How much of this is decline at the expense of Windows 11, due to Steam lowering barriers to entry, fatigue with Windows’ hard selling, and/or extending the useful like of hardware that W11 abandoned.

Ugh…

How did PCs beat out the Amiga, Mac and ST with nonsense like that?

It’s hysterical to hear right-wing commentary about how New York Democrats are socialist Marxist communist hippies when the reality has much more goose-stepping to it.

Pirate an old, pre-CC version.

That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.

There’s one notice, and it’s in the System Settings app. And it’s a little red dot beside the iCloud section. That’s not really the same league as what Microsoft is doing, or Even Google’s nag to use Chrome across all their Web properties.

You’re right about the first-party apps that you can’t remove, but it’s also not the same as, eg, Edge where those apps are used constantly and your preferences are reset on every update.

On my Mac I set my browser to Firefox in 2018. It’s never reverted to Safari, not once, where Windows really wants me to use Edge and goes so far as to not just reset it periodically, but also direct start menu searches and in-app web links to an ms-edge: url instead of using the http handler.

Apple has problems, but this isn’t one of them.

Microsoft would like to introduce you to EntraID.

That’s the enterprise version of this.

Apple doesn’t actually make it at all difficult to use a Mac or iOS device without an Apple account. You’re asked once during setup and that’s it. At most there’ll be a red dot in Settings>iCloud.

Halo is almost a quarter century.

Wolfenstein is 30ish

Now, imagine how us Gen-Xers who grew up with Karateka or Epic Games feel.

Now I’m wondering about hummingbirds.

I mean, Windows 98’s “Active Desktop” was pretty much this.

Someone at Microsoft has been trying to make MSN a thing for almost thirty years, and they’re sure that if they ram it down out throats just one more time we’ll finally accept it.

Yeah, but those aren’t “real Canadians”

/s, just in case…

You’re forgetting 3. If people who are in an out-group aren’t suffering more than I am, I feel oppressed.

Lada can’t be enshittified because it was always shit.

Line must go up!

I was going to say.

I mean, there’s a good chance they might wait a while in triage and parking can be expensive, but that’s really about it.

If it weren’t tragic, it would be funny.

This’ll be great at the business level: do you use Outlook, or Outlook?

Kind of like Teams: do you use Teams, Teams (New) or Teams (Home)?

Microsoft: failing at branding since 1992.

All hail the celestial potato!

Encapsulated Postscript, because I like my images Turing-complete.

Look, I remember the early 1990s fondly, too, but I’m not eager to relive them.