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Windows chose to act behind users with it's OBSCENE update system because Windows designer consider users dumb and that instead of try educating them they need
by kkfx 4y ago
Windows chose to act behind users with it's OBSCENE update system because Windows designer consider users dumb and that instead of try educating them they need to act replacing people.
This is a business move because you can munge more money from dumb than from smart people but is definitively a bad choice for the society in general and for business in long terms.
Since first Xerox desktop concept implementation (desktop model of computing if far older) ALL major players try to cut out users control, initially IBM then Microsoft then the GAFAM, all try to sell locked-in tools able to do only few things in few way to sell more and the result is an explosion of crap to the point that modern systems fall on their own weight. And beware, a desktop these days it's just an endpoint or to use an old term a dumb terminal of remote services, typically on some giant's cloud. Your car crushing while driving at high speed will be a bit more lethal, and that's already happen with current "drive aids" like "speed limiter" who read road sign confusing for instance exit roads (sorry I do not the correct name in English, the small roads you take to going out of a highway and so on) signs to main roads one auto-breaking strongly and suddenly the vehicle or anti-collision systems who use a simple stereocam behind the internal mirror and see a flying leaf for a wall, just to cite something I've experienced personally.
Remember a thing: humans MUST ALWAYS have the last word on anything. Any tool must be in TOTAL control of the human it serve. Sometimes such total control will makes disasters that's for sure, BUT many other times avoid even bigger ones.