[HN Gopher] Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entir... ___________________________________________________________________ Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop Author : hazzamanic Score : 65 points Date : 2021-09-07 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com) (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com) | tonetheman wrote: | An ad can take down your computer... sigh. Microsoft you have | learned nothing... :( | whalesalad wrote: | This is the achilles heel of Microsoft. They will cannibalize a | successful part of their business in order to | subsidize/bootstrap/launch or even straight-up force the adoption | of new service. | | Every Windows release gets progressively worse when it comes to | Microsoft's integrated services and how obtrusive they are. | | The cherry on top is the fact that Windows 10 Pro is $199 and yet | you'll still feel like you are flying Sprit airlines when you | boot it up. | matheusmoreira wrote: | It just keeps getting worse and worse. | bloopernova wrote: | And this is why I ditched Windows when the preview edition | installed v11, and moved to Fedora. | jrockway wrote: | Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28404332 | loudtieblahblah wrote: | grumpycat_good.jpg | grishka wrote: | It would really be a shame if something were to happen to the | files that contain the code that implements these "features". | hfktktnfkgk wrote: | One bug I've been hitting for a couple of years on Windows 10: | | If the computer starts with a working Internet connection, but | then you lose Internet, Start Menu search just stops working | during net downtime. Meaning I type some app name like "calc" in | the Start Menu search box and nothing appears! Which is | absolutely ridiculous, I can't search for locally installed apps, | or Windows settings. Even if I disabled Cortana and Internet | search in the Statt Menu (or maybe because of it?) | | And I failed to Google the problem since all the keywords | combinations I tried inevitably lead to some article on how to | disable Internet search in the Start Menu, so I have no idea if | I'm the only one with this bug. | DixieDev wrote: | Can't be sure, and forgive me if this is already what you mean | by disabling "Internet Search", but I suspect you are | experiencing this because of Bing's involvement in the start | menu search. To fix it, you have to regedit some stuff: | https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f09184/how_to_bl... | sitzkrieg wrote: | i have hit this and it drives me nuts. not in a while though, | maybe i havent tried when net down lately | INTPenis wrote: | I will begrudgingly use windows 11 at some point because of the | games you can play on it. But for anything else I'm so glad Linux | and its ecosystem exists, and is only getting more stable lately. | | Windows gives me heartburn. | heyitsguay wrote: | If you're playing games through Steam and haven't checked out | Proton in a while, give it another try! The only game I haven't | been able to get work on Ubuntu 16/18/20 is Fallout 3. | 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: | What games specifically? Because I've been doing 100% of my | gaming on Linux lately and it works quite nice. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-07 23:00 UTC)