• Mereo@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    They will just enable it by default later when the heat passes. They always do. You no longer own Windows.

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      5 months ago

      Never did. It’s just more and more obvious with each new “feature” that it’s built for monetization, not for user functionality.

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        5 months ago

        In the '90s and early 2000s, Microsoft’s business model was the classic one of selling products to customers. Today, it’s all about the cloud, advertising, and AI, where the product is the user.

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      5 months ago

      My prediction is essentially one day windows pcs will be Linux that act like thin clients that go to windows 365.