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Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. (programming.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why is micro shit even the first choice? Go ChromeOS or something cool. Smh

[โ€“] FoxBJK@midwest.social 11 points 9 months ago

Because MS puts work into backwards compatibility, so the business who paid someone to write an app for them 30 years ago can still use it today on a Win11 box. No shot of that happening on macOS, who has deprecated PowerPC and 32-bit support, and Linux is just too much of a wildcard.