Imagine if you were a comapy that handled classified data. How could you use Win10 if that is the case when at any moment your security might be compromised by this?
Pinky swears don't hold up in court. But this should, right? This should be a huge lawsuit.
Key word, most companies get away with this shit these days.
At least in Europe this might kick off a few lawsuits though.
Mhm. Most this might do is just affect things in Europe.
MS has been doing this for awhile though, even before Win 10. It's just that now instead of not having an option, we have an option that doesn't work.
At least this shouldn't affect their open source applications like VSCode, as that shit would be easy to spot in the code.
I'm a federal contractor and we're moving to Windows 10.
I feel bad for the people that actually have to deal with the servers and shit, I'm just on helldesk.
Microsoft needs to be split up again. Pulling shit like this and then making up a bull shit excuse with such confidence is deplorable.
I appreciate your sympathy. I'm not even in a sensitive location and I have to adhere to a very strict documented process to bring Win10 online here. I was the one who wrote the process in fact. It's absurd just how much retarded shit is in win10 from an enterprise perspective. Even the "pro" version is 110% a consumer rehash full of bloat designed to sell grandma Candy Crush 420 on the Windows Store and shit.
Same must obviously apply to update settings because no matter what registry edit, GP, or settings I change it'll decide to restart on the lock screen (even while logged in and applications are open) and I'd lose shit. Why should I even be plugged in to a UPS if it's just going to kill everything anyways so it can force updates which appear to have zero quality control lately.
Those computers should not be connected to the internet afaik
And The Typical Response
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-says-windows-10-is-not-sending-your-data-to-the-cloud-when-you-tell-it-not-to
Microsoft was never split up, and this isn't monopolistic so idk why you'd split them up
When will the year of linux begin
Linux will never be a mainstream desktop OS and i'll toxx on it
Unless some autistic genius gets 100% perfect turnkey windows application compatibility working, it will never appeal to typical home users or business beyond FOSS ideologues.
10 Enterprise comes with Candy Crush. We had to deploy hundreds of machines like that because it turns out all those scripts to delete the built-in apps only run per user and not per machine.
If it weren’t for all the new hardware not supporting Windows 7 for no reason at all, we’d still be there.
Anyone surprised?
I don't see why not.
Wed, 31 Dec 1969.
Wow, I am completely shocked at this revelation! Microsoft once again acting as if your computer is actually theirs? Totally unexpected!
I think its fair to say that every big tech company abuse their users one way or another. Google, Apple, Microsoft, facebook, twitter etc.
But hey it ain't going to stop people working for them because they help for the CV
great to know since my site is switching to win 10 very soon.
I disagree, because I think the majority of applications people use they either access via smartphone or web. A lot of enterprise or desktop applications are moving towards the cloud as well but it's still a significant part of MS's market. I don't think you need windows compatibility for widespread acceptance of a linux based OS, I think you just need .exes to fade into obscurity
I assume at this point that Microsoft knows I have 25 gigabytes of porn on my hard drive.
Good luck with that in Enterprise though. Processes become so ingrained it can take literally years to undo them. We are in the middle of a project converting a 16 bit DOS application to a web based version that has taken over a year so far, and may finish this time next year.
Also lots of companies will probably live and die in MS Office until the end times and view all alternatives as inferior because it doesn't format that one spreadsheet from Office 97 correctly that is absolutely mission critical.
Yeah I mean progress is slow but as new businesses are created the dependency on native applications because smaller and smaller, and the Office 97 spreadsheets become Office 365 spreadsheets.
Oh boy do I hope so. The number of problems I have to fix that would actually go away if we had web based applications, makes me want to die.
instead you'll just live in electron hell and need 1000GB of ram to run your 300 independent versions of chrome so that your 2 chat apps work
Hey at least I can tell them I can upgrade their RAM, rather than saying "Sorry, your stuck with 3 GB because math". No matter how satisfying it is that the higher ups have to suck it up with less than optimal employee performance because they kept putting off upgrading to a 32 bit app, let alone web.
The only thing holding Linux back at this point is the combination between a of a lack of users and lack of compatible software, and they're connected. The userbase is relatively small because the list of compatible "mainstream" software is also small, the list of compatible software is small because the userbase is small, and so the vicious cycle continues.
A lot of people also like to complain that Linux is too complicated, and I'd ask them to give it a second chance, a lot has happened in the past five years even, and a modern version of a distro designed to be user-friendly such as Mint isn't really a whole lot harder to use than Windows. Anecdotal evidence and all, 100% of my PC-using 50-70 year old computer-illiterate relatives have been on Mint for the past 4-2 years and they're all really happy with it. The only reason why basic users who only use their computer to check their facebook, emails, youtube, and pay their bills (unless they're already on a tablet) aren't using Linux is because they simply haven't heard of it. If they knew that they could save money and still get an equivalent (or actually better) experience by just saying fuck you to Microsoft I bet a whole lot more of them would become interested
Linux has a ton of awful design decisions to deal with before it ever becomes mainstream.
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