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Microsoft now says your PC is in need of 'repair' if you're not using Edge
- gsich 2y agoGMAFIA at work again. When will MS be brought down from their high horse?
- schmidt_fifty 2y ago[dead]
- oldpersonintx 2y ago[dead]
- fallingsquirrel 2y agoYour PC is in need of repair if you're not using Linux.
- cf100clunk 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379372
- what-the-grump 2y ago[flagged]
- CM30 2y agoIt genuinely baffles me that we haven't seen more aggressive antitrust action taken against Microsoft with Windows 11. Trying to lock down what people can install, attempting to force users into using Microsoft accounts with dark patterns, tying Edge and Bing into everything, hijacking browsers and falsely saying things like this... This feels exactly like the Microsoft of the IE6 era, if not worse. The US and EU governments really need to come down hard on this, just like the latter did in the IE6 era.
- labrador 2y agoIt seems like I've heard a lot of the same complaints about Apple. I don't know, I don't use Apple. I'm happy with Windows 11, probably because I know how to work around the b.s.
- LordKeren 2y agoI’ve used MacOS and Windows both every day for more than a decade. MacOS does have some “is this a bug or a dark pattern” situations, but it is in no way comparable to how much Microsoft pushes all this. It is more than a magnitude of difference between the two OSs
- labrador 2y agoI was thinking of iOS and iPhone and the walled garden. I haven't heard any similar complaints about the Mac so thanks for the correction.
- LordKeren 2y ago“Complaint” may be underselling the Apple’s situation with iOS and iPadOS. They are getting forced in to change by the EU already and they are actively being sued by the US Department of Justice. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft comes under fire for windows 11
- dole 2y agoBuy a new iPhone, get inundated by modal ads to subscribe to the iOS ecosystem like iCloud storage and Apple Music. I like reading news from various sources, but Apple News may as well be broken without a News+ subscription, teasing with the headline and first few lines where I might actually be able to read the article in full from the Google News app unless I've hit my monthly paywall quota. Apple may not be as blatant as MS, but enshittification by shareholder eventually poops on us all.
- bruce511 2y agoNow read the article again, and where it says "windows" replace with Tom's Guide. It's hard to take an article seriously when it complains about adverts, while at the same time putting an advert between every paragraph. Yes, the competition for being the default search engine is fierce. And yes there are arguments to be made about the current Google quality, and the addition of Copilot to Bing. But frankly the article is little more than click-bait about adverts from a site buried in adverts.
- 56756gbhjj 2y agoMicrosoft is very annoying with all the self-promotion Why can't I save a Word document without it defaulting to a location in MS cloud storage?
- cynicalsecurity 2y agoWhy are you still using MS Office when LibreOffice exists.
- recursive 2y agoBecause its use has been standardized by my employer.
- Onawa 2y agoExactly, if I send anything other than a .docx to my colleagues, it will be ignored.
- Rinzler89 2y agoWill .odt not work?
- cynicalsecurity 2y agoLibreOffice supports docx. Again, if it's your employer's decision, then it's your employer's problem that every price of documentation is leaking outside of the company. Is it safe in a cloud? No one can tell for sure. Maybe your employer doesn't care. For any private usage, LibreOffice works best. It's not trying to sneakily upload your private information to Microsoft.
- cynicalsecurity 2y agoIf it's a company's procedure, then why would you care. They should care, not you. If they are okay with it, it's their problem. For any private usage, LibreOffice works better. It's not trying to leak everything you do to Microsoft.
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- vohk 2y agoThe title appears to be inaccurate. The tool suggests the "repair" of resetting the default search engine in Edge back to Bing. Still slimy but it does not appear to have any thoughts about using other browsers. Yet.
- genman 2y agoResembles these websites that will show a fake anti-virus scanner claiming that your PC is infected with a virus.
- OptionOfT 2y agoIn the Release Preview released today [0] PC Manager will be installed by default on devices in China. How long until it is no longer confined to devices just in China? [0] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/05/17/releasing-windows-11-builds-22621-3668-and-22631-3668-to-the-release-preview-channel/ https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/05/17/releasi...
- chuckadams 2y agoWhen Windows 10 came out, I thought Microsoft had turned a corner, releasing a quality OS with minimal BS, maybe one I could live with as a daily driver. They’ve undone all that with Win11. Whatever technical merits it might have are crushed under the avalanche of crap foisted on us by corporate.