Microslop: “We don’t want you running Windows locally anymore.” Okay. (Installs Linux) Microslop: “WAIT NO THAT’S NOT WHAT WE MEAN”
Microsoft has lost the ball a long time ago
Dropped the plot a ways back, too
Dropped it then lost it.
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It will be used to sell executives better metrics which employees to fire. Working with such an OS is like digging your own hole every day ever so slightly.
I wouldn’t mind if the whole company just crashes and burns. I can’t think of anything worthwhile they released in recent years. All they have done is make every consumer product worse. Windows, Office, Xbox… all shit now.
Xbox 360 started off as shit when it didnt have backwards compatibility. Scummy. Not that sony is much better but their BC is unmatched.
I hate microslop so fucking much. This whole idea of only the elite monopolies owning all computer power and renting out to us is an affront to humanity.
Who is asking for this shit ? Do they even run consumer surveys ?
Corporations who want to fire their desktop support team.
Shareholders are asking for it, noone else. Consumers are irrelevant serfs who doesn’t provide the majority of profits anyway, so it is inconsequential what they think.
Shareholders want the line to go up. Trapping everyone into endlesss subscriptions is a great way to guarantee revenue.
Except the trap works when their subscription services are still competitive, and locally hosted solutions are part of competition regardless of what they want.
There are industry-wide attempts to ramp up complexity of everything, so that everything were more centralized and local solutions harder to support. I’m not sure what they hope for.
Home consumers can be trapped this way, but they are subject to competition from many businesses.
Also while crypto stuff is unpleasant, it involves decentralized commercial calculation with some of the solutions, meaning possibility of automated service choice in a decentralized network. You can in theory have an alternative to Office 365 running in such a network paid for with Ethereum or TON or something similar. I haven’t researched this supposition.
Businesses are harder to trap this way, because they usually can afford an employee or two to support basic local solutions. Or to pay another small business of 3-4 people doing that.
Or one can think of (playing EU4 right now, so a limited set of associations) gunpowder and chinaware production in Europe, the secrets of both were slowly and steadily spreading, until they were no longer secrets. Here it’s not as much about secrets as it is about evolution catching up with revolution.
The commonality of people just needing to do their work and willing to use computers to help it is slower to react to change than big corporations, but big corporations can’t direct their reaction, they can only slow it down.
So - renting computational resources you possess right now is hard and big cloud providers are doing it, while people just owning hardware don’t. That’s the problem to be solved. Things like boinc and seti@home were altruistic, and I think there’s a similar distributed hentai hosting. The problem is in making such a market for everyone.
Distributed hentai hosting
The what 😁 ?
No specifics, because I don’t remember them. I think it’s even derived from the seti@home codebase. Not sure.
Yes that’s what we want.
Microslop except with tech bro harder. Please more web 3.0
How about we just keep the solution we have had for 40 years now? The personal computer.
You do keep it. That’s the point, how you keep personal computing without being disadvantages in this particular part of the economy.
Why would they ask consumers what they want when they can tell consumers what they want. What are you gonna do, move to Linux?
One would hope for a more broad institutional change like schools or workplaces not renewing contracts, but individual action matters too. Closest schools ever got in the US was with Chromebooks, and at least a few places in the EU are ditching MS for better options.
Shareholders are asking for it, since monthly recurring revenue is great for profit sheets.
They run plenty of surveys, but the results go right in the trash.
Enclosures really worked well the first time, boy how.
Little guy. :( I feel you, buddy.
Jfc, they’re really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.
ai recreates ‘bsod’ for the cloud. fantastic. rebooting server farms. ignore flickering lights
So glad the idiotic decisions Microsoft makes doesn’t effect my computer. And I’m excited for the rest of the population to make the shift to Linux, at least on their personal computers.
It doesn’t have to be like this, you too can be immune
I have Zorin os on my main laptop and actively migrating my main desktop. Will try to get my kids desktop to Zorin too, his was my test subject for windows 11 and it crashed and burned. Everyday I see more and more issues and performance drops with client computers on win11. One or two I’d chalk up to user errors, but not brand new devices I deploy with 32gb of ram struggling to connect to an RDP session. Fuck windows 11 and all the AI horseshit.
That’s great parenting. My daughter had only known Linux until she started 7th grade this year and got a school windows laptop. She hates that thing with passion. I’m so proud of her 😍
The cloud bullshit is such a racket. The only thing you are scaling is your invoices.
Everyone knew it was a bad idea at the beginning, for the issues when the service goes down, and the obvious security/privacy issues.
They started to sell it as a stable solution, with no down time, which we all know it’s a lie and I don’t have to talk about the privacy issues: just look at your lenny frontpage.
We have to stop with that bullshit, we have to stop pretending that the cloud is a solution.
I bet people will use it anyways 😥
Probably not nearly as much as M$ hopes, tho - especially since it will require a stable Internet connection.
For a while there it look like Microsoft was changing from the EEE company of the 90s. They couldn’t pretend they knew what they were doing for very long though and here we are. They evolved from evil and stupid to just stupid.
They’re still evil. It’s more like evil and stupid to evil and incompetent
I prefer to use Windows 10 and Linux. What about using old versions of Microsoft Office?
