Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ...
by mach1ne on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:54AM
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We're actually lucky that the current global political & economic system allows governments to enforce this. Companies can weasel out of paying taxes to the country in which they operate, but they generally can't escape the local country's regulation with regards to how they render their services.
All we need is political momentum to enact the regulation - and that's easier said than done.
it's bs how they can just do this. Microsoft thinks that just because they aren't legally liable for their software breaking a user's system, that they can just do anything like these automatic updates.
I think it's really high time that there be regulation on software and their reliability - that is, some sort of consumer protection, where an update such as this breaking becomes a liability for microsoft. And of course, this doesn't just apply to microsoft, but apple and google and any other software manufacturer.