(1) Bill Gates STUNNED as Windows 11 Revolt Goes GLOBAL — Microsoft Faces MASS ABANDONMENT! - YouTube

[Robert Lewis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrtJAw57Wkw

Any comments?

Bob

[Jeff Liebermann]

Click bait and AI slop.  Much of the commentary is likely accurate.  However, it's difficult to tell without any sources.  The opinions expressed in the video are just opinions and are no better than professionally packaged commentary.

More of the same:
https://www.youtube.com/@TechReport-v8f

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[Meg McRoberts]

I was wondering about the veracity of this myself.  It's tone seems

a bit hyperbolic to me.  Still, probably at least a grain of truth -- Windoze

has been so dominant for 30+ years and it seems likely that it will fade

sometime.  macOS is certainly making headway and we do see the

announcements about various governmental bodies who are switching

to Linux.

But I am also concerned about the future of Linux.  It seems that most of

the world really does think that open source  is free beer and does not understand

that someone needs to do the work to develop and maintain. Lots -- most? --

open source projects have had a corporate sponsor who pays some people

to work on those projects and more and more of those companies have been

laying off the people who did that work and usually contributed about 80% of

the effort required to support the various open source projects.

Some companies contribute financially -- like Amazon is pretty generous with

AWS space for open source projects -- but few are willing to contribute talented

engineers for the work.  I've seen mention of the need to have some sort of

"foundation" that pays some people to work on open source projects and that

seems like an interesting solution but I don't know if anyone is actively working

on putting that together.  In the short term, a lot of the open source true believers

will provide some minimal support to the defunded projects but that is not a sustainable

model for the long haul.

So the times, they are a-changin' and I'm not sure any of us are quite prepared for it...

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[Dick Zscheile]

I guess I wasn’t the only one who had trouble with Windows 11. We will see what evolves. 

Dick

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[Jeff Liebermann]

On 1/11/2026 3:19 PM, 'Dick Zscheile' via Felton LUG wrote:

I guess I wasn’t the only one who had trouble with Windows 11. We will see what evolves. 

Dick

If it makes you feel any better, I also had trouble, and continue to have trouble, with Windows 11.  The main problem seems to be that Microsoft now believes in "customer tested software".  They ship whatever they have, wait for the complaints and bug reports to accumulate, and eventually deploy an AI to fix the code:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/
Maybe some testing, but most likely, MS just updates the users Windows installation and again waits for the complaints and bug reports to accumulate.  

I forgot to mention that Bill Gates has not been CEO since 2000 and has not been on the board of directors since 2020.  Satya Nadella has been CEO since 2000.  

[Edgar Ross]

stock appears stable (sunday) ...

Edgar

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[Frank Turner]

Windows OS is only 10% of Microsoft revenue, naturally it gets minimal attention.

Frank

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