Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings
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Operating systems are now treated as nothing more than a gateway to online services. Many commercial operating systems now require Internet access to obtain a working installation and some require an online account for things like creating a user account or adding applications. And then there are things like forced telemetry and forced system updates.
I personally don't like any of this.
Windows 11 Home requires Internet as a Microsoft account is needed during setup. Unless there is a workaround that I haven't read about.
If by "finish" you mean "log into iCloud," then yes, but that goes without saying. You can absolutely have a working device without an internet connection.
Windows 11 Home Edition. You can't set up without a Microsoft Account, and the disabling Wifi/Ethernet trick has been patched.
Windows and iOS are the exact opposite of that, they constantly push me towards their "ecosystem". Opting out of those is a constant battle.
We're not spoiled, we're just deviants.
A modern operating system tries to guess what the users "want", because that's by no means clear.
Of course, it's a matter of judgement, and judgement comes with its own problems.
Would the users try to make themselves not run the browser they want to run? No.
Would the users try to avoid malware? Yes.
Is it malware? Is it needed to run because the game publisher said so?
And Microsoft makes a bad judgement now.
Windows is just a big ball of shit now. Along with all the adware they had some office quickstarter service that was using 100% disk (known issue but no sign of a fix - I don't have an SDD so maybe they just decided not to bother with that segment of the market). I would disable the service but every update it would end up enabled again.
I've no regrets. The linux experience is just so calm and functional.
What if, horror of horrors, this is because most Windows users actually are easily-exploited idiots...
Personally I've played devil's advocate for Google and Apple mostly because the reasoning I see for forcing them to open their platforms seems post-hoc. For instance many assert that phones need to be open but, for some reason, game consoles do not. People seemingly deciding what they want and then twisting their reasoning until it fits.
Also, never have I seen a pop-up in iOS to tell me to use Apple Maps when I opened or downloaded Google Maps. Again, very strange, because you are claiming that Apple is doing the same disgusting tactics as Microsoft, yet I have never felt as an iOS or macOS user to be bullied into using Apple Maps.
On my laptop it's super easy. I opened Safari, went to the Firefox website, then downloaded it. At no point whatsoever did Apple bully me into not downloading Firefox.
So iPad is not a computer? What is it?
General computing devices enable you to install software freely and use it however you'd deem fit. Desktop computers are general computers. So are laptops. And for the vast majority of people, an iPhone or Android device are general computing devices. However, the Android device allows the user to actually do 'general' things like write code and develop software on itself. While the 'i' device doesn't.
The issue is that the 'i' device is often sold as a 'general computing' device like all other smartphones and computers.
The issue with the 'Tesla' computer is that it isn't a general computer. The purpose of the device is solely to control and manage the vehicle.
I don't have access to Edge, maybe it only happens there? I'm just curious to see what it says.
(yes, yes, I know, but the games I play tend to not do well with Linux... some will even ban your account because they misidentify you as using cheat software)
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/steam-play-proton-6-3-...
Imo worth watching the space, also there is protonDB for checking your individual favorites:
This would be a nonstarter for me though: https://www.protondb.com/app/1371580
MS devs: But sir, that would mean we extinguish our own OS ecosystem, our bread and butter, the thing we build everything upon, the reason why people love us.
Nadella: Do it! I only know 1-2-3.
It's all part of their internal strategy, and it's coming from Satya Nadella himself. If he doesn't know what's going on at his company, that's even more damning for him.
Satya seems to believe AI is the new cloud. To businesses he speaks about how AI improves his software, how it makes it smarter, more inherently customizable to each and every company's needs and in doing so he's riding the AI wave, perfectly.
Satya decides to create an Edge wave. Make Edge default in all OS related hyper text.
Then he rides the Edge wave with BNPL.
Then he talks to the Bing team. They're not getting enough attention, they say. I'll fix that, Satya says.
Then he talks to the Windows team. "I need to ride your wave, baby", he says.
> I'm still waiting for Microsoft to let me change the default search engine in Notepad. Hopefully they add macros too.
For all the persons here that were saying that it is ok to use MS soft and cloud products, vscode, ... and let them become big stakeholders of OSS stacks, because they are not the same as they used to be...
And haters are just stuck in the past or trolls...
What’s the game of 4-d chess that I’m not seeing?
UI/UX is not something I can claim to be good at, but getting it right when it comes to security is difficult.
The worst part of the whole farce of Windows access control is that NT has a rich role-based security model that can apply granular controls to nearly any type of system object, but absolutely none of that is exposed in normal Windows user interaction and UAC is a completely separate band-aid that interacts with the ACLs in strange and often surprising ways.
Having worked as a Windows admin for a couple of years, I think that is the most tragic aspect of Microsoft's software ecosystem. There is so much there that is inaccessible thanks to poor UI, poor or nonexistent documentation, or "hiding in plain sight" by being scattered across some dated UI, a few undocumented CLI utilities and a couple of obscure Registry keys; and maybe a config file, too, but you need to know where to look. To this day, I feel the urge to weep when I consider that Microsoft's often expensive software does not come with decent manual, while Free/Net/OpenBSD are free as in free speech and free beer, and they have superb documentation.
If I were more paranoid, I might think is serves mainly to keep the countless companies offering consulting, training, and support in business.