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"pro user" is an interesting way to put it. If I remember correctly it was heavily integrated with IE in the past to push browser share. Want to update your sys
by josefx 9y ago
"pro user" is an interesting way to put it. If I remember correctly it was heavily integrated with IE in the past to push browser share. Want to update your system? Open buggy old IE5/6. Want to get rid of IE? What antitrust? IE is part of essential Windows functionality after all, we can't get rid of it.
> Get back to me when MS starts remembering their customers are human beings again.
Oh, they know. Their whole abusive process is build around milking that fact for all it is worth.
- Qwertious 9y agoThe comment said Windows update was pro-user, not Microsoft.
- josefx 9y agoWell we can argue wether a knife is pro or con user when Microsoft stabs said user in the back with it. Microsoft would say that it provides a secure (tm) resting place for the users hat and is not only very pro-user in doing so but also important for the continous operation of said hat. My point is just that, Microsoft used Windows Update to push unwanted software in the past and as such Windows Update was never entirely a pro-user software, something always undermined by Microsofts willingness to put its own goals above its users needs.