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It runs linux programs, not PowerPoint or Excel.
Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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>Kernel and low level stuff are actually very stable and good. This. A while ago a build of Win 11 was shared/leaked that was tailored for the Chinese government called "Windows G" and it had all the ads, games, telemetry, anti-malware and other bullshit removed and it flew on 4GB RAM. So Microsoft CAN DO IT, if they actually want to, they just don't want to for users. You can get something similar yourself at home r…
I geniunely wonder if Windows G's start menu also use React and if the start menu, right click or Windows Search still sucks in Windows G or not :)
React Native, halfway between Web and native.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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> Extremely simple changes do not require explicit unit tests. I haven't used Copilot much, because people keep saying how bad it is, but generally if you add escape hatches like this without hard requirements of when the LLM can take them, they won't follow that rule in a intuitive way most of the time.
It is kind of alright, I use mostly on VS when coding C# or C++, for code completions, error analysis, check code quality and such. As agent, or writing everything for me, not yet.
the $10 plan makes a great backup to claude or codex and the inline completions are nice
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#134With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? Microsoft has burned through all possible goodwill at this point, at least for me.
Microsoft employ over 100,000 engineers. I'd advise against assuming that everything produced by any of them is bad because of bugs in Windows.
They seem to be alienating a lot of their users right now in a lot of different products. There's a significant surge in open source software right now and Linux and all the people that are coming over are a bit more than usual. Their customer base seems tired of the game.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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The criticism was directed at the company's product, not the employees...
The response appears to be pointing out that with so many employees (engineers), it's unlikely that they all work on Windows.
And yet they still work for a company that has shown it isn’t overly concerned about quality or reliability in its products.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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Windows 11 is running on my ThinkPad T530. Its CPU is very nearly 14 years old. What is missing here that was present when this same computer was running Windows 10?
>Windows 11 is running on my ThinkPad T530. Its CPU is very nearly 14 years old. Yes, you can bypass HW checks to install it on a pentium 4 if you want, nothing new here. >What is missing here that was present when this same computer was running Windows 10? All the security features I listed in the comment above.
So, if I'm hearing this right:
This computer had the security features that you listed while it was running Windows 10, and now that it is running Windows 11 it is lacking them?
(I'm not trying to be snarky. That's simply an astonishing concept to me.)
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#137With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? Microsoft has burned through all possible goodwill at this point, at least for me.
Microsoft employ over 100,000 engineers. I'd advise against assuming that everything produced by any of them is bad because of bugs in Windows.
The problems with Windows today have nothing to do with bugs but with the strategic vision of Nadella.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#138With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? Microsoft has burned through all possible goodwill at this point, at least for me.
I'm not defending MS in any capacity, but this library is open for viewing if you were so inclined.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
#139With how buggy their flagship OS has become, why would I trust anything else they release to be better? Or even if it does work well now, why should I expect it to stay that way? Microsoft has burned through all possible goodwill at this point, at least for me.
Microsoft employ over 100,000 engineers. I'd advise against assuming that everything produced by any of them is bad because of bugs in Windows.
This is not about individual employees. It’s in the nature of being an employee to be beholden to what’s incentivized by their company’s management and structure.
Re: Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
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To be expected, given how many organisations now require employees to use AI if they want to meet their OKRs, especially all that sell AI tools.
What's dumb, on top of everything, is needing to store non special standard operating procedures in specific AI folders and files when wanting to work with AI tooling.
Copilot today supports the top-level AGENTS.md approach as well, which seems to be the cross-tool "standard".