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Microsoft respecting “user freedom”, haaaahahaha
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madmax
madmax
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Sure "user freedom" like unable to stop downloading the forced updates even when on metered connection.
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jjlinux | X unverified 😅
jjlinux | X unverified 😅
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stop this world, I want to get off of it! What's next?
Oh, I know!
"Congratulations to "X", for always being fully transparent and supporting every different philosophy without any type of censorship or bias, unlike Mastodon and Lemmy!"
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The Penguin of Evil
The Penguin of Evil
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Funny. I remember sitting in court during EU v Microsoft watching Andrew Tridgell quietly and politely demolish their case with a copy of samba and a small embedded board.

Then MS got better, then they got worse again. They don't just screw over developers now though, they go around banning xbox users for images autosaved of a game that they approved for xbox, they've got minecraft servers having to run anti-ms-snooping mods and their security response now sucks.

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Spencer
Spencer
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Microsoft respecting user freedom? Let me uninstall edge and turn off all the bing/copilot/telemetry then we can talk
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doragasu
doragasu
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It's easy to be seen as a user freedom respecting company when the metric you are comparing yourself against is Apple...
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Gavin
Gavin
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They’re both partners in egregious and predatory monetisation, so they will stick up for each other. 🤣
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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
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The Embrace, Extend, Extinguish masters are of course cheered on by the Epic boss. Well, it's good he took a pause from pusing the crypto games on the Epic store.
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Owl!🦉
Owl!🦉
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Well they kinda respect it in comparison to apple. Not because microsoft is not evil, but because apple is so insanely terrible about it that literally whatever will be better
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pecet
pecet
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Tim should respect user freedom and finally release Unreal and Unreal Tournament source codes. Cmon Quake already did this.
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Majin Boowomp
Majin Boowomp
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Developer freedom at Microsoft be like “Put an AI chatbot in Notepad or you’re fired!”
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Super Nintendo Chalmers
Super Nintendo Chalmers
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I speak Sweeney let me translate: “Microsoft doesn’t charge us fees for our Micro transactions so we make more money so I like Microsoft more ..”
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Disco Cat
Disco Cat
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The user freedom to be forced to create a Microsoft account on windows 11. Right.
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Thomas Frans 🇺🇦
Thomas Frans 🇺🇦
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It offered me the ultimate freedom to `dd` my drive and install Linux. I call that freedom.
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A Byrd
A Byrd
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Any time I see some tech bro cheering on a multi-billion dollar corp for anything, all I can think is: "Hope she notices this message, bro."
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McNulla
McNulla
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I only use Microsoft products when I’m coerced to. Like at work, where I cannot connect calendar or mail to our exchange server.
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exoplanetary
exoplanetary
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Definitely compared to Apple. Though if you’re worse at user freedom than Apple you’ve really got some problems lol.
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WORM :artix:
WORM :artix:
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He's comparing a desktop OS to the two major mobile ones. To make this point, he must conveniently forget about Windows Phone in MS's history, which had similar policies as the App Store and Google Play. So you can scratch that 50-year track record.

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