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486 points ethanpil | 7 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.852s | source | bottom
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wasimanitoba ◴[25 Jun 25 09:25 UTC] No.44375245[source]▶
Meanwhile, they forced AI Copilot bloat into Notepad, whose singular use-case was supposed to be that it does one thing well without unnecessary features.
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1. 0cf8612b2e1e ◴[25 Jun 25 16:10 UTC] No.44378896[source]▶
I took a screenshot and pasted it into the new Win11 Paint. Even minimized, Paint was constantly using 5% CPU and sitting at ~250MB of RAM. I guess I can begrudgingly get over the RAM, but squandering the CPU like that is ridiculous.

What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

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2. hulitu ◴[25 Jun 25 16:38 UTC] No.44379236[source]▶
> What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

We are talking about Microsoft here.

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3. dogleash ◴[25 Jun 25 16:46 UTC] No.44379332[source]▶
>What happened to pride or quality control or anything?

Sounds like some dangerous cowboy coding wrongthink you've got going on over there.

4. jandrese ◴[25 Jun 25 17:00 UTC] No.44379506[source]▶
I assume it is basically an Electron app now. Anything will be bloated when it's a full web browser running some webapp.
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5. contextfree ◴[25 Jun 25 21:40 UTC] No.44382056[source]▶
No, it doesn't use Electron or webviews afaik. The UI is mostly WinUI2/UWP/XAML Islands based however
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6. jandrese ◴[26 Jun 25 14:14 UTC] No.44387646{3}[source]▶
If that's the case then why is it so heavy? In comparison The Gimp consumes about 80MB of memory and burns a trivial amount of when not being actively used.
7. hnlmorg ◴[27 Jun 25 06:18 UTC] No.44394138[source]▶
Exactly. Their software has always been shit.

Microsoft didn’t become dominant because of the quality of their software. They became dominant because they knew how to run a an aggressively successful business better than their competitors.