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Microsoft doesn’t care about user consent. You can say “yes” or “not now”. “No” is not a vocabulary word in Microsoft anymore.
by kotaKat 2y ago
Microsoft doesn’t care about user consent. You can say “yes” or “not now”.
“No” is not a vocabulary word in Microsoft anymore.
- Rinzler89 2y agoThe EU cares about user consent. So just like with Teams and Edge defaults, we're likely to see similar pushbacks on EU versions of windows. It's how I still don't have copilot on my Windows install despite the update bringing it to windows came to the US months ago. Or how certain employee tracking features in Azure/Office 365 are not available in EU.
- RegW 2y agoWhere "not now" could be a euphemism for "I don't want to, but there always a hope that they will change their minds later and won't force me", or perhaps it means "I want to wait until everyone else has caved, and my laptop no longer functional". I only continue to use Windows for work because it is mandated. All new work laptops come with at least one day of entertainment called "setting up". Where the myriad options are explored for the possibility of duplicity, breaking data collection and plain old contrarianism.
- justinclift 2y agoProbably wouldn't fly for a work laptop, but I've been setting up Windows VMs recently using the "AtlasOS" thing and it seems to strip out all of the MS crap properly: https://atlasos.net https://atlasos.net Not a long term user of those VMs though, so I have no clue how they behave over a period of months (etc).
- ryandrake 2y agoNot just Microsoft, but all of Silicon Valley has a huge problem with end-user consent. If "The Software Industry" was a nightclub, it would be full of creepy guys hitting on women with "Do you want to dance? [Yes | Ask Me Again Later]"