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Anecdotally, I purchased a surface pro 7 and the ridiculous number of unexpected automatic updates and reboots without warning (overnight) lost me a bunch of da
by nrki 4y ago
Anecdotally, I purchased a surface pro 7 and the ridiculous number of unexpected automatic updates and reboots without warning (overnight) lost me a bunch of data. Luckily it wasn't work related, but it has continued my deep-seated hatred of the MS "user experience". Don't get me started on the tracking & surveillance crap built into Windows 10+.
It was okay after about a year of random reboots. It's a shame because MS was looking to become "better", but they're just better at increasing their bottom line at the expense of user data and their privacy.
Software development and everything feeding into it should have a code of ethics like other professions: medical, law, engineering. I don't know how it will survive long-term without losing trust. But then again it's been limping on from scandal to breach to incident to overreach for decades now.
- woojoo666 4y ago> Don't get me started on the tracking & surveillance crap built into Windows 10+. Doesn't MacOS have the same amount of telemetry? I guess it is rather hard to quantify, but MacOS still does collects a lot of data
- LionTamer 4y agoSoftware development actually does have a code of ethics [0] (I learned about it through a university assignment in a software design class). [0]: https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-code/ https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-c...
- delecti 4y agoA Surface device just gets you away from additional OEM crap (since most MS "OEM crap" is included in Windows anyway). You still have to deal with running an OS written by Microsoft.