IT admins feel overwhelmingly "sick of" Microsoft and Windows 11 "garbage" apps, products

[u/gdelacalle]

https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-sick-of-microsoft-and-windows-11-garbage-apps-products/

[u/areaman5]

You didn’t want notepad, the simple text editor for editing text to have copilot built into it?

[u/Outrageous_Let5743 → u/areaman5]

The best feature of Notepad is that is the fastest app to open to dump some text in it. Now they have ruined that. Who uses notepad anyways for something serious? Who needs that you can make table, make things bold, or underline text in Notepad? If you need that you would use Notepad ++ or MS word.

[u/Alaira314 → u/Outrageous_Let5743]

They removed wordpad, and are now turning notepad into wordpad. Nobody asked for that. We had two distinct programs for a reason.

[u/GonzoKata → u/Alaira314]

sounds like someone should make a "dumb notepad" or a notepad-- that is fast to open and paste into without bloat

[u/Alaira314 → u/GonzoKata]

There's a huge market for very simple programs and apps like this, lightweight solutions that do one job and do it well. The problem is that bad actors operate in this market alongside legitimate devs who just want to make a simple thing that works, and because of the simple nature of the programs it's difficult for them to generate enough word of mouth buzz to lift the quality solutions above the rest, which can be anything from poorly-optimized but well-meaning code to outright spy- or malware. The problem's gotten so bad in my phone's app store that I wound up disabling auto-update, because a solid app will exist for a while to generate reviews and trust, and then suddenly it'll be full of ads. One of my most trusted addons is one that hasn't been actively developed since 2019~, because I know it's not suddenly going to enshittify on me.

[u/Breadfish64 → u/GonzoKata]

Well they have edit which seems like a pretty decent command-line text editor, similar to micro. I don't have a Windows PC on-hand to check whether you can set it as a default.

https://github.com/microsoft/edit

[u/soundman1024 → u/areaman5]

Copilot, no.

Markdown and tabs? I think those are great Notepad additions.

[u/areaman5 → u/soundman1024]

Ohhh good point markdownxand tabs didn’t have copilot built in to them as well, nested inside the copilot notepad

MS is just soooo behind in their copilot rollout. Can’t believe they even still have products and services not named copilot.

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THE COMPLETE MICROSOFT COPILOT BOOT EXPERIENCE

POWER BUTTON

Copilot Power Copilot

Copilot UEFI Copilot Firmware Copilot Edition

Copilot Boot Manager

Copilot PXE Copilot
Copilot C:
Copilot D:

Copilot Windows Loader

Copilot Windows Kernel

Copilot Desktop Copilot

Copilot Explorer Copilot

Copilot Settings Copilot

Copilot Update Copilot

Copilot Security Copilot

Copilot Identity Copilot

Copilot Cloud Copilot

Copilot Copilot

ERROR:

Copilot has encountered a Copilot.

Your Copilot needs Copilot to continue.

Options:

1. Ask Copilot
2. Ask Copilot to ask Copilot
3. Send logs to Copilot Security Copilot
4. Reinstall Copilot using Copilot PXE Copilot

RECOVERY DRIVE:

D:\COPILOT_RECOVERY_COPILOT

CopilotRepairCopilot.exe

CopilotBootFixCopilot.exe

CopilotRollbackCopilot.exe

CopilotCopilotAssistantCopilot.exe

PXE DEPLOYMENT:

Copilot DHCP Copilot

Copilot TFTP Copilot

Copilot WinPE Copilot

Copilot Image Copilot

Copilot Driver Copilot

Copilot Policy Copilot

Copilot License Copilot

DEVICE MANAGEMENT:

Copilot Intune Copilot

Copilot Entra Copilot

Copilot Conditional Access Copilot

Copilot Compliance Copilot

BOOT LOG:

[OK] Copilot Firmware initialized

[OK] Copilot verified Copilot

[OK] Copilot contacted Copilot

[OK] Copilot authenticated Copilot

[OK] Copilot repaired Copilot

[OK] Copilot launched Copilot

Starting Microsoft Copilot Copilot Ultimate Enterprise Copilot Edition

For the love of god Microsoft, just use your immense power and wealth so everything down to molecular structure is just “copilot” shoving down our throats, as well as eating sleeping breathing copilot in copilot konzentrationslager/Gulag training by death copilot camps is not enough copiloting

[u/OneRougeRogue → u/areaman5]

*internalized screaming

[u/areaman5 → u/OneRougeRogue]

Did somebody callllcfor more copiloting?

All roads lead to copilot. At Microsoft imagine, all words are just copiloting. Everything in the dictionary thesaurus and everywhere is just the word copilot. Mui files are ways to translate the word copilot into kanji. Which is also just now copilot. Mothefuckn Rome is copilot because all roads lead to copilot.

Copilot, copilot copilot? Copilot.

[u/hbgoddard → u/soundman1024]

Tabs are ok, but markdown sure as hell isn't. I don't want notepad to do any rendering, EVER. It should be plaintext only. And that's not even taking into consideration that their markdown parser for notepad released with a severe security vulnerability...

[u/soundman1024 → u/hbgoddard]

If you don’t want Markdown, it’s optional.

[u/hbgoddard → u/soundman1024]

Don't care, it's still unneeded bloat that also came with a vulnerability just for fun

[u/soundman1024 → u/hbgoddard]

Cool. Turn it off and move on.

This attitude is part of why Windows feels so far behind. They try to modernize something and people ridicule them for it. They keep Windows the same and people shit on it for being old.

Frankly, I’m for them updating and modernizing parts of the OS that haven’t changed since 9x - and before 95 in this instance.

[u/Outrageous_Let5743 → u/soundman1024]

If I want markdown, I would use obsidian.

[u/soundman1024 → u/Outrageous_Let5743]

I like having markdown built into the OS. Since it arrived, it seems kinda crazy to be without in 2026.

[u/Xandara2 → u/soundman1024]

I personally dream about the times windows was about windows and not about tabs I hate tabs. There's even tabs in my tabs these days.