New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info
Gotta hand it to Microsoft and Nutella. I was pretty bullish on them from, say, 3 years after Balmer left to about 18 months ago, but it seems like every single thing they&#x27;ve done since they started working on Windows 11 has been a cringey shitshow. Even the way they express themselves, and their advertisements, have - rather incredibly - gotten worse. For just one example, I was watching the trailer for the MSFS cloud service a few days ago, and the entire ad is just bullshit - nobody plays games like that, nobody sits like that, nobody holds their controller&#x2F;device like that. It&#x27;s like Meta and Microsoft both have completely lost their minds and don&#x27;t habitate the same universe as me - I&#x27;m no Luddite, and it isn&#x27;t even dystopian or Orwellian to me, it&#x27;s just cringeworthy. And the problem for MS is, it isn&#x27;t 2007 or even 2013 when it was properly difficult to completely get rid of all things Microsoft. The only &#x27;must have&#x27; really is just Office, and I can still buy that standalone on my Mac and be done with it.<p>Anyway, the fact is that many people won&#x27;t care and will use their products. That&#x27;s just how it goes. But it truly is fascinating to watch as a moderately tech savvy person - not sure I can remember anything like this where a tech company in a position where it has a lot of industry&#x2F;programmer goodwill has inexplicably fucked over its developer-base so often in an 18-24 month period. I mean, does anybody remember how 2 years ago Edge was the shit, seriously - it was like the best iteration of a Chromium browser, and then it was like Microsoft purposely torpedoed it. Same thing with Windows, and the TPM requirement is just the start. All of it is just bizarre.