Microsoft continues to get a free pass after series of cybersecurity failures.

Microsoft continues to get a free pass after series of cybersecurity failures.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    The world’s over reliance on Microsoft is a big problem. That’s why they can make deeply unpopular changes to their OS/browser/office program and must companies and governments and users just accept it…

      • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Is it just me or does the world at least appear to be going more open source? Take a look at social media, for example. We had MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter. And now, while those still exist, we also have the choice of Mastodon, Lemmy, Nostr, BlueSky, etc. To the best of my knowledge, all of these are open source. Linux has taken 4% of (an admittedly shrinking) desktop market, Something like 70% of smartphone users are on Android. Which, while definitely not mostly open source, is open source at its very base (AOSP). From what I heard, you can now open ODF files in Microsoft Office, which implies that it is big enough that Microsoft feels they must add it, at least for compatibility.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Because Micro$oft has been leveraging their illegal monopoly to suppress innovation and competition since they began?

    Because their OS is hot fucking garbage? Because their pricing is astronomical? Because their “support” is non-existent? Because anyone who wasn’t a fucking moron knew this 30 years ago?

    Okay, I give up. Why is it a problem? Oh yeah, China and russia p0vvN3d them and are in our base killin our d00dz. Yeah, I could see how we’d want to give them yet another free pass for that, sure.