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Microsoft loses credibility? What does that mean? People complain all day on the Internet while Microsoft's desktop monopoly of 90% falls 0.1%? Microsoft has n
by melling 10y ago
Microsoft loses credibility? What does that mean? People complain all day on the Internet while Microsoft's desktop monopoly of 90% falls 0.1%? Microsoft has nothing to lose and much to gain by getting more of their customers on the latest version of Windows.
In fact, developers, especially web developers, should be excited that Microsoft is upgrading everyone they can.
- Piskvorrr 10y agoThat means "OS vendor has a backdoor open in our systems, on purpose" is very bad news. Very, very, very, very bad news. As in "audit noncompliance bad news". This is not a matter of mom-and-pop shops with three computers, or of any interest to the home user, but the fallout might be massive (as in "time to look for a different vendor, can't have that").
- melling 10y ago"Might be massive" Thanks for the hyperbole. I guess you used the word "might" so you can't be wrong when nothing changes? As I explained, there won't be any consequences.
- Piskvorrr 10y agoFuture is sort of hard to predict, at least for me. But you seem significantly more capable thereof; come on, enlighten me! (The "might" expands to this: a retraction of the, ahem, telemetry, and the continuous update policy - at least for the enterprise segment - is one way the MS could avoid this trap it's built for itself; given their behavior to date, I doubt it will)