Coming soon to your neck of the woods... Copilot OS! Now with no Windows, only Copilot and a shitty embedded MS Edge. Everything you know as Windows is hidden behind an enforced Microsoft account which you cannot bypass or opt-out! Oh—and don't forget—you now need a PC with 64GB DDR6789 RAM, RBG+ chipset with tiny peener cache, 2 BRAIN TRACING GPUs, SUPER SECURE BOOT, TrustClock, Lie Detector, Bio-metric reader created by NSA, and their secret time bomb tracker that will secretly ghost all your data at a moments notice and require you to purchase the subscription to ALL STAR MEGA SUPER SONIC ULTRA CLOUD DATA WAREHOUSE. Oh, but hey, at least it's software upgradable....
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Again: switch to Linux already, use Libre Office or if you have to, google docs. Heck, install onlyoffice if you want it self hosted online, anything but Microsoft
Of course it's slow, it's full of telemetry, spyware and built-in AI junk, it couldn't be any different
shrugs in linux
Articles like this and the fact they're still trying to get recall back was reason enough for me to switch again.
Install Linux. Use OpenOffice. Problem solved.
Libreoffice, OpenOffice was abandoned when oracle bought it
You're right. Sorry, my age is showing showing. LOL
Don't use OpenOffice, it's nearly unmaintained, use LibreOffice
LibeOffice, OnlyOffice, all great apps
libreoffice. which has also had a similar feature for years.
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The fuck? LibreOffice/any office suite in a browser is better than this.
Don't use Windows? Use Linux instead.
Just a thought.
I switched to LibreOffice more than a decade ago and I never missed Microsoft Office 🤷♀️
Another libreoffice user here. Published a couple of academic works edited entirely on it, and no one complained about formatting errors. Things have improved a lot in the last years. We also have onlyoffice as another great alternative
+1 I used LibreOffice all through university, wrote dozens of papers, did class presentations, résumés, etc. Never had a problem. I use it at work too and collaborate with O365 users often.
Such an awesome piece of software. I used OnlyOffice as well, really nice if you don't need the fancier features that LibreOffice has.
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We have 64 bit multi-core CPUs unconstrained by clock speeds, RAM, bus bottlenecks, instructions sets, addressing modes, registers, or storage speeds. Monitors are beyond visual resolution, graphics are pumped out at a rate of zillions and gazillions of 32 bit pixels per second. How can any software be anything less than instantaneous these days? How can this modern bloated AI-dreamt high-level sludge code be as slow as my Commodore 64 booting GEOS from a 5.25" floppy?
The mouse button shouldn't even have time to bounce up from my finger releasing it and the screen should already be loaded.
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Windows already takes far to long to load. I turn on my Linux PC and by time I stand up to get a coffee it's ready to go, then I remember it's Saturday and I won't be using Windows 11 all blessed day!
Obligatory
But now windows takes longer to boot and is too slow because ms office is always running in the background. +1 for reasons to use linux.
I'm constantly shocked how poorly Windows 11 runs on brand new high end hardware.
My current company uses brand new $1,500 HP enterprise grade laptops and they frequently freeze up, stutter, and get really hot from basic office work.
My old Debian servers I used to have there were running butter smooth with KDE Plasma on 12 year old hardware.
All those screenshots don't get processed for free.
Only if you have installed MS Office, it was one of the first thing which I deleted, among with other MS Bloatware and services "to improve the user experience". A clean Windows is a difference like day and night with the defauly one, in speed, stability and RAM usage. The specs of my modded Windows11 24H2 (Acer laptop)
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They shouldn't have made it so bloated then. The 2003 version opened fairly quickly, even on a late 90's computer.
Its horrendous, my work windows laptop the amount of crap just loading at startup is getting stupid.
"Nah man you just need a little more AI bullshit crammed into all your apps." -Microsoft, probably
They also make Edge launch at startup, it also never really closes when you "close" it.
Thats because of office I believe, since its using edge underneath.
Ah, the edgewebview2 crash. So consistent, so destructive.
This is why I'm glad I mostly just use it for teams, everything else is pretty much ssh from my main workstation (debian).
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that bit you can turn off in edge settings.. but the webview engine stays because of widgets and probably some other bullshit.
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CTRL-ALT-DELETE - Task Manager - Click the little fuel gauge on the left hand side to access and disable startup items.
Copilot? Disabled.
Microsoft 365 Copilot? Disabled.
Teams? Disabled.
Microsoft To Do? Disabled.
OneDrive? Disabled.
Phone Link? Disabled.
Xbox? Disabled.
Just add one more to the list...
OfficeClickToRun.exe is years and years old. This isn't a new thing at all.
that's the c2r maintenance process. main job is to set up and update the local files for office.
It's a maintenance process which preloads essential office files into memory for usage when you launch the different Microsoft applications so their startup time is reduced as well.
And this is how adding code to Word 97 for 28 years without refactoring works.
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