Mildly Infuriating

This started a few months ago across the board. It's the dumbest realignment of their application stack ever ... With that being said, I think it's clear that the future of Microsoft is going to be them attempting to move the entire OS experience into the cloud no matter how misguided or unwarranted that approach may be.

I'm going to name a game I'm making "a game"

At this point i'm pretty sure most windows users have a degradation fetish they're too ashamed to admit.

I don't use Microsoft....or apple

Windows 10 is my last windows, got 7 years til I go full Linux

Oh, I can help remotely... I just need you to open Windows App.

Which app?

Windows App.

I get that, I'm running Windows, but which app?

Windows App.

Look, are you being smart? I'm in Windows, say I click on the Start button, which app do I click on?

Windows App.

Allright you, let's say the app is already running...

Sure.

And I press CTRL-ALT-DEL and open Task Manager.

OK.

WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE APP I WOULD SEE IN TASK MANAGER??!???

Windows App.

I'M ASKING YOU, 'WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE APP'???!??!??

I'm telling you, 'Windows App.'

Microsoft seems lost, they're so interested in constantly changing everything to steal more of your information instead of just maintaining the massive lead they have.

They can't seem to just make something work, always manipulating the systems, and such none of it is very good, but when you try to be the best at everything you end up mediocre. Good thing they got a market lock when they did.

You'd think a company that runs a search engine would understand SEO...

Even better than that, the old remote desktop app from the Windows store is being discontinued and has a banner at the top telling you to use the Windows app instead. The new Windows app does not support RDP on Windows:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-app/get-started-connect-devices-desktops-apps?tabs=windows-avd%2Cwindows-w365%2Cwindows-devbox%2Cmacos-rds%2Cmacos-pc&pivots=azure-virtual-desktop

recently, I need to remote desktop from Mac to Windows, and I was searching around for products, and I came across a blog post recommending Windows App, and I had no fucking idea what it was. I thought it may have been a windows 8 app that is discontinued. The geniuses at microsoft SUCK at naming. Xbox, Xbox 360, xbox One (which was actually the third iteration, for some reason), xbox series x/s. Like wtf.

Next in line, I guess they can call it just “App”.

Saw this yesterday which is relevant

Did Microsoft leave their marketing department to AI or something? They really seem to be dropping the ball rn with app names, and recognition.

(Teams New vs. Teams (New))

Corporate brain rot. Or they want the ability it provides to die.

HBO Max -> Max -> HBO Max again

Tropicana removing fruit imagery from their fucking fruit juices

The 12 or more fucking copilots

Convert kit to Seva (or whatever)

Loads recently I'm forgetting

Ed Zitron wrote a blog post I've been thinking about, where he said that a lot of decisions are made by "business idiots" now. People that don't really use or understand the product, and don't really understand the users or their needs. It's an interesting read, even though the guy is rather verbose: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

The world is controlled by idiots and I'm told I'm the fool for not following along

Even "App App" would be better.

Not to be confused with windows apps, the branded name for UWP apps.

If I were on their developer team this shit would make me depressed for at least a week. Like, It's an objectively horrible idea, obviously pushed by someone from marketing or (worse) leadership. An intern can tell you why it's bad, a fucking llm can see it based on description alone.

Yet everyone have to live with it.

As a Visual Studio Professional user it’s so hard to google help for that too without VSCode leaking into the results.