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Re:The Day Windows Died by chrisweekly on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:22AM (#35422304)
This. I'm forced to use Windows at my current gig, and I'm gobsmacked by the presence of baked-in cheap consumer marketing, and celebrity news, front and center in this supposedly professional environment. I've been able to suppress or route around ~all of it, but it's kind of ridiculous that I have to mitigate it in the first place.
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Re:The Day Windows Died by red-iron-pine on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:51AM (#35422646)
Enterprise images and settings should make it easy to squash that -- what is IT doing?
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Re:The Day Windows Died by blep_ on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:00PM (#35431209)
At a previous job, I made a joke about expensing a $thousands Windows Server license and installing it on my laptop to get a relatively clean system.

One of the sysadmins responded with something like "lol" followed by a screenshot of an Xbox app on a production server.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by flangola7 on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:22PM (#35433752)
That just seems like a needless vulnerability. Don't have more code installed than necessary.
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