What could microsoft do to actually fix windows?

They rode themselves into a hole with telemetry V10, announcing there'd be 'No More Windows', they'd just keep shoving updates and trying to upsell Solitaire as paid monthly service. Which is also about as clear a declaration of idea poverty as you'll find. Now, if they'd started this with a popular windows, 7 being the last, probably got away with it. No fucker wants 10, because literal unstoppable botnet and full of shit. And even renaming it to 'Windows' now aint gonna work, its tainted and tarnished goods no fucker wants.

Their best bet is to allocate all of their resources into improving wine. At this point, it feels like win32 and winnt will end up being just legacy APIs for vidya. Considering they have managed to ruin any potential trust they had, their days are running short.

>is it too late?
Yes.
Windows has gone beyond the point of no return, there is no saving it.

Improve upgrading software, loading updates. Searching for updates on windows is hell and always slows down the whole system. It takes more than 30min afterwards windows has to be rebooted several times. Only reason i use linux is because update&&upgrade takes less than 5min and is done through one interface for all applications.

>wangblows
Wow, you're hip and in with the cool kids!

>winshit
>fix
pick one

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take your meds rajesh

Now you see why Valve made Proton.

Ditch NTFS for ReFS and get rid of the registry, ditch the settings app and go back to the Windows 7 control panel. Unfuck the various incongruent design styles and languages, either get rid of the app store or redesign it to be similar to a package manager, with third party developers able to offer non-metro/Windows 10 only applications and with it offering full installation and updates as well as dependency resolution. Either integrate bash from the Linux subsystem to replace PowerShell and cmd or make PS as full featured and ditch cmd, either way cmd should by no means be the default shell. They could maintain some kind of compatibility layer a la WINE for NTFS, cmd, registry, etc. for legacy applications if they must, but new applications should be strongly discouraged from making use of these things. Also the NT scheduler is the most useless shit ever.

They'd have to build VSS support into ReFS or everyone's backups would fail.

>android
>from scratch

Are you uninformed?

Who cares? Just install the GNU operating system.

Unironically this.

Yes, and they'd have to make it possible to boot with ReFS too. Neither of those things are impossible but I also wonder if they shouldn't consider replacing VSS, I've had enough trouble with it over the years.

>is it too late? can anything but a complete rebuild from scratch fix wangblows?
All common software has no provability and Wangblows is a drop in the ocean. Until there is a way to formalize programs and generate the code from their formalized description nothing is fixed.

desu microsoft needs to go back to having separate kernels for professional/server and home operating systems, this will allow devs to actually use something that doesn't have to deal with the legacy bullshit that NT now carries, they can then seed to consumers after like 5 years if the Home sku is falling apart at the edges

>improve windows
>just make it linux
you did not understand the question

>what could microsoft do to actually fix windows?
push ARM windows and make it faster and smaller than android

>just make it linux
Where have I said that? I'm just saying they should help others support their legacy standards as they fade into obscurity, which they are doing at this moment.
I don't like linux myself, and I think that it's one of the best examples of worse is better at work. If it wasn't for that edgy 13 year old boy named Torvalds, we'd be using a proper GNU operating system, and monolithic kernels would be a side note in history books.

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>ReFS
>PowerShell
>Control panel

>in any way related to linux
As always, OP is a faggot.

fuck u stall-man
u are a bigger fag

Except Hurd STILL doesn't work because Mach is shit. Maybe Genode, NOVA, Redox, or some L4 variant will take over... but until they start getting native drivers they're just running Linux code with worse performance via rump kernels.

Actually testing stuff would be a good start. Unfucking Windows completely would take a while, and cost billions, but it could be done.

Salty Nutella literally fired the QA department. Microsoft is doomed.

All they need to do is refactor all of their code instead of building on top of their older shit systems

Scrap it and build a compatibility layer for legacy apps. Windows is so bad non native compatibility layers on Linux actually run some stuff better than native.

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rebuild from the ground up based on bsd like macos.

people that need legacy can use windows 95 in a vm. or kill themselves

A ground up rebuild would break compatibility with ALL Windows applications. Not just the old ones. A compatibility layer would be a necessity. Luckily it wouldnt be very hard for Microsoft to implement in the grand scheme of things.

Allso FFS they need to scrap this Metro UI cancer. The ugliest most inconsistent UI in history. It makes early 2000s skeuomorphism look good.

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