Ich fand schon die erste Version absolut super, aber erst, nachdem ich sie in der Hand hatte. Grundsätzliches Problem, das auch hier nicht gelöst wird: Es gibt immer neue Surface-Rechner kurz bevor Intel neue Prozessoren bringt.
Tag: #microsoft
Microsoft, ich habe den Kaffee auf
Edge war mal der schnellste und beste Browser auf Windows. Schon lange nicht mehr. Ich kann nicht mal auf Windows Professional festlegen, dass ich eine Blank Page statt einer Bing-Werbung bekomme. Nicht mit Settings-Dialog, nicht mit Registry Settings, nicht mal mehr mit Mandatory Policies. “Status Ignored”.
FU.
Edge ist nicht mehr Default Browser.
Microsoft, solange es diese MSN-Truppe geht, werdet ihr weiter allen Goodwill zerstören, der an anderer Stelle erfolgreich aufgebaut wird. Bing, Edge, Windows Widgets. Alles wird mit Müll abgefüllt.
qBittorrent vor Microsoft Defender schützen
Vor einiger Zeit hat Microsoft beschlossen, sämtliche Bittorrent Clients als PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application) zu klassifizieren. Und deshalb muss ich nun das Programmverzeichnis und den Temp-Folder von Winget von der Überprüfung ausnehmen. Eine dumme Entscheidung von Microsoft, die Windows unsicherer macht.
Kleine Änderung, große Wirkung:
MSN feed to be gone
Microsoft has announced that an update later this year will enable the ability to disable the MSN feed in the widgets board on Windows 11, offering different layouts including one that’s “widgets only”.
Ever since Microsoft introduced the widgets in Windows 11, they have shot themselves in the foot with their horrible, curated newsfeed from MSN. The only way to get rid of it is to disable widgets completely.
My feeling is that Microsoft should axe MSN completely and forever. Just shut the whole thing down. It’s not only polluting Windows but Edge as well.
New Teams app for Windows hits preview; GA slated for June
I suggest you read Mary Jo Foley’s analysis. She is always on top of things. My own findings:
- The Windows client is a complete rewrite. Users will be able to switch back and forth, for a while.
- The new Teams up looks akin to the consumer version of Teams, that already has been made available in GA.
- Microsoft claims twice the speed and half the memory requirements. Here is your incentive to move soon.
- The rewrite moves the architecture from Custom HTML/JS on top of Angular on top of Electron to a new stack based on Microsoft WebView2. It contains three layers: Fluent, React, and a client data layer.
- There is now a multitude of for-pay options like Teams Premium, or a Teams Copilot. You can make it as expensive as Microsoft desires. I see some contract work coming up.
- Not important for most users, but a must-have for almost all IT guys: multi-tenant login with notifications from all tenants. Hooray.
Ctrl-Shift-V in Microsoft Word
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just copy and paste text from a website into your document and have it look good? Imagine not having to manually remove the source formatting like font size, type, or background color.
You might be familiar with this shortcut Ctrl + Shift + V (Cmd + Shift + V on Mac) — it’s also called “keep text only” or “paste plain text”—because of its popularity in other applications like Microsoft Teams, Word for the web, Google, and Gmail. No matter what you call it, the Paste Text Only shortcut is now available in Word for Windows and Word Mac.
What took you so long, Microsoft?
New features coming to Windows 11
Windows 11 22H2 ‘Moment 2’ is available starting today. I got the update through Windows Update.
Bing Chat coming to mobile Bing, Edge, Skype apps
In this spirit of learning and continuing to build new capabilities, we’re excited to share today the preview release of the new Bing and Edge mobile apps. We’re beginning to roll out the incredible capabilities of the new Bing and Edge on your smartphone along with some exciting new features, such as voice input. In addition, we are creating a new chat experience, beginning with Skype, to enhance your social communications with your friends and family.
Coming today, but only if you are already off the waitlist. This is exciting stuff. I use both Edge and Skype, the latter because it has transparent translation, which I rely on for people who speak none of my languages.
Microsoft is such a tease
Microsoft overstepping with Edge & Bing
I have been a happy Edge user for a few years, but more recently the experience is degrading for me. Microsoft dumped a few useful features like the good epub reader that used to be built in. And it keeps altering settings while pretending to make my browsing experience better. One recent example is how they quietly disabled the DuckDuckGo extension I had previously installed. What does it do? It changes the default search engine to DuckDuckGo.
This is what I want to see when I search for something:
This is what Microsoft wants to show me instead:
I also fought very hard against Microsoft to make this my opening page in Edge:
I like a clean desk, a clean desktop, and I need focus. Continue to distract me, and I will dump Edge for this reason alone.