• salacious_coaster@infosec.pub
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    8 months ago

    They could resolve most criticisms by just continuing security updates for W10 and otherwise never touching it again. But then what of their surveillance-based revenue?

    • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      [Davaluri] Hey Gergely, I am responding here, and I think this applies to a bunch of the comments that people have made. I mean, a lot of comments . The team (and I) take in a ton of feedback

      This reads like a Trump quote

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    8 months ago

    “When we meet as a team, we discuss these paint points and others in detail, because we want developers to choose Windows.”

    Putting aside the “paint points” vs pain points, unless there is some MS Paint aspect I have missed, what about the broader user base who are not developers and simply want a robust OS to run their games and applications without all the AI and telemetry “features”?

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      8 months ago

      They want devs to choose Windows so they develop the next big AI app on Windows to draw the gullible users to Windows. Would be a shame if they choose macOS or even Linux instead.

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    8 months ago

    I’m always thinking about this article, Breaching the Trust Thermocline Is the Biggest Hidden Risk in Business

    The biggest takeaways from the article are that trust is not a linear system. Businesses think that bad decisions erode trust but can be compensated for through perfectly calculated corrective actions once they begin to see that decline in trust. It should be most telling that they tried this shit at all. They only tried it because they thought you were too stupid to notice and would be meek enough to accept it and when you weren’t, they simply looked for another angle.

    Second, it assumes that trust can ever be won back. And for the most part it can’t. I understand there are a myriad of issues that keep people tied to Windows, but I migrated to Linux. I learned the system and I made sacrifices with pieces of software I wasn’t able to completely replace, but I’ve made peace with that. I am comfortable where I’m at now and there is nothing, literally nothing that would ever see me return to Windows at this point.

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      8 months ago

      Too stupid to notice? No. Too meek to do anything about it? Yes! That sums up Windows users in a nutshell.

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    You know shits bad when even I’M advocating to switch to linux. I don’t even understand linux!

    I would happily switch to an OS that is linux under the hood, but visually can operate like Windows XP.

    WHERE TERMINAL ISN’T EVEN INSTALLED BY DEFAULT!

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        8 months ago

        There are 4 different copy commands by default within PowerShell I can think of: copy, xcopy, robocopy, and copy-item. Robocopy is still better at many scripted tasks, even though it is from CMD.

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        And powershell comes with multiple different versions that can be installed side by side, and have overlapping functionality.
        Meaning, there are things you can only do in Powershell v1.x and other things you can only do in v7.x .
        Also, the syntax and available commands are different.

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    8 months ago

    Oh good, they know they have a lot to fix. If only someone on the Windows team knew a trillion dollar company that could foot the bill for getting those fixes done ASAP. That kinda cash and you could build a whole OS from scratch if you really wanted to.

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    8 months ago

    The fact that they think they can fix windows is the problem. They should shut that shit down and contribute a compatibility layer to Linux and macOS. Then, focus their efforts on cloud and web based office apps.

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    8 months ago

    Based on them JUST RECENTLY fixing the “update and shut down” ‘bug’ not ACTUALLY shutting down your computer after updating after 10 years maybe they are fixing it! It’ll just take 10 years for these fixes to happen!

    🫩

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    If someone gets pissed off enough at windows… They’re going to find alternatives. And once they’re locked into those alternatives, they’re likely not going to switch back. Until something with their current setup catastrophically breaks. As a result, its kind of too late for Windows to save itself. At least in my opinion.

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    8 months ago

    Microsoft: we see all the backlash and intend to fix it with more AI! That’s what everyone wants right?