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I think it's a pretty damning condemnation of Microsoft's current product strategy, at least in relation to the user segment that visits hacker news. People ar
by delusional 2y ago
I think it's a pretty damning condemnation of Microsoft's current product strategy, at least in relation to the user segment that visits hacker news.
People are willing to run highly privileged untrusted and unverified code in the personal computers, just for a chance to remove the stuff you're actively spending money and time developing.
- ryandrake 2y agoMicrosoft's software is now indistinguishable from malware. If I had to run Windows, I would have zero trust in it, which matches my level of trust in "Fast Eddie's Random Script". At least Fast Eddie says in the README file that his script is not attacking my computer. Microsoft readily admits to its status as an attacker, and calls the attacks "features."
- MiddleEndian 2y agoMicrosoft learned from the years of its own users accepting 3rd party malware on their machines pre Win-7, and pretty much all phone users (Android definitely, probably iOS as well but I'm less familiar) accepting unremovable bloatware, so they added it back with Win8+. Honestly Windows 10 is/was pretty good once you removed the MS malware but they're definitely antagonistic as a whole.
- ZunarJ5 2y agoThis really hit home for me when trying to dual boot. Repeatedly I had to select the drive in the boot menu and rerun the script to get me back to my nice grub chosing screen. I gave up, it felt violating.