Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues Date: 18 Mar 2025 13:31:25 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net m3Fonu9XtLj7KJCPOCiMRwpQNb+qZloTXLGwepftTIx5NSSyp7 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:KpNMlWd3kmqzRGQtqLudE95RukQ= sha256:Hzyv6Pffkrepsbbswm3PEDB5s4/J50uYTQ5K0GrXxN8= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2286 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 21:55:15 -0000 (UTC), I wrote: > > > Many years ago, a software engineer named Fred Brooks predicted that > > some systems could get so complex that they would exceed a > > manageable threshold of complexity, where every attempt to fix a bug > > would just create new ones. > > > > Microsoft passed this point a long time ago. > > Further evidence > : > now a Dimdows update deletes your Copilot app and taskbar icon, and > the only workaround is to put it all back again yourself: "deletes your Copilot app" "from *SOME* Windows 11 PCs" Perhaps another case of thousands in billions, like your previous FUD? Anyway, the Copilot app did not get deleted from my system. Sorry about that. (There never was a Taskbar icon, so a tad hard to delete that.) Let's hear from others, who - unlike you - actually have/use this stuff. > Microsoft says it is "working on a resolution to address the > issue" but that users who want to get Copilot back can reinstall > the app from the Microsoft Store and repin it to the taskbar, the > same process you use to install Copilot on PCs where it has been > removed. > > This is why they say, Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth > nothing. Well, it seems to keep *you* quite busy.