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Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app

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Post by baranul »

demarq wrote: post #2

If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?

It's amazing that Microsoft even needs to stoop to that level against their own paying customers. People either like Edge and Bing, or they don't. Often, people are forced to use Windows, relative to office, jobs, or school. There is already a "captive" audience, so the need to push malware and spyware acting code is ridiculous.

Installing all of this unwanted code behind their users backs is not making a strong case to continue to use Microsoft. Instead, people will jump to alternatives as soon as its more viable.

Increasingly easy jump, that various people can make, is to the Android OS. There are increasingly, customized open-source "distros" that can be installed. Prime OS, Bliss OS, Phoenix OS... Particularly for laptops, as many already are using it on their smartphones, so will be quite familiar and comfortable with it.

Then there are the Linux distros aimed at Windows OS users, like PoP! OS, Linux Mint, etc... Microsoft is likely to find itself with increasingly diminished market share, with such unnecessary antics and continual privacy issues.

Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app

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Post by netsharc »

fransje26 wrote: post #9
netsharc wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed... Article says: > It is rather sad to see that Microsoft is implementing behaviors in some of its apps that is generally only found in malware apps. Mate, have you seen their OSes? Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license, where it's possible to disable more of its telemetry.

> Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license Any pointers on how to approach that?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...

a DDG search of "$most_popular_git_hosting_site $the_os_you_want product keys" offers some answers.

I managed to use DISM to in-place upgrade a Windows 7 install to Win10. The standard way to upgrade (using the setup GUI) failed, and the command failed at first but out of the logs I managed to figure out what patches I had to install to allow the DISM upgrade to succeed.

Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app

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Post by woleium »

baranul wrote: post #11
demarq wrote: post #2

If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?

It's amazing that Microsoft even needs to stoop to that level against their own paying customers. People either like Edge and Bing, or they don't. Often, people are forced to use Windows, relative to office, jobs, or school. There is already a "captive" audience, so the need to push malware and spyware acting code is ridiculous. Installing all of this unwanted code behind their users backs is not making a strong case…

not sure if they care much about the OS any more, its all about O365 (with teams team lock in) and Azure. Note that office now saves to one drive online by default, and the remote desktop app is now called windows… pretty sure locally installed windows is going away soonish

Re: Microsoft accused of Malware-like Bing Wallpaper app

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Post by woleium »

fransje26 wrote: post #9
netsharc wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed... Article says: > It is rather sad to see that Microsoft is implementing behaviors in some of its apps that is generally only found in malware apps. Mate, have you seen their OSes? Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license, where it's possible to disable more of its telemetry.

> Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license Any pointers on how to approach that?

https://massgrave.dev/, or so i have been told
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