Microsoft has acknowledged that a recent Windows preview update, KB5064081, contains a bug that renders the password icon invisible on the lock screen, leaving users to click on what appears to be empty space to enter their credentials. The issue affects Windows Insider channel users who installed the non-security preview update. The company's suggested workaround is straightforward if somewhat absurd: click where the button should be, and the password field will appear. Microsoft said it is working to resolve the issue.

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Dell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10. From a report: "We have not completed the Windows 11 transition," COO Jeffrey Clarke said during Dell's Q3 earnings call on Tuesday. "In fact, if you were to look at it relative to the previous OS end of support, we are 10-12 points behind at that point with Windows 11 than we were the previous generation." Clarke said that means 500 million PCs can't run Windows 11, while the same number didn't need an upgrade to handle Microsoft's latest desktop OS. The COO therefore predicted the PC market will "flourish," but then defined the word as meaning "roughly flat" sales despite Dell chalking up mid-to high single digits PC sales growth over the last year.

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Les mises à jour de Windows 11 ça a l'air de bien de passer :
https://www.it-connect.fr/ce-bug-windows-11-24h2-rend-inutilisable-le-menu-demarrer-et-la-barre-des-taches/
https://www.it-connect.fr/windows-11-ignore-votre-strategie-windows-update-et-redemarre-sans-prevenir-que-se-passe-t-il/
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In the latest Windows Insider beta update, Microsoft has announced that it is exploring preloading File Explorer in the background to improve launch performance. The feature will load File Explorer silently before users click on it and can be toggled off for those who prefer not to use it. Microsoft introduced a similar capability earlier this year for Office called Startup Boost that loads parts of Word in the background so the application launches more quickly. The company is also removing elements from the File Explorer context menu in the same update.

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"Copilot Actions on Windows 11" is currently available in Insider builds (version 26220.7262) as part of Copilot Labs, according to a recent report, "and is off by default, requiring admin access to set it up." But maybe it's off for a good reason...besides the fact that it can access any apps installed on your system: In a support document, Microsoft admits that features like Copilot Actions introduce " novel security risks ." They warn about cross-prompt injection (XPIA), where malicious content in documents or UI elements can override the AI's instructions. The result? " Unintended actions like data exfiltration or malware installation ." Yeah, you read that right. Microsoft is shipping a feature that could be tricked into installing malware on your system. Microsoft's own warning hits hard: "We recommend that you only enable this feature if you understand the security implications." When you try to enable these experimental features, Windows shows you a warning dialog that you have to acknowledge. ["This feature is still being tested and may impact the performance or security of your device."] Even with these warnings, the level of access Copilot Actions demands is concerning. When you enable the feature, it gets read and write access to your Documents, Downloads, Desktop, Pictures, Videos, and Music folders... Microsoft says they are implementing safeguards. All actions are logged, users must approve data access requests, the feature operates in isolated workspaces, and the system uses audit logs to track activity. But you are still giving an AI system that can "hallucinate and produce unexpected outputs" (Microsoft's words, not mine) full access to your personal files. To address this, Ars Technica notes, Microsoft added this helpful warning to its support document this week. "As these capabilities are introduced, AI models still face functional limitations in terms of how they behave and occasionally may hallucinate and produce unexpected outputs." But Microsoft didn't describe "what actions they should take to prevent their devices from being compromised. I asked Microsoft to provide these details, and the company declined..."

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In October Zorin OS claimed it had 100,000 downloads in a little over two days in the days following Microsoft's end of support for Windows 10. And one month later, Zorin OS developers now claim that 780,000 people downloaded it from a Windows computer in the space of a month, according to the tech news site XDA Developers. In a post on the Zorin blog, the developers of the operating system Zorin OS 18 announced that they've managed to accrue one million downloads of the operating system in a single month [since its launch on October 14]. While this is plenty impressive by itself, the developers go on to reveal that, out of that million, 78% of the downloads came from a Windows machine. That means that at least 780,000 people on Windows gave Zorin OS 18 a download... [I]t's easy to see why: the developers put a heavy emphasis on making their system the perfect home for ex-Windows users.

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Alors attendez : Microsoft utilise des technologie WEB pour l'interface de Windows 11. Donc tout est beaucoup plus lourd et lent. Tellement lent que même l'explorateur de fichier met du temps à démarrer.
Du coup, la solution de Microsoft ?
Précharger en mémoire l'explorateur de fichiers pour qu'il s'affiche immédiatement quand vous cliquez dessus.
Donc il bouffera de la RAM et du CPU à l'allumage de la machine.

DE.
LA.
MERDE.
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Dégradation de la qualité de Windows : même Microsoft admet qu'il y a des problèmes.

EDIT: Et encore... https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-out-of-band-update-fixes-windows-11-hotpatch-install-loop/
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Microsoft's push to transform Windows into an "agentic OS" that allows AI agents to control PCs is drawing user backlash similar to the Windows 8 controversy, as the company marks the operating system's 40th anniversary this week, writes Tom Warren, a reporter at The Verge who has been covering Microsoft for nearly two decades. Windows chief Pavan Davuluri announced the agentic OS plans in a post on X last week and faced immediate criticism in hundreds of replies before they were locked days later. "It's evolving into a product that's driving people to Mac and Linux," one person wrote, while another asked for a return to Windows 7's "clean UI, clean icon, a unified control panel, no bloat apps, no ads, just a pure performant OS." Davuluri later responded to software engineer Gergely Orosz, saying "we care deeply about developers" and acknowledging Microsoft has "work to do on the experience, both on the everyday usability, from inconsistent dialogs to power user experiences." Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the Dwarkesh Podcast that the company's business "which today is an end user tools business, will become, essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work." The Recall feature already spooked users when it was initially turned on by default before Microsoft reworked it to be opt-in. Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows experiences, told The Verge that "every user can use [AI agents] when they're ready. It's their choice, they decide."

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Donc si je comprends bien, un gars a développé une interface qui permet de faire de la bonne compression disque sous Windows parce que Microsoft n'est pas foutu de le proposer.

Sinon vous pouvez aussi passer sous Linux, hein. 🤷‍♂️
Sous btrfs, la compression est native (on peut même sélectionner zstd en choisissant le taux de compression) et autre chose que ni Windows ni ce logiciel ne savent faire et qui permet de gagner énormément de place *en plus de la compression* : La déduplication.
Et vous bénéficiez de cette compression/déduplication pas que pour les jeux, mais aussi pour tout le système pour réduire les I/O disque.
(Ah oui, et brtrfs vous permettra aussi de faire des "snapshots" du système pour revenir en arrière, ou même dupliquer un dossier de 30 Go instantanément sans prendre plus de place. et diverses autres choses très cools. Je m'égare, mais pour résumer : Le NTFS de Windows est un vieux machin complètement à la ramasse par rapport aux systèmes de fichiers modernes comme btrfs, zfs ou bcachefs).

Je ne dis pas que l'outils CompactGUI est mauvais. Je dis juste qu'encore une fois ce sont des développeurs indépendants qui compensent un manque de Windows.

Alors je sais, mais je vais mon vieux chieur linuxien bien lourd avec cette vieille blague pourrie : "Linux, il a y moins bien, mais c'est plus cher : Windows."
(et on peut désormais dire que ce n'est pas seulement plus cher parce que Windows est payant: Vous payez en servant de panneau publicitaire (dans le menu démarrer) et en payez en plus avec votre vie privée et toutes les données que Microsoft collecte sur vous.)
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A former Business Analyst reportedly filed a class action lawsuit claiming that for years, hundreds of remote employees at Bank of America first had to boot up complex computer systems before their paid work began, reports Human Resources Director magazine: Tava Martin, who worked both remotely and at the company's Jacksonville facility, says the financial institution required her and fellow hourly workers to log into multiple security systems, download spreadsheets, and connect to virtual private networks — all before the clock started ticking on their workday. The process wasn't quick. According to the filing in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, employees needed 15 to 30 minutes each morning just to get their systems running. When technical problems occurred, it took even longer... Workers turned on their computers, waited for Windows to load, grabbed their cell phones to request a security token for the company's VPN, waited for that token to arrive, logged into the network, opened required web applications with separate passwords, and downloaded the Excel files they needed for the day. Only then could they start taking calls from business customers about regulatory reporting requirements... The unpaid work didn't stop at startup. During unpaid lunch breaks, many systems would automatically disconnect or otherwise lose connection, forcing employees to repeat portions of the login process — approximately three to five minutes of uncompensated time on most days, sometimes longer when a complete reboot was required. After shifts ended, workers had to log out of all programs and shut down their computers securely, adding another two to three minutes. Thanks to Slashdot reader Joe_Dragon for sharing the article.

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Je ne suis pas le seul à penser qu'il y a de plus en plus de problèmes chez Microsoft : Des malfaçons dans Azure aux mises à jour Windows qui posent de plus en plus de soucis (et ça, c'est sans mentionner les problèmes de pillage de la vie privée, d'IA forcée partout et du délai de livraison des mises à jour de sécurité particulièrment problématique (https://sebsauvage.net/links/?RZxk-Q)).

Vous voulez un OS stable pour votre business, où tout est proprement testé ?
J'ai fortement le sentiment qu'une Debian est largement plus fiable et stable qu'un Windows pour de la prod, n'est-ce pas ?
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Si vous en avez marre de ce double-menu clic-droit de Windows 11 et que vous voulez revenir au menu contextuel traditionnel :
reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe & start explorer
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The Microsoft Store on the web now lets you create a multi-app install package on Windows 11 that installs multiple applications from a single installer. This means you can now install multiple apps simultaneously without having to download each one manually. The experience is similar to that of the third-party app Ninite, a package manager that lets you install multiple apps at once.

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