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There was nothing to be gained in this except ill will. Hanlon's Razor suggests they were in a hurry to fix a security issue and didn't dot their i's on checkin
by palisade 2y ago
There was nothing to be gained in this except ill will. Hanlon's Razor suggests they were in a hurry to fix a security issue and didn't dot their i's on checking for dual boot systems.
- literalAardvark 2y agoIt's a trolley problem, and it's not in Microsoft's locus of control to keep dual boot systems dual booting. So they don't try. They have never, ever supported anything other than the Microsoft bootloader[s], and if you work around that for instance it's pretty trivial to blow up your data by hibernating Windows and booting into a different partition. Resuming hibernation loads the old MFT onto the modified partition and you pretty much lose everything.
- fuzzfactor 2y ago>hibernating Windows and booting into a different partition. Definitely to be avoided, along with a few other considerations. But experienced multibooters can usually reboot so quick that they have not had any need for hibernation since forever. It's almost like a valid excuse to not fully reboot a sluggish machine, more so than an energy-saving success. But I don't blame them.
- account42 2y agoIf you apply Hanlon's Razor to known malicious actors then the only one being stupid is you. In fact, it's a really bad heuristic for any corporation.