I hate this wording choise, that “Turn off windows copilot” - Enabled, actually means that copilot is disabled. Confusing and unintuitive. It should say just “windows Copilot: Enabled/Disabled”. Why is MS like this?
It’s a boolean operation implementing the rule in question. 0 is no action, 1 is do whatever the action is.
In this case the action is a negative – disable the thing – so it is indeed semantically confusing to anyone who doesn’t have binary brain.
The option for “Disable Windows Consumer Features” (i.e. stop installing Candy Crush and other bullshit in your start menu without your consent) works the same way.
This happens at my employer from time to time where the default action is for something to be off. So the option is “Turn off X” with a checked checkbox next to it.
This is negative logic and is stupid. Turning on an option should enable something. Turning it off should disable it. If the default is that it is off, then give it a positive description “Turn on X” and then default the value to off.
I get really angry about this if you couldn’t tell.
I hate this wording choise, that “Turn off windows copilot” - Enabled, actually means that copilot is disabled. Confusing and unintuitive. It should say just “windows Copilot: Enabled/Disabled”. Why is MS like this?
It’s a boolean operation implementing the rule in question. 0 is no action, 1 is do whatever the action is.
In this case the action is a negative – disable the thing – so it is indeed semantically confusing to anyone who doesn’t have binary brain.
The option for “Disable Windows Consumer Features” (i.e. stop installing Candy Crush and other bullshit in your start menu without your consent) works the same way.
This happens at my employer from time to time where the default action is for something to be off. So the option is “Turn off X” with a checked checkbox next to it.
This is negative logic and is stupid. Turning on an option should enable something. Turning it off should disable it. If the default is that it is off, then give it a positive description “Turn on X” and then default the value to off.
I get really angry about this if you couldn’t tell.