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Because it works. I had to run and attend a lott of big online meetings involving people from dozens of different companies each time. Anytime someone tried t

Because it works. I had to run and attend a lott of big online meetings involving people from dozens of different companies each time. Anytime someone tried to host a meeting with Teams, they were never able to get/keep everyone connected. After having tried to exhaustion, I just got a GoToMeeting subscription and used that. Skype used to work fine before Microsoft merged it into their Link abomination. Later there was Zoom that just worked. Yes, there was lots of MS sales collatoral and infomercials in the press around Zoom insecurity. That was until MS themselves were found lacking in that same department. Later they both cleaned up their act.

hedora 3y ago
Has Microsoft cleaned up their act? I thought windows still had mostly mandatory telemetry, and as far as I know, they haven’t walked back the thing where engineers can pull arbitrary files off your machine “for diagnostic purposes only”, which means they’re legally obligated to service all sorts of sketchy warrants against machines they don’t own.
- benterix 3y ago
  From their perspective, they practically own them. I realized this when I first noted a process started by Chrome called "software reporter" that wasn't started by me, I had no knowledge it started and if I knew, I wouldn't let it start. The web was full of tips on how to permanently disable the thing from running. So yes, from the point of view of these companies, they can do whatever they feel is reasonable, and we as users have no say in this.