Reimagining my ass. You are selling a Citrix knockoff. Fuck off.
So glad the idiotic decisions Microsoft makes doesn’t effect my computer. And I’m excited for the rest of the population to make the shift to Linux, at least on their personal computers.
It doesn’t have to be like this, you too can be immune
I have Zorin os on my main laptop and actively migrating my main desktop. Will try to get my kids desktop to Zorin too, his was my test subject for windows 11 and it crashed and burned. Everyday I see more and more issues and performance drops with client computers on win11. One or two I’d chalk up to user errors, but now brand new devices I deploy with 32gb of ram struggling to connect to an RDP session. Fuck windows 11 and all the AI horseshit.
They clearly forgot what the p in pc means
They’re trying to redefine it to Profitable Computing:
Streaming cloud PC
Now you just need this $500 device that’s about as powerful as a $75 Roku to stream a virtual PC to your home. You will store all of your data on the cloud where you and everyone else can access it, you will own nothing and we will sell your data for profit. All for just $19.99 a month.
Your PC as a service!
As a bonus, when one persons account is hacked then everyone’s data is exposed! By agreeing to use our service you waive all rights to sue or reclaim any data. You get to pay a monthly fee for accessing your private data, what could be better!
And it doesn’t work if your ISP decides to shit on you
Great; a return to thin clients. How innovative and revolutionary.
Every time they tout this shit i just envision Citrix lurking in the corner in a trenchcoat with a shitload of patents and an evil little grin.
Install Linux Problem Solved.
Jfc, they’re really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.
The cloud bullshit is such a racket. The only thing you are scaling is your invoices.
Everyone knew it was a bad idea at the beginning, for the issues when the service goes down, and the obvious security/privacy issues.
They started to sell it as a stable solution, with no down time, which we all know it’s a lie and I don’t have to talk about the privacy issues: just look at your lenny frontpage.
We have to stop with that bullshit, we have to stop pretending that the cloud is a solution.
The cloud is just the name for someone else’s computer
They are a big company. Their server security is likely much better than your measly home pc. *"So please do all your banking and company research in our cloudcomputer… " *- (/s for measure)
Their security is only better if you don’t take into account how attractive they are as a target. lol
@Mac @Flying_Lynx or how much they would like insider knowledge of your spending habits. If ai has taught us anything, it’s that the big tech companies want control of your data at all costs
Microsoft’s computer
Microslop
Who is asking for this shit ? Do they even run consumer surveys ?
Corporations who want to fire their desktop support team.
Shareholders want the line to go up. Trapping everyone into endlesss subscriptions is a great way to guarantee revenue.
Why would they ask consumers what they want when they can tell consumers what they want. What are you gonna do, move to Linux?
One would hope for a more broad institutional change like schools or workplaces not renewing contracts, but individual action matters too. Closest schools ever got in the US was with Chromebooks, and at least a few places in the EU are ditching MS for better options.
Shareholders are asking for it, since monthly recurring revenue is great for profit sheets.
They run plenty of surveys, but the results go right in the trash.
Glad I uninstalled 365 and got Office 2024 instead, less than $20 and I don’t have to deal with this bullshit.
You could have got Collabora for free?
It might be some kind of bias playing tricks on me, but it really gives me the impression that since those corporations started embracing ai and claiming that they use high percentages of it in their work, some trend of things stopping working has been on the rise. I swear those services from big companies used to be considered so highly available and stable, that people would be incredulous if they stopped.
I like to reimagine Microsoft as a company that has zero value. Oh wait, they realised that by themselves!
They are preparing for a world where we don’t own things and get free use of the things they choose for us to use, when they want us to use them. Act now, before it’s too late. Death by a thousand cuts, so goes society.
