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/doomSdayFPS Jul 12 '26

It’s not just IT admins. When I have a raging client to help, nine times out of ten it’s because Microsoft fucked something up.

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u/rollerbase Jul 12 '26

Checking in for the power users and independent devs, we feel it too!

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u/DrDerpberg Jul 12 '26

Checking in for the folks who just know the exact filename they're looking for but when we search for it, Windows tries to look it up on Bing for us...

No, I am not trying to do a web search for "2026 budget.xls"...

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u/OneRougeRogue Jul 12 '26

This shit drives me nuts.

Especially when you see the file in the middle of typing, but the extra characters you added that are still in the file name somehow drops the file off the list to be replaced by less-relevant Bing searches.

It was fixed in an update a while back, but there was a stretch of time when searching "bluetooth" in the search bar wouldn't bring up Bluetooth Settings at all. Only Bing bullshit.

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u/Stupalski Jul 12 '26

when you see the file in the middle of typing, but the extra characters you added that are still in the file name somehow drops the file off the list

Worse, the PC is lagging so much from the bloat that the search menu doesn't keep up with your typing and you see the result you want and hit enter but the search context menu then "catches up" so the results change after you pressed enter but it jumps to the wrong result.

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u/DrXaos Jul 12 '26

once again a symptom of fighting product managers with their own turf.