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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)
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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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What is wrong with .NET, it's very useful when running applications which require it which of course is basically every application in a corporate environment.

But yeah all the other things are fine.

[–] rmrf@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain this post is specifically excluding corporate environments

I also don't quite understand the dislike of dotnet, though. I mean I don't like it either, but idk why

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

.net (core) is a mature framework and collection of great languages that work really well, perform really well, and is truly cross platform and open source. It's the best thing Microsoft offers.