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MS has zero vested interest in caring. If they brake booting for Linux users, how does that hurt them in any meaningful way? Sure they get some press, but is
by HumblyTossed 2y ago
MS has zero vested interest in caring. If they brake booting for Linux users, how does that hurt them in any meaningful way? Sure they get some press, but is it bad press if most people are never affected by this?
- systemBuilder 2y agoIt makes Linux more robust. Since Microsoft is the king of vulnerability, making Linux more robust is NOT in their best interest. I actually think Microsoft did a GOOD THING. This should create a mad scramble to tighten up security at all those lackadaisical distros!
- efitz 2y agoI worked for Microsoft for 17 years, most of that in and around Windows. I can tell you that you are wrong. Whatever the company’s flaws, the people in Windows care deeply about compatibility and about not breaking things with updates. I have hours of stories from the trenches, and could probably talk at length about how such a point of view would be suicidal for the Windows business. I don’t know what went wrong here, and I’m not saying Microsoft is blameless. I am saying that whatever went wrong was NOT due to lack of caring about breaking things, even non-Microsoft stuff sharing the same computer.
- 3np 2y agoI think there's a distinction between individuals caring and the corporate ("more than the sum" of individuals comprising it) caring. In that sense, I don't see your experience as invalidating the statement "MS has zero vested interest in caring"?
- JetSpiegel 2y agoIs that the same company whose CEO said Linux was a cancer?