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Complaint: Microsoft have spent years adding many features and even people with no expertise can use it. This is, somehow, bad.
Suggested course of action: Abandon it.
Complaint: There is nothing else comparable, because everything else has fewer features is harder to use, and can't run software people want to run.
> "the market is ready"
The market is still giving money to Microsoft hand over fist. Consumers have basically run to Android phones, iPads, Chromebooks, Kindles, Alexa devices, macBooks, and away from desktops entirely. What are you looking at which suggests it's ready for a change of consumer desktop/laptop OS?
>They are making claims about it being more performant, but that's hard to imagine when considering their promises for backwards compatibility.
I can run Windows 95 programs on Windows 10, not sure where the knock is coming from on backwards compatibility.
>Here comes another UI overhaul instead of simply fixing the trash menus
From the leaked ISO, the menus are much improved and overhauled. Sure, I want a modern tabbed File Explorer too, but it's clearly being worked on.
The trash menus I'm referring to, while the language is a bit strong, are how there is no unified design throughout the OS. It reeks of implementing new features halfway and rushing it out, since most of what the user sees is now "new".
The reason it stays around is because of it's entrenched market share at very large enterprises. Until there is a replacement for managing huge numbers of end user devices centrally that is as easy or easier then Active Directory that won't change.
I don't know what can replace it right now, for non-technical users, but the market is ready for an OS that isn't tied to hardware (MacOS) and doesn't require as much expertise or effort as Linux variants (especially when running specific software).
Microsoft is here with Windows 11, integrating teams into the OS, because they want to shill it, not because it's what users want. They are making claims about it being more performant, but that's hard to imagine when considering their promises for backwards compatibility.
Windows is a bloated nuisance OS that only stays around because of legacy software and DirectX. The folks at Microsoft who work on Windows have demonstrated for decades now that they care more about implementing new features than they care about user experience, consistency, and reliability. Here comes another UI overhaul instead of simply fixing the trash menus and numerous other problems the OS has. Why?
It's time to move on from Windows.