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I think their strategy makes a lot of sense. If you want to live off the grid, you can use Linux. Since everything is now a web app (also Microsoft products),
by andix 4y ago
I think their strategy makes a lot of sense. If you want to live off the grid, you can use Linux. Since everything is now a web app (also Microsoft products), that’s easier then ever.
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoSpoken like a true Microsoft marketing department employee two cups deep into the koolaid arrogant enough to think the only two roads are ‘my way or the highway’
- tracker1 4y agoFor your average home user, it's probably the better option, even if I as an individual don't like it at all. Not every person's specific needs/wants are the same. I've had encrypted Linux volumes become inaccessible because of a changed password when I wasn't able to come back to that system for a few days after and frankly forgot the specific combination of words used. Luckily I did have backups... but it could have been worse. A mom losing all the baby footage of their child because of lost/broken/damaged encryption is not a pleasant thing to explain to someone.
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoI’m unsure how that relates to the above comments about Microsoft pushing products and services via dark patterns. Are you employed by Microsoft, or have any professional association with the company?
- tracker1 4y agoNo... I'm using Linux on my desktop, and a Macbook Air M1 for my personal laptop. But funny that you would assume so.
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoYou didn’t even remotely answer the question.
- tracker1 4y agoWhich part of "No" are you falling to understand.
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoThe part where you ignored my question and instead rambled about which operating system you use.
- tracker1 4y agoI didn't ignore your question... try reading slower... "No..." right at the front of my replay.
- salawat 4y agoHorse hockey. Stop buying into the perception that your computer, and the data on it belongs to the OS author, or the author of the software that is running on it. It does not. It belongs to you. The person who bought it. It is yours to shove bits through as you please. The industry is just incessant on reserving that level of control over everyone's systems for themselves, and trying to convince you, that no, they really know best, and you should pay them and hand them your data. They'll swear up and down that isn't what they are doing, but their actions say otherwise.