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Let's hope for the catastrophic scenario. A world without Microsoft.. no telemetry or backdoors. Please continue on this track to disaster!

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Accelerationists seem to think the world after a vacuum is going to be some utopia

I think more competition is better than less

More competitionis better. If you take the market share and revenue off the table and spread that around in a competitive market you'd be in a much more interesting spot with respect to technology advancements. Instead we continue to stagnate with bullshit like Windows 10 --> Windows 11. Windows 11 was never supposed to exist, but $$$$$. There's literally nothing worth paying for in that upgrade. But Microsoft knows it can milk businesses and schools out of ridiculous profits for, essentially, the same garbage and also collude with hardware manufacturers to sell more PCs.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/05/08/microsof...

> There's literally nothing worth paying for in that upgrade.

Well there is the violations of Fitts law with the movement of the start button to the centre of the bar?

But it does make it look slightly more Mac! They should make sure the next upgrade moves the corner to grab away from the actual corner, and that the cursor change for grabbing it doesn't always trigger if they want to really rip it off.

I think Windows 11 in particular is a confluence of two other problems with respect to competition:

1. Subscriptions instead of discrete paid versions removes the incentive to put out a good product. In the past, if the new version was bad it was a direct financial hit. But now there's no direct financial feedback loop, as long as it's not so terrible that you leave the subscription entirely

2. I think Windows 11 is the first time there's no other version of Windows still in support you can use to "ride it out"

It's not only MS with an interest in maintaining these misfeatures in consumer tech. It's not even only private industry.

Indeed! I'll wait on the penguin or fruit side with some pop-corn and see where the things are going to.

Seems like the fruit vendor is on the same train as MS if not just a few cars behind yet still arriving at the same destination.

And MS is on the verge of adopting the penguin completely. They are currently still in the "extend" stage.

Extending the draw bridge to let their prisoners out.

>A world without Microsoft.. no telemetry or backdoors.

thank god microsoft is the only entity on the planet that uses telemetry or violates privacy. get rid of them and we're in a new age!

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