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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by garbagewoman on Monday November 17, 2025 @08:42PM (#45960455)
Interesting that you see the sheer amount of criticism, week after week, and assume it must be bad faith by microsoft critics rather than bad faith by microsoft.
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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by testartr on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @12:38AM (#45961749)
the critics always complain about what bad thing Microsoft will do in the future, rarely about what they are actually doing

secureboot was supposedly an evil conspiracy to block running linux on computers. secureboot is everywhere now, and Linux still runs on personal computers

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by tpxl on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @02:50AM (#45962450)
Except that one line of Microsoft PCs that only run Windows because secureboot enabled Microsoft to make it so.
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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by testartr on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:32AM (#45962740)
yeah, but the argument was that all PCs built by anyone will be blocked from running Linux.
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