Windows 11: Just say no

Re:Windows 11: Just say no by cm2187 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:30PM (#28559138)

On windows search, I never understood why it was so bloody slow, particularly on network drives. If I traverse the same folders programmatically I get a result in seconds or less. The search function will takes an order of magnitude that, and I don’t believe it is searching anything else than file names. And don’t even dare changing the sorting order of the search result, because of course it must trigger a new search from scratch.

Which leads me to the same conclusion than many other flaws in Windows. I don’t think the windows team at Microsoft uses windows themselves. They must all have macs at home or perhaps don’t care much about computers. But clearly those obvious UX failures do not seen to annoy them.

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Re:Windows 11: Just say no by speed_spread on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:54PM (#28560298)

I think that like many places nowadays, development of Windows is done by developers according to an entirely business-driven backlog, where details are first broken down into prioritizable bits before being implemented. As long as features are delivered on time in predictable increments, nobody dares to openly question the actual usefulness or quality of the resulting software for fear of impeding that smooth rollout which would make the team look bad and reduce chances of promotion and / or bonuses.

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