Microsoft is a machine fueled by monkey paw wishes.
You want to force users off a garbage algorithm? Your wish is granted, now you have to use this new proprietary algorithm that has a major flaw that will be discovered just after you get comfortable with it.
You want to be able to change audio devices with just two clicks? Wish granted, but the apps just use whatever device they wanted anyway and now the sound control panel (the only guaranteed way to change devices) is buried even further in the UI.
You want more control over your updates? Wish granted, but now your OS is an agentic OS
They’re doing it to jam something proprietary into SMB and try to cut samba out.
Microsoft is a machine fueled by monkey paw wishes.
You want to force users off a garbage algorithm? Your wish is granted, now you have to use this new proprietary algorithm that has a major flaw that will be discovered just after you get comfortable with it.
You want to be able to change audio devices with just two clicks? Wish granted, but the apps just use whatever device they wanted anyway and now the sound control panel (the only guaranteed way to change devices) is buried even further in the UI.
You want more control over your updates? Wish granted, but now your OS is an agentic OS