Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
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Microsoft appears to be blocking even more apps for customizing the user interface in Windows 11 24H2. Users noticed that ExplorerPatcher joined the recently blocked StartAllBack app.

TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2.

One more reason to switch to Linux

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16313·
    7 months ago

    The Microsoft devs have time to do shit like this, but haven’t yet gotten the Settings screen as functional as Control Panel was two decades ago…

    • Shirasho@lemmings.worldEnglish
      1367·
      7 months ago

      Do NOT blame the devs for this. They are not the ones to decide the direction of the product or the priority of the tickets they work. Blame upper management for making these poor decisions and the product managers for being spineless and not pushing back.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
        332·
        7 months ago

        But Steve Ballmer told me “Developers Developers Developers Developers”

        Are you saying that was a lie?

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          8·
          7 months ago

          Meanwhile the new settings panel is telling me my network is peivate while control panel and network share settings tell me it’s domain authenticated.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        184·
        7 months ago

        I’m pretty sure everybody knows it’s not just a couple of developers by themselves churning out windows. Even the project managers are just following orders. Marketing sets the tone upper management picks the path.

        • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
          62·
          7 months ago

          Yeah . . . marketing – the department famous for being able to steer the flagship product of a trillion-dollar company.

          • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
            42·
            7 months ago

            He said marketing sets the tone (not the path), and that is absolutely true. Many products are killed or poorly received due to the tone poor marketing set.

            • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
              81·
              7 months ago

              This is just nonsense that internet denizens tell themselves because they don’t like decisions made in board rooms and can’t conceptualize a business development team. Marketing is following orders just as much as some rando code monkey.

              • Promethiel@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                7 months ago

                Thank you. The one arena where the fault really does lie in few enough hands they fit around a biggish table, and the Internet instead makes a nebulous boogeyman out of “marketing” (don’t get it twisted either y’all, I condone zero of the bullshit marketing practices we all hate, but that’s also the same table of people) instead of the board.

                It’s not even secret information. The decision came from the minds of these folks (as they understood what they asked to be measured and think to steer to measure higher numbers of whatever they’re measuring):

                https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/corporate-governance/board-of-directors.aspx

              • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                7 months ago

                The scary truth is: The CEO scribbles “CLOUD 1ST”, “FOCUS ON ENTERPRISE” and “WIN AS A SERVICE” on a napkin during a 5-star dinner and everyone below them tries to make sense of it and translate it into a business strategy. No one is really in charge.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
        21·
        7 months ago

        Unfortunately, blaming the devs seems to be a recurring problem. I remember seeing this in a YouTube comment thread (paraphrased):

        why can’t i insert a bible reference without it becoming blue? i write proverbs 14:23 and youtube turns it into a damn timestamp. f-cking lazy developers, they removed dislikes, now keep preventing adblock and cannot detect a simple quote??

        I replied with something like:

        Hey, stop blaming the devs. It was not their decision to make the unpopular changes, and making a system for detecting if a comment is referring to a book with chapter:verse syntax (not just the bible, and all their versions & translations) is not something they would pay for. For the record, you can refer to Proverbs 14:​23 or any other verse without making it a link. I can show you how but first repent and apologize for undervaluing people’s hard work.

        (Yes, there’s just a ZWSP after the colon. It can be mapped to a key combo if one uses it often.) He did not answer but maybe didn’t see my reply buried way underneath – it was YouTube comments, after all. Legend says that bible references in his video description keep messing up his worship chapters.