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Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers (philipbohun.com)
submitted 1 day ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] minfapper@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hah! They don't care about "builders" or users. They care about business. Specifically large enterprises the have too many people to care about a single employee's individual productivity.

Microsoft caters mostly to them and is quite good at that.

But if you're an end user, gamer, or individual consumer, just move to Linux already. They don't care about you.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the proprietary software grift is all about extorting companies with legal liability, hostage data, etc.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Some of Microsoft's corporate products are actually quite good, if very boring. I would love it if Linux had some version of Active Directory, although Microsoft's attempts to cloudify it are a very annoying. Fortunately you can just ignore that, at least for now.

They also get a lot of credit for releasing VSCode for free as well.

[–] AppleMango@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

There are many alternatives to Active Directory, some even cross-platform. Microsoft basically has a monopoly in such things because those alternatives don't work well on Windows (both OS and Server).