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Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.

Without Builders, you don't have software, and without software, you don't have users. This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.

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[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.world 109 points 1 day ago (3 children)

.NET is just a runtime, not problematic at all, and definitely doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with ads, spyware, and AI.

[–] ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We should also get rid of the Windows C++ Redistributable packages as well!

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 3 points 4 hours ago

Might as well get rid of Windows after that

[–] Reality@feddit.org 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's probably Microsofts best product

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Probably Microsoft's best stupidest name too, except maybe renaming the remote desktop app to "Windows App".

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 3 points 7 hours ago

I hate that rename so much, it makes it impossible to search anything about it. Another fun fact is the process name for "Windows App" is Windows365.exe 🤦

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Yep. Plenty of games depends on it too.