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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by cptskippy on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:10AM (#19271798)
Because most of their paying customers don't have some idea what they're doing. Remember Windows XP? Remember how bad the security issues were around it that their competitor launched an Ad Campaign poking fun at them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwQpPqPKbAw

Bad PR is more damaging to market share than the 1% bitching about being treated like Cattle.

If they give users the ability to disable security and update functionality then users will disable them OR bad actors will trick them into disabling them.

You're behavior is not unlike an Anti-Vaxxer's.

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:28PM (#19273073)
Always with this. "Everything sucks because users are stupid". No, everything sucks because developers who think like you do are assholes who don't give a shit about making everyone else's life miserable if it makes their job easier.
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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by cptskippy on Friday March 01, 2019 @09:04AM (#19280660)
Always with this. "Everything sucks because developers are stupid". No, everything sucks because users are a mixed bag who range from power users to complete morons and everything in between. They have to write software to the lowest common denominator and sometimes have to lockout potentially helpful features because there are bad actors who can convince the morons to do bad things.
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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by chris_wot on Saturday March 02, 2019 @04:56PM (#19291390)
I kind of think that both your arguments can be shortened to "Everything sucks".
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