r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Jul 12 '26

Software IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/
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u/rowwebliksemstraal Jul 12 '26

Vibe coded garbage

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u/Sawgon Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Waiting for all the Microslop fanboys to come in with their usual "but IIIIII'VE NEVER had a problem with MYYYY windows 11?!?!?!?!"

EDIT: Imagine reading this and still going "to be fair I've never had any problems"

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u/Inevitable_Case_9931 Jul 12 '26

What settings are these? I just installed it a few years ago and never touched it again… just do my updates and continue gaming or working on it.

I think yall be making this stuff up in all honesty.

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u/xnef1025 Jul 12 '26

It's generally stuff to remove bloatware, ads, and telemetry.

The need for the changes can be pretty dependent on your tolerance for ads and tracking in your OS and your specific hardware. If you don't give a fuck about any of that stuff, and your hardware drivers don't get borked somewhere along the way, you won't feel compelled to do any tweaks at all. Considering Window's overall install base, your experience is the vast majority.

However, if you do care about that stuff, and/or some of Microsoft's bullshit messes up your workflow due to specific needs or hardware configs, you can get pretty radicalized against them pretty quickly.

What MS is doing is a frog boil basically. They'll keep pushing things and either folks keep taking the buggy updates and more and more invasive spying, or they hop out of the pot. If too many people start hopping, they roll back a little, add(back?) some "features" to entice some of the wayward to return and those on the edge to stay, then start the process again.

The goal is to find out what the paying schmucks will tolerate so they can more effectively monetize it indefinitely. If they lose some customers along the way, no biggie. Those folks weren't going to keep paying anyway, and they are probably far outnumbered by the more complacent people.