With Microsoft bodging the operating system by disabling offline accounts, cramping AI in everything and obviously don't giving a flying f*** about your personal data: how far did you come sweeping that company from your or your family members life?

For me, it is still hard to evade Microsoft, as for reasons, companies and governments are still buying into that ecosystem (Teams, OneDrive, Office, Azure, ...).

Did you manage to cut or phase Microsoft out?

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[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My parents are still on Windows, as they are too old to switch. But they also don't actively use anything from Microsoft, let alone cloud services. I could switch them, but I also don't quite see the point. It's just a lot of time and effort on my part, for no actual benefit.

I've been saying since ms rolled out recall that any banking or other important tasks should not be done on windows anymore since it is insanely poorly disguised spyware, but if that is not reason enough, I now hold my opinion even more strongly since every update this year and a couple from prior years has proven that ms is vibe coding the os to the point that the old stability that made windows viable is quickly being destroyed.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I agree that Windows is bad, and getting worse. But for them it works well enough. Idealistically, I'd like to move them over, but in practice there's barely any benefit in it for an incredible amount of effort and (limited) time spent for anyone involved.

Recall isn't a reason either, especially not with the banking argument: if they want to transfer money, they fill out a piece of paper, go to the bank and put it in a mailbox for those. They don't do online banking. All they do is email, and one of them edits a couple of photos. They are used to the software that's Windows-only. They know where on the screen to click. That's it. It doesn't matter if it's Windows or not. I also have no argument they care about to convince them.

If i wasn't on my phone I could write much more detailed explanation, but I am, so this will have to do.