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windexh8ertoday at 4:14 AM1 replyview on HN

More competitionis better. If you take the market share and revenue off the table and spread that around in a competitive market you'd be in a much more interesting spot with respect to technology advancements. Instead we continue to stagnate with bullshit like Windows 10 --> Windows 11. Windows 11 was never supposed to exist, but $$$$$. There's literally nothing worth paying for in that upgrade. But Microsoft knows it can milk businesses and schools out of ridiculous profits for, essentially, the same garbage and also collude with hardware manufacturers to sell more PCs.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/05/08/microsof...


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happymellontoday at 7:34 AM

> There's literally nothing worth paying for in that upgrade.

Well there is the violations of Fitts law with the movement of the start button to the centre of the bar?

But it does make it look slightly more Mac! They should make sure the next upgrade moves the corner to grab away from the actual corner, and that the cursor change for grabbing it doesn't always trigger if they want to really rip it off.