Posted on 02/08/2020 7:59:18 AM PST by dayglored
Windows 10 may now be essential but users new and old have had a rough ride in recent weeks. And it has just gotten a lot worse after a new, high-profile Windows 10 failure has left more questions than answers and some seriously angry users.
The drama began yesterday [2/5] as Windows 10 users suddenly found that Search was broken with a black bar showing where search results should be, even for those who tried to perform a local search of their files. Breaking with tradition (1,2,3,4,5), Microsoft was fast to act blaming “a temporary server-side issue”. But the explanation instead kicked a hornet’s nest. First, the fix doesn’t work for everyone. Second, and more worryingly, Microsoft’s explanation doesn’t add up and it has prompted serious questions to be asked about how the operating system works and what personal data it is sharing.
Popular Microsoft pundit Woody Leonard led the charge, writing: “If you believe that yesterday’s worldwide crash of Windows 10 Search was caused by a bad third-party fiber provider, I have a bridge to sell you.”
In an open letter to new Windows head Panos Panay, Susan ‘Patch Lady’ Bradley was similarly sceptical, noting that today “we all found out that our local search boxes are somehow dependent on some service working at Microsoft.” She attacked the company for a lack of transparency and gave it a maximum ‘Pinocchio score’ for a lack of trust.
“Microsoft has been working to unify search experience across Windows, Bing, and Office 365 products...Microsoft’s efforts to supercharge the search box has many advantages, but such problems are ruining the company’s reputation,” said Windows Latest, in a stark warning.
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Mine is working. I guess it’s fixed?
:)
I liked XP and Win 7. But when I saw this going south with 10 I was done with MS.
Two Words: Open Office.
Does anything Word does, no hassels
I want two things...smooth, elegant, reliable, and simplicity.
I’ve used Macs and Windows machines for over 30 years in both work and home environments. Right now, I’m at home using a 2014 MacBook Pro. A couple weeks ago, I bought an HP Windows 10 machine to run some health apps that don’t run on my Mac (no, I didn’t want to use Boot Camp or Parallels for many reasons).
I’m amazed at how crude and clunky Windows feels to me. The basic Windows platform has not improved or evolved from that clunky, poorly designed feeling in 30 years. The hardware/software integration still seems primitive. The Win10 UI is an indecipherable mess with inconsistencies in every context.
What should be simple is extremely hard - for example, just try renaming, rearranging or removing your pinned items on the left sidebar in File Explorer. I gave up on that and just live with an aggravating mess I created.
The Mac just works and I never have to “get under the hood” to fix something or make it operate the way I want.
I know many or most will disagree with me and that’s no big deal. Fighting over what’s best is a silly, childish game from decades ago. I’m just writing about what works for me.
Good luck in your decision.
PS. If you want simple, get as far away from Linux as you can, especially if you don’t want to invest scores of hours to become an expert to make things work. I’ve got Linux running on probably 15 to 20 home appliances and smartphone things, so it does run reliably and well. I just don’t want to have to spend the time to figure out how to use it as my “daily driver” when the Mac (and IOS devices) work so well and are so simple.
They certainly don't display loyalty or respect.
You can see the same thing all over the finance biz.
"Vice President Patel's whereabouts aren't presently known."
Does this affect all flavours and builds? My work environment is Win10, save for a machine running Win7 and some Macs. I had not noticed the Win10 machine in my office exhibit this particular annoying behavior.
FRiend, that horse was at the glue factory before the barn was built.
But my friends from India always seem so helpful when they call me to warn me about viruses and hackers on my machine, and to offer me refunds on services that I never bought.
What’s the problem?
Yep. I got this problem too on my W10 business laptop. We also use Office 365.
“ I’m wondering what folks know about an Apple Mac? ”
8 years ago, in the dead of night, I packed up my data and slipped off the MSFT Plantation.
Oh, they had me good for decades!
Too many windows machines in my office, too many forced Office updates, too many reinstalls when windows crashed! Then the painstaking reinstall of drivers.
I was forced to be an unpaid Microsoft tech support person.
I was bled dry financially.
I got viruses, malware, headaches.
I was told all that was normal.
Then one day, I realized I was just a dairy cow in the MSFT herd, being milked continually.
Not wanting to become a MSFT beef cow, I waited until a dark night, slipped the chains, and fled.
Bought a Mac. Had a small learning curve. No big deal.
In the 8 years, I’ve never paid for an update, nor installed a driver, nor ever had a virus, nor malware, nor paid for the Mac version of office, nor spent hours trying to fix anything.
Every free system update has installed easily.
All I can tell you is that I’d never go back to the Plantation.
I like my freedom.
I do not use the Windows search function.
If I am looking for something I think is on the hard drive of the PC I go directly to the file structure myself and look for it.
If I think what I am looking for is on the Web then I start my Internet browser and use the search engine I have it defaulting to.
Also, I made it so that Cortana is dead on my PC.
How did you do that...."Home" does not allow killing cortana.
Guess how many problems I have with Windows 7?
Zero!
Microsoft stopped making an OS that I would want after Windows 7.
Ain’t technology just gran Moe,do they pay engineers to make this crap.
No problems with Search on ANY of my machines, assuming you mean the Search box on the Task bar.
I have a couple that are Insider builds and get constant updates. No issue with these or the regular builds.
If it was consistent, it would be Microsoft’s fault but since it’s not it sounds like just another hit piece to me.
I decided to stay with windows-7. No problems. I use Duck Duck Go for searches...no problems at all.
Linux is slowly growing with support for games. I have used SteamOS and am able to play Deus Ex Mankind Divided and almost all of Valves games: Half Life 2, Portal 2, even Black Mesa which is a full remake of Half Life 1. I wish it supported more but I’m hoping that with Microsoft’s foolish decision-making over the last several years that they will drive much larger segment of the gaming market over to Linux. I never even considered using Linux until the last couple of years. I’m still using Windows 7 for gaming and it has been fully supported so far, but I see that changing in the next couple years. I’m done with Microsoft after that.
I don’t see how that is possible.
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