This is sadly not surprising, and based on how things have gone recently, very easy to believe:
Former MSFTy, don’t bother wasting your time giving feedback. Nobody cares, those that cared left. Microsoft has a weird culture, very top down, very passive aggressive between departments. For a brief while I would diligently prepare bugs for the dog food software. I would even walk over to visit people responsible for it and chat about it. Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole bunch of bugs and see if any bounce (come back). Eventually people get sick of refilling so they get to zero but bounce by exhausting the very people eying time help them.
Enough social media pressure may end up risking a line item in a PMs yearly goals. So that might get looked at.
Even the some of the most backward laggards (e.g. government departments) are sick to death of Microsoft and have long been introducing policies that all new software has to be web only.
Those pointing to Azure as the future should know that they have very aggressive sales who often vastly oversell to customers. Customers aren’t renewing at the same level. Plus I don’t see them being able to compete with Amazon long term. You can only buy Skype for the bundled government customer so many times.
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<p>You’ve probably got an easier-ride thesedays on <em>Windows 7</em>, compared to <em>Windows XP</em>, yes.</p><p><br></p><p>I see <em>Google Chrome </em>have recently announced extended "security-only" support until 15 Jan 2023; I’d imagine <em>Edge </em>will follow the same schedule, and <em>Firefox </em>is still fully-supported as of now (which is odd, as towards the end of <em>XP </em>and <em>Vista’s </em>lifecycles, they transitioned users onto the <em>ESR </em>version, but haven’t done this so-far for <em>Windows 7</em>).</p><p><br></p><p>Most AAA games will no-longer run; some might, if you copy certain DLL files, or hack installer files. Though lack of new drivers will also present an issue, as neither <em>Nvidia</em> nor <em>AMD</em> offer any graphic-card driver updates now (and I’m pretty-sure the same is true for Intel).</p><p><br></p><p>App-wise, I can’t think of many that currently won’t run on <em>Windows 7</em> — <em>VMWare Player</em> and <em>Workstation</em>, <em>Microsoft Office 2019 </em>and later, <em>iTunes</em> and <em>Blender </em>are the only ones that come to-mind. <em>Audacity </em>and <em>FileZilla </em>both still run, but are no-longer officially-supported. And the next major-release of <em>Paint.NET</em> (the 4.4.x branch) will drop <em>Windows 7</em> support. (On the enterprise side, many of the current versions of <em>Adobe</em>’s apps, and <em>AutoCAD</em>’s latest, no-longer install on <em>Win7</em>, either).</p>
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<p>As someone who regularly used to leave feedback, yeah, the "Feedback Hub" is utterly pointless thesedays.</p><p><br></p><p>They have tons of low-value feedback, like just an error code as the subject then "plz hlp" as the comment. No-one clears them out. And in the reverse, they constantly merge multiple bits of feedback into a "collection", even-though often many of the ones grouped in are not actually related to the same issue. And for popular feedback requests, that you would expect should be fairly-simple to implement, like "can we have a dark-mode in Task Manager", "can this feature be added to the Your Phone app", "can this change be made to the Mail app", nothing ever happens.</p><p><br></p><p>The <em>Edge </em>team used to be good, in contrast: if you would post feedback on their <em>Insider Forum</em> site, or if you did the "Send Feedback" in <em>Edge</em> itself, you’d often get a reply. But in recent-years, even they don’t seem to care anymore either — they just keep adding new features no-one wants. And yet simple requests, like "please can you stop treating every <em>Edge </em>user as a developer and offer an option to hide things like <em>Inspect </em>and <em>View source</em> on the right-click menu", just go ignored.</p><p><br></p><p>The writing has been on-the-wall for some time though: right-now in <em>Windows 10</em>, with all my apps updated, not all of the "ModernUI" apps use my accent-colour. "Microsoft News" uses its own red one; "Weather" uses a blue one. The whole point of decoupling stuff from <em>Windows </em>and shoving it in the <em>Microsoft Store</em> was so they can be updated quicker, outside of major <em>Windows</em> releases. But they can’t even be bothered to do that for the apps which already are!</p>