Microsoft: "Suck it, Americans"
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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Am i missing something? If i had edge, store and bing forced down my throat my win11 install wouldve been long gone, but imo thst stuff was already removable before?
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IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE EU, you can use O&O ShutUp to help you turn off the more intrusive aspects of Windows with ease.
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I'm morbidly eager to see how they'll handle the Win 10 EoL (yeah, yeah, it ain't dyin', just not getting updated, same thing to me tbh) in October. I bet it'll be a shitshow.
No more security patches. That should be dead to you if you don't want to host thousands of parasitic bots & malwares
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European Union users
Because the EU at least remotely cares about it's citizens.
Now let's try the USA! How much does the USA cares about it's citizens? Not all at the same time, please!
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Wanted to play a game on my kid's computer that had windows 11 N or some shit. Couldn't play because it needed the "media pack", which in its turn installs everything N stands for. Clown world.
Too little too late? Some European businesses have already made the change to open source. Shit should be free to anyone doing business with it anyway.
So.. they’re doing exactly what apple was forced to do.
Linux Gives Every User More Control: Uninstall Anything, and Say Goodbye to Microsoft
Windows users are a revenue stream, not customers. M$ views it's users as a sort of raw material that can be processed with dark patterns for ads and subscriptions. And like everything else, Americans are treated with the most disrespect and coercion.