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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 2 23:11:54 2025
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Long-time Microsoft watcher Ed Bott has put together a summary of the
    winding, bumpy and treacherous road Microsoft chose to follow in its
    release of Windows 11 <https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-should-have-been-an-easy-upgrade-microsoft-chose-to-unleash-chaos-on-us-instead/>.

    Honestly, I had no idea it was this bad. First they were going to be
    reasonable about it, and offer some leeway for those with machines
    just 2-3 years old to keep using them with the new OS. But it seems a
    different faction within the company staged a palace coup, and
    enforced the hard restrictions we see today. But even the path between
    those two states was far from straightforward, with endless amendments
    and corrections and just plain backtracking along the way.

    And to top it all off, it seems Microsoft didn’t want to leave a
    record that the official position was ever other than what it is now.
    “We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From John Doe@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 3 01:19:48 2025
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Bill Gates is a fucking KIKE!

    SEIG HEIL!

    HEIL HITLER!

    O/ O/ O/


    www.goyimtv.com



    On Jul 2, 2025 at 7:11:54 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Long-time Microsoft watcher Ed Bott has put together a summary of the winding, bumpy and treacherous road Microsoft chose to follow in its
    release of Windows 11 <https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-should-have-been-an-easy-upgrade-microsoft-chose-to-unleash-chaos-on-us-instead/>.

    Honestly, I had no idea it was this bad. First they were going to be reasonable about it, and offer some leeway for those with machines
    just 2-3 years old to keep using them with the new OS. But it seems a different faction within the company staged a palace coup, and
    enforced the hard restrictions we see today. But even the path between
    those two states was far from straightforward, with endless amendments
    and corrections and just plain backtracking along the way.

    And to top it all off, it seems Microsoft didn’t want to leave a
    record that the official position was ever other than what it is now.
    “We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Thu Jul 3 11:03:15 2025
    XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

    Long-time Microsoft watcher Ed Bott has put together a summary of the winding, bumpy and treacherous road Microsoft chose to follow in its
    release of Windows 11

    <https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-should-have-been-an-easy-upgrade-microsoft-chose-to-unleash-chaos-on-us-instead/>.

    Honestly, I had no idea it was this bad. First they were going to be reasonable about it, and offer some leeway for those with machines
    just 2-3 years old to keep using them with the new OS. But it seems a different faction within the company staged a palace coup, and
    enforced the hard restrictions we see today. But even the path between
    those two states was far from straightforward, with endless amendments
    and corrections and just plain backtracking along the way.

    And to top it all off, it seems Microsoft didn’t want to leave a
    record that the official position was ever other than what it is now.
    “We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”

    Oh man, did that bring back a flood of unpleasant memories. I
    encourage you to read that post and look at the number of
    times I had to update it after Microsoft execs backtracked,
    revised, hemmed and hawed with every detail of the launch.
    They then memory-holed the confusing record they had created,
    doing such a thorough job that even the Internet Archive can't
    locate the original documents.

    Is Ed Bott still a Microsoft fan?

    --
    You teach best what you most need to learn.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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