Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC

• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.

  Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that’s at least as good.

  They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How long until they successfully lobby the US government to make FOSS illegal somehow

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

      What could easily happen is they break a GPL license, then take it to the supreme court, so they can kneecap GNU licensed projects by making the mandate of making every change public unenforceable.

      (The EU should just leave the Berne convention, then make it’s own decisions on copyright, including stripping monopolies like MS and Disney of copyright protections.)

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    On a personal basis that works, but they are so corporately entrenched that their products getting shitier matters quite little.

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    • cmbabul@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Seriously this, it would take something like the PCI or SOX declaring Windows outside of compliance for Microsoft to die from bad business decisions in the US. Although German gov switching to Linux starts treading a path through

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nothing like FOSS when it comes to cost cutting.

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• z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  An image from South Park. Two Cable Company Employees rubbing their nipples through square patch holes cut out from their shirts

  Oh really, how bummed would they be?

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• PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They will be fine. They are second most valuable company in the world. They have money to throw around and their source of income still seem inexhaustible. A few new Linux users won’t even make a dent.

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If this was true (not that they are the 2nd most valuable company, that much is clear), why would they bend over and support W10 for another year in the EU while fucking up everyone else? There are ways for companies that seem to be immortal to self-destroy. Intel for example. Did any of us thought that they could burst 10 years ago? And look at them now, crawling asking for help.

    All you need is a seriously bad decision, then doubling down on it, and just watch it spiral down until they crash.

    The seemingly endless access to money only makes the process take longer, it’s not a shield from catastrophic failure.

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    • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s very much true. W10 was cause of pressure from companies and countries, not because of the odd Joe contemplating their os.

      Any company may fall, but they can also fail from inaction. Ms has the option to get data no one else can. They can’t afford not to.

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      • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, that certainly plays a role. What really blows my mind is that governments and companies KNOW this about Microsoft, yet they choose to stay in their infrastructure. This world just keeps getting weirder every day.

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