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@davepl1968 @2w1s7ed I'll guess the problem is the usual one: compatibility. Some app somewhere is depending on that default color always being white and no one at Microsoft dares name and shame that app and get it fixed.

@2w1s7ed If it were up to me, I'd just change the base colors, but since they're smart people and didn't do that, I assume there are many reasons that dark mode is a LOT harder than I would think.

Why do dark mode apps flash white? Because if you pass WM_ERASEBKGND to DefWindowProc(), it will paint it with the DEFAULT_BRUSH, which is WHITE. Then the app "paints" it dark. So you see flash two frames apart. This is like the most basic app bug in the world and should never happen. You never see Task Manager's dark graphs flicker, for example. The problem is that some Windows apps become so complex that there's no longer a single windowproc, and where and how each message is handled is lost in a maze of spaghetti code! But it's one message.

@edandersen Windows 11 never had forced centered taskbar icons. Yes, centered icons was (and is) the default, but it could easily be changed in Settings.

The best thing you could do it ban the use of macOS especially amongst the “designers” of Windows - it’s clear W11 was designed by people that never used Windows (the first release had forced centered taskbar icons, no labels, no right click task manager) If someone on the Apple campus whipped out a Surface Pro in a meeting they would be fired on the spot. The rest of the company should also be forced to dogfood Windows. Every day. To do their work. Like you expect your customers to. (This also goes for Teams etc - GitHub 8 years later should not be on Slack; it’s insulting to your customers that your own teams won’t use your stuff)

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it. They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks. The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory. Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word. Then it got worse. The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else. It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors. One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked. Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted. Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher. That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites. Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights. This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.

If Microsoft finally has realized that Windows needs high-quality first-party apps to show off what the platform can do and set the standard for third-party apps, we're off to a great 2026. And webview needs to go! The new Outlook is an example of everything wrong today.

@KingdomsCometh @RaminNasibov Oh, they do benefit. It is cheaper for them to have the power button as part of the keyboard rather than as a completely separate button, as was generally the case in earlier laptops.

@RaminNasibov Technically, this does not count as enshittification because the manufacturer does not benefit from it, except for the sadistic enjoyment. Can we call this antichristification?

I wanna know what idiot at HP thought THIS would be a great place to put a power button??

@RaminNasibov Wow, that really is bad. But really, power buttons don't belong in the keyboard. They should be separate. Ask they used to be.

@thebookisclosed @XenoPanther Because it is matter of fit and finish. *Every* app on MacOS has dark mode, even the admin tools. Windows needs a consistent UI for all in-box apps. So not only does Regedit need dark mode, it needs to have the UI modernized to use WinUI 3.

@XenoPanther But why? It's an administrative interface. If you find yourself staring into regedit late at night there are different problems to solve

We really need regedit in dark mode

Microsoft's big Windows K2 effort is a great start, but there are still some issues that the company isn't promising to fix that I really hope they will address before we can consider Windows the GOAT again windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind…

@pavandavuluri Sounds great - if you actually mean it this time. Hopefully this means no more web view in the Windows shell. Can you please tell the Office teams as well. Windows is ruined by crappy first-party apps like the new Outlook.

The team and I have spent the past several months analyzing feedback from the community. What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better. Read this blog post to learn more about what we're doing in response as we look to raise the bar on Windows 11 quality. Please keep the feedback coming, to help us shape the future of Windows together. blogs.windows.com/windows-inside…

@elvin_not_11 To be fair, the ELAN UI is third-party. But you can easily do the same thing with only native Windows UI.

it's beautiful that I can traverse through 25 years of UI design history by clicking 3 times on Windows 11.

@migueldeicaza I gave up when he started mixing .NET Framework and modern .NET and wondering why only ".NET 4.8.1" was pre installed on Windows 11 when the newest version is .NET 10. Clearly shows a lack of understanding of the basics.

Tragic, but not news: domenic.me/windows-native…

@AnxiousHolly I dislike being locked into Samsung's apps, hence I avoid them. If I could remove them, I would. And my next phone is probably going to be a Pixel, since I'm sick of Samsung's constant needless duplication of Google apps.

@AnxiousHolly Google Photos as much as possible. I usually stay as far away as possible from Samsung's silly duplicate apps. They are shipping an Android phone, they should just use the Google apps, not try to duplicate every single app.

Samsung users what photos app do you use?

If you value your sanity do not ask Copilot in Visual Studio to profile anything. It's absolutely useless.

@MrTimDunn @Adobe To be fair, that is not Adobe Reader, but the full Adobe Acrobat. However, I agree that both are way too bloated these days.

Hey @Adobe. 1.14GB just to *read a PDF*? Your Adobe Reader is now officially bloatware. We don't want "podcast summaries of your docs" we just want to read, print and maybe annotate. Please make this insanity STOP

@davepl1968 VNC is just terrible compared to RDP. But that is the reality when you have deal with thousands of combinations of window managers, compositors and desktop environments.

Ok, I installed a GUI! But why is it so slow remotely? I'm using RDP and it draws really glacially compared to Mac Screen Sharing or Windows RDP?

I've been running Linux since the early 90s and have never had a mouse connected. The GUIs are terrible. Spectacular operating system headsless, though! But if you can't do it by ssh, it's not happening.

@coolcoder56 Good. Not someone I'd want to work for me anyway.

Employee resigned because he got Windows 11 instead of Mac 💀

@trikcode I'm Danish, but pretty much bilingual in English. I think in my native language, but code in English. I generally also keep comments and variable names in English, although some Danish comments and variable names when dealing with things that don't translate well to English.

Honest question. People who English is not their first language… how do they code?? Do Germans code in German? Do Arabs code in Arabic??

@CryptoCyberia The Windows 11 shell is *not* React or other web technology. It is mostly WinUI 3 mixed with some classic Win32. There are some web components (like the upcoming calendar flyout) - which I totally agree agree is crap. But please stick to the facts.

Why the absolute FUCK did they build the Windows 11 taskbar and file manager in React? What were they thinking? These retards can't even figure out how to let you move the taskbar to the top or side. This shit, even when I tried on my excellent hardware, is SLOW.

We merged an early C# 15 preview feature into .NET 11 preview 3: unions. Adds union declarations (`union Pet(Cat, Dog, Bird) { ... }`) and union types (attributed with `[Union]`). They can be treated by pattern matching/switch expressions as a closed set for exhaustiveness.