HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs

Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by smichel17 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:20PM (#15799222)

There is some merit, however, to the argument that iThings have always been locked down (or intended to be, at least), whereas the Windows changes are a regression.

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by ksk on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:26PM (#15799280)

Could you state what the merit is?

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by mattnewton on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:43PM (#15799466)

Not GP, but one is a breaking change from customer expectations and the other is WAI

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by ksk on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @01:16PM (#15799826)

Given the success of Apple, that sounds like Windows is attempting to meet customer expectations. In any case, It seemed to me that the OP was arguing for a pro-lockeddown position, which is why I asked what the merits are.

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Re:HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs by mattnewton on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:52PM (#15801452)

I think gp’s position is that customer expectations of apple and windows platforms are different- that locked-down-ness was something that, when people could deal with it and preferred it, already were not the core windows customers.

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