Windows 11 news

Hi.
Not much to report this week on the demise of our beloved os.
The big things are ai related such as changelogs to ai components.
There isn’t much really to report except that microsoft is now forcing windows 11 upgrades on systems that can.
While this is understandable with windows 11 now unofficially tested as one of the slowest os even though that test was on a hard drive is never the less concerning.
Here is the deal on the user standpoint.
Windows 10, will be insecure by the end of the year.
However its fast, doesn’t have ai and just works with no bloat.
Windows 11 is slow and while its got ai the implimentation of that system is questionable at best.
With microsoft pushing other third party devs to write agents and with agents not being safe for use and various other bugs I struggle to see how it could be sold to users.
I’d imagine as a hacker I’d be happy to write an ai agent to hack past security with its own account which I then would upgrade to admin and then do whatever I wished.
Voice access maybe something that I may be interested in but with 11 reported to use more battery etc its not laptop friendly plus needing that ms account means effectively my laptop needs to be online all the time.
This invalidates the reason to own a laptop in the first place so I struggle why microsoft is even doing this like it is.
First updates of this year include possibly chrome, vlc and audacity as well as possibly dropbox 240 or 239 you take your pick.
The latest monthly mozilla releases are poised for next week and edge is probably on the cards though bar media player and autopilot there haven’t been many official releases from microsoft of any real significance.
The last thing I wish to share is a command that one should run in addition to everything else at least once a year.
This will update all packages including runtime libraries in the database.
winget update will list all of those.
and winget upgrade –all according to google ai will actually process everything and has on the systems I have done things on.
While I would prefer to update your stuff indevidually this thing will mop up stuff missed and helped a load in doing things I hadn’t done in an age.
The down side is that everything will be at defaults including startup and other information so you will have to manually configure stuff.
However on the other hand if you have a load of stuff installed like most of us do it will update everything in the database.
If you have not done this the app will need permition to submit your country and language information to the microsoft servers even in admin mode.
This only has to be done once and after that it will be fine.
There is a frontend you can get on the ms store but you need to look for it and I won’t be loading yet another module on my systems just for the heck of it.
I do think there should be an package manager frontend on windows like there is on linux.
It would also be good to have windows adopt what linux has, ie you run something and if you can’t do a task or you can’t run a command the system will search its database online and state that you can’t do the action because you need to install x package or packages.
Ie you load a program which can’t start because x library was not found.
In linux you would get, x program needs x package, would you like to install it and it would.
In fact there are cases when you start some programs they will load what they need.
also it appears that x/ twitter is not loading things right and is down not loading things rightly.
Its not the massive network it once was but one of many.
The only article I found was for tuesday and stated an issue on cloudflare turned it all off in india.
Now we seem to be getting this issue, oh well its not the end of the world.
I’ve also applied for a couple possible test jobs in a couple companies and have got a responce with a possible job from 1 just not yet.
See the other blog for the rest of this.