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Word 365 once crashed for my sister and she lost a day’s worth of work. It had made some autosaves while she was working but they were nowhere to be found after the crash, not even with advanced recovery tools. Instead of making more stable software, Micro$oft decided to integrate OneDrive into Office, recording every action while editing documents, and now also in the entire system. A very typical 2020’s big tech move, unfortunately.
Since we’re on Lemmy, you know the drill
time to switch to gnu/hurd
I run Temple OS, btw.
My first attempt at reading this: Microsoft announces recall of Windows 11
That would have been great. The very few good things 11 brought (tabbed terminal, text editor and file browser) have all been standard in major Linux distros for decades.
Not counting service packs, the first OS Microsoft “recalled” was Windows 8, where everyone got a free upgrade to a slightly less shitty 8.1, and then 10, which was also a minor upgrade. It would be very funny if they reversed course and showed people an intrusive popup with “Sorry, you are using the newest version of Windows, which will no longer getting updates. You are now able to return to Windows 10 which we can comfortably continue updating without feeling guilty. You can keep working, the operation will happen in the background. We will tell you when it’s time to restart.”
It would have made sense, the share of 11 among Windows actually users shrank in the past quarter despite it being the default option for prebuilt PCs.
I’d approve this if and only if it learns to suggest the best porn for me in return
Sounds like Pixiv with extra steps
Seriously, it’s addicting as fuck if that’s your kinda thing
This doesn’t sound like a thing enterprises are going to accept. It’s like spyware but with extra buzzwords.
I know people here love Linux, but I think most IT departments in the world would go for Apple first.
Buying cheap servicable laptops VS unservicable devices that start at what, like $1200?
I don’t think Apple is the way.
IT departments are hopefully getting LTSC editions and installing their own images thst hopefully have 99% of this disabled. Apple is it’s own pain when it comes to administration.
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Jokes on them. They’ll get to watch a former mcse start the machine, play one specific game for a couple of hours, then reboot.
Besides the privacy nightmare this is, they can’t even make a decent spellcheck. Trusting this to predict my needs would be an exercise in frustration.
Can you at least disable that feature? Or… Just switch to a Linux distro, really…
I’m sure that if you set a barely documented registry key to a specific DWORD, you can disable it.
Removing it completely, though…
And it’ll be back with the next update.
And the registry key/value pair to disable it will be changed slightly
And then with the next update they will write protect that key so you can’t simply change that value anymore. And set it to be on by default.
They will say it’s for “security reasons”
You almost forgot the “to protect your privacy” and maybe sprinkle some “protecting children” in there too
Of course. Nobody is more worried about CSAM than someone who makes their living having the ability to break into people’s computers.
Don’t listen to the other snarky comments lol. It will be disabled by default, same as the parallel Timeline feature of W10. Also due to the extreme resource requirements, it will only work on purpose-built “Copilot” machines.
It’s a closed-source operating system witth a very intrusive EULA so it’s hard to tell what is actually happening in the background. The FBI could probably get any user’s local file tree, I assume, regardless of “settings”. Your solution is the best, it certainly beats using the computer 100% offline.
Of course you’ll be able to disable it. Until your computer updates the next time, then it’ll turn on and you’ll need to turn it off again. But then they’ll grey out the option not to start it automatically with every reboot and you’ll need to close it manually every time. Until they remove that option, too.
The true windows experience
You can turn it off for sure, but you will lose spell check and the ability to sync files across machines if you do.
That’s incredibly tone deaf even by evil megacorp standards.
Back up all your data onto a drive, install a simple-to-use Linux distro like Linux Mint or Ubuntu, tell Microsoft to get fucked.
