Maybe it’s because I literally do not give a shit about the company or it’s products or customers. I just want money. In fact, I want the opposite kind of imposter syndrome, where I trick the people hiring me into thinking I’m much more qualified than I actually am get paid a shit ton more money. Yes I know C++, Pascal, Assembly, COBOL. Please pay me $500k.
It's all bullshit 100% of the time, all the time. Most people don't do shit and honestly don't need to. Most work is unnecessary except in the lower/less than sectors because that work is necessary for society to actually function. Anyone working a desk job is just fucking around and everyone knows it. For example, at a cookout I literally said out loud "I don't do shit at work" and nearly everyone around me reluctantly agreed they didn't do shit at work either.
It's all a scam.
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Microsoft has like single-handedly caused all the malware in the world due to how insecure and over complex and crappy their operating system is. Literally all they have to do is introduce some kind of sandboxing for Windows apps and they just don't do it.
I don't think it's strictly Microsoft's fault here.
Windows was the first really widespread OS and so it's only logical it'd bear the brunt of malware attacks.
I think software engineering as a discipline was really immature at the time when the Internet first exploded in popularity, I think the same security faults would have happened with any OS that would be really popular at the time.
It's not like desktop Linux is particularly malware proof, Xorg in particular had some really really nasty security flaws.
I think the weak computer security of the late 90s and early 00s was just the growing pains of the entire industry, I don't think any organization would handle things drastically better than Microsoft did.
Yeah good point. It's just disappointing how far behind desktop computers are compared to phones. Android and iOS both have actual application sandboxing. Microsoft sort of tried it with the UWP but they didn't make it very easy to develop for or something like that so there was no adoption.
I don't think I've ever seen a UI change of any software and website that was good enough to justify relearning where everything is. It really does seem like a bunch of UI/UX designers constantly change shit around to justify their existence and employment throwing out nonsense buzz words like "intuitive design" as a reason why the old serviceable design somehow sucks compared with the newer equally serviceable design.
Vista and Windows 7 being skeuomorphic in contrast with Windows 8 and 10 being flat has nothing to do with the perceived benefits of skeuomorphism or flat design, but was mostly done for branding purposes. The difference in design is emphasized so when your work PC is running on Windows 10, which has a flat aesthetic, the first thing you'll think when you boot up Windows 7 is go, "Wow, this looks dated. I need to blow my money on the latest shit."
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There's the reverse where the inhouse software still has their UI from the 2nd millennia because the lead developer doesn't want to update their user guide they made in 2012. It turns out intuitive design gets trumped by manuals tailored towards the endusers and personnel tasked with basic FAQs in case the tailored manuals are not adequate.
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Yes? Idk how it works in your organisation, but where I work IT support is responsible for responding to tickets caused by user error, known issues and they try to provide workarounds for simple issues. Any tickets which require code changes are handled by the software engineer who is oncall. Would be wasteful if I also had to respond to tickets which do not require in-depth knowledge of the codebase.
I've personally encountered more issues with Ubuntu than with Windows, so I don't see what this has to do with Microsoft tbh. Mac is great but they have control over the hardware and don't offer backwards compatibility like Windows does. :shrug-outta-hecks:
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This will always be the case. Software engineering is still very much a young discipline. Thinks are going to brake, things are going to be badly designed, users will always fail to take the time to learn stuff, at least for the foreseable future. That also means that tech support is going to have to exist.
I've been using windows and linux both very regularly the last 10 years and overall, for the average user, Windows does provide a more polished, less error prone experience than linux.
It's really just a matter of how much time you allocate into a certain piece of software, if in the 00s everybody decided to use linux for whatever reason it'd be the better OS for the average user for sure because there'd be a bunch more people reporting and fixing shit.
There's nothing inherent to Microsoft or Windows that made computing shittier overall, other than the obvious shit like shoving ads down people's throat, but that's just capitalism fucking things up as usual.
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Ok fair enough, I just don't personally see how in a socialist society you wouldn't have IT support. Sure maybe less of it overall because there'd be less bullshit jobs but there would still be a lot of non tech-savvy people doing their jobs on a computer.
Wouldn't you say having computers widely available offsets the need for menial IT support labor?
Not everybody that needs a computer can be a computer expert.
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But how else would I cram a bloated, extraneous UI into an already perfectly-streamlined website to justify my existence?