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EU should demand Microsoft to give users a choice, as a mandatory Microsoft account to be able to use your hardware is another trick to lock in users, like the preinstalled browser and other bloatware.
#TechBros #BigTech #Microsoft

PS Don't tell me the average buyer should use Linux unless you are willing to help them install as long as it is not preinstalled in the store.
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TechRepublic · Windows 11 Forces Microsoft Account Sign In & Removes Bypass Trick Option | TechRepublicMicrosoft is killing the Windows 11 bypass trick — soon, all setups will require internet and a Microsoft Account, leaving privacy-conscious users with fewer options.

Microsoft Worker Fired for Israel Protest: “Cloud & AI Are the Bombs & Bullets of the 21st Century”

democracynow.org/2025/4/11/no_

> Microsoft fired two workers who protested the company’s ties to Israel’s assault on Gaza at its 50th anniversary celebration last Friday. The workers protested after leaked documents revealed that Microsoft supplies the Israeli military with AI and cloud technology, as well as an Air Force unit known as the Ofek, to build “kill lists.”
#Microsoft #Gafam #israel

Democracy Now! · Microsoft Worker Fired for Israel Protest: “Cloud & AI Are the Bombs & Bullets of the 21st Century”By Democracy Now!

Pinta 3.0 was just released. This version just made the minimum requirement of the .NET framework version 8.0.

The .NET Framework is a software framework created by Microsoft for building applications for Windows operating systems. It provides a platform for developing web applications, desktop applications, and other types of software.

Microsoft's MS-DOS 6.22 ist wohl die mit Abstand beliebteste DOS-Version aller Zeiten! Leider wissen aber auch heute noch viele nicht, dass diese Version häufig sehr unvollständig ausgeliefert wurde! Microsoft hatte zur dieser Zeit nämlich, aus Marketinggründen für Windows 3.x, viele wichtige DOS Tools, wie z.B. die "MS-DOS-Shell", bereits auf eine eher obskure Zusatzdiskette verbannt. Und oftmals wurde diese Diskette entweder gar nicht mitgeliefert oder wenn doch, dann nur in englischer Sprache!

Aus diesen Gründen freut es mich um so mehr, dass meine im Jahre 2021 hochgeladene MS-DOS Version 6.22 inkl. deutscher Zusatz-Diskette und MS-DOS-Shell inzwischen fast 9.000 Views verzeichnen kann.

..."I'm doing my part!" 😉

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@GossiTheDog Bright side: now I get more calls from clients who pay me to turn this crap off for them. Every time #Microsoft further enshittifies #Windows with more bloatware, spyware, or slopware, I get a spike in requests to uninstall or disable it, and it becomes my primary service request for the next week or two.

Hint, for software developing companies: If people pay for the absence of a feature, then it isn’t a feature. And if your competitor continues anti-consensually imposing such misfeatures on your customer, you have the opportunity to offer a marked competitive advantage by simply not doing that.

Treat consent regarding your customers’ computers the same way anyone deserving to live outside a cage treats consent regarding others’ bodies, and you can take business away from those who are actively contemptuous of consent.

Malicious #VSCode extensions infect Windows with #cryptominers
The package names are:
Discord Rich Presence for VS Code - 189K Installs
Rojo – Roblox Studio Sync - 117K Installs
Solidity Compiler - 1.3K Installs
Claude AI
Golang Compiler
ChatGPT Agent for VSCode
HTML Obfuscator
Python Obfuscator for VSCode
Rust Compiler for VSCode
ExtensionTotal says it reported the malicious extensions to #Microsoft, but they are still available at the time of writing.
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