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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by wvenable on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:50PM (#35690084)
The problem with Microsoft always looking to their competition for ideas is the fail to capitalize on their own strengths. They end up chasing Mac OS or Android and create a product that isn't as good as either of those (because chasing the competition is hard) while subsequently throwing away what made their own product competitive and interesting.

Windows should not be a Mac OS clone. But every single UI update sends it in that direction.

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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by 908B64B197 on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:33PM (#35692088)
Windows should clone one particular release of OS X: Snow Leopard.

It was marketed as a "Zero New Features" update [0]. Only performance, reliability and back-end upgrades (and it was a packed release for sure that completed the 64 bit transition).

EDIT: Anyone who agrees, upvote this comment! Who knows maybe someone in Redmond will see it! You never know!

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/26/apple-work-looking-back-at-wh...

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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by wvenable on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:46PM (#35693028)
The most popular versions of Windows -- 7 and 10 -- are both pretty low-feature releases. Windows 7 was just the completed version of Vista. Windows 10 was a bit of rollback of some of the worst UI ideas in 8. Neither were radical departures from the version before.
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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by deepsun on Monday April 24, 2023 @03:53PM (#35692293)
> fail to capitalize on their own strengths

Well, they capitalized on their market share immencely with Azure. At the beginning it was pretty ****, but a lot of customers signed up immediately. Not because that **** is better, but because Microsoft already held all their eggs.

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Re:Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never ... by wvenable on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:41PM (#35692955)
Microsoft is securing their position with Azure. It definitely keeps getting better in ways that work well for their customers.

Windows is the linchpin in that strategy so I don't understand why they've moved organizationally moved it so far away. It's relegated to being Bing adjacent.

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