According to the headline, all they're saying is, "we will bother you less (the degree of which, we aren't clear), and we'll maybe think about what to do with recall."
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No one's fucking asking for AI except other corporations. It's a very industry based circle jerk, consumers don't give a fuck though.
Bullshit and too late, bitches
I've won when everybody gets the principles of free software philosophy, along with other essential freedoms, free roaming, free speech, free assembly, free press, free energy, free healthcare, etc.
It's the freedom.
Free to use, study, share, change.
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Oh, yes, I won. I've known for months. Microsoft have nothing to do with it anymore.
yeah nah. They're claiming a lot of shit. Whether or not it gets removed is another matter.
I fully expect their bullshit to stay everywhere, they're just gonna get quieter about it
Yeah, i'm never going back to that dumpster fire OS.
But my left handed microscope scissors rat nail polishing encabrulator only works on windows 11 if it has AI! Whatever should I do?!!!
Rat flies out of the window nails, face ears all properly painted and polished.... Then the windows 11disk followed by the rest of the computer parts and the bat that did it all in.
...for now.
I swear. Society at large will never learn from Microsoft's games.
It will continue to dominate the market (along with apple) as long as it is the default OS on new pcs.
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This only happened because the line went down suddenly
Three years late but thanks for giving me the push to switch
Too late, trust is already gone and im old enough to know all of this is CEOs bullshit and pure marketing.
I thought I'd miss Windows more than I do, but there was no way in hell I was going to install 11.
Glad I switched. Literally, the only feature I miss is the big, multi-format preview pane in File Explorer. That was very handy.
"This is going very poorly, we will pretend to listen to our customers so it looks like we are course correcting, winning favor with investors and customers (big businesses, not home users)."
They may even switch CEOs if the situation worsens, but the practices remain.
Good
Hopefully the rest of the industry takes note too
"rethinking Recall"... again. Doesn't Microslop understand anything?
No you didn't win, they are rebranding their enshitification and tweaking it, it will end in the same spot. Just like minneapolis "won" in getting the feds to somewhat back off of summary executions of citizens under false pretense for the moment. No one was charged, the state is deferring to the feds as if the 10th amendment didn't make it their duty to prosecute crimes whose precedent would allow federal agents to summarily execute a governor under similar false pretense, contrived altercation, and get away scot free. Or a county prosecutor.
I won? Of course I did, I don't use Windows anymore, I've been using Linux for years now.
Cool, still not going back to windows
After pushback from users? Or after realising how much it's costing them on the server end?