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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This must be the new version of Fedora

[–] maeries@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, did they mess with fedora, too?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 8 points 1 year ago

You mean, no, not yet

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] parsonpigeon@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

It's a bit more than $15 for RHEL

[–] SinJab0n@mujico.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exactly why we need to give them the boot.

[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 4 points 1 year ago

That's exactly why we need to give them the boot.

Hard disagree. If you're running something business-critical, the support that you get with a RHEL license {or any other vendor, for that matter) is worth its weight in gold.

If you can't fix something, you don't want to be looking for solutions by sifting through forum posts directed at home users when the business is losing thousands of dollars per hour. That's what the license is for, and that's what you pay for.

[–] dinodroid@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even after paying, windows sells our info, every keystroke.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it really that bad? I haven't used it in years so I'm not following it. Do they literally have a built-in keylogger?

[–] eugene1970@waveform.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Definitely not, that would be an absurd privacy violation

[–] aloso@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Microsoft does collect a lot of data. But storing every keystroke is first of all impractical, because it would take a lot of disk space to store every keystroke of every user, and secondly not very useful unless they also knew when, in which application, and in what context each key was pressed.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] eugene1970@waveform.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean yeah it’s not exactly a private OS but a key logger would be mental

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

At this point I don't think it will be, to be honest. And at this point they don't need one, their pretend assistant has the ability to record all the activity anyway

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I guess it was hyperbole but I wasn't sure

[–] peter@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think about it practically. Microsoft is not an advertising company, they make their money from enterprise software. Windows is installed on billions of computers. The infrastructure required to accept and process every single key pressed by every single windows user and turn it into something usable would be enormous. And for what? To make a few extra millions by selling it to some advertising company?

[–] spiffeeroo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft is an advertising company just like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple. Bing search and Edge browser in Windows are a few ways ads are shown to users. Netflix is using Microsoft ads network for their platform to show to their subscribers. Companies pay a lot of money to get preferential suggestions/queries on their stores and search engines.

https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/microsoft-audience-network

Microsoft generates over 10 billion US Dollars per year in revenue from their advertisement division. The revenue growth from their advertisement business is growing exponentially at around 10 percent every year.

[–] peter@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough, I didn't know they actually operated an ad network outside their own services. I still don't think they are keylogging everyone though

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

The bad ending.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll wait for Linux Millennium Edition to come out first

[–] snor10@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I heard it is buggy, I think I'll wait for Linux Vista to be released.

[–] bad_alloc@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

The right license in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister Torvalds. Wake up and... smell the ashes...

[–] bread_with_toast@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pay 2 Win(dows)

[–] mertssmnoglu@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Is anyone have oem keys, just asking.