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> Windows is terrible from a security and power consumption point of view Windows is way ahead in both security and power efficiency. About security, here’s a
by Const-me 9y ago
> Windows is terrible from a security and power consumption point of view
Windows is way ahead in both security and power efficiency.
About security, here’s an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410833 In Windows, clipboard access was restricted to foreground app since WP7.
About power efficiency, WP is very restrictive on what apps can do in background. See this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh202942(v=vs.105).aspx#BKMK_ConstraintsforallScheduledTaskTypes https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh2029...
- criddell 9y agoI'm talking about x86 Windows. Windows Phone is dead. The fact that a viable mobile OS has to be restrictive about background operations is exactly what I was talking about when I said they can't fix it without breaking everything.
- NiveaGeForce 9y agoBut they already fixed it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15434931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15434931