Why is Windows 10 a mess? Ex-Microsoft engineer blames the culture of 'made-men'.

ZDNet ^ | 10.24.2019 | Liam Tung

[Carriage Hill]

Windows 10 could be better if only Microsoft got rid of its layers of made-men, according to a former Microsoft distinguished engineer.

Tired of boring, buggy Windows 10 updates? You can blame them on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's failure to eliminate the company's legacy of appointing "made-men".

[Billthedrill]

the CEO needs to do more to stop the appointment of males ...

Never, never trust anyone who refers to men as "males". Never.

[LouieFisk]

“Next computer is Linux for sure.”
—
Don’t need to wait, you can have both - in one PC - via “dual booting”. For example -
https://www.fosslinux.com/272/how-to-install-linux-mint-and-dual-boot-with-windows.htm

(I’ve done it with most PCs I’ve had.)

[HonorInPa]

Sure, but what system doesn’t? iOS, Linux, Android?

[CatOwner]

New all=in-one with Windows 10 also comes with “cloud storage” where everything you put in documents or pictures is stored in the cloud for you and they ask you to sign up for a monthly hosting charge as soon as your “cloud storage” goes over a small trial amount... even if you never asked for it and have 1TB of data storage locally.

This is the horror story I want to avoid. I guess I can keep my Win 7 PC (ghosting the OS partition for backup) for anything other than Internet access.

[bobcat62]

What white men?

https://twitter.com/pddhappy/status/1178734953246289920

[vikingd00d]

>>White men. This wouldn’t happen if you had diversity.

Indeed, because people hired purely to meet affirmative action quotas NEVER write buggy code.

[plsvn]

You sound like a fan boy.

I'm on your side, not fan boy's.

[TomGuy]

I am STILL trying to get a workable version of Win10 on my tablet.

Luckily, I made some Macrium Reflect images at various states of ‘good’ versions. Version 1803 worked pretty good and the latest updates made it fast loading and using.

Then 1903 came along. It has been a nightmare. I did manage to get a couple of images when it seemed to be working. Then, the next update caused crashes and reboots. Even the 1903 images would not work.

I finally returned to 1803. Which worked. Now, currently, 12:50 pm CT, the tablet is trying again to get a workable version of 1903 installed.

I just hope my Win7 laptop and desktop last a long time. I turned off auto updates on them several years ago. I still get ‘critical updates’ and occasionally have to do a System Restore.

I do have a Linux Mint 18-03 laptop. It has its own set of problems and peculiarities.

[Brian Griffin]

I haven’t had a big problem recently.

Windows 10 is still awful when it comes to updates slowing my machine to a crawl and overheating it.

Someone needs to teach the Indian programmers about buffering typed characters.

[Carriage Hill]

You’re one in a million.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Pffttt!!! Made men? Name names, list specific problems.

[webheart]

Either you agree that it is buggy bloatware, whatever that is, or YOU are a FANBOY! A fanboy is not a good thing to be, for some reason which has to do with not agreeing.

[Brian Griffin]

I do not have Internet service at home.

Why? Because I’m not going to deal with Comcast.

Don’t hold my computer hostage by having Word insist on accessing the Internet.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I went Linux Mint with an old computer with a bad hard drive. The only problem I have with it is it won’t print from pdf.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I went Linux Mint with an old computer with a bad hard drive. The only problem I have with it is it won’t print from pdf.

P.S. It runs 5-10 times as fast as Windows 10.

[Dr. Sivana]

People who complain about Windows 10 are amateurs and do not know what they are talking about.

It depends on why they are complaining. For instance, I believe that it is legitimate to complain about Microsoft moving the whole OS to a SaaS model. Forced updates are not cool for many. Personally, I would just as soon pay an extra $200 and have all the OS level spyware and the nearly mandatory "Microsoft Account" ripped out. I don't like being dragged to the cloud, but can only avoid it with great effort. Also, Microsoft manages to get almost EVERY SINGLE default setting wrong. (e.g. older versions of Windows Server defaults to icon mode, no extensions showing, and "best appearance" in the desktop)

That said, Windows hardware drivers are better, much better, than Windows and (usually) MacOS counterparts. Here I am thinking about things like video cards, printers and scanners. That might be because of marketshare alone, but whatever the reason, Windows 10 has done a good job working with an insane array of equipment. Performance in most professional environments is good (compared to Linux counterparts), and Microsoft makes an honest effort to keep up with security issues.

The company does send out too many patches that weren't tested enough, and has a bad habit of releasing beta software as complete. I blame that on the hypercompetitive atmosphere.

[KEVLAR]

If you get that from my one post

You definitely don’t.

[I want the USA back]

Why did they break things that were working?

The invisible scroll bars that appear only when you move the mouse cursor over them, and then your cursor is not in the right spot.

Copying a folder to another, in which there is a file name duplicated in the source folder and the destination folder. Win 7 dialogue showed you the date/time and size of both files and told you which was newer or bigger. You then decided what to do. One click. Win 10, it tells you that there is a file with the same name, but gives you no information! If you click to get that information, it is not intuitive. They broke something that was perfectly OK!

Plus, I can’t find a way to disable the trackpad when a mouse is plugged in. Windows help is wrong. Very annoying.

All in all, Win 10 is a step backwards. Why do you do these things, Microsoft?

[Dalberg-Acton]

“Never had a problem with Win 10, ever.”

You’ve never turned your Windows 10 computer on and had to wait for it to update before you could use it?

“Sure, but what system doesn’t? iOS, Linux, Android?”

Linux doesn’t. Not being able to use your computer when you want to really is a problem, even if you claim it isn’t for you.

[KEVLAR]

Not at all.

The two statements are not dependent on the other.