasn’t worked properly for three iterations

[@RagingBigfat]

Every single time. I know where my DS4Windows folder is. I know where the shortcut is. But somehow the built in windows search function can not find it istg

[@TheSnisel]

*types in program name* Windows: wanna search the web???

[@rayaqin]

this is so annoying, even when using powertools and other mods and hacks its still not perfect

[@polygonpenguin]

OMg consistently the worst thing about windows imo holy shit spotlight on mac is so much better

[@jormilos]

Man, I bookmarked a post on twitter that tells you how to make a change in the registry editor to force the search function to only search internal files and disable the web portion. Supposedly it works perfectly after that. Dang it Microsoft I'm not trying to search the web for that program, I have it installed already

[@dustyt6226]

As an IT technician, I'm grateful to Microsoft for mucking everything up every few months to keep me employed.

[@NovaArk-oh2mj]

Is your company hiring? 😢

[@queuedjar4578]

@@NovaArk-oh2mj A lot of businesses are starved of IT guys, high turnover and pretty high demand. Basically just apply to any office building and if you have at least any sort of tech skill you're likely to get it. I've even interned at a school district's IT department as a teenager with no previous work experience.

[@NovaArk-oh2mj]

@@queuedjar4578 "I've even interned for a school districts IT department" Same here when I was in college. My problem is that Ive still never gotten a job that let me fully utilize my full range of expertise and paid/treated me fairly as well. For example just recently I finished a work assignment doing Fire Alarm Inspections (b/c I have experience with Fire-Alarm Monitoring Software) Not even f***ing 2 days into the job my client manager wanted to try and throw me out over something smallbrained & petty (he thought I was stealing food from the client-site's engineering dept. b/c one of the engineering managers wanted to act like a piece of s**t out of nowhere) and I had to get the directors of the safety & security dept. with the hospital we were stationed at to get him to calm his fatass down. It was insulting. Anyway I couldnt keep that job, but they were showing me (before I was even dispatched on my first assignment) that they were just setting me up to get f***ed over. "Basically just apply to any office building and if you have at least any sort of tech skill you're likely to get it." Yeah sometimes this works, but you better have a good set of business references to back you up in case you get into a situation like I just explained. "Who you know" is very important in a cut-throat business world where you're surrounded by shitty business managers who wanna throw you out at a moments notice b/c you're literally surrounded by suck-f***ing rat-d**ks in a world where you're just trying to keep your shitty day job that doesnt even pay you enough.

[@NovaArk-oh2mj]

​@@queuedjar4578 "I've even interned at a school district's IT department" Same when I was in college. "Basically just apply to any office building and if you have at least any sort of tech skill you're likely to get it." This is a pretty loaded statement. You can do that, but you better have a good set of business references to help you keep that job if s**t hits the fan.

[@grantmoore8790]

​@@NovaArk-oh2mjyou don't know what you're talking about.

[@Thafnine]

i still find it funny that attempting to download any other browser from microsoft edge makes them start spamming pop-ups begging you to stay

[@Regene2383]

When the next vid coming out😤

[@scrittle]

Edge: "What is my purpose?" Me: "Your purpose is to download Firefox" Edge: "Oh my god..."

[@krombopulos_michael]

Every time when you open up Edge to try and install a new browser it throws up a warning like "hey, where are you going? Please don't leave...we worked really hard on this Edge browser, we're sure you'd like it if you just give it a chance...🥺"

[@apeaape]

​@@krombopulos_michaelbut have you tried it

[@LilBoTeeth]

I gave opera a chance just to get stolen data thrown in my face. That orange little fox is the godsend of browsers. ​@@scrittle

[@Inevitibility23]

My favorite 'hilarious' Microsoft gag is how they keep locking me out of my email with this little scene: 1. Enter password 2. Incorrect password 3. Re-type password as carefully as humanly possible to make sure I'm doing it right. 4. Wrong password. 5. Enter every single password I have ever used for anything. 6. Wrong password. Change your password. 7. Log into an email I haven't checked in 14 years. 8. Repeat steps 1-5 9. Get in. 10. Change my password for my current email 11. "That's already your current password." 12. Turn on the oven and place my Microsoft brand Xbox 360 and my head inside.

[@Yoshi278]

This happens to me so often with MS that I am unsure if its just me being an idiot or its MS fault.

[@Inevitibility23]

@Yoshi278 It's too frequent to not be on purpose

[@AlOstosman]

Something like this also used to happen to me but with google 1-Enter password 2-password incorrect 3-enter the same password Very carefully 4-password incorrect 5-enter every single password i remember 6-password incorrect 7-acknowledge that i have forgotten the password 8-change the password 9-changing the password requires me to enter the password 10-trying to do "additional options" (it was called something like that) only leads back to entering the password or changing it which requires to enter it (which i have forgotten) 11-The 5 Stages Of Grief Ensue In Their Exact Order

[@brad6279]

i've changed my email password 50 times in the last 3 months cause of this. Gives me 1 try to get it right otherwise i'm locked out

[@shammy8703]

i have two 20+ year old hotmail accounts linked to unlock each other, one of them i was coerced into using as my login to windows on my laptop to enhance some features... then the password stuff on my old emails went haywire. old passwords, havent logged in in ages etc. now im caught in a loop trying to unlock each email by sending an email to the other locked email. ive been unwillingly using microsoft since windows 95. im thinking of wiping that notebook and going linux mint

[@brewstew]

Shout out to the 9 yr old on KZbin that taught me how to wrap my 360 in a towel and cook the crap out of it. Fixed the red ring for a weekend.

[@TheManTheZardy]

what

[@SibleFood]

cool brewstew

[@wok3220]

Literally the last place i thought i'd see brewstew

[@n1mand]

PDO?

[@RetroCollector]

Bro you gotta make a video about that 😂

[@thesmileyemo]

My favourite thing is when outlook randomly changes back to "focused inbox" and then I miss a bunch of important emails!

[@enemyspotted2467]

You can disable that under settings

[@sirllamaiii9708]

​@@enemyspotted2467it shouldn't be enabled by default

[@iratepirate3896]

I work as a government lawyer and this one tiny issue has quite literally caused harm to the national interest.

[@sirllamaiii9708]

@@iratepirate3896 I don't get why the government doesn't just make their own software instead of private ones. Keeping it internal would surely be a lot more secure and private and all. Make a custom version of Linux and Android for their employees or whatever, idk

[@DarkAngelEU]

Or how it puts important and urgent mails in the spam folder, but then puts actual spam in your focused inbox.

[@_luca._.pitt_]

As I once read on the internet: "Every couple years Microsoft needs some kind of billion dollar lawsuit to set its record straight". Couldn't be any truer.

[@peterbruck3845]

Funny, I heard that Microsoft is infringing copyright lawsuits themselves with their AI bs generator

[@michaelboyle7281]

Linda Kahn has been doing very well with going after big businesses with Antitrust. I don't think it's nationwide at the moment, but she's working on getting "One Click Cancellation" across ALL subscription services, that way companies can't make it easy to sign up but difficult to cancel. Sadly, she will probably get fired after this election cycle no matter who wins. Kamala might not replace her, but Trump is certain to. Hopefully this will start a trend of the government actually doing their job and look into companies engaged in monopolistic practices

[@LogicalError007]

So does every other company.

[@ShazzaCNR]

@peterbruck No, see it only becomes illegal for you to do it AFTER the big companies have done it for years, Even if it is also one of the main reasons as to what made their entire company successful in the first place... (i.e Google and Webscraping for search engine optimisation, Facebook making a program to login to myspace and export you and all your contacts to Facebook...) Then when they're big enough, they lobby the government to pass laws to prevent other people from doing it 😆 I give it 5 more years before webscraping for training AI Model is banned for everyone but OpenAI and Microsoft....

[@user-10021]

So wheres that lawsuit? Seems like there was none in over 10 years if you take that quote to heart

[@shdy9498]

I have, since Windows 10, tried to use the Microsoft store to play games, but for whatever reason it just suddenly stopped opening one evening. All the games I had wouldn't launch. I spent a month trying to fix it and eventually just gave up. When 11 came out, I could finally play games again, but because Microsoft Microsofted it randomly stopped working again after an update. It wouldn't even launch the Xbox app anymore and I ended up wasting 2 months worth of subscription money trying to get gamepass to work. Tried to get a refund and they told me "I was playing games for the whole month and couldn't be refunded." This is a multi million dollar "tech company" and they can't get their tech to work consistently. I've seen indie studios destroyed for less, but since they have the infinite money glitch irl they can't die.

[@JimBobTheDrunkDrivingWizard]

It's because they outsource to people who take dumps in the street and don't wash their hands

[@_Haawk]

Same here, i just gave up

[@Valkinsenn]

I feel your pain, dude. I wanted so, _so_ badly to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on Game Pass today, but that's not going to happen now since one of Micro$oft's _glorious_ new updates broke both the Game Pass app _and_ the Store to the point where I can't update, install, or uninstall apps now. Good going, Microsoft. You're an inspiration to us all... to move to Linux.

[@kg_canuck]

I had an issue once where Microsoft Flight Sim simply refused to launch. After a long correspondence with MS Support (which included me sending them a complete system dump which I have never done and took an entire day), they were unable to help and literally just stopped replying to me. Wanna know what magically fixed it instantly? I switched my date and time to set automatic instead of manual.

[@GeremyG]

I don’t understand how Microsoft, a gazillion dollar computer and software company has the worst website of all time.

[@thesnowmiser6728]

Monopoly

[@very_silly_nikki]

capitalism!

[@Etaoinshrdlu69]

They are the new IBM

[@Janakaq0]

Guessing it's because everyone at microsoft has to use the same base for making new pages and some developers don't adapt it well / aren't used to adapting it to their use cases

[@maallos334mi8]

Data harvesting

[@flysteel288]

Ever since Microsoft acquired Minecraft, I'll get the urge to play maybe once or twice a year, but something is always wrong with my account

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

Training you to run up a debt when youre older

[@thepieisalieofficial]

Thiiiisss. Starting up to play some vanilla Minecraft has become just as much of a hassle as it is to play Minecraft when it’s heavily modded. Fixing mod compatibility issues almost takes the same amount of time as trying to start up Minecraft when the Microsoft store suddenly decides you don’t own the game anymore… It’s absurd.

[@HeroesOfThyme]

fucking bedrock requires me to relink my account every 2 weeks to my playstation and switch versions, half the time it doesn't work, and my custom character keeps bugging out removing outfit pieces and refusing to fix itself when i re-equip them as well as my worlds refusing to update to the latest versions and leaving me with an endless loop of of failed updates

[@flysteel288]

@HeroesOfThyme that's exactly my problem. I emailed support, and they asked me for receipts from when I bought the Adventure Time pack on the PS4 Version before Bedrock required account migration years ago. I've already connected my accounts, and I shouldn't need to show receipts for content I already had on my account.

[@eko3484]

I tried installing Minecraft a few weeks ago and gave up. Haven't played in years anyway.

[@twadle123]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="160">2:40</a> the lack of a "Unregistered Hypercam 3" watermark is a crime

[@bAc0nBoY755]

And the cursor trail

[@michaellk2254]

And the d scimmy cursor

[@SpecShadow]

and Trance - 009 Sound System Dreamscape (HD) playing in the background

[@staciefreshener4032]

@@SpecShadow Oh no , that's like a internet credits song.. While it's Trance music , it also is space music. Tiesto's Trance energy is closest , other songs are more techno ish..

[@aoBubs]

was there a 3? I only remember 2, I used it a ton

[@flintwildpants8710]

- Windows has a built-in video editor, rudimentary but works - Remove the editor, just flat-out remove it - Replace the button with one to download a way worse editor One with an overpriced subscription service

[@whitefang1657]

Also it take up EIGHTEEN GIGABYTES and it's the only way to trim a video 😭 😭

[@JayTheDevGuy]

NakeyJakey talking about enshittification is exactly what I need to take the edge off from my day job where I troubleshoot Windows and Outlook all day, what a blessed day to be a gamer

[@MomirsLabTech]

I feel validated too as a dev who has to deal with reading Microsoft documentation (aka stackoverflow because their docs are dogpiss bad)

[@Sean27007]

Oh hell yeah, I do the same. IT job is a nightmare sometimes. (aka most of the time)

[@MathewWithOne_T]

Wanna troubleshoot my issue? Last windows 10 update, my 2nd monitor's taskbar started going empty when I turn that monitor on. The thing is, when I turn my monitors on, they have always acted as though they're being unplugged and plugged back in (they're some acer 144hz 1920x1080 models I can't remember the names of). I don't really care about them doing that, but the taskbar shit is annoying, and microsoft support is adamant on not helping me out

[@uploadtesting6133]

@@MomirsLabTech MS Learn and the MS community forums aren't that bad tbh; stackoverflow has been shit since 2014 a la reddit tier mods

[@TheFlyingRonin]

Are you me? (I suppose you could be... since I service the government of Alberta and there are like hundreds of them out there.)

[@Foervraengd]

So we are currently doing IT security testing among employees (like learning how to detect phishing emails and the like) and IT recently had to tell us to downgrade the latest version of Outlook to the old one, because apparently in the newest version they made it so you cannot check URLs of links when hovering over them with the mouse - only way to find out would be to click the link, which would make phishing emails way harder to detect. Isnt that fun.

[@marcel-q1m]

Someone made that decision. Someone sat down in a meeting and was like "lets do this" and everyone attending was in agreement. Why.

[@Metamine0]

@@marcel-q1m is what happens when engineers don't get to decide what features pass

[@barteksudo4386]

my company force-reverted to old outlook too. the reason they cited is no feature parity with the old version.

[@jensenraylight8011]

@@Metamine0 Microsoft HQ probably full of "we don't need feedback, i know my product more than the users" higher ups, resulted in tone deaf design and marketing. they suck at understanding the end user, and suck at creating a product vision that people actually want.

[@Metamine0]

@@jensenraylight8011 exactly, they're profit driven to the max to the point that they cut every corner they can, crippling any product before it could ever shine. They kill ideas like Google kills products

[@bird536]

I lost my identity because Microsoft OneDrive introduced multiple invasive species of insects into my local ecosystem, and then deleted my birth certificate.

[@hobosorcerer]

I don't understand this comment, but it's still somehow funny.

[@Shouko91]

I still have a windows.old folder with one drive being the only folder in it that I can't seem to get rid off.

[@DrSpaceman42]

wat.

Nope

[@matthewsilva9975]

Damn :/

[@segueoyuri]

>make a 27 minute video dissing windows and microsoft in general >has an ad of a browser that only works in windows Genius. Liked and subscribed

[@RoachDiddler]

>chromium backend

[@segueoyuri]

@@RoachDiddler chromium runs on linux. Opera GX for some mysterious reason doesn't. Huh.

[@bebobo1]

@@segueoyuri because opera's company know that they have no monetary reason to even bother compiling the browser for linux. and if linux users did want opera gx it would be trivial for someone to do it themselves, but nobody has. (probably because you dont need a gamer browser that removes inactive tabs if you already have an OS that doesnt use 4 gigs of ram to do literally nothing)

[@quinton1630]

On top of the valid points you raised… Microsoft moved the windows button AND made it change position based on how many windows you have open. It’s a UI sin. They also removed/moved the calendar from the bottom right that I use at least a couple times a week for work. By default, edge overrides your alt+tab behaviour to include BROWSER TABS. No other program does this. These are just three things that annoy me on the daily while using windows 11 and I can’t change them because my company resets the windows computers I use to a default image nightly.

[@ignas49]

lol today i was actually thinking if win11 had a better calendar down there but no they really just took that sh out

[@BrightsunSingh]

You can align the "windows button" back to the left in the settings. I wish more people tried to fix their issues instead of complaining about them.

[@coreywinter8716]

@@BrightsunSingh read the comment dude

[@BeastMode070subscribe]

make a script and run it every morning

[@echo.1209]

The calendar not being quickly accessible anymore is so goddamn annoying!!

[@kameryngreer3098]

Microsoft: Hey did you want to see your TEAMS APP? We just thought we would open up your TEAMS APP for you when you turn on you laptop. YOUR TEAMS APP is here whenever your ready by the way

[@ORLY911]

also we completely fucked your file structure by putting everything on onedrive, have fun sorting that mess out :)

[@scrittle]

"get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head"

[@krombopulos_michael]

The weirdest thing about the Teams app (which I have for work) is how every time it opens it's like "hey are you tired of the latest version of this app? We can switch you back to the old one instead?" and I keep saying no, but it keeps asking. Why are they so down on the latest version of their own app? It's not even like the old version was any better.

[@crediblesalamander8056]

i hate it so much. i pressed so many buttons to disable it from doing that, but it keeps popping up like some sort of slasher villain that makes you mildly inconvenienced instead of murdering you.

[@tomglover98]

@@ORLY911 You just reminded me of the nightmare i had to go through with onedrive last month. I accidently left 6 react projects on my desktop (they contain node-modules which notoriously take a super long time to copy or delete). Windows decided to back it up to one-drive, delete it from desktop, re-appears 30 minutes later, delete it from desktop again, re-appears 30 minutes later, delete it from one drive, now delete from desktop, 30 minutes later re-appears again (because it took so long to delete from onedrive, it literally resynced the files to onedrive as a new instance). It literally filled up my entire hard-drive's recycle bin folder with the same trash files over and over. Had an absolute field day trying to figure out how to both, delete from desktop and one drive, and most importantly STOP IT FROM SYNCING AUTOMATICALLY, took me mutliple hours, spanning over multiple days, just to figure out. I am a computer scientist and software engineer and still struggled. I, HATE, MICROSOFT.

[@LividCreature]

I’m an IT admin, at a small business, only 100 employees. Not a lot of people to manage, but managing their identity, email, shares, 365, cloud, devices across the suite of 312 MS admin centers is a total hair loss recipe. I had taken a few years off as an MS admin and it was bad back then, but now, it’s so insanely awful I couldn’t even believe it. They make all their business marketing sound like managing a business IT suite with them is so simple, but behind the scenes and just the maze of fuckery you have to go through I feel like I’m dreaming most days. Like this can’t be real. They suck at EVERYTHING

[@leighfogg-liedel7839]

God let's just use Linux it makes admin 10x easier

[@geovane19]

im a dev and microsoft has god awful documentation, I genuinely gave up on C# and went to work with PHP because it was simply terrible VS Code is good thought, one of the very few microsoft products i have zero complaints

[@saiv46]

​​@@leighfogg-liedel7839 Yeah, but switchkng to Linux requires you to rebuild EVERYTHING from scratch. That's vendor lock-in for you

[@Takato]

I'm a Teams manager, and I agree wholeheartedly: managing a 365 cloud SUCKs. There's like a bazillion different management portals for no reason at all, some features you need to setup in multiple portals, some features are in portals that make no sense, some portals are bloated with stuff and others don't do shit, there's a billion roles that give you access to different things in these portals, I can't imagine how TERRIBLE it is to manage 365 for a large company.

[@TheSwanies]

Microsoft are amazing at looking good for the person who has a checklist of features they need and make purchase decisions for the company. That's about it.

[@amhp333]

Bro’s did not just hate on Microsoft for 27 mins straight and also made an ad for Opera

[@DSPsWifesBF]

Lol gotta love it.

[@josefinarivia]

Windows feels progressively more and more convoluted. Everything is hidden just like you said behind newer setting that do almost the same thing, but not quite, so you still need to open the older settings. the UI never matches like it does in iOS or Linux, its just all over the place. The fact that they moved the calendar to outlook, so now the calendar app flashes for a brief second to close, open outlook, then goes to the calendar... CONVOLUTED! The amount of times Office apps completely fail me and crash nowadays. I'm just trying to work. I dont want to have to open outlook for the 3rd time to write the same email again. I dont feel like sitting 20 min waiting for word to get its shit together. Like, how can it get progressively worse like this? the IT guy i contacted told me to just use the web apps because the programs are so unreliable..

[@DeadlockSchool]

This post has me so pissed off over the calendar that I couldn't finish reading it lmao.

[@funkle2645]

They moved the rename option in windows 11...you have to right click and click "more options". It absolutely infuriated me to no end.

[@snetmotnosrorb3946]

I feel the same about Mac OS, and I've been thinking about going back to Windows after being absent since XP, but the issues on Mac OS are nowhere near what you describe, so this really settles it for me, I'll definitely stay. How can you all put up with that? Why do you keep giving them money? Why don't you switch system? Even Linux is decent these days. You could at least dump some of their apps.

[@tobi_theguy]

@@funkle2645 hooooly moly same

[@Edgodful]

@@snetmotnosrorb3946 linux is absolutely not decent, ubuntu so called "lts" most stable versions have UI packet manager (btw repositories are absolutely not comfortable in its essence) do not work out of the box

[@Corax]

I don't even know what Microsoft hopes to achieve by constantly redesigning WIndows. With Windows 8 they wanted a tablet, what is Windows 11 supposed to look like and feel like? An actual window? What do they stand to gain by taking more control away from the customer? I am holding onto dear life, hoping I will not need to upgrade before the next one comes out because I don't want to touch Windows 11. (great video)

[@scrittle]

I owned a Microsoft Lumia phone for a bit and loved the tile navigation on it, a shame they went back on it. But looking at Microsoft now it was probably for the best.

[@AxtonAponte]

Oh hey, I was just watching one of your videos an hour ago! Corax with the best tastes out here smh

[@TheDrsalvation]

they're trying to be more like macs. I didn't even noticed I was unconsciously using same expressions on the trackpad.

[@E-Bizzy]

i have been toying with linux mint on my laptop and i think once support ends for windows 10 i will be switching. fuck microsoft

[@DaggerPrince]

dont forget how much their spying increases with each new OS. it was already bad enough in 10, now even worse in 11.

[@SynthwavelLover]

360 VS PS3 - You're also forgetting PS3 had free online. It's a shame they didn't keep the free online with 4 and 5.

[@eoretaspace]

They saw how much ppl were willing to pay for xbox live and thought hey i bet they will pay for ours too Difference is xbox live servers didnt get hacked

[@NahnomachinesSon]

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all charging to play online is what made me transition to PC, despite me being a huge fan of PlayStation and Nintendo games. I don't want to pay monthly for the privilege of playing with others. I'd rather just stick to PC where I don't have to pay to play online AND games get discounted way more often. Which over time makes PC a better value despite my rig costing more than twice as much as a PS5

[@SynthwavelLover]

@@NahnomachinesSon Exactly. PCs also tend to last longer- you can upgrade your graphics card after a few years and it'll be able to run new games again. Not to mention PC can do much more than a console. You're not paying for convenience anymore with consoles. Back in the day (Pre-360 era) consoles were more convenient. You got your console, controller, preferably a memory card, your game disc and you'd plop it in and play. You didn't need day-1 patches... games were (usually) reliably solid. If you build a PC, it's not too hard, you save even more money. PC is the way to go.

[@RockyLaRosa]

​@@SynthwavelLover good for school console browsers cant even load and i got beast wifi 2 at the same time

[@sagbag856]

@@eoretaspace precisely why it isnt free as well

[@JasKyoGreentea]

Graphic Designer here. Can we also mention the Windows logo got uglier too? Vista and Windows 7 had some cool small animations and features on their interface. Many things turn ugly from Windows 8 onwards

[@BComet]

It's all flat and soulless. Barely recognizable.

[@electric7487]

Windows 7 was Windows at its peak, honestly. It was all downhill from there.

[@TalesOfWar]

Getting rid of rounded edges was a massive step backwards too. At least 11 brought that back. There's a psychological reason rounded edges work better in UI, it's less demanding on your brain to process because in nature sharp edges are kind of rare. This is why warnings will use them, like stop signs and triangular signs etc. Apple knew this all the way back in 1984 which is why even the very first Mac OS UI had them despite being incredibly computationally expensive to render at the time. Sharp edges everywhere is fatiguing on your eyes.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@electric7487 Peronsally I think Windows 2000 was the peak. It was the last "pure" experience before they tried to mash together the NT and DOS kernels together, along with the "business" and "home" interface designs respectively. Since XP we've suffered from ever more UI bloat and inconsistency with every new version where nothing matches. You can still drill through 30 years worth of UI design from brand new to Windows 3.0/NT3 based interface using something like control panel and its various guises.

[@byeByemi]

A wise man on LinkedIn once said: "Microsoft doesn't have users, only hostages"

[@jishan6992]

Same could be said for apple

[@nizarelfennani7477]

​@@jishan6992 Nah, apple has delusionals.

[@MrRamos-e6f]

@@jishan6992 well that's not true; people are forced to use windows because it's like 95% of what all businesses use. i'm a linux/mac user, but i'm forced to use windows and microsoft 365 for work, for example.

[@dislexicpotato]

@@jishan6992 No? People actually like Apple's devices and most of the people who don't just don't want to pay the high price.

[@freakjob0]

That's great! 😂

[@jimmy_jickerson]

In regards to Phil Spencer talking about why Xbox is failing, the Wii U literally did worse than the Xbox one and Nintendo bounced right back, what are you saying Phil!

[@rasiin9330]

because microsoft could not make zelda

[@doughboywhine]

That's because Nintendo is the Willy Wonka of game design whereas Microsoft is burger king

[@zake64]

​@@doughboywhineBurger King if all their burgers could just be bought at McDonald's and they haven't made their own burger in 15 years

[@doughboywhine]

@@zake64 Mcdonalds sells better burgers and what few exclusives burger king has aren't even that good. Furthermore, every burger king I've been to have been staffed by bigger buffoons than the three stooges (just like microsoft)

[@robertryan8462]

Here's the difference: Nintendo executives took a massive pay cut and did not accept their bonuses when the Wii-U underperformed, ensuring that lower level employees would not suffer for executive decisions. Microsoft Executives took home record bonuses and increased pay when the latest Xbox tanked, leading to a couple studios being closed down and thousands of people being fired. It's an executive accountability thing that, unfortunately, may need to be signed into law in order to force them to act like decent people.

[@AirLancer]

I just hate that when it comes to so many services and products, you have to treat them as an enemy that's constantly trying to get more from you than you bargained.

[@Yodah97]

But are you sure you don't want to buy the battle pass to get more skins in this game you paid $60 for? The season is about to end! And we have a special discount on the DLC bundle with all of the missions we cut out of the base game two weeks before release. Oh and here is a shitty free battle pass you can't opt out of so we can *constantly* remind you that you were too broke to buy the premium battle pass. Also, also, one more thing, did you hear that the sequel came out? Here's a full screen banner ad for the sequel of this game you're playing right now, go get it!

[@dopaminecloud]

opt-in vs opt-out

[@denno445]

large companies are inherently greedy as fat people are inherently gluttonous

[@AirLancer]

@@Yodah97 "Oh by the way none of your purchases for Dogwater 1 carry over to Dogwater 2, even though they're practically the same game."

[@AirLancer]

@DonaldTrumpPresident2O24 Of course someone with a name like that could hold such a stupid view. When I buy groceries, I don't have to opt out of a program where they'll inundate me with ads for more groceries. I don't need to sign up for the exclusive soda pass at the corner store or I'll miss out on this month's limited-time only flavor. Used to be that Windows was just an OS you bought to use your computer, not Microsoft's method to spy on every aspect of your digital life. The roles you think are those of a buyer and seller only make sense in which the sellers only exist to extract as much money from their customers as possible, regardless of the consequences to them. There's no reason whatsoever that the buyer/seller relationship needs to be so predatory outside of absolute greed.

[@satorukuroshiro]

"From the moment I understood the weakness of Windows, it disgusted me. I craved the privacy and certainty of Linux. I aspired the customizability of the blessed penguin. Your kind clings to Microsoft as if it won't become inconvenient and fail you. One day the crude OS you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the penguin is open-source." - Me feeling somewhat more secure because I have a dual-boot system so I can swap to Linux fully when Win10 inevitably dies.

[@AvastAntiPony9445]

You missed the opportunity to point out that one time Microsoft wanted to enforce all games to be sold through the Microsoft Store, which led Valve to just say no and invest time and money into making compatibility on Linux through Steam, which probably is the whole reason the Steam Deck is an actual thing. Ouch Michael

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

Gabe and some of the other Valve founders being ex-Microsoft probably helped them anticipate this stuff. Funny enough MS actually had a UNIX operating system at one point called Xenix, and they did eventually make a Linux distro called Azure that's used for cloud stuff, but Valve beat them to the punch on desktop/gaming Linux.

[@Fals3Agent]

??? microsoft never did that?

[@chaos.corner]

@@Fals3Agent I had an ideapad that I had to jump through hoops to allow it to install software other than through the MS store. They haven't enforced it so far but they eye Apple's walled-garden jealously. I agree with @AvastAntiPony9445, Steam knows their risks which is why they're working so hard on making Linux gaming viable.

[@yarghhargh9345]

This didnt happen

[@Game4Lord]

A.) This didn't happen B.) Microsoft Store versions of certain games are straight up superior to their steam counterparts, and have fewer bugs.

[@moosevelt9148]

One time, I just wanted to search through the Windows store, and it deleted itself from my computer

[@QuakeGamerROTMG]

Task failed successfully

[@bebobo1]

the million times that ive failed to do this and then microsoft just do it one their own by accident

[@Dylan-nk9cq]

god did you a favor that day

[@GamerLadJohn]

Christ, that colored cube screensaver that warps in and out is a shotgun blast of nostalgia for me

[@TailsPrower07]

That along with the pipes, the fish and the maze

[@lotus_flower2001]

Shotgun blast is a good way to describe it, i actually gasped and said "oh my god".

[@divinecomedian2]

​@@TailsPrower07the fish. Man I forgot about those fish.

[@shp3080]

the screen with the multicolor pipes going everywhere, when the computer was asleep !! i would literally sit and watch that screen it was so much fun

[@superamigo987]

The fact that Valve's translation layer from windows to Linux is able to get rid of stutter and run smoother than native Windows tells you all you need to know

[@fatfurie]

not really lol

[@malif1279]

It's also because Valve (understandably) fucking hates Microsoft

[@samuelwaller4924]

​@@fatfurie if linux can emulate windows better than windows does, that means windows is shit

[@della.4593]

@@samuelwaller4924 It's not an emulator, Proton is based on WINE, literally stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. Instead of an emulator which simply pretends to be a different system. A compatibility layer just translates the instructions real time. Which makes the feat of Linux via Wine running better than Windows even more impressive.

[@user_imyarek]

@@fatfurie depends on the game, old titles that utilise 2 or 4 threads max greatly benefit from wine or dxvk in terms of performance.

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

'Member how Microsoft under-spec'ed the Xbox One's system memory because they were going to use some cloud streaming bullshit to dynamically stream things in and out of games, but then they realized that absolutely no one thought that was a good idea so they just... never used that feature? And the Xbox One just stayed that way as an underpowered machine compared to the PS4 for its entire lifespan?

[@Mandingy24]

Good thing the One X fixed that while simultaneously shitting on the PS4 Pro in performance, noise, and thermals for the same price as the original console launch msrp

[@IcyRhythmsthereal]

@@Mandingy24 Good thing that did happen. Was it also a good thing that they had a much more powerful machine than both Sony and MS launched with, but still no must have exclusives to go along with it? Do you know how many highly rated PS3 and PS4 first party games there are, son? Xbox is the running joke. Indiana Jones actually looks great, but, something tells me it will be another 7 out of 10 type game for the Xbox. They need a win so badly right now. Everything they've put out makes little to no impact on the industry this generation.

[@ThomasVvV]

@@Mandingy24 Xbox One X had zero games to utilize that power, so it was pretty pointless.

[@shepardren8006]

Huh. That might actually explain it’s lack of a dynamic library compared to the other consoles across the board

[@termile7411]

​@ThomasVvV interestingly enough the one x gpu is actually still quiet viable and the console is only really let down to the low cpu speeds. Like it would out preform a series s only for the cpu

[@JaylanxYT]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="815">13:35</a> A bit unrelated, but little big planet is officially dead. Literally today they delisted the game from the playstation store along with every dlc, and the online servers for each game have been offline for a while. R.I.P Sackboy, maybe if we get a sequel to big adventure they’ll bring back create mode and custom levels for that tiny bit of nostalgia

[@snetmotnosrorb3946]

That's pretty awful. A Playstation brand that doesn't feel that old. That's why I always buy games on disc whenever possible, so I can still play them decades later.

[@grayghost832]

@@snetmotnosrorb3946 If it's an online game for example, that doesn't matter. I bought the crew on disc for xbox one. I can't play it.

[@AllfatherBlack]

whoa odd timing

[@JaylanxYT]

@@snetmotnosrorb3946 True, I have the physical and digital versions, and even bought a lot of the dlc a few days before it shut down just to own it. Even though theres no real reason to play anymore, its still a relaxing therapeutic game for me. Its fun just making random costumes and levels. On the bright side theres some fan driven servers that archive a lot of the online levels, and restitched is coming to steam pretty soon which looks like a similar game

[@snetmotnosrorb3946]

​@@JaylanxYT Was LBP online only? I didn't like it, so I barely played it, but it was a de facto modern Sony mascot, so I think it's crazy they pulled the plug for it. But it could be worse, they could have removed it from peoples download list. That happened with the Vita version of Plants vs. Zombies, the best version of that game.

[@aydenbales]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1433">23:53</a> "Whoops, we spent too much money acquiring you! Now we will be firing you." Lol that line is fire

[@Kevmoeman]

That's TRILLION dollar soulless corperation to you, bub.

[@Leo80221]

MULTI-TRILLION, it was 3.11 trillion last time I checked.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

Like mortal combat, MS feeds on millions of souls... so technically ~ not ~ soulless...

[@wildfire9280]

“The company that tries to monopolize every possible realm it enters” Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

[@fucjk2141]

There's at least 3

[@lenOwOo]

It's so great that when they offer windows11, the only choice is either "YES" or "fine, I'll just annoy you again later" exactly like your door to door salesmen

[@josemcgomes]

It's just like the Fallout 4 dialogue options! Truly a Microsoft game!

[@Kinglink]

Bonus points for "You can't upgrade. I'll remind you later you can't upgrade. "

[@CyberCripX]

@@Kinglink gotta turn tcp 2.0 on, wtf is it? Idk

[@Kinglink]

@@CyberCripX That would work if you have it, mine flat out tells me "your hardware won't work." So I'm probably SOL. I still have to take a look at the bios but if my hardware doesn't work... stop telling me to upgrade my OS.

[@cheesebatto]

im lucky to have a pc that's not compatible with windows 11 so i don't see the popups ever (i am dreading getting a new one even though i need a laptop and this desktop im describing is old and definitely on its way out send help 😭)

[@Apocolovids]

You are very good at turning at long, disordered corporate rants into something punchy and funny. I appreciate that.

[@SuperShotgun412]

Game For Windows Live was such a plague that Fallout 3 was unplayable for a very long time on steam without outside programs due to its requirement for GFWL…After it was shut down.

[@justinallen2408]

Still haven't figured out how to play it

[@lolozo214]

Capcom still hasn't fixed street fighter X tekken

[@loxi9]

Wasnt GTA4 not allowed to be sold on PC for the longest time because of some exclusivity clause rockstar signed to that virus?

[@0lionheart]

@@justinallen2408 Tale of Two Wastelands. You get the added bonus of a ton of gear from New Vegas, and the better mechanics from NV (DT & ammo types, weapon modding, better repair system, ammo reloading etc)

[@mafata4200]

Also thanks to that Fable 3 is now literally impossible to legally play on PC

[@Moggetslittlesister]

The most confusing part about the Xbox Series is that everyone literally saw Nintendo do the same thing with the Wii U and the name arguably was a major part of why it flopped so hard. Gamer Grandmas can't keep up!

[@Countdownsmiles]

Wii U failed because people thought it was an add-on for some reason, even though there was literally no indication anywhere that it was an add-on. Oh and also the tablet controller was kinda shit

[@aoBubs]

Shouldn't they have already learned their lesson from Xbox One

[@kentstopme]

Apple is literally right there in the open for them as a good example, Sony too, The numbered strat clearly is the way or just make a new name like how Nintendo does, Xbox “Scarlet” is literally 10x better than the confusing ass names we’re getting.

[@ask343]

@@Countdownsmiles the tablet controller was the best part... I liked it tbh

[@ezrabye7351]

“I got a dog” then everyone cheered!

[@Avke92]

[everyone liked that]

[@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070]

he's got teraflops!

[@undead_corsair]

Dog bless 🙏

[@elds2001]

I knowww 🥹 they both look so happy it's so precious

[@johndalegend8541]

I suddenly feel the urge to play the hit game 'Detroit: Become Human', developed by the French game studio Quantic Dream, which was directed by the great David Cage, who is known as a great writer and someone who treats women and queer people well, after watching this video!

[@potethez]

I still can't believe they just gutted tango games after Hi-Fi Rush's success with literally no advertisement whatsoever

[@Velocifero]

Success? How was Hi-Fi Rush successful? Certainly not in sales or gamepass users.

[@jessehammons2816]

​@@Velocifero me when I lie

[@creamboyfuengshwei]

thankfully they got bought out

[@alexmejia7012]

​@@jessehammons2816he's literally not lying , Microsoft love to hide sales ,valve ,Sony and Nintendo report sales sooner or later

[@Game4Lord]

@@jessehammons2816Hi-Fi Rush wasn't successful. Thus why Tango was shutdown. You can deny reality as much as you want, however if it didn't undersell, Tango wouldn't have been shutdown. Does it suck that people lost their jobs? Absolutely. However, Tango created 4 games that were average at best, in 10 years. Microsoft wanted more output than that. When you think about the industry from a corporate mindset, it's obvious as to why they were shutdown.

[@TheMealton]

When you started talking about 'Games for Windows LIVE' all I could think about was me being a child trying to play Bioshock 2 and NOT being able to save because I had no account for that 'service' if you even wanna call it that. I knew the intro by heart and could probably show you every item location in the first 4 hours as I had to deal with my parents limiting my gametime back then. After making an account and being able to save I somehow managed to complete the entire game on a weekend without SAVING and without my parents knowing of course. It was thankfully the only experience I had to deal with!

[@l33tr52]

Hey, I remember that too! Except in my case, it was Batmman: Arkham Asylum. The cherry on top, though? I'm pretty sure I was playing a pirated version then. And it STILL wanted that damn account!

[@Hostefar]

Roguelike Bioshock 2

[@neostephenism]

i did this with Ratchet & Clank Deadlocked on the PS2 when my memory cards stopped working lmao

[@justdude8115]

@@neostephenism I did this with Spiderman 2 when I just got PS2 and didn't have a memory card. The poor thing was running for 2-3 days non-stop

[@LazarNaskov]

I did this for Spyro: Rypto's Rage and Crash Bandicoot: Warped because for the longest time I didn't have a memory card. Good times.

[@nuclearocean]

When I realized that windows 10 opens THE GDDAMN PICTURE APP for 2 WHOLE MINUTES regardless of my specs, I knew we actually *should've* used CERN to blow up time and stay in 2013 forever

[@Sparronator9999]

Okay. First of all, how the actual f** do you unoptimise a fking PHOTO VIEWER so much that it takes that long to open? On another note, you can set your default picture app to Windows Photo Viewer (yes, the same one on Windows 7) using third-party tools. Well, at least you can on Windows 10. I've never used 11 so I don't know about that one.

[@kleonaut]

This is so true, I had to switch the default app to PAINT to open pictures because of how slow the photo viewer is

[@crossingtheline2189]

I was hoping this was a steins gate reference but turns out cern is real

[@bbigman76]

@@kleonautI’m so glad I’m not the only one that’s been having to do this for years. How do they fuck up a picture viewer so badly and never fix it??

[@cookies23z]

@@kleonaut YO samsies X)

[@HyperBird1]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="24">0:24</a> cool dog

[@thewilddoge6819]

The last time I opened MS Paint, the most watered down, basic image editor possible, I saw it had options to create AI generated images and I realized we are doomed as a species

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

I need to play with that. Sounds interesting. 😃

[@scrittle]

@@henryjohnson-ville3834 Cool toy, awful software. I miss Dall-E inkblots, those were cool...

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

"please we paid half our budget to OpenAI for this make some AI pictures please bro"

[@Sparronator9999]

Is this a Windows 11 thing? Because I'm still on W10 and Paint's still the same as it's always been.

[@superring5297]

​@@Sparronator9999yeah windows 10 still has windows 7's paint

[@YoDz-117]

It’s crazy people said Kinect was invasion of privacy then a few years later people put ring cameras and Amazon Alexa in every room connected to the internet and accessible from any phone with the app. Lol

[@0lionheart]

someone pointed out that in 00's era movies, the guy who carried around a video camera all the time was always framed as an obsessive weirdo. Now we all have one at all times, and we film everything. crazy how fast culture changes its mind!

[@crediblesalamander8056]

those things are not nearly as popular as you're implying they are. i doubt that many people that complained about the kinect would have bought them.

[@callie-flower3177]

​@@crediblesalamander8056not to be so quick to reply but i do get someone every other day asking to buy a security camera from the smart home area where i work

[@hamburgerdan101]

@@crediblesalamander8056 im willing to bet everyone with a mortgage and an iphone has either siri or Alexa which are always listening

[@smurfdaddy420]

because one is intentional and put in places that arent pointed directly at you, not forced on you and placed directly in front of where youll be spending your time

[@xXjimcarreysthegrinch69_420Xx]

Step 1. Acquire new studio. Step 2. Force stricter constraints and deadlines on new studio. Step 3. Fire most of studio. Step 4. Repeat steps 1, 2, and 3.

[@user-mf9gs]

Big company: “Hey I wanna acquire you. Look at all this money you’re gonna get!” Small company: “Wow this is so much money, I hope our core values wouldn’t get lost though & I hope we won’t get shut down” Big company: “It’s ok, don’t worry, JUST TAKE THE MONEY 🤑🤑” And the rest is history

[@LoveMyUnusual]

​@@user-mf9gs "Why are you taking so long reading the fine print?!"

[@EDUB9X3]

And Embrace, extend, and extinguish

[@fernandofaria2872]

Wrong. It goes like this: 1. Give people jobs 2. Their game underperforms 3. They don't get to keep making slop Thei're not a charity.

[@pixeljauntvr7774]

@@fernandofaria2872 Except when their games don't under perform like Hi Fi Rush and they shut them anyway. Or the dev team tells them they were forced to make a bad game from the previous publisher and they should stop development. Ms ignore them, the game is a disaster and MS shuts the studio down anyway. Redfall.

[@tommy2cents492]

MS-Word message: "Cannot save document, something went wrong". Apply "Save as" the small file I was working on? Nope; same error. Save in different disk, network drive, onedrive? Nope, nope, nope... nothing works. A word processor that suddenly decides that this particular you are working on cannot be saved, lost its right of existence!

[@gaboversta2.423]

Work has Windows 11 > Create application shortcut on desktop > Move it to a different screen > Bluescreen Great times

[@albertfanmingo]

I don't know how they even managed to mess up the desktop so bad. I would have icons randomly switching, disapearing, coming back after I've deleted them. One day all the Onedrive icons got swapped with my OBS and Rhythm Doctor icons. How the hell does that even happen??

[@lordmuhehe4605]

​@@albertfanmingoNever happened on any of our Windows 11 PCs, your IT probably fucked it up.

[@albertfanmingo]

@@lordmuhehe4605 I don't have IT, this was my own computer.

[@LogicalError007]

@@albertfanmingo So, you fuked up. Blue screen is 99% of the time an issue in hardware or it's drivers not the OS.

[@apbecker]

@@lordmuhehe4605 What a garbage response to anyone having an issue. Cross platform development isn't difficult these days, the fact they can't get THEIR SOFTWARE to work exclusively on THEIR OS is an absolute joke. I'm not fan of Apple, but when I had to use a mac for 2 years it never glitched a single time, everything just worked as it should.

[@DUKEHadToDoItToEm]

If theres one takeaway from this video it should be this: David Cage should make his own console

[@samwallaceart288]

The thing is David Cage might unironically be a genius at running a console

[@ChristopherHallett]

He could buy the Amico!

[@normalguycap]

Ew no. He would honestly make it worse

[@DUKEHadToDoItToEm]

@@normalguycap pretty hard to do worse than the Xbox tbh. The only "console" worse than Xbox the last 20 years has been the Google Stadia and that wasn't even a console, more of a poorly marketed streaming box for games similar to a Roku or firestick

[@normalguycap]

@@DUKEHadToDoItToEm fair enough

[@starbos4170]

Cybersecurity analyst here, as much as I love dogging on Microsoft Edge, practically every browser has similar vulnerabilities across the board. If there's a vulnerability with Electron or Chromium then you can expect that vulnerability to apply to a vast majority of browsers. Hell, one year Chrome reported over 5 high-risk CVEs

[@ATXnomad698]

Yeah isn't it hilarious that he literally promotes Opera GX in this video? Like, way to invalidate your own point for a few bucks

[@charautreal]

the only true browser that doesn't have this issue is Firefox since it's not chromium based, yes it can have it's own vulnerabilities, but when they happen they don't affect every other browser since, you know, it is it's own thing

[@Muskar2]

Low-level performance-aware CS programmer here, and the entire web "stack" is full of awful foundational technology ripe for innovation. Everyone using the web is now used to delays on the order of seconds for simple tasks, yet modern hardware could do several of orders magnitude more work at much lower costs. WASM is the first thing from W3C I've seen that has any awareness of the fundamentals of quality software, and the epidemic of reusing ill-fit components and prematurely generalizing and abstracting is awful, including for security. I'm no expert there, but increasing the attack surface seems really bad, and yet that's exactly what the HTTPS standards are doing. Modern software...

[@happyfullfridge]

I mean he's getting an enormous bag lol it's not a few bucks... ​@@ATXnomad698

[@PPSzB]

@@ATXnomad698 he thinks that Edge is the exact same browser as Internet Explorer. If he's not willing to make just that simple research, it invalidates the whole video for me, because who knows how wrong he is on stuff that can't be verified with 5 seconds google search

[@christianherbst674]

You should've included the Zune player and "Plays for sure"... XD

[@Generallyannoyed2024]

The zune.... That's in my top 5 life time buyers remorse. Damn clearance sale.

[@apillow8724]

You should absolutely look into Microsoft's office culture, especially the way they push "growth mindset" thinking after Satya Nadella became CEO. Ed Zitron just wrote an article on it that I thought was very interesting. Essentially, if employees ever disagree with their bosses, they are labeled as displaying a "fixed mindset" which signals to managers not to promote them. Agreeing with whatever bosses say is "displaying a growth mindset" and is the only way to rise up in the company or even keep your job.

[@JorisVDC]

Who would have thought that running a company by pure greed would attract bad players to take the top positions? The only thing keeping them relevant is them keeping the OS market hostage. I'm a making my move to Linux, since I heard most games are compatible right now. That's my 2025 new years resolution.

[@LimeyLassen]

Shoutout to my working class bros who were forced to read "Who Moved My Cheese" by their regional supervisor

[@csuki]

Honestly sounds like some scientology shit

[@ethanstump]

We never left feudalism, just rebranded.

[@LogicalError007]

I don't think you read properly. You're talking about work culture when Balmer was the CEO.

[@RespiroOfficial]

Windows 7 was GOATed fr. We really messed up with every Windows going forward...

[@RoachDiddler]

Win7 was an excellent consumer experience but it was the first iteration that started removing powers from Super Users. XP was the last bastion of true freedom.

[@RespiroOfficial]

@@RoachDiddler True freedom. Freedom to do what? Crash the PC multiple times?

[@theowainwright7406]

Getting rid of control panel made everything worse

[@Smartacus420]

​@@RespiroOfficiali used XP every day for years and I cant remember a single crash.

[@UltimaPowers]

Used to work in corporate IT sales back when Microsoft brought out Windows 8; having to parrot their marketing bullshit to customers despite knowing what a step backwards it was killed me inside. And don't get me started on Adobe's transition to a monthly subscription model.

[@Copperyfoxx]

8 made me MAD. I’ve never hated an OS so much and I’ve been using computers since MS-DOS days.

[@N0TYALC]

If I was ordered to lie by my boss, I would say "no". Don't outsource your morals to others :)

[@kingofcrap4414]

@NOTYALC You act like it's so easy to just find another job. Some people are stuck in a job they hate because they need to pay bills. Most people, even.

[@nicodemuslee]

@@N0TYALC just put the fries in the bag lil bruh

[@Belbecat]

Same when I had to sell 360s knowing they would come back 😂

[@Tmathh]

That 2007 youtube intro at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="147">2:27</a> was amazing

[@Sandpepe]

The only thing stopping Microsoft from becoming a monopoly is Microsoft stepping on garden rakes it has laid for itself on the ground.

[@friedcatfood]

It already is though, 70%+ of the desktop/laptop market share being hoarded up by Windows is definitely a monopoly

[@Game4Lord]

@@friedcatfoodIt's not a monopoly because Microsoft isn't actively stopping, or preventing you from installing another OS on your PC. More than that, that's not how monopolies work.

[@Whocareslol420]

​@@friedcatfood Nothing stops you from installing a linux version and using Wine to keep playing Windows PC gamss

[@chrisdistant9040]

… and US and EU courts having a say in the matter as well.

[@friedcatfood]

@@Game4Lord The new Snapdragon Windows laptops are locked to Windows, and multiple Windows updates have been breaking other OS installs. Also, legally, a vendor is considered a monopoly when it controls a large majority of a market. How much is a large majority depends on each country but 72% is definitely above the threshold in most countries.

[@BartoszMisiak]

The <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="483">8:03</a> slide about Slack usage going down is actually reverse chronological and shows it going up lol

[@BongwaterWG]

Meta is legit a cancer to society

[@alexmejia7012]

What are all the things meta do ,I apologize for my ignorance

[@turnoverhd435]

@@alexmejia7012 scrapes all of your pictures ever posted on any Meta-owned website for its dogshit AI program. Sells your face to data brokers Sells the rights to sell your face to data brokers regularly ignores international antitrust laws regularly ignores privacy laws actively promotes get-rich-quick schemes like crypto and NFTs thats just off the top of my head

[@N0TYALC]

The ship has sailed. Society itself has been transformed into cancer.

[@user-mf9gs]

Zuck is so untrustworthy it’s insane. He’s a billionaire and secure for life yet he’s not comfortable in his own body. Elon at least has a bare minimum of personality for tech billionaires

[@bbbbbbb51]

Wouldn't know. Haven't used a single thing of theirs in a decade.

[@Tempuslight]

Goddamn those chapter intros using 90s/early 2000s techno style music took me way back

[@5persondude]

If the vast majority of PC games weren’t so heavily reliant on Windows then I’d probably just use Linux at this point. Using a Steam Deck in Desktop mode has been a religious experience

[@Garush]

I dual boot, the only thing I use windows for is gaming at this point. If I really need Microsoft office I can just use it in browser

[@sirllamaiii9708]

I used to use Linux but I missed Ms paint and Wordpad and notepad. Yes there's alternatives, but nothing identical

[@BENJA021100]

rn the games that dont work on linux are quite rare outside of competitive online games

[@dasrit3]

I would use linux for my gaming PC if it could run every game that Windows could, and just as well. I would even pay $500 for a Valve-engineered Linux OS that can only run Steam and a browser, and that's not a joke. I paid for Windows 10 Pro so I could disable updates. I still cannot disable updates.

[@theviniso]

I got tired of fighting Windows and jumped ship to Linux a few years ago and I just can't recommend it enough. I'm using Fedora now, it works well and stays out of my way. I'm never going back to Windows.

[@xFluing]

The reason so many people flock to Steam on PC, too, is that Steam is just that good of a service. Anyone else is either filling a completely different niche (gog), or try to compete with Steam, without understanding what Steam is, like with Tim Sweeney looking at steam and thinking "hmm they take a 30% cut from game sales so i will ask for less and pretend i'm some sort of saviour" without understanding that the 30% cut goes back into building the steam ecosystem to be as robust and consumer friendly as possible.

[@jormilos]

Tbf, a lot of people don't understand that the majority of profits for most businesses get reinvested into making the business better or more consistent, and they think that the owners just pocket the money. So I can understand why some people praise Tim Cook like a savior. Like, as much as I talk bad about the IRL Lex Luthor himself, Jeff Bezos, his wealth is in assets from how well Amazon does, while his official salary is only 80k or something. The better the business does, the more it's worth, and by extension the more value it's owner is if said business is publicly traded. Is he the 2nd richest man on earth (or something like) yeah. Does he ocassionally sell off some stocks to buy a big fricken boat? Yeah definitely. Probably even takes bonuses based on how well the company has performed in the year if he feels business was especially booming. But I can also guarantee that 90+% of Amazon's yearly profits gets reinvested into the company to expand into other territories, open new warehouses, protect against loss in the next year, etc. A lot of people look at owners of bug companies as moustache twirling villains looking to take everyone's money for themselves. In some cases that's true, like Microsoft and probably Epic, but Gaben loves videogames too much. The man could sell all of Valve and probably be fine for a few generations of decent spending practices, but he doesn't do it because he loves the industry and wants it to succeed. And that's clearly evident by how he talks about the current state of gaming

[@Ziggyvu]

@@jormiloseverything you said was wrong. Valve is the exception not the standard to a business where CEOS, executives and investors pocket most of the money. Attitudes like that let’s CEOS just pocket more money

[@mnbdy]

​@@jormilosi hope you never have to be a teacher or mentor for anyone

[@hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh]

​@@jormilos90% lol, it’s just way more complicated than that.

[@supremesonicbrazil]

Also no one wants to accept the fact those 30% is what makes people like me able to play on Linux and escape Microsoft's deathly EEE. I'll gladly take that over Swiney's "12% + your soul and credit card number being sold to China".

[@aintnoway1392]

the throw back to old youtube is chefs kiss at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="145">2:25</a>

[@tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp]

Name of the song pls.

[@Ty-sm9cv]

Windows movie maker bro lol

[@Dkmo94]

They were the forefathers of modern video essays and we didn't even realize it

[@tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp]

nm, it's x-paradise by alphascan

[@titorotod]

@@tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp Darude - Sandstorm

[@zook_291]

My final straw was when they had the update with captures on xbox that deleted anything after 90 days that was not saved to one drive. I had around 80 hours of clips and footage with old friends on my console's hard drive that I wanted to keep. I had footage 2016-2023 and it was all deleted while my console was plugged in while in sleep mode. Anything saved locally was gone and was infuriating after playing my console for the first time in months.

[@bebobo1]

microsoft must have the most amazing security in existence to keep their executive board from getting assassinated, honestly

[@rorobirbo8392]

@@bebobo1 Absolutely. The fact that Don Mattrick managed to stay alive after doing the Xbox One reveal event is irrefutable proof of that

[@dantechambers]

There is an irony to a video that starts by talking about over designed software, that only gets worse over time, slipping into an opera GX ad, but my mans gotta get that paper. And I respect that. Great video.

[@d3vitron779]

Firefox my beloved

[@Weldedhodag]

@@d3vitron779 based

[@aadarshroy3216]

Reminds me of that time when some youtuber made a "nfts are a scam" video and his sponsor was a crypto website.

[@dennis_duran]

Omg I had the same thought. Opera GX ads are really starting to get on my nerves. Not a god damned one of these KZbinrs who promote it use it, because it’s the most unnecessary service of all time. Google does what it’s supposed to at the very least. I don’t need it to have a tacky cyberpunk layout and play fart sounds whenever I alt+tab. Google can absolutely do those things anyway. Search engines peaked and there’s nowhere to go from that.

[@vinny-zebu]

@@dantechambers Respect for what? Don't he get enough from these videos? Couldn't he take any other sponsor?

[@ryanics2291]

Jakey, thanks. I LOVE the old youtube style intro screen thing you put in at like <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="155">2:35</a>. I miss those days

[@chaseclearwater2758]

Jakey during 2006-2009 era of KZbin would've been crazy

[@crungushakooter]

The craziest thing about software being shitty on windows is that the ancient win32 api AND the slightly less ancient Winforms enable developers to make flawless, lightning fast native applications in real programming languages... and almost nobody, including Microsoft, use these anymore. It has to be cross platform bloat written in a web development language. So why even use windows at that point?

[@xXx_Regulus_xXx]

that's half the reason Linux is so usable, mainstream web browsers run just fine including _Edge_ of all things. If you don't like Libreoffice or its alternatives you can run MS Office in your browser, and I'm sure it's the same for most other applications. Not everything ofc, but enough that a lot of people can get by using mobile operating systems and Linux and whatever else.

[@bradseeker]

but powerapps is a great! i like my start menu taking a measurable time to open and display literally any information, thank you very much. lag and unresponsiveness should be intrinsic to any digital experience because they give the end-user joy and happiness! when my punch-out isn't registered because the microsoft-made timekeeping *PowerApp* doesn't check if i'm still logged in before presenting the interface, allowing me to interact with it, and reporting a successful 'punch submitted' message... god i'm just so happy

[@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7]

Winforms/WPF apps also run perfectly fine under Wine these days. And Wine supports macOS, Linux, and even Android if you work your ass off set that one up under Termux.

[@FrozenDozer]

The IT world is unfortunately on the way to a total and global enshittification. We were all just lucky to be part of it when it wasn't shit yet.

[@Geeler]

​@@FrozenDozer hey at least legacy things work perfectly fine for the most part

[@Mr.Electricc]

I think another huge part of the xbox 360 vs ps3 was that ps3 had a blueray player

[@gorpazorp7309]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="103">1:43</a> nice dog

[@yesusjoestar4333]

Dog bless

[@emhooaryou698]

nice dog

[@Healermain15]

Real cutie

[@AM-bf9tb]

Millenial pet owner alert.

[@UlyssesM]

Nice cock

[@michiel6789]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="610">10:10</a> wait a minute, why aren't you using Opera GX...

[@colinwhalen2632]

He’s trying to catch a bag lol

[@vitorantunes7717]

HAHHAHAHA

[@20storiesunder]

It isn't a very good browser.

[@SpaghettiManGuy]

14:44

[@Raizo2212]

Incredible timing for this considering that after 2000 people were laid off from Microsoft this year alone, jobs gone, livelihoods in jeopardy during one of the worst periods of tech layoffs in years, the news broke that their CEO received a 63% increase in his pay. These corporations are not your friend, people.

[@listofromantics]

IIRC, the CEO of Xbox made $70 million...

[@reapertemptations]

For real?

[@Howitchewstofeel5gum]

That's very misleading framing. Microsoft currently employs about 80,000 people MORE than they did just five years ago, with a net increase of about 7,000 over last year

[@DrSpaceman42]

Capitalism 🌈 🦄

[@alexrogers777]

eat the rich

[@goldenheartOh]

MS is good at 1 thing: encouraging people to learn Linux.

[@EvanJamesAudio]

The irony of an Opera GX ad on this video is thick enough to spread on sliced bread (love you Jakey, it's just really funny).

[@HereticHero]

Since its about as bloated and bad as Windows has become yeah

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

Hey Microsoft's Chrome based browser sucks fat ass here's a different chrome based browser baybeeeeeee (get that bag tho Jakey)

[@HereticHero]

@@TrashHeapCustodian Firefox ftw

[@mcgfn]

Brave ftw

[@EvanJamesAudio]

@@TrashHeapCustodian "sure Chrome and Edge suck, but have you considered going even slower?"

[@Pallerim]

The Steam Deck convinced me that Linux is finally good enough for gaming, so I switched my desktop to Linux (Pop!_OS) and was pleasantly surprised to find most games actually running even smoother than before. We are witnessing the slow death of Windows, and I'm all for it.

[@bbbbbbb51]

Nice. I've been dual booting pop for many years now. Windows just has a tiny partition on a spare drive. Everything else is Linux. I understand that most people don't want to troubleshoot issues that *may* arise with Linux, but tbh if you're used to troubleshooting windows bs, it's quite a breeze after you get some fundamentals down with the terminal.

[@digitalcatcher]

Valve bankrolling TF out of developing Proton after the failure of Steam Machines has got to be the one of best things to happen for casual Linux users. Now if only they can make an official release of Steam OS 3 for non-Steam Deck devices...

[@no9-5]

Ahah every Linux user eats so much copium all day and just types such utter bullshit 😂

[@battmarn]

​@@no9-5🤡

[@Digger-Nick]

Barely anything works on Linux still. Plus WSL exists, running full native Linux is just dumb.

[@Sfekke]

I'm a system administrator mainly working with the Microsoft ecosystem, it sucks but you learn to embrace it.. Those rare ocassions where I get to professionally touch Linux are a hint of another world.. that turns out really isn't perfect either :) Don't get me started on their confusing licensing system, constant namechanges of products and backwards trajectory for their server & client OS.

[@erobbin144]

Linux servers are actually really nice to work with IMO, though the desktop experience can still be pretty rough

[@squattingheads]

ever tried to migrate your OneNote books from one tenant to another?

[@RoachDiddler]

You wanted us to add PowerShell cmdlets for managing user calendars? We redid the entire UI for Exchange Admin Center :). We omitted 50+ features from New Outlook and you want them back? We changed our productivity suites name from Office 365 to Microsoft 365 :). You want all your IAM features inside the IAM portal? We renamed Azure to Sentra and still have them split :). It’s never ending…

[@bebobo1]

@@erobbin144 normal debian is somehow the only modern os that's still kind of usable on slow hardware (after you pull your teeth out trying to make it work correctly) ubuntu is ok, but mint is the slowest fucking thing i have ever seen in my life and i have no idea why (except for mummified versions of windows 7 after being forcibly mangled into windows 10)

[@SiliconVermillion]

For anyone wondering.Theres a program called ioBit uninstaller that’s capable and of removing nearly all 2.1GB of Microsoft Edge. Also,My computer (Acer Nitro V15 intel Core i5-1320H)Forced Me to have a Microsoft account to set it up.How do i delete the account but still use it?it came with win11(22H2) onboard btw,which then auto-updated to 24H2

[@ShaneTheBane]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1313">21:53</a> sometimes I forget Jakey is a musician, and then I'm reminded

[@oofym353]

He's slapping his knees???? What.

[@viniguzz]

I want to replace the windows bootup sound with this song instead

[@iraitsjffskts]

i want to break into bill gates house and just change his alarm to this​@@viniguzz

[@ExceedSC2]

God, the RROD was so horrible on the 360, everyone I knew got it, mine had the great timing of red ringing on Halo 3's launch day. But my Dad, the goat, went out to Target that night and bought me a new 360 just because he knew how much it meant to me to play Halo 3. And after we did the Microsoft repair thing for the prior one, he put out our now 2nd 360 in the living room so he could replay Halo 2 Legendary over and over again.

[@ericv738]

World's best dad, what in tarnation

[@BlueBoboDoo100]

Microsoft is going to name their next console the "Original First X-box" for maximum confusion and so you can't reference their first console ever again.

[@alexmejia7012]

Xbox pass

[@EDUB9X3]

Eggs box

[@youtubesucks1821]

Shhhhhh, don't give them ideas

[@SprDrumio64]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="23">0:23</a> *Louis Rossmann has entered the chat*

[@Lone_Rocket]

Your rant about windows 11 is exactly how I feel every time I use it. And I use it almost every day for work. I refuse to update my current PC from windows 10, but those chucklehucks at Microsoft keeps asking despite me saying no every time. And they're getting sneaky with it too. Hiding the no button in super small print and making the yes button 2 yes buttons to confuse the masses. I DON'T WANT YOUR LOUSY UPDATE MICROSOFT, LEAVE ME ALONE.

[@crustyhotdog7940]

To me this exemplifies their current business strategies, they’re much more interested in manipulating you to make decisions that they want you to make rather than making their products actually good.

[@Copperyfoxx]

I’ve been avoiding 11 for my main gaming pc, from the sound of it I should probably keep doing that. Jokes on them for my old laptop though, apparently my lappy is good enough to run just about any modern game, but doesn’t meet the qualifications for 11. Begs the question, how can I run Fallout 4 with maxed out settings but I can’t run Wimbows 11? (Yes I know Fallout 4 is hardly new but still)

[@abadenoughdude300]

​@@Copperyfoxx One of the reasons that kinda makes sense if you squint hard enough is the TPM chip they need for bitlocker and security gimmicks (Windows and security, HA! 😂). The other reason is they arbitrarily decided to not support older CPU's, possibly due to the first reason but I don't recall the details atm. You can disable most if not all of the requirements for the installer and it will work fine but if you must do that then you might as well choose the penguin.

[@bbbbbbb51]

​@@Copperyfoxxwell eventually you'll have 2 options, pay for security updates for 10, or jump ship to Linux. I encourage you to dual boot and get your feet wet with it. Linux is easier to use than ever before, even if you need to run Windows software.

[@Wanderer-q6e]

I'll install Windows 11 if they ever finish it. There are still so many missing features there's even a dedicated Wikipedia article for it. I used to follow the dev process back when it was in early access where all of the bug reports for missing features had "we're actively working on it" responses. Then they released it to the public without fixing any of the bugs and just closed all of the tickets with "it's too hard, so we've given up". Years later and none of those missing features returned despite massive backlash, but you bet they added a thousand new "features" nobody asked for and everyone wants gone. Modern Microsoft is so incompetent they can't figure out how their basic OS features worked.

[@MentalCrusader]

>(rightfully) criticises IE and Edge >advertises chinese-owned spyware browser

[@Weldedhodag]

fr, anyone with sense uses firefox

[@VO1D333]

​@@Weldedhodag Edge is better than Firefox at least on my old android phones.

[@Outerparadox]

@@VO1D333 That's a lie. Firefox on android lets you use ublock origin to block ads.

[@TheGuyWhoEditz147]

@@Weldedhodag edge is better than chrome for me

[@aadarshroy3216]

I hate the "gotta get that bag" mentality. If you're gonna pick a sponsor, at least don't be a fucking hypocrite. Modern youtubers...

[@rtxon6031]

We are back

[@zackcitrus9171]

Cya again in 3 months 🫶🫶🫶

[@justaplant6125]

We are so back

[@spoiledmilk2198]

For 27 min

[@ChronoMune]

Back with your bot comments gg

[@Yea___]

You are front

[@Freezer_Lizard]

Windows 11 is the exact embodiment of having a house from 1940s and painting the outside a new color

[@morosonline3000]

Calling Edge trash and then turning around and promoting Opera GX was wild 😂 Love you Jakey, great vid

[@ADeatonic]

Mostly due to Edge being trash and GX being great.

[@elds2001]

I've never used gx but it CANNOT be worse than edge. Also the man's gotta feed his puppy somehow 😂

[@joseowl]

​@@ADeatonic They both suck bro just build your own browser 🙄

[@TeleviseGuy]

This is the type of guy I imagine would be using Chrome, or Brave, not Opera.

[@Game4Lord]

@@ADeatonicBoth Edge and Opera are chromium based. Anybody with a shred of common sense uses Firefox.

[@droknron]

Bought my kids a PS5 because just like you said, if you have a gaming PC there's no point to buying an XBOX.

[@Game4Lord]

You bought your kids a plastic box that doesn't have a functioning refund policy. Gee your kids are going to be real salty when they find out that their eligibility for a refund is null and void as soon as they initiate a download for something they've purchased.

[@xavierpeterson7139]

And you do know buying a ps5 was the biggest mistake too right? All their exclusives are slowly going to pc as well. Everyone gets super quiet when that’s brought up and doesn’t point out the elephant of the room where sony is slowly going multi platform

[@ArthropodSpidey]

@@xavierpeterson7139 Typical brain dead xbox player

[@KessHC]

If you have a gaming PC, then there's no point in buying an XBOX or a PS5 (which is even worse).

[@quackk_kk]

@@xavierpeterson7139 ps5 literally has 2 exclusives, my younger brother got a ps5 for christmas and its been sitting on my bed for the past nearly 11 months. he used it once. its an utter fucking paperweight, and if you have a gaming pc like he does there is 0 reason for having it.

[@ApexGale]

I had to repurchase Minecraft because Microsoft basically deleted my old account, so that was legit epicness

[@trixelized912]

I do no longer have access to Minecraft (migration issue regarding email, yes I spent weeks contacting support) and thinking back it's probably what started me spiraling into using Linux. I refuse to give them another 20 euros. Thanks, Microsoft!

[@deborahamos5401]

Same

[@DanieleGiorgino]

You had literally years to migrate your account.

[@ApexGale]

@DanieleGiorgino I bought the game and didn't touch it for several years, that doesn't mean they should just be able to delete my account and force me to buy it again. that's like saying nintendo has the right to pull up to your crib and take away your copy of mario 64 because you haven't touched it in 6 years i shouldn't have needed to migrate it in the first place

[@Soulmodulation]

I lost my account because it was associated with my dads email, and I never got the memo. When I wanted to play again recently I just said "screw it" and used Ultimmc to play modded 1.7.10 on linux. Its almost as if Microsoft never purchased it... almost.

[@Jacques-vh4mu]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1313">21:53</a> - The song is just the Anthem of Microsoft right now.

[@onceuponatimeonearth]

If you have account synchronization turned on between your Edge browser and your phone to synchronize passwords, Microsoft also saves your browsing history on their servers and sells this to third parties for targeted advertising. Let that sink in.

[@merchantarthurn]

Sounds like a GDPR violation waiting to be prosecuted

[@dantecaballero96]

If "Jakey Jakey & Jakey: Attorneys at Law" don't make an appearance during this MichaelSoft takedown, I'm gonna ink...

[@dantecaballero96]

They came.

[@icecreamget]

"Attonerys at law"

[@dantecaballero96]

@@icecreamget Arteries at Law

[@TristanLane520]

Perhaps if the FTC hired Jakey, Jakey & Jakey: Attorneys at Law then they wouldn't have lost the Activision Blizzard antitrust case...

[@dantecaballero96]

@@TristanLane520 Actually the prosecution WAS Jakey, Jakey & Jakey: Attorneys at Law, that's why they lost. Can't beat those three

[@mitchellsharp1456]

If I remember correctly, xbox 360 introduced ads on the console home screen as well.

[@Teorah]

"windows vista?" "Holy Shista" Is the fucking funniest one liner joke in the entire video

[@majestyzx9081]

"But Jakey!" I hear you ask. "If Windows movie maker sucks, how was I able to make all of these dope ass AMVs featuring Linkin Park songs?" And to that, I say "(⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻"

[@joeschmoe2843]

Fucking glad that era of youtube is dead.

[@virvum_cypher]

I just got transported back to 2002 for a sec...

[@muse5722]

Hilarious how you call Edge a bad browser and then take a sponsorship from the one singular Chromium based browser that is WORSE

[@GU-jt5fe]

I am disappointed to see so few comments calling him out on this.

[@cameronramey9667]

Don't hate the player, hate the game...

[@ryano420]

High memory usage doesn’t mean it’s a bad browser. Also chromium worse? Really? Scram.

[@Cannoliking]

​@@ryano420 It is also a highly suspicious chromium based browser

[@retradern]

@@ryano420He didn’t say chromium was worse

[@NormalLee67]

Microsoft's obsession with subscription services has also gotten really bad. A lot of tech companies in general have realized that making products that are actually better than what they already had is only getting harder and harder, so the best way to make money is to no longer allow you to own their products and instead force you to pay a subscription fee. You *can* still buy Microsoft Office software as like a one-time purchase so you can actually own the software and not just have to pay rent on it forever, but they REALLY fucking hide that option as best as they can. Even Gamepass, as good a deal as it may seem at first, is ultimately just another way that big tech companies are trying to prevent you from actually owning the things you pay money for, made even funnier by the fact that Microsoft has admitted they have lost money by putting big games on Gamepass. It isn't even something that makes them money but they're still so committed to it, all because Phil Spencer basically went "Nah, I'd win" to every other person at Xbox telling him it was a bad idea.

[@Tommy43040]

The subscriptions are a reminder we should live offline more :troll:

[@erobbin144]

Welcome to tech in 2024. Everything-as-a-service, everything for a recurring monthly fee

[@LogicalError007]

Are you complaining about nothing? First you said Office 365 is a bad subscription. But you can get a one-time pay version released every 2-3 year. Then you complained about Game Pass. But you can buy all the games in that service. So, what are you really complaining about? The things you said after that is not true at all. Do you think Microsoft would let a service losing them money to continue? Many people where game prices are very high use Game Pass for few months and unsubscribe later. It enables more people to play things they wouldn't have purchased. I don't know how someone can deem it as something bad.