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As a split Windows / macOS user, the snuck-in Windows “12” UI is unfortunately copying the part I dislike about macOS into Windows.
The corners should always have a button so you can overshoot and still hit your target (in Windows, the close icon). There’s some design rule about this, but can’t remember the name.
I’ve hidden the macOS menu bar because it seems needlessly intrusive to have all those menus constantly there (feels like I’ve gone back 15 years in Windows app design). But that’s not as bad as losing a “quick corner”.
macOS unusual window/app management has forced me to use the keyboard more often, which is fine and still fast (my key goal), but seems pointless to lose a fast input method (the mouse + corners) just to poorly copy macOS.
That is precisely why the bottom left should be the start menu on Windows 11. Widgets are turned off and left alignment for me. MS are fighting 25 years of muscle memory when they change stuff like this.
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It’s a shame you need to get Game Pass Ultimate to get Xbox xCloud. I’m like Paul, use a laptop for occasional gaming. It’s what Stadia was good for. Checked out the MS options, and tried Game Pass for PC for a month.
You very quickly get fed up downloading 120 gigs of game. Streaming is what I want.
Microsoft 365 apps on Windows Server: we run an ERP System which is very heavy. The terminal server is on the same 10gbps backbone as the ERP Server and the SQL server. The ERP client integerstes with Excel and Word for displaying information and analysis on it, it is not possible to do that from a local pc, let alone one in home office or a virtual machine in the cloud, as the cloud PC, remote PCs or even those on site are not connected with a 10gbps Ethernet connection.
Stoked to hear Paul give a little bit of love to PC gaming. If he wants to look at another gaming laptop, he should try to get his hands on an Asus G14. There are some oddities (the port layout) but they are well built, with good touchpads/keyboards, screens and a ton of power to game, all coming in under 4lbs. Xbox GamePass for PC also has loads of PC exclusives, in addition to multi-platform titles. The latest Age of Empires game for example is on GamePass and is exclusive to Windows, with no Linux support, not that Linux properly supports most games’ multiplayer modes, or any of the AoE games for that matter.
The PC Xbox App certainly isn’t perfect (download speeds are significantly slower than Steam for me) but there’s a lot of value in GamePass and it works well enough that I’ve used it a ton over the last couple of years since they really started focusing on it. It’s one of the things Microsoft has done well enough that it might be fun to hear Paul continue diving into it for a few more weeks.