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Windows: forced updates, forced unscheduled restarts, telemetry, spying, ads, cortona, forced surprise download of the entire windows 10 onto windows 7 systems,

by antifa 4y ago

Windows: forced updates, forced unscheduled restarts, telemetry, spying, ads, cortona, forced surprise download of the entire windows 10 onto windows 7 systems, dark patterns, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_10 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_10 Microsoft Teams: high CPU and RAM usage, electron, there is literally a UI/UX bug with every interaction, it strips away formatting I wanted while always keeping unwanted formatting, ignores the paste with shift convention to paste without formatting, forced WYSIWYG, scrolling randomly flies away seconds after I've reached where I wanted to scroll to, search is cumbersome, images sporadically timeout when trying to view them, users occasionally experience messages appearing sent but the recipient never got them or they never left the user's device. These bugs are over a year old and generally not fixed.

naikrovek 4y ago
neither I nor any of the people I work with have ANY of those issues with Teams, so I am going to have to blame an inadequate network or overzealous QoS somewhere causing a lot of that. updates: users have shown Microsoft time and time again, that unless forced, users simply will not update their computers. the result was that we had an internet teeming with unpatched Windows systems getting very bad worms when the vulnerability was patched 6-months prior. everyone, including powerful governments, blamed Microsoft when the users were at fault. so now Microsoft forces updates, because we won't do it unless we are forced, and now everyone blames Microsoft. we put them in a corner, and now we deal with our complacency. so, we blame Microsoft when we don't do the right thing, and we blame Microsoft when they force us. genius. restarts: literally never had a windows machine restart without telling me many hours prior. I think you all don't check your notification icons and let things live behind that "more..." arrow. telemetry is fine, you can view it and delete it. spying: doesn't happen. no one cares what you do and you are not important enough to spy on. the forced win 10 upgrades were bullshit. you got me there, and I've never once defended that practice.
- antifa 4y ago
  > so I am going to have to blame an inadequate network or overzealous QoS somewhere causing a lot of that. I have fiber internet and no other application I use (zulip, slack, discord) behaves this badly so consistently. > neither I nor any of the people I work with have ANY of those issues with Teams But you can Google each issue and see endless reports of it being unresolved for years. > excuses about updates, telemetry, spying My computer, my decision. If I turn off auto updates, it should stay off. MS can have recommended and default settings, but removing the option for settings and removing the settings I selected are bad and anti-user.
  - naikrovek 4y ago
    your computer your decision, you're right. don't use windows, then. I WANT to know that my computers are up to date at all times. you don't. great. use something else, then, and quit complaining.
    - antifa 4y ago
      Linux keeps computers up to date just fine without subverting user's interests constantly.
      - naikrovek 4y ago
        then use it.
        antifa 4y ago
        Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." You seem weirdly complacent with objectively bad things. Things can be better and it's worth fighting for.

by antifa 4y ago

naikrovek 4y ago

neither I nor any of the people I work with have ANY of those issues with Teams, so I am going to have to blame an inadequate network or overzealous QoS somewhere causing a lot of that. updates: users have shown Microsoft time and time again, that unless forced, users simply will not update their computers. the result was that we had an internet teeming with unpatched Windows systems getting very bad worms when the vulnerability was patched 6-months prior. everyone, including powerful governments, blamed Microsoft when the users were at fault. so now Microsoft forces updates, because we won't do it unless we are forced, and now everyone blames Microsoft. we put them in a corner, and now we deal with our complacency. so, we blame Microsoft when we don't do the right thing, and we blame Microsoft when they force us. genius. restarts: literally never had a windows machine restart without telling me many hours prior. I think you all don't check your notification icons and let things live behind that "more..." arrow. telemetry is fine, you can view it and delete it. spying: doesn't happen. no one cares what you do and you are not important enough to spy on. the forced win 10 upgrades were bullshit. you got me there, and I've never once defended that practice.

antifa 4y ago
> so I am going to have to blame an inadequate network or overzealous QoS somewhere causing a lot of that. I have fiber internet and no other application I use (zulip, slack, discord) behaves this badly so consistently. > neither I nor any of the people I work with have ANY of those issues with Teams But you can Google each issue and see endless reports of it being unresolved for years. > excuses about updates, telemetry, spying My computer, my decision. If I turn off auto updates, it should stay off. MS can have recommended and default settings, but removing the option for settings and removing the settings I selected are bad and anti-user.
- naikrovek 4y ago
  your computer your decision, you're right. don't use windows, then. I WANT to know that my computers are up to date at all times. you don't. great. use something else, then, and quit complaining.
  - antifa 4y ago
    Linux keeps computers up to date just fine without subverting user's interests constantly.
    - naikrovek 4y ago
      then use it.
      - antifa 4y ago
        Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." You seem weirdly complacent with objectively bad things. Things can be better and it's worth fighting for.