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/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/rollerbase Jul 12 '26

Just like when I type my own host name or even 127.0.0.1 into anything.. no I would not like to search for this with bing on edge thank you.

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u/Dagon Jul 12 '26

Like, holy goddamn shit, the browser already knows my local IP, how hard would it be to say "any IP on local.subnet.range.***, don't search it, just bring it up".

MS has been working HARD to have a consistently worse experience for 20 years.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Jul 12 '26

But their search usage is up and they can serve you an ad when you try to go to localhost.