Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before

Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by gentleman11 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:56AM (#31824000)

I honestly don’t understand why Microsoft gets so much love on here. They built a ton of tracking into almost every pc on earth, and they are now pursuing a locked down AppStore model with windows S. Edge, as a browser, is just a way to collect more of your data. They added ads to your OS, cortana is invasive, and the search bar is a pain and is possibly sending all my queries over the web, I can’t tell.

Why should we think they have turned over a new leaf? They have gotten worse, not better

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by nvrspyx on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:23AM (#31824274)

I agree with everything you said, except:

> they are now pursuing a locked down AppStore model with windows S

Isn't Windows S Mode pretty much dead? I thought Microsoft gave up on it a few years ago and I don't believe there's any new hardware being shipped with it. Also, those that do have S Mode enabled by default can do a one-way switch out of it in the settings.

It seems like it's still supported though.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by pjmlp on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:44AM (#31832460)

Basically because they are following Apple and Google footsteps, the love childs of many here.

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