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Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching (www.pcguide.com)

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[–] BCsven 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You are correct Microsoft is selling a branded Thin Client Mini PC, around $400. It doesn't store anything local it is all cloud app, onedrive access stuff. Their Azure is Linux so its just a "Windows" Box for gaining access to Linux in the cloud. Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Pathetic, and the plan will backfire on even their contracts with corporations as any moment now all the data they are storing will be stolen in a truly massive data breach and Microsoft won't even be able to do damage control effectively because they purposefully removed, broke and obsifucated local and secure workflows and focused everything on a subscription based model where everything including practically your social security number is entrusted to their shitty servers.

I think there is a good chance the EU could regulate on this.

What Microsoft thinks they can do in a situation like this is the same thing they have always done, hamfistedly and halfassedly walk back anti-consumer/anti-user practices until people calm down, rinse repeat.

Hilariously though this manuever relies on Microsoft not having any rivals in a seriously threatening position to flank when Microsoft begins to enter an enshittified vulnerability, which as much as they seem to be clueless about it (please keep being clueless M$), Linux is.