When was Microsoft honest?
in this ss of a win10 install. they’re giving you a heads up on what to expect. how awfully nice of them to not bury it in a 200 page TOS.
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I think the thing that irks me more than anything else about Windows is that it always refers to itself as “us”. I hate it.
Subtly reminding you that you don’t really own your PC.
It’s the royal “we”
Barely related tangent, but maybe kinda related:
The Seattle Light Rail.
The train cars have computerized voice speakers for announcing stops and such.
When you get to a stop, they say ‘Please use the exit doors on my left/right’, depending on which station, where the platform is, etc.
But it’s her left. Not the left.
… The train owns its own body and is apparently alive.
All your base are belong to us.
What you say !!
You have no way to survive make your time.
Base.
Base.
Base base base bAss bAsS BASS BASS…
(and something like that is how dubstep was born, lol)
Worked for the Borg…
I always just thought those messages were written as a group, like a Christmas card.
You forgot to change it to “Don’t turn off our PC”
Hah, nice FTFY
Microsoft is very kind to let the user log in to their operating system and look around and feel at home. It’s like being in a computer hotel and you have a room as long as you keep paying, but you are a guest in your computer.
If “everything” means your personal information and data, sure.
Its even more literal than that.
Write them into your will.
Leave everything to them.
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when?
Who, the borg?
I miss when it used to be run by computer geeks who just wanted to do cool stuff.
So Windows Xp and earlier?
Yes, XP or maybe a couple years earlier was about when the dominant theme switched from innovation to version churn, getting customers to keep re-buying the same things over and over whether they needed updating or not.
I remember in '99 there was an ActiveX object called XmlHttpRequest, that made what we called “back channel requests” - it made a call to an url and handed the results to script in the page, which could do whatever we wanted with it - populate fields, make things appear or disappear, etc. At that time this only worked in IE. It genuinely turned web pages into apps - very exciting! I randomly had a conversation with the IE dev manager and asked him if this feature would be native in the next version of IE instead of having to use an ActiveX object. Surprisingly he wasn’t even familiar with the whole concept, and said, almost verbatim: “Now that Netscape is basically dead, there’s really no motivation for us to innovate in the browser space.” A couple years later somebody wrote an article calling the whole process “AJAX” and explained clearly how to do it, and suddenly it was the new web dev hotness. Firefox added native support for it, and MS (as usual) was playing catch-up.
they’re talking about inheritance as a suggested new way to pay for your copilot subscription
No thanks
When did that happen?
