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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Sure "user freedom" like unable to stop downloading the forced updates even when on metered connection.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

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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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

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.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Microsoft respecting user freedom? Let me uninstall edge and turn off all the bing/copilot/telemetry then we can talk
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

It's easy to be seen as a user freedom respecting company when the metric you are comparing yourself against is Apple...
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

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.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

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
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Developer freedom at Microsoft be like โ€œPut an AI chatbot in Notepad or youโ€™re fired!โ€
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I speak Sweeney let me translate: โ€œMicrosoft doesnโ€™t charge us fees for our Micro transactions so we make more money so I like Microsoft more ..โ€
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

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."
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I only use Microsoft products when Iโ€™m coerced to. Like at work, where I cannot connect calendar or mail to our exchange server.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Definitely compared to Apple. Though if youโ€™re worse at user freedom than Apple youโ€™ve really got some problems lol.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

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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