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Lol, Microsoft will focus on profits and shareholders, and shareholders want AI cramed into everything.

This is like that psychopath GF that lies and pushes you around to test your limits with the evil plan to manipulate you. Every once in a while you can complain about her behavior and then she will bombard you with fake love and forgiveness to push later in the future again.

Rather than driving the industry forward with leadership and vision Microsoft is being driven by AI and Advertising fads that are self destructing facebook and google.

Its clear its too late for Microsoft to do anything but lose trust at this point. If the outlook hacks and US government didnt cause them to rethink these terrible anti-privacy ideas then a bit of AI backlash won't either. As soon as people look away they'll start stuffing the OS with snoopware again.

Too late. Linux is going from my hobby project to my primary OS by the time they stop providing Windows 10 updates, if not sooner.

Things like this that make me wish we still had the pillory punishment.

Look at his smug little smile. He knows they are not going to do shit. The smile would fade quickly if he faced 6 hours locked up being pelted with rotting vegetables and fruit in 90° heat.

So they lied und tried to cover it up, which led to the largest cyber attack ever. There's going to be serious punishment, right? Right?

The only way to get them to really make changes is to leave.

Microsoft uses damage control.

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It was not effective.

Until next week when they change their mind again

Linux is great. It was initially concerning to migrate but overall I'm happy I did. I assume Microsoft will attempt to make things more incompatible and proprietary as a last chance attempt to hold onto users. Ultimate this will just lead to more people switching to Linux faster over time.

That is basically the biggest fuck up you could make as a government contracted technology provider. They even let it happen and hid it deliberately.

I doubt MS even knows what security means

Don't take any of their words for granted. They know exactly what they've been doing, and what they're doing now

Security over AI my ball-cheeks

Why in the absolute fuuuuuck would a "secure" computer with sensitive data be running motherfucking Windows?! Linux is easy enough for pretty much any Windows user in an office environment to handle these days. There's just no excuse for sensitive business to ever be done on Windows at this point.

I hope MS can fulfill its promise and not abandon it like they did with Surface RT, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, Lumia, Kinect, Xbox, MSN Messenger, Cortana, Tango Studio, “Windows 10 is MS’s last OS”, etc.

Question is: For how long? Security costs money, AI brings profits (in several ways).

At the moment they are making a big production of caring for the user. Which they basically never did, actually. They are only as pro user as they have to to improve their profits. Just wait until the shareholders reign them in because they want the company to extract more money out of the ~~customers~~ victims.

If Microsoft cares so much about security, then WTF are they doing greenlighting a project like CoPilot / Recall?

We prioritize security until our stock price drops a single point.

So we start...click on the paint brush icon...that tiny colourful thing right under the big ass "W" Icon. Now hit agree on the window asking if you're secure. Wait a few moments and agree you your 2FA app on your phone. You might have to ask your wife to agree if you are married and bought the license for your spouse only. Cheapskate! Now stay here for a few minutes, we've called the 🚓🚨 police.

Again, just install Linux.

Dump your windows, install Linux, be done with this nonsense.

According to Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris, Microsoft spent years ignoring a vulnerability while he proposed fixes to the "security nightmare." Instead, Microsoft feared it might lose its government contract by warning about the bug and allegedly downplayed the problem, choosing profits over security, ProPublica reported.

And this is exactly the problem. You STILL cannot trust them, fool me once, fool me twice?

This entire "weeewweeee sowwwyyy" bullshit excuse completely ignored the fact that they purposefully allowed the US government to be attacked because money is their bottom line. If it were a person (and aren't companies persons now in the US?) they would have been jailed for treason. Jail these assholes already and switch ALL your computers to Linux

You mean they have been letting it slip?