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As much as I'd love to (hate to) see vintage 1990's Microsoft back in evil empire mode, this doesn't make sense. What is their motive here? The Windows vs. Lin
by marcell 10y ago
As much as I'd love to (hate to) see vintage 1990's Microsoft back in evil empire mode, this doesn't make sense.
What is their motive here? The Windows vs. Linux battle is long settled, and Windows is not under thread from Linux. Why would they intentionally block Linux on one vendors laptops, gaining basically no profit/market share, and risking lawsuits and online outrage?
Hanlon's razor applies; I assume this is a case of incompetence.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
- beagle3 10y agoIn my opinion, motive is locking win7/win8 out. Locking linux out would be a happy (for MS) coincidence in this case.
- JBReefer 10y agoI'm going with this theory - it makes more sense than "MS HATES LINUX!!11!!"
- eloisant 10y agoTo keep control on what users do with the hardware? Same reason most Android devices have locked bootloaders.
- blubb-fish 10y ago> The Windows vs. Linux battle is long settled What makes you think that? As far as I can tell there is still a reasonable chance that Linux and Linux-typical software like LibreOffice will gain more market share at the cost of Microsoft products. Especially with preinstalled and -configured notebooks working with Linux.
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