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We didn't break Microsoft up when we had the chance to and it cost us modern computing at a retail level. When the only other viable option is an incredibly exp

We didn't break Microsoft up when we had the chance to and it cost us modern computing at a retail level. When the only other viable option is an incredibly expensive machine that comes with a different OS or a free version of an OS that relies on contributions and donations to maintain, there isn't any direction to go but down. Microsoft has been skimming processing power for year through spying and it's just that simple.

musicale 3y ago
Is there reason to believe that breaking up Microsoft would somehow have made macOS, iOS, Linux, BSD, etc. leaner and more efficient? I despise Windows telemetry, advertising, and bloat, but I've also noticed how macOS and Ubuntu (for example) are becoming ever larger and slower.
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- sitkack 3y ago
  Are you using a false dichotomy to ask someone to defend an anti-monopoly stance? Your question doesn't make sense. Are you arguing that Microsoft didn't make a leaner OS because ... BSD. Are you arguing that BSD isn't lean? They aren't even comparable in what they do, nor their resource requirements.
  - musicale 3y ago
    I was responding to PP's comment that > Microsoft has been skimming processing power for year through spying and it's just that simple. PP seems to be suggesting that breaking up MS would have somehow resulted in improved OS and application performance and better privacy, but that seems unlikely when we consider how most other platforms have evolved.
- synxos 3y ago
  If you turn off desktop type effects with Linux I don't know what else people would really want. Every window on my system moves what feels like instantaneously. Nothing feels slow on my machine at all. It literally couldn't feel more responsive and my machine is an i5 that is getting rather long in tooth. It is the old you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. Microsoft epitomizes the shitty aspects of monopoly. Everyone use to understand this before the Bill Gates influence campaign to revamp his image from that of Darth Vader.
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KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
> When the only other viable option is an incredibly expensive machine that comes with a different OS or a free version of an OS that relies on contributions and donations to maintain I feel like you just threw mud at Linux distros for the way that they fund themselves, but I don't understand why.
rurban 3y ago
> Microsoft has been skimming processing power for year through spying and it's just that simple. I would rather argue that Microsoft has been skimming processing power by unnecessary virus scanning all over, by not caring early enough in proper security. Bolting it on later required virus scanning, slowing it down by magnitudes. Also their ineffective filesystem ACL costs them 10 times.

musicale 3y ago

Is there reason to believe that breaking up Microsoft would somehow have made macOS, iOS, Linux, BSD, etc. leaner and more efficient? I despise Windows telemetry, advertising, and bloat, but I've also noticed how macOS and Ubuntu (for example) are becoming ever larger and slower.

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sitkack 3y ago
Are you using a false dichotomy to ask someone to defend an anti-monopoly stance? Your question doesn't make sense. Are you arguing that Microsoft didn't make a leaner OS because ... BSD. Are you arguing that BSD isn't lean? They aren't even comparable in what they do, nor their resource requirements.
- musicale 3y ago
  I was responding to PP's comment that > Microsoft has been skimming processing power for year through spying and it's just that simple. PP seems to be suggesting that breaking up MS would have somehow resulted in improved OS and application performance and better privacy, but that seems unlikely when we consider how most other platforms have evolved.
synxos 3y ago
If you turn off desktop type effects with Linux I don't know what else people would really want. Every window on my system moves what feels like instantaneously. Nothing feels slow on my machine at all. It literally couldn't feel more responsive and my machine is an i5 that is getting rather long in tooth. It is the old you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. Microsoft epitomizes the shitty aspects of monopoly. Everyone use to understand this before the Bill Gates influence campaign to revamp his image from that of Darth Vader.

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KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago

> When the only other viable option is an incredibly expensive machine that comes with a different OS or a free version of an OS that relies on contributions and donations to maintain I feel like you just threw mud at Linux distros for the way that they fund themselves, but I don't understand why.

rurban 3y ago

> Microsoft has been skimming processing power for year through spying and it's just that simple. I would rather argue that Microsoft has been skimming processing power by unnecessary virus scanning all over, by not caring early enough in proper security. Bolting it on later required virus scanning, slowing it down by magnitudes. Also their ineffective filesystem ACL costs them 10 times.