Open to malicious actors, because of all the bugs.

Linux has way more CVEs: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/

(Partially because they don't respect CVEs and assign CVEs to everything)

Embrace, extend, and extinguish. They literally documented it as being their strategy. Now the justice department is chasing Google who despite being bad, at least provides enough source code where people have created privacy-focused derivatives of Android. I'd much rather see them go after Microsoft first but the government relies on Microsoft, and Microsoft relies on our tax dollars going to the government so they can get them.

As an admin it gets so much worse. Twice a year your admin portal gets renamed, redesigned, merged with and/or split from another one, or removed, and all those changes are done halfway.
Which means some settings are only on the old version and others only on the new. Then the old one is discontinued even though the new one doesn't have all its functions, yet.
So you completely rely on Powershell. But wait, there's 2 incompatible versions of it now.

I'm currently thinking about a career change, after reading in Microsoft's official documentation that you need to install the new version of Powershell, import the beta version of several commandlets and then run a long script provided by them, only to keep every user on your org from creating their own Teams teams.
And their newest feature is allowing every user to put in their credit card info and buy MS products on the company domain without running it by IT. It's called "self service", enabled by default, and you have to click on a slider to disable it individually for every. single. product. Microsoft. offers.

Shit, I came here to say the same.

Your computer: a yawning maw

We: watch

I did not need that image in my head right now

Most open for frustration. Most open for ads. Most open for taking away control from the user.

Trust me, in a few years windows will be a monthly subscription, still filled with ads and no control over your own pc. Windows 10 will turn to a yearly subscription already. 30 dollars per year per pc for security updates. Office is already subscription based. Companies smell money, want to turn everything to a subscription.

They are as open as OpenAI

In the case of marketing, it's just considered an opinion, mostly because if anything like that is ever put forth to a Judge, there's 900 odd ways to loophole it.

"We meant our assholes, your honor; as open as they come."

"We meant uhm... accepting."

A probably a bit political for this topic, but most companies are allowed to lie about most things. Only a few things that they're not allowed to lie about.

Their official marketing is to call Windows 11 "the most secure version of Windows ever" or something along those lines. They definitely use "the most secure" in their marketing, but I think they do it in a way where it is only in reference to previous consumer versions of Windows if you actually parse out what is being said.

Because there are no consequences for them

Right after that slide the guy is talking about how Microsoft is "committed to remaining the most reliable and secure platform"...

Yeah they're all full of shit

Open windows with no screens to keep the bugs out.

Open to advertisers

Infection, zero days, and data collection. TOTALLY open to those.

Everyone but the user.

Open to data collection opportunities

They're probably talking about their customers opening their wallets

Open to the outdoors, to let the fresh air in.

Our collective anuses.

What they actually say in the video is that they are open to developers making software for their platform.
They pretend like they are the nice people, by providing decent development tools, with which to create.

As someone who switched to Mac in 2007… viruses!

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So that's why it says 'get your ass to Mars'...

Most open to "enhancing your operating system experience with special offers and promotional materials"!

Viruses? Malware? Hackers?

Mostopentowatch

Who in their right mind would ever think that any publicly traded company is consumer first? Their only goals are short term profit followed long term profits. Everything else is in pursuit of those two things.

enshitification cycle: First good for customers, then they abuse their customers in favour of their business customers, then they abuse those businesses to claw back everything for themselves.

They are on step 2.

Go DAWless. Buy a Synthstrom Deluge for example. Still need a DAW for recording and mastering though :/ I wish there was Ableton for Linux. "-if you keep pulling shit like this" I can tell you without a doubt they are just going to intensify shit like this instead of stopping. I'm thinking of switching my main pc to Linux and use my old win10 pc disconnected for DAW. No viruses and hackers when there's no internet. No Microsoft ads either.

Reaper is available for Linux. I can't vouch for it as I've not used it on there, but I've used it on Mac and it's great. Generally well regarded and is pretty inexpensive.

They're actually trying to force people onto 11 now? That windows partition that never gets booted sounds really close to becoming more storage for a windows-free life

For audio specifically you might find FreeBSD easier to set up. As a DAW, not as a desktop in general.

ALSA+PulseAudio\Pipewire+JACK are kinda messy compared to newpcm+JACK .

They didn't say to whom it was open.

Even if there's a law, they sure have genius lawyers for this purpose.

Hello friend! Have you heard the Minty News?

It pretty much is

Excuse me while I puke

Alt universe where MS went full fossy, the event focused on rolling release called "Open Windows".

Their version of the Recall is called "Skylight" and is an extension of their full local AI "Peephole", for which a lot of companies pay specific licencing fees of the input data it is trained on (depending on their needs & quality of selection).

Their search engine "Periscope" got some heat lately for giving users the option to display sponsored generic links.

I mean, there are open things about it. As in - TCP/IP is open. APIs to develop Windows programs are open.

In the same way as Solaris, HP/UX, Digital Unix and something else were open. Except Sun would even send OS sources in addition to documentation to customers interested in optimizing something they'd do, or so I've heard.

But the "most open" thing looks like 2003 "get the facts" style propaganda, except back then they had technical competencies, now it's purely the oligopoly.

Open to everything, except openness

Calibri isn’t strong enough in it’s convictions to be Helvetica. It can’t even offer a fight against the hard utilitarianism of Arial. It’s rounded corners and varying thickness show up terribly on anything but the highest resolution screens, where it still isn’t good, and it makes me feel the same way that CRT monitors did when I put my hand up to them. You know the feeling, that crusty, fuzzy, buzzy feeling that you swear you could taste.

A nasty font, it can absolutely go fuck itself.

Aptos kerning is trash in spreadsheets.

Anal surgeons also like to beg and to differ.

I disagree. Holding your hands like this is just a good way to not stand still.

Using this kind of open stance, from my experience, makes presenting easier and makes me more confident.

But yes, presenting peeps from BigEvilCo make it way worse.