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A comment on Ask HN: Will you switch back if Windows on Arm becomes as snappy as macOS?.

Re:Ask HN: Will you switch back if Windows on Arm becomes as... by nicbou on Monday April 15, 2024 @06:11PM (#40046284)
I have blacklisted Microsoft after all the shady, user-hostile tricks they've pulled in the last 5-10 years. They'll have to work extremely hard just to leave that blacklist.
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Re:Ask HN: Will you switch back if Windows on Arm becomes as... by cantrevealname on Monday April 15, 2024 @08:48PM (#40047258)
Same here. Windows was my daily driver until Windows 7, but I stopped using any Windows platform as of Windows 10 because of the telemetry and spyware. I don't care how snappy Windows is, I'm not returning until they provably cut out all the spyware by default. I don't care if you can turn off a lot of the telemetry using a hundred little commands, registry settings, and menus. It should be off by default. Really, how is anyone OK with Windows sending every keystroke you type to Microsoft (for spell checking apparently) under the standard install of Windows?

I feel that macOS is unfortunately getting out of hand with telemetry as well.

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