With all that being said, my workstation supports it and worked fine – so I put up with it. But now, for whatever reason known only to the dark wizards who master the destiny of Microsoft products: my processor has dropped off the supported list and I am fairly adamant it’s because there’s some AI nonsense that no one wants to use and isn’t fully compliant somewhere in the background. Not a great reason to exclude otherwise fine hardware.

Coupled with the following, utterly insane paths of madness Microsoft have taken recently, I really had to question why put up with this platform as a whole?

• Take OneDrive for example, shoved down everyone's throat to declare more people have installed and are “using” it. Are the folders in my documents directory in my documents directory, or are they in some random OneDrive directory? Does that stay on my machine or are all these files now resident in the cloud too?
  
• General navigation around the interface feels slow and bloated. Hit start and type an application name and prepare to wait. Sometimes you’ll get the result you want, sometimes you’ll wait forever. No wonder Microsoft themselves recently declared Windows search “broken”.