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There must be an immense amount of value in the data collected by Microsoft Accounts for Microsoft to make a move like this that will, in my estimation, infuria
by nazgulsenpai 5y ago
There must be an immense amount of value in the data collected by Microsoft Accounts for Microsoft to make a move like this that will, in my estimation, infuriate a significant portion of its SMB customers and/or power users.
- hobomatic 5y agoWell Microsoft is pivoting into being a cloud services provider, the OS provides ui integrations for these services to make them more compelling, but the thing itself isn't the OS.
- chris37879 5y agoI mean, yeah... think about all the data websites go to remarkable lengths to capture about you already, now imagine if they could capture _everything_ your computer does. Do you think they wouldn't? That's the part that really pisses me off, I bought a Windows Pro license to specifically avoid requirements like this, and now I can't anymore.
- ctoth 5y ago"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it further."
- raxxorrax 5y agoIt lowers the barrier for people to buy into subscriptions and their store environment significantly. Problem is that they will only serve good deals until they have enslaved their users.