I think it’s time for a class action lawsuit. But yes, you make a good point. Our state agency just got new PCs due to the ending of windows 10 support, and it sucks because I have no way to turn off the AI bullshit because I’m not an admin. As much as I enjoy now having a machine with bluetooth so I can use earbuds, I’d go back to my old work PC in a heartbeat.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t, I am saying that there’s more to discuss than “switched to Linux /thread”.
For example let me just quote microsoft “The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.” and think about what that means for your workplace. Windows isn’t going to vanish in a few years. The companies that have a lot of windows PCs will have to deal with increased hardware requirements in an already expensive market, have to wrangle user settings that the ai set on voice commands or fight against Microsoft to shut it all down.
I feel like there’s going to be a lot of wasted productivity in the coming years spend on fixing what ai broke.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just saying, you might have a sympathetic IT department. Stuff like that I’m more than happy to come and disable.
Hell, there are one or two of my users I make administrators of their machines. Along with the advice to not do anything I wouldn’t do.
vin@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Business owners can form association and apply pressure. E.g. techrepublic.com/…/news-windows-10-security-updat… If you’re an employee, why give a damn…
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The free extended updates are only for private consumers, companies don’t get them.
www.microsoft.com/…/extended-security-updates
Most companies should’ve already switched over so afaict there wasn’t enough push back.
I don’t see how employees giving a damn is relevant to what I said, can you rephrase that?
vin@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
I wasn’t pointing out that there are extended updates, I was pointing out that customer associations can apply pressure. That’s the only way Microsoft can be limited from taking more and more profit share with increasingly enshittified products.
People are much more likely to use windows as employees, rather than business owners. So I don’t think an average Lemmy user (lemmings?) will be interested in commenting anything seriously about it.