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Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers (philipbohun.com)
submitted 13 hours ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.

Without Builders, you don't have software, and without software, you don't have users. This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I fill out a good number of reports. I can't always be bothered to do it, and they probably don't read them anyways because of the swearing

it's not my job to do QA on their shitty products

and our IT support doesn't know what causes some issues or how to resolve them either, so it's not likely a user skill issue.

if you're not coming across issues with Microsoft products, it's more than likely that you're simply not actually using them

[–] Auth@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The only real issues I come across are issues with their new features like intune stuff on mac. The core stuff all work pretty reliably with little to no maintenance and have great documentation. The only complaints I ever see/hear for teams, onedrive and 365 apps are users being dumb or caused by device issues. There are of course microsoft outages (often) but they fix themselves most of the time.

[–] techt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

I will never forget the bewilderment I felt the first time the File Explorer crashed -- and that hasn't been the only time. Forget Office, they can't even get the start menu to work properly. Call it feature rich if you like, but of any modern OS they are the furthest away from the core stuff working reliably in my experience.

[–] username123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Hm, sounds shilly.