• bitwolf
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    111 hour ago

    Open? Sure, definitely open… To vulnerabilities

  • @[email protected]
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    103 hours ago

    Sometimes the elites poke fun at us with obviously untrue, absurd statements. It’s the equivalent of grabbing someone’s fist, pushing it in their face, and saying “stop punching yourself”.

  • Phoenixz
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    135 hours ago

    What happens when you favor marketing over anything else?

    You just lie, lie, lie, so many times that you actually believe your own shit

    • @[email protected]
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      Their official marketing is to call Windows 11 “the most secure version of Windows ever” or something along those lines. They definitely use “the most secure” in their marketing, but I think they do it in a way where it is only in reference to previous consumer versions of Windows if you actually parse out what is being said.

    • GHiLA
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      In the case of marketing, it’s just considered an opinion, mostly because if anything like that is ever put forth to a Judge, there’s 900 odd ways to loophole it.

      “We meant our assholes, your honor; as open as they come.”

      “We meant uhm… accepting.”

      • @[email protected]
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        44 hours ago

        It could be called puffery. A claim so ridiculous that no reasonable person would consider it a claim

    • deaf_fish
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      116 hours ago

      A probably a bit political for this topic, but most companies are allowed to lie about most things. Only a few things that they’re not allowed to lie about.

      • @[email protected]
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        76 hours ago

        and for those few things they’re not allowed to lie about they pull out every trick in the book to come as close to lying as possible without outright doing it.

  • @[email protected]
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    299 hours ago

    Most open to making money at the expense of security.

    "“What they were telling me was counterintuitive to everything I’d heard at Microsoft about ‘customer first,’” Harris said. “Now they’re telling me it’s not ‘customer first,’ it’s actually ‘business first.’”

    DiCola, Harris’ then-supervisor, told ProPublica the race to dominate the market for new and high-growth areas like the cloud drove the decisions of Microsoft’s product teams. “That is always like, ‘Do whatever it frickin’ takes to win because you have to win.’ Because if you don’t win, it’s much harder to win it back in the future. Customers tend to buy that product forever.”

    • @[email protected]
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      76 hours ago

      Who in their right mind would ever think that any publicly traded company is consumer first? Their only goals are short term profit followed long term profits. Everything else is in pursuit of those two things.

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      enshitification cycle: First good for customers, then they abuse their customers in favour of their business customers, then they abuse those businesses to claw back everything for themselves.

      They are on step 2.

    • Lord Wiggle
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      2011 hours ago

      Most open for frustration. Most open for ads. Most open for taking away control from the user.

      Trust me, in a few years windows will be a monthly subscription, still filled with ads and no control over your own pc. Windows 10 will turn to a yearly subscription already. 30 dollars per year per pc for security updates. Office is already subscription based. Companies smell money, want to turn everything to a subscription.

      • @[email protected]
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        57 hours ago

        Windows 360¹ will cost 30 bucks a year (adjusted for inflation) and will automatically upgrade you to the latest version of Windows as soon as it comes out. Additional benefits include improved security by blocking non-Store software and having your OS settings managed by Microsoft – Windows 360 will even automatically restore them if they should end up getting changed, e.g. if Recall somehow ends up disabled.

        ¹ Not to be confused with Windows 365, which is an entirely different thing.

        • Lord Wiggle
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          So nice of them to manage my settings, even restore them when I changed any. Blocking non-store software is also great, forcing people to use the store is something Apple has done forever and totally doesn’t create a monopoly position and never restricts access or anything…

          Paying money to give them total control. Are you fucking kidding me. They can shove an entire mid-tower pc case up their asses, lube is only on a subscription base available (1 drop of lube for just 7,99 per month, or 3 drops for a premium subscription of just 18,99 per month!)

          These days I’d say Microsoft is getting even worse then Apple with extorting their customers.