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Amusing quote from <https://www.theverge.com/tech/909140/microsoft-windows-11-fixes-macbook-neo-response-notepad>:

If there’s one thing I know about Microsoft after covering the
company for more than 20 years, it’s that it will always respond
to a competitive threat. Apple’s MacBook Air convinced Microsoft
and Intel to launch thin and light laptops with the Ultrabook
initiative, the iPad pushed Microsoft to create its own tablet
hardware, and the threat of Chromebooks saw Microsoft try to match
the security and simplicity of ChromeOS with S mode versions of
Windows.

How well did that “S mode” work? It was a flop.

A history of fast follows (and my own sources) tells me that
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo announcement last month will force
Microsoft to seriously improve Windows. A lot of changes are
imminent. Barely two weeks after Apple announced the MacBook Neo,
Microsoft unveiled a plan to fix Windows 11 that involves focusing
on performance, reliability, and the overall user experience.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Just like how former CEO Steve Ballmer held up an HP tablet PC
days before Apple’s original iPad announcement in 2010, Microsoft
has always closely followed Apple, be it with the Zune or making
Windows Mobile a touch-friendly OS.

All of them flops!

One of the key changes being planned for Windows 11 later this
year is improvements to memory efficiency.

You mean, like that “Xbox mode” they recently released? Which doesn’t actually slim down Windows at all?

... it will also help them ship devices that respond to the
MacBook Neo low price point enabled, in part, by its meager 8GB of
RAM.

It’s funny, isn’t it? That 8GiB of RAM could be considered a “meagre” amount for running Apple’s OS. That makes it almost as bad as Windows <https://www.zdnet.com/article/have-an-old-pc-these-5-lightweight-linux-distributions-will-bring-it-back-to-life/>.
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From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

On 2026-04-09 8:37 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

Amusing quote from <https://www.theverge.com/tech/909140/microsoft-windows-11-fixes-macbook-neo-response-notepad>:

If there’s one thing I know about Microsoft after covering the
company for more than 20 years, it’s that it will always respond
to a competitive threat. Apple’s MacBook Air convinced Microsoft
and Intel to launch thin and light laptops with the Ultrabook
initiative, the iPad pushed Microsoft to create its own tablet
hardware, and the threat of Chromebooks saw Microsoft try to match
the security and simplicity of ChromeOS with S mode versions of
Windows.

How well did that “S mode” work? It was a flop.

A history of fast follows (and my own sources) tells me that
Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo announcement last month will force
Microsoft to seriously improve Windows. A lot of changes are
imminent. Barely two weeks after Apple announced the MacBook Neo,
Microsoft unveiled a plan to fix Windows 11 that involves focusing
on performance, reliability, and the overall user experience.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Just like how former CEO Steve Ballmer held up an HP tablet PC
days before Apple’s original iPad announcement in 2010, Microsoft
has always closely followed Apple, be it with the Zune or making
Windows Mobile a touch-friendly OS.

All of them flops!

One of the key changes being planned for Windows 11 later this
year is improvements to memory efficiency.

You mean, like that “Xbox mode” they recently released? Which doesn’t actually slim down Windows at all?

... it will also help them ship devices that respond to the
MacBook Neo low price point enabled, in part, by its meager 8GB of
RAM.

It’s funny, isn’t it? That 8GiB of RAM could be considered a “meagre” amount for running Apple’s OS. That makes it almost as bad as Windows <https://www.zdnet.com/article/have-an-old-pc-these-5-lightweight-linux-distributions-will-bring-it-back-to-life/

I've seen Microsoft fail miserably so many times in the decades I've
used their products that opting for Apple's offering, if there is one,
is an easy decision now. For me, their latest failure was reacting to
the release of Apple's Mx processors. Qualcomm has something interesting
in the Snapdragon products. After all, their performance is rated to be
at least as good as Apple's M3 with the same kind of battery life. All Microsoft would need to do is offer their software for the ARM platform. Unsurprisingly, they did such a poor job that nobody is even talking
about it anymore. Apple won by default. That's part of why it was an
easy decision for me to just go ahead and buy a MacBook Air M4 some
local guy was selling for $800 cad. I know that the PC will never have anything similar. Losing out on the ability to play a few games is
meaningless when I can have a computer that lasts me 20 hours for what I
do yet manages to produce no noise whatsoever in the process.
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CrudeSausage
M4 Air
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