Windows obsession with destroying their own file explorer is bizarre.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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The thing is that if MS concentrated on providing a bulletproof experience, a sane licensing mode, with a low, cheap, entry bar, they would just keep being the top dog forever.
Now they are just giving market share to Linux and MacOS for free.
This is just pure idiocy and desperation at this point.
I'm surprised at this. If I was given the job to fuck up windows, I wouldn't be able to get such ludicrous ideas
Install Linux Problem Solved.
Ah, that would explain why they started to allow uninstalling the separate app.
For those stuck on Windows, try double commander instead of explorer. It's cross-platform so you could use it on Linux too.
I've been on Directory Opus for many years, it's absolutely excellent and I struggle when on Linux without the same toolbox.
Nadella has gives exactly 0 fucks about Microsoft's products, legacy, its employees and the company itself, let alone the customers. His only concern is how can he squeeze more money from the white Dalits while enslaving Shudras and stealing their labour so he can further enrich himself. Anyone thinking otherwise is delusional.
Well just earlier today, I installed Pop OS on an external drive. I'll be using that to see if I can use it as a daily driver. If I can, microsoft can eat the entirety of my arse.
Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying "look at all the AI we're doing" and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?
I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They're spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?
Copilot is falling very far behind all of the other big AI players in the space that it's actually laughable. The main reason they're implementing it into every Windows first party application is so they can boost their "user" numbers to satisfy investors. Every time you open Explorer, boom that counts as you "using" Copilot.
I asked DeepSeek something the other day and it actually admitted that it didn't know the answer and offered advice on how I could find out. I was actually pretty impressed by that
Is the share price going up? All they care about is the share price.
Down last few months, but overall strong upwards trend over the last few years.
Nadella’s buddies are all making AI garbage, so he thinks he has to make AI garbage too. Because he’s massively uncreative.
And so all the managing leads think “Nadella likes AI! I must find a way to shove AI into my product so that my product/fiefdom doesn’t get the axe! I might even get a bonus! Or promotion!!!”
And so all the coding slaves are tasked with shoehorning AI into every Microsoft product, app, and/or service.
MS: JUST EAT IT
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I just got a colonoscopy and the doc said she found some copilot in there
Terminal
Powershell, acktually
Powershell is such garbage. Every time I run it it takes 20 seconds to get to a working prompt.
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Microslop going full "the beatings will continue until morale improves" with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.
At this pace Microsoft will change Windows' name to Copilot. That's my prediction.
They're already changing the name of MS Office to "Microsoft Copilot App". So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you'll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.
"I know we said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows you'd need, but we really mean it this time with Windows 11. Introducing our new operating system... Compost, I mean, Copilot!"
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I can already see them brainstorming how to put that stuff in the calculator app.
At least, they don't put it into the event viewer, because its source code has never seen a change. Looks like 10 years ago and the performance is as bad as then.
Thank you Microslop!
Explorer already crashes enough without this.
Why don't they work on Explorer's awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?
You know, useful software development work?
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When I wanted the file search to not suck I didn’t mean that.
Users: File search should not be this bad
Microsoft: How about this bad?
ALL YOUR DIRECTORY ARE BELONG TO US
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO PRIVATE
MAKE YOUR TIME
Yeah I felt a bit more clever this time, than just repeating, for the umpteenth time on stories like this, over the last year or so:
... People still use MSFT products?
Yeah I keep making that exact same comment... its been really easy, as a former MSFT employee, to see where this train has been headed.
MSFT is a cult, ok?
Thats the only way to explain/describe management and C Suite.
And they've been like that for at least a decade.
Somebody set up us the bomb!
I have to use Windows 11 for my school computer, not allowed to change the OS. I didn't realize how shit awful explorer had gotten between 10 and 11. For anyone reading this who has to use 11: there are explorer alternatives. I use OneCommander and it let me change the default explorer for shortcuts and when other programs bring things up like with "show in folder" options. I don't have to use windows explorer anymore and while it's no Linux at least it doesn't have fucking copilot and it gives me back basic control
I also found this project that tries to restore the old start menu and explorer:
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