• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    Offices have way more power to convert the world to Linux than even gaming does.

    And ofc, Microsoft is well aware and is not interested in letting that happen.

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      9 months ago

      Correct. Bavaria once tried the same thing, but then MS went to the local politicians, sucked their dicks a bit and boom, back to MS products it is! Hopefully the north doesn’t fall for that kind of removed, and they likely won’t because Bavaria is a backwards piece of removed of a Bundesland while Schleswig Holstein is kinda cool.

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      9 months ago

      Hopefully this at least forces Microsoft to rethink riddling their bullremoved with ads. I feel sorry for people who are still stuck with that trash for whatever reason.

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        9 months ago

        I’m pretty sure the enterprise version of Windows does not and will never have ads. So not super relavent when talking about a transition to Linux in an office setting.

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          Edge “new tab” default is hellishly full of ads and “news”, the Taskbar has stock price information alongside weather and sports, and search in the start menu still shows internet searches. Even on enterprise.

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            You can remove the stock ticker even on home edition, on enterprise you can make it go away by default for new installs as well. And with enterprise, you can disable edge entirely and unlike home edition it won’t re-enable on upgrade.

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              9 months ago

              None of these things should exist in the first place. Edge will stay disabled until Microsoft feels its been long enough since the last time they got slapped for it, then they’ll push it again.

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                That’s great, companies dont care though so long as they can control it.

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      And ofc, Microsoft is well aware and is not interested in letting that happen.

      This is true, but there are only so many times that they can pull off what they did in Munich. If enough cities keep trying at this, there’s no way they’re going to be able to hold the floodgates back forever.

      I’m usually a pessimist, but stories like this actually do get my hopes up