Microsoft Readies Big Feature Updates For Next Month and Beyond (windowscentral.com) 34
Windows 11 users will receive significant UI refinements and AI improvements starting next month as Microsoft prepares its September feature drop followed by additional updates through fall. The update, Windows Central reports, will bring customizable lock screen widgets globally after months of European exclusivity, photo grid views in Windows Search, and a redesigned Windows Hello authentication interface.
Copilot+ PCs will gain a revamped Recall application with workflow suggestions and File Explorer AI integration through Click To Do. October and November releases will introduce a larger, customizable Start menu allowing removal of the Recommended section and expanded dark mode support for legacy File Explorer dialogs.
Copilot+ PCs will gain a revamped Recall application with workflow suggestions and File Explorer AI integration through Click To Do. October and November releases will introduce a larger, customizable Start menu allowing removal of the Recommended section and expanded dark mode support for legacy File Explorer dialogs.
bwa ha ha (Score:2)
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The recall of the recall.
In the immortal words of Yahtzee Croshaw (Score:2)
"Pants down, fist up, pound pound pound!"
Announcements: Do they think they are Apple? (Score:1)
What has the world come to?
Significant UI refinements? (Score:2, Troll)
Are they also going to fix the insanely high memory usage? The other day my Windows 11 install was using 6GB of memory doing "nothing"
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Windows has a weird situation where having more memory can lead to using less of it. If you try to run Windows 10 x64 with 4GB of memory it will run pretty good, but its memory usage is almost maxed out the whole time. It's probably swapping crap in and out constantly, but you don't notice because we all should have an SSD of some sort as the boot drive... this isn't the stone age. But if you have 8GB+, it will end up using most of it for the first 10 or so seconds of booting up, but then drop to ~2.5GB aft
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You don't have to run explorer.exe. You can set Windows to run some other program. This is how most embedded Windows installs work, instead of calling explorer.exe you set the registry to call your program. Completely plausible to have a 3rd party desktop environment on Windows, though I'm not aware of any general purpose ones.
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Yeah, LOL, when someone would piss me off years ago I would hack their registry to make the shell notepad.exe.
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I had two different ones I liked back in the day, a program that would flip the screen upside-down at logon, and a rickroll-style link to loud audio "I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORN!" (when people still had desktop speakers).
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Are they also going to fix the insanely high memory usage? The other day my Windows 11 install was using 6GB of memory doing "nothing", nothing as in running no additional programs. I tried to get that reduced, but no matter what I changed it was fairly fixed, to be fair, it moved between 5.5 GB and 6.1 GB, but for what reason?
What do you want it to do with memory when there are no programs running and the system is idle? Windows is pretty aggressive at using memory for the file system cache, for example, and it will prefetch programs and files that you use often into memory so they're available instantly when you try to access them.
This is a good thing, not bad. All of this memory can be instantly dumped if a program suddenly requests a bunch of memory for private use. Memory that is not being used for something is wasted mem
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Ah, yes, more AI is what Windows need ... (Score:4, Informative)
The foundation of all their modern APIs is fundamentally broken (WinRT, ie. COM, ie. working around C++'s flaws by breaking your OS). Thanks to that they needed to de-mothball WPF to have some slightly modern UI framework which wasn't a fucking joke. Meanwhile OneDrive is a fucking disaster, in an age where a modern OS should have had user friendly sync and versioned backup build in for a decade already.
They don't need AI integration ... they need AGI, so the AI can fix Windows for them. All Nadella can do is count the money he stumbled on from the cloud transition, while the foundations of Windows rot.
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Complain all you want, whatever they're doing is most certainly working. For them.
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Making all the money from Azure and Microsoft 365 while not losing marketshare for their user OS would be working better.
Oh, crap! (Score:2)
And just when I thought moving to Win11 (for some of my systems) might not be so bad.
More bloat (Score:2)
Yay more bloat to add to the existing bloat! I'm going to have to submerge my laptop in liquid nitrogen just to install this update, otherwise it'll run so hot that the fan will cause it to lift off and fly away.
I prostrate myself before my new AI overlords (Score:4)
Seriously, is thee any fucking way at all to stop/remove all the AI in windows?
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windows 7
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You kid, but I've been running a Windows 7 box all along for certain programs I need. It never crashes (thanks to MS not "updating" it any longer), it's incredibly snappy on 6th gen hardware, and it's a pleasure to use. Microsoft lost their way.
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Seriously, is thee any fucking way at all to stop/remove all the AI in windows?
More seriously, are you actually seeing any AI in Windows? I can't find any. I don't see a Copilot logo anywhere (I turned it off). When I press windows + C (which is the same as the Copilot button) it simply opens search (I turned copilot off there too), I don't have Copilot enabled on startup (That's also trivial to turn off).
Yes this can all be stopped trivially. Even Recall has a simple toggle switch to completely disable it.
Cram it (Score:3)
Can't we get Microsoft charge under the RICO statute????
Significant UI Refinements (Score:2)
Playing "Guess where we hid the command bar/ribbon now?"
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i want my vista tiles back
AI improvements? It can be uninstalled?! (Score:2)
And they won't violate my consent an reinstall it at random? Nice! Sign me up. I've been waiting for that ""feature"".
too much redecorating (Score:4, Insightful)
Microsoft does way too much redecorating. I didn't need a fresh icon and it didn't need to move to a new spot.
A focus on security would be nice.
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Microsoft does way too much redecorating. I didn't need a fresh icon and it didn't need to move to a new spot.
Redecorating keeps a system looking "fresh" for the common plebs. They do it because it actually helps sell Windows as a current up to date latest tech. Braindead users actually think unchanging systems are somehow left behind in the tech world and start looking elsewhere. Redecorating actually has return on investment when marketing to non-power users. You won't understand, most people on Slashdot won't, I don't either.
A focus on security would be nice.
Oh we have that. New OS level passkey, disk encryption, all enforced via hardware securi
'Member when? (Score:2)
Remember when if you didn't want a shitty "upgrade", you could choose to just not install the new version of the software? When such "updates" weren't forced down your throat because, even on Windows, because you owned your computer? When drastic changes to operating systems that affect how people use them was limited to major releases?
Microsoft remembers, and they hated it. They are so close to customers being fully accustomed to forced updates that they don't want. The next step is to convince users t
Every. Fucking. Time. (Score:2)
Every product "update" these days seems to be an announcement about how they're making it shittier. "Hey, we're adding more AI! And we're going to take screenshots of everything you do! And we're going to delete random files! And we're going to move the taskbar to the center of the screen! Good news, no more Start Menu! Great news, you can now pay $10 a month!"
It fucking sucks.
Imagine if restaurants did this. "Hey, that burger you like? We're now adding pineapple and ranch sauce! And we're only raising the
Intentional chaos (Score:2)
All these constant "updates," adding and removing features and changing UI elements, are all part of trying to convince customers that the operating system, itself, "needs" to be SaaS.