[HN Gopher] Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entir...
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Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11
desktop
Author : hazzamanic
Score : 65 points
Date : 2021-09-07 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| tonetheman wrote:
| An ad can take down your computer... sigh. Microsoft you have
| learned nothing... :(
| whalesalad wrote:
| This is the achilles heel of Microsoft. They will cannibalize a
| successful part of their business in order to
| subsidize/bootstrap/launch or even straight-up force the adoption
| of new service.
|
| Every Windows release gets progressively worse when it comes to
| Microsoft's integrated services and how obtrusive they are.
|
| The cherry on top is the fact that Windows 10 Pro is $199 and yet
| you'll still feel like you are flying Sprit airlines when you
| boot it up.
| matheusmoreira wrote:
| It just keeps getting worse and worse.
| bloopernova wrote:
| And this is why I ditched Windows when the preview edition
| installed v11, and moved to Fedora.
| jrockway wrote:
| Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28404332
| loudtieblahblah wrote:
| grumpycat_good.jpg
| grishka wrote:
| It would really be a shame if something were to happen to the
| files that contain the code that implements these "features".
| hfktktnfkgk wrote:
| One bug I've been hitting for a couple of years on Windows 10:
|
| If the computer starts with a working Internet connection, but
| then you lose Internet, Start Menu search just stops working
| during net downtime. Meaning I type some app name like "calc" in
| the Start Menu search box and nothing appears! Which is
| absolutely ridiculous, I can't search for locally installed apps,
| or Windows settings. Even if I disabled Cortana and Internet
| search in the Statt Menu (or maybe because of it?)
|
| And I failed to Google the problem since all the keywords
| combinations I tried inevitably lead to some article on how to
| disable Internet search in the Start Menu, so I have no idea if
| I'm the only one with this bug.
| DixieDev wrote:
| Can't be sure, and forgive me if this is already what you mean
| by disabling "Internet Search", but I suspect you are
| experiencing this because of Bing's involvement in the start
| menu search. To fix it, you have to regedit some stuff:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f09184/how_to_bl...
| sitzkrieg wrote:
| i have hit this and it drives me nuts. not in a while though,
| maybe i havent tried when net down lately
| INTPenis wrote:
| I will begrudgingly use windows 11 at some point because of the
| games you can play on it. But for anything else I'm so glad Linux
| and its ecosystem exists, and is only getting more stable lately.
|
| Windows gives me heartburn.
| heyitsguay wrote:
| If you're playing games through Steam and haven't checked out
| Proton in a while, give it another try! The only game I haven't
| been able to get work on Ubuntu 16/18/20 is Fallout 3.
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| What games specifically? Because I've been doing 100% of my
| gaming on Linux lately and it works quite nice.
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