I was thinking about this the other day.
I can’t see the point, desktop search is a solved problem.
Yes Windows find is shit, but it doesn’t have to be.
I know a bunch of the conspiracies, but what is the legitimate use case?
I don’t think there is a point to any of Microsoft’s current design decisions and features. I’ve recently had a look at Win 11 and everything seemed mostly random to me. My guess is, someone noticed they’re doing AI these days (that’s fairly consistent) and just decided to feed some regular screenshots in.
I’ve worked in corporate America for a while now, and if there’s one lesson I’ve learned…
When the decisions from execs don’t make any sense to you, it probably means they’re trying to increase short-term shareholder value. Those decisions start making sense when you look through the lens of an MBA, but no sense to anyone who thinks beyond next quarter’s numbers.
Agree. Most of the new stuff Microsoft adds in their updates are desperate ideas concoted in staff meetings, just so some beleaguered coder can tell the dickhead boss they pushed out a shiny new turd. And/or they just add more spyware for the corporations that pay for bulk licenses and the data miners.
I wonder where this will lead. I mean the usual strategy of selling something is to look at customers, see what they want or need, give them about that… And it’ll make them buy your product. And I can see that in some of Microsoft’s products. But recently, that doesn’t seem to be super important any more when it comes to the operating system. I mean they’ve done that before. Used their marked share on the desktop to push their agenda. Even if their customers don’t like any of that. Or alternated between improvements and the worse new Windows version in-between… But especially with Windows 11 it doesn’t seem to me they care any more. Do they still have a lock on desktop computers like they used to? So they can afford to do that? Because I’m hearing more complaints than before…
What happens when their customers aren’t their users but instead are government or other corporate entities - or themselves?
Windows recall stores the data locally, but what telemetrically is it sending back? Or if its sending nothing today, what will they change it to send tomorrow? Fodder for AI training data? Sensitive secret or proprietary information?
The worst part about all of this is even if they are being absolutely and completely honest, there is no verifiable way for us to prove this because all of their code is closed source and I imagine to some capacity obfuscated.
So the natural assumption here is that, similar to free-as-in-beer products, we are the product and Windows is the platform by which we are being served.
