Microsoft's Software is Malware
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Re: Microsoft's Software is Malware
#2I guess all of the internet is also malware. Neat.
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#3Informing NSA about bugs before fixing them is grand. This alone qualifies MS software as malware.
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#4It's all true and yet not true at the same time. Each item on the list has valid business requirements and is needed.
For example, the backdoors are required by government, and Microsoft is not above the government and cannot really refuse if it is a legal requirement for national security. They're not exactly designed as backdoors either - mandatory security updates are necessary to prevent the spread of botnets. There is a valid argument that users should not be allowed to stop these essential security updates. Unfortunately, there are far more changes than only security updates.
DRM is pretty much required for Microsoft to be able to get into distributing media for a fee. The same applies to a lot of the rest - it's all for being competitive in a world where Apple and Google are doing the same thing.
However, that they are all legitimate doesn't actually change that it really is malware at the end of the day and this page is pretty much true.
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#5"Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user."
Some days I'm pretty sure bash is malware, too.
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#6I guess all of the internet is also malware. Neat.
Even if what you said was true, and it's not, "well everyone else is doing it" is never an excuse.
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#7"Microsoft cut off security fixes for Windows XP, except to some big users that pay exorbitantly. (...)
A person or company has the right to cease to work on a particular program; the wrong here is Microsoft does this after having made the users dependent on Microsoft, because they are not free to ask anyone else to work on the program for them."
Microsoft did not make anybody dependent on them, and should have zero obligation to open source Windows XP. There are thriving alternatives to Windows like OS X, Android, Chrome OS, and iOS that XP users could have moved to in the last 14 years.
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#8Hmm, I agree with the some of the points on this page but the language used is incredibly childish, "Microsoft Tyrants" and "Microsoft Sabotage"....
I think there are better ways to educate and spread this message. Whoever wrote this page is a bit too emotionally vested imo.
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#9> "Microsoft cut off security fixes for Windows XP, except to some big users that pay exorbitantly."
XP has had longer support than any Linux distro out there (aside the rolling release ones, but that's a little different).
I know this submission is intended to be biased, and I do honestly favour Linux over Windows anyway. But surely FUD like the above is so painfully transparent that it only undermines the credibility of the larger argument?
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#10The BitLocker recovery key for the user’s device is automatically backed up online in the Microsoft OneDrive account.
Even if we trust MS, do we trust MS to keep these keys safe from outside hackers?