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Microsoft addresses Windows Recall backlash, promises to fix security issues and make it opt-in (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 6 months ago by pound_heap@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And not that it should matter, but I even paid for Pro

It should matter though. If MS wants to give away Windows for free, then users should expect compromised privacy. But it's not. They charge hundreds for it.

If Windows made a paid version that was private and secure, and that the user was in control of, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If they were giving away Windows for free, their behavior would still be unforgivable.

There is no scenario where any operating system including spyware or ads can ever theoretically be acceptable behavior. Any person who contributes in any way to that happening belongs in a prison cell.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well that's the only way a "free" product is sustainable.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Linux is free qnd plenty sustainable.

If you can't support providing something for free via a mechanism that isn't pure and unadulterated evil, then don't do it for free. "We have to be monsters to make money" is not a valid position.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Linux is free qnd plenty sustainable.

It also has a vast array of enormous compromises, which is why no one uses it.

[–] arf@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

I understand you have qualms with Linux, and that's plenty fine, but when the large majority of servers and smartphones around the world run it, you can't say that no one uses it.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

That's not true at all. It has a huge market share, just not in desktops.

But again, that's completely and utterly irrelevant. If being evil is the only way for your business/product to exist, it does not deserve to exist.