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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)

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[-] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 81 points 1 year ago

Just a reminder that if you're using Windows, it's not your property but Microsoft's one

[-] lustrum@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

Right but licenses for pro are £200 RRP.

Don't then beg me to use your services, just fuck off and let me use Windows how I want

[-] zoostation@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

No different than Chrome.

[-] MrSnowy@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

They're talking windows in general

This goes for both chrome and bing: If a service is free, you are the product.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

If a service is free, you are the product.

Linux?

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 28 points 1 year ago

You are the tester lol

[-] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

True for Windows as well. Ever upgraded to a new version before the first SP? Linux just gets upgrades a lot faster than Windows (and I mean the conservative distros like Debian. Bleeding-edge distros are on a completely other level).

[-] Unaware7013@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Don't even need to upgrade, you get to test monthly if you're not brave enough to hang a month behind.

[-] lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Microsoft have been known to ship a product with thousands of known bugs on its release date. In the networking space (Windows NT), there were Technet CDs that were released to fix all manner of known bugs just so the corporates wouldn't have to wait for a Service Pack

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago

Perhaps a better statement would be, if a for profit service is free, you are the product. Obviously it's possible for someone to make free stuff if they want to, but if someone is making money from you using something, but you aren't paying them, then they're making that money by selling someone else access to you.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Linux is just an advertisement to contribute to open source

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