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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would be interesting to see how microsoft kills windows in the long term and then be shocked as to how this happened

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Kind of like how they fucked up and let zoom become the pandemic program everyone used despite skype being so established it had already become a verb like google? M$ really racking up those wins recently

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Zoom was so bad, too. It was so unreliable, it was missing basic features, the UI was unfriendly.
They've improved on each of these things slightly since then.
But it's a testament to how bad Skype was that Zoom was found to be preferable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Zoom was already everywhere in the business world before the pandemic.

Seems like Skype was only for personal users who were not very techy and wanted to make free calls overseas.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah Skype was already dead by then and when normies wanted to start using video calls on the reg, they ended up with zoom either because their work were already using it elsewhere or from being recommended by others that had that as their reason.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So reading more into it, it's (currently) only on the bogus copilot+ PCs they were peddling? I'm happily on bazzite, but this is good news for my stubborn mates that haven't touched copilot+ shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Oh give it time it will appear after an update on everything else, "accidentally".

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] TheFogan 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Me too... well using linux is technically opting out to that right?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the only way to be sure Microsoft won't sneakily turn it back on.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least until they sneak it into VS Code's telemetry. ...only sort of joking.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just like opting out of using a Microsoft account to log into windows, the grips will get tighter and tighter over time until you are forced to use butt hole ID to unlock your screen.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

This comment is critical of Microsoft because the company name was mentioned in the article.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Roll it back in please.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

My windows10 install still asks me to complete the setup...lol no

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Don‘t say no one was warned…

[–] embed_me 11 points 2 days ago

Get recalled

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