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Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins (www.theregister.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Just saw in another post that Microsoft is pushing their copilot AI into Windows 2022 servers. Windows 11 will become a data syphoning ad-riddled spyware. And Microsoft office will send everything you type to some AI learning machine god knows where.

This will be a huge privacy concern for governments very soon and may force them to switch to Linux and libre office. Germany is not even the first one to do this. French police already use Ubuntu on their desktop computers.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I work with government admins a lot and they've already told me the shit show they've been dealing with regarding feature updates somehow installing themselves on their devices despite it being disabled via GPO. Unfortunately, I think the government will just flex on Microsoft and force them to strip the shit out for their baseline Windows images rather than move to a Linux alternative.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My windows PC bricked its OS in the last month, it was definately caused by an upgrade (corrupted hive). I strip my windows installs bare with a script so I assume it was looking for some telemetry service or something. Jokes on Windows, I was planning to switch the OS on that PC anyway. Annoying because it was bad timing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Care to share the script?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Ya I’m pretty sure gov with E5 M365 tenants will just not have those features installed. Most govs have rules about data residency.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Windows 11 will become a data syphoning ad-riddled spyware

Become?

Like, yeah, it'll progressively get worse, but it's already spyware and already has ads. Same goes for Windows 10.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And 8

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it started with 8 and they patched it into 7 when 8 launched.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Iirc technically it started with XP service pack 3