Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 Shell and every associated core feature and element are actually broken, and have been like this for many months.
yeah, wine’s trajectory is the complete opposite of MS.
I reject the idea that MS is the expert in MS stuff. corporate structure and institutional knowledge and strategy are not the same as a person knowing something. I’m sure there are people in MS who know more than anyone. but together I suspect they’re far far less than the sum of their parts.
I remember trying to open word-97 .doc files in office 2002.
Surely MS knows how to read it’s own file format?
Nope, well, not as well as star/sun/open/libreoffice (whichever one it was at the time).
I’m sure someone in MS was saying “lets do a bit more work on backwards compatibility”; I’m pretty sure that person was immediately tied to the desk with a giant annoying ribbon and forced to become familiar with a whole box of paperclip suppositories.
Oh hang on, that was decades ago, they’ve grown so much since then .
yeah, wine’s trajectory is the complete opposite of MS.
I reject the idea that MS is the expert in MS stuff. corporate structure and institutional knowledge and strategy are not the same as a person knowing something. I’m sure there are people in MS who know more than anyone. but together I suspect they’re far far less than the sum of their parts.
I remember trying to open word-97 .doc files in office 2002.
Surely MS knows how to read it’s own file format? Nope, well, not as well as star/sun/open/libreoffice (whichever one it was at the time).
I’m sure someone in MS was saying “lets do a bit more work on backwards compatibility”; I’m pretty sure that person was immediately tied to the desk with a giant annoying ribbon and forced to become familiar with a whole box of paperclip suppositories.
Oh hang on, that was decades ago, they’ve grown so much since then .