Wouldn't be surprised if the only way to pitch it at the boardroom meeting was to tack "green" onto an otherwise convenient feature - since personal convenience is out of vogue and semi-ownership is the goalpost. Calling it anything else gives too much ground to the user, and like a creepy sociopathic groomer discord mod towards a tender 15 year old, Microsoft doesn't like that tone.
They will call it "green" for the same reason they passive-aggressively make you say "g-got it!" on every prompt across every piece of mainstream tech, which is to say they want to communicate that THEY'RE in control without actually saying it.
The Steve Jobs koolaid isn't wearing off anytime soon.
It's also been a feature on windows 10 and cell phones for a long long time. This is the epitome of virtue signaling. Doing a thing you're already doing and pretending it's some new resolution.
Being able to schedule downloads and standby is a nice feature. You don't need to dress it up in green bullshit.
Except MS explicitly made that worse in Win10, by automatically downloading and installing updates whenever it felt like, unless you set your connection to a metered one or put ridiculous active hours on your machine. Did Win11 actually revert it to what it was in older Windows versions, or was the Win11 update just a coat of paint?
Wouldn't be surprised if the only way to pitch it at the boardroom meeting was to tack "green" onto an otherwise convenient feature - since personal convenience is out of vogue and semi-ownership is the goalpost. Calling it anything else gives too much ground to the user, and like a creepy sociopathic groomer discord mod towards a tender 15 year old, Microsoft doesn't like that tone.
They will call it "green" for the same reason they passive-aggressively make you say "g-got it!" on every prompt across every piece of mainstream tech, which is to say they want to communicate that THEY'RE in control without actually saying it.
The Steve Jobs koolaid isn't wearing off anytime soon.
It's also been a feature on windows 10 and cell phones for a long long time. This is the epitome of virtue signaling. Doing a thing you're already doing and pretending it's some new resolution.
Faster transfer speeds and less likely to interrupt the device user by doing it overnight? Nah, fuck that. We're doing it to save carbon.
Except MS explicitly made that worse in Win10, by automatically downloading and installing updates whenever it felt like, unless you set your connection to a metered one or put ridiculous active hours on your machine. Did Win11 actually revert it to what it was in older Windows versions, or was the Win11 update just a coat of paint?