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userbinator ◴[14 Dec 25 00:53 UTC] No.46259821[source]▶
Things like this and other custom "Windows distros" are a sign that MS would have no problem selling a version of Windows that's nothing more than a base OS, but clearly they would rather take the user-hostile route.
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stackghost ◴[14 Dec 25 01:09 UTC] No.46259912[source]▶
Microsoft has always been the bad guys. Does nobody remember Embrace Extend Extinguish any more?

Those of us who came up in the 80s and 90s remember that bad behavior and even worse software is baked into Microsoft's DNA.

That sort of organizational culture doesn't just evaporate.

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userbinator ◴[14 Dec 25 01:28 UTC] No.46260019[source]▶
MS was hostile towards competitors, not users/customers. You can run a VM of Windows 9x or NT and see how quiet the experience was. No pervasive spyware or ads to bother you while you work.
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1. geezthatswhack ◴[14 Dec 25 01:35 UTC] No.46260055[source]▶
That’s only because they had no practical way of doing that since no computer was expected to be online 24/7.

Had they had the opportunity, they would 100% have taken it. Windows was never about serving a good experience to customers, it was always about serving the Microsoft-owned experience to customers—and these two things are very much mutually exclusive.

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2. left-struck ◴[14 Dec 25 15:26 UTC] No.46263703[source]▶
I don’t think they would have done it any other way, it always had to be a slow ratcheting of control over the user. If the user hostile experience that exists today was the default back then, everyone would have moved to something else while they still could.
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