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Re:Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control by jodrellblank on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @09:14PM (#34718884)
> "Everything I can think of (drivers, screen res, multiple monitors) is incremental improvements to what we already had"

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? (Besides, they're just improvements on what we had before so they don't count).

Apart from the drivers, screen res, multiple monitors, virtual desktops, Windows Defender, updated DirectX, newer hardware support, hypervisor isolated secure password store, app store, WiFi, audio stack with per-program volume control, OCR engine, voice recognition engine, Cortana, online backup and file and settings sync, touch UI and the $8Bn/year Surface line it enabled, improved security, hypervisor backed WSL Ubuntu and Android engines, Windows Sandbox, SSD TRIM support, Bitlocker full disk encryption, ClearType and improved fonts for screen reading, GPU accelerated compositor, face recognition biometric login, QR codes on BSODs, all of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#New_or_changed_f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_11

... what have Microsoft added or changed in Windows since XP? btw I don't even use windows and I didn't want any of those things anyway.

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Re:Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control by ineptech on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:59PM (#34719953)
Right, the problem is the difference between the DirectX/hardware support stuff on that list and the Cortana/app store stuff - I want the first part, and will pay for it, but I'm complaining that getting stuck with the second part is part of the price.
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Re:Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control by jodrellblank on Saturday February 11, 2023 @04:44PM (#34756702)
That isn't really "the other hand". The claim I was rejecting was "Microsoft haven't done any development on Windows since XP". I say they have, and you also say they have.
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