Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by singularity2001 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:01PM
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Microsoft being (possibly) the biggest 'partner' of the NSA is one of the worst aspects of this acquisition and underrepresented in these discussions here.
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by parvenu74 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:00PM
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> Forced Windows 10 migration
Incorrect. Nagged, yes, but my Windows 7 machine that runs my Primera 4102 DVD duplicator still runs Windows 7 and will for as long as I own it. And it wasn't that hard to find the "don't nag me about upgrading ever again" option on Windows 7.
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by mixmastamyk on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:05PM
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You may have missed a few news items and non-apologies over the last few years.
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by throwaway2048 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:05PM
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There was a peroid where interacting with (closing) the windows 10 upgrade popup caused an unexpected upgrade to windows 10, stop rewriting history.
Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
by parvenu74 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:30PM
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How is "I was able to tell my machine to stop nagging me and not upgrade to Windows 10" rewriting history? I'll take the kudos that I have way-above-average skills with Windows if you want to bestow that on me, but I know of no cases not-involving confused users hitting something they should not have where a machine was upgraded without any user interaction at all. By all means: send me links to such stories if you have them and I will concede the point to you.
That said, I do appreciate their recent strategy decisions. Lets hope at some point the two hemispheres of MS converge.