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[–] truxnell@aussie.zone 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

So reading more into it, it's (currently) only on the bogus copilot+ PCs they were peddling? I'm happily on bazzite, but this is good news for my stubborn mates that haven't touched copilot+ shit.

[–] Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Oh give it time it will appear after an update on everything else, "accidentally".

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah. My entire windows machine is locked down specifically to combat the copilot ms365 plague. I'm also using Bazzite and generally loving it. But I have a work machine for work things and some of my programs require windows to work.

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[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would be interesting to see how microsoft kills windows in the long term and then be shocked as to how this happened

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Kind of like how they fucked up and let zoom become the pandemic program everyone used despite skype being so established it had already become a verb like google? M$ really racking up those wins recently

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Zoom was so bad, too. It was so unreliable, it was missing basic features, the UI was unfriendly.
They've improved on each of these things slightly since then.
But it's a testament to how bad Skype was that Zoom was found to be preferable.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Zoom was already everywhere in the business world before the pandemic.

Seems like Skype was only for personal users who were not very techy and wanted to make free calls overseas.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah Skype was already dead by then and when normies wanted to start using video calls on the reg, they ended up with zoom either because their work were already using it elsewhere or from being recommended by others that had that as their reason.

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[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This comment is critical of Microsoft because the company name was mentioned in the article.

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's nothing to laugh about. The maniacally evil thing about recall is, that it doesn't matter what you do to keep your devices clean. If you interact with someone who doesn't keep his devices clean, which is 100% of us, you're on recall

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Good thing I have no friends to interact with then! Take that, Microsoft!

[–] peculiar_goat@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

Roll it back in please.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like opting out of using a Microsoft account to log into windows, the grips will get tighter and tighter over time until you are forced to use butt hole ID to unlock your screen.

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me too... well using linux is technically opting out to that right?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the only way to be sure Microsoft won't sneakily turn it back on.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

At least until they sneak it into VS Code's telemetry. ...only sort of joking.

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago

My windows10 install still asks me to complete the setup...lol no

[–] oliver@lemmy.skumring.com 11 points 1 day ago

Don‘t say no one was warned…

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