The most open ports
The most open CVEs
The most open complaint threads
Windows 🥇
Open to malicious actors, because of all the bugs.
because of all the opens.
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Linux has way more CVEs: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/
(Partially because they don’t respect CVEs and assign CVEs to everything)
I think it’s more because companies don’t usually run Windows on their servers. Like, internal domain servers, sure, but their actual services run on Linux, in almost every case.
unfucking believable… they are saying the quiet part out lout now
the least private operating system
Embrace, extend, and extinguish. They literally documented it as being their strategy. Now the justice department is chasing Google who despite being bad, at least provides enough source code where people have created privacy-focused derivatives of Android. I’d much rather see them go after Microsoft first but the government relies on Microsoft, and Microsoft relies on our tax dollars going to the government so they can get them.
Kill Google, kill Apple, kill Meta, kill Amazon. I’m not sure whether killing Apple is necessary - despite their problems, they at least have an honest business model (of profiting off a cult). I think yes, split them too.
I’m not sure whether killing Apple is necessary
They’ve taken to designing unrepariable e-waste garbage. let em burn
Decided then.
And that round building of theirs should be demolished, only Apple fans can think it looks futuristic.
I think it would make a wonderful homeless shelter.
I guess as a homeless shelter it’d be fine. There’s some value in all the glassy parts too - hydroponics would combine well aesthetically with a shelter.
However, the space inside it should be treated carefully, or it can turn into something similar to Soviet micro-districts in the criminal sense.
Again, maybe making it some kind of a huge pond and releasing fish there is a good idea? I dunno.
or it can turn into something similar to Soviet micro-districts
I think you’re on to a great start for a new post apoc Sci Fi novel
I’m not going to defend Apple against being broken up, but those other companies are on a whole different level when it comes to invasion of privacy.
I’d say Apple is just a step or two behind on that.
One most important to murder is Microsoft.
I don’t really understand how Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is relevant to this, would you mind explaining?
Since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has advertised itself as a pro-opensource company despite never open sourcing its primary consumer-facing products like Windows & Edge. This initially attracted a lot of open source developers that Microsoft gladly hired, to turn around and turn their OS into a spyware organization.
Microsoft learned that if they collected a bunch of data and shared it with the intelligence agencies, while making their OS a telemetry warehouse that tracks nearly everything you do, then they’d be able to attract and onboard the entire US government while making it nearly impossible for them to switch away in the future. At this point forensic companies aren’t shy that Windows is the worst choice for privacy.
Bitch I can’t even find basic settings cuz they are so hidden in sub menus
I’m no programmer or UX designer but I can imagine what a mess things are on the dev side
As an admin it gets so much worse. Twice a year your admin portal gets renamed, redesigned, merged with and/or split from another one, or removed, and all those changes are done halfway.
Which means some settings are only on the old version and others only on the new. Then the old one is discontinued even though the new one doesn’t have all its functions, yet.
So you completely rely on Powershell. But wait, there’s 2 incompatible versions of it now.I’m currently thinking about a career change, after reading in Microsoft’s official documentation that you need to install the new version of Powershell, import the beta version of several commandlets and then run a long script provided by them, only to keep every user on your org from creating their own Teams teams.
And their newest feature is allowing every user to put in their credit card info and buy MS products on the company domain without running it by IT. It’s called “self service”, enabled by default, and you have to click on a slider to disable it individually for every. single. product. Microsoft. offers.Jesus Christ.
I’ve been doing linux admin and honestly I haven’t been looking back. My breaking point was Microsoft pushing a kb that rebooted domain controllers for no reason.
I still remember the update that sent domain controllers into a bootloop.
That was fun!And the one that bluescreened all Windows servers.
No, the other one!Oh, and the one that did an in-place-upgrade by itself, then locked your server cause it wasn’t licensed for the new OS version.
I love how this doesn’t even begin to cover bad kbs ms pushed out. The fact that windows admins think testing updates before deploying them is a routine operation that should always be done boggles my mind.
If we can generate energy from outrage, /r/sysadmin could’ve powered the whole planet multiple times in the last 6-8 years.
They’re doing it on purpose, they’re using sysadmins for electricity for AI obviously
Oh, and the one that did an in-place-upgrade by itself, then locked your server cause it wasn’t licensed for the new OS version.
Wasn’t that primarily an issue with a third party software? And the server shouldn’t be locked by now since I believe you get a trial period of a few months. Our servers didn’t upgrade to 2025 but we use WSUS.
Or are you talking about something older?
The third party software did exactly what it was designed to do:
Push security updates automatically, while holding back feature updates for testing.
This is standard operating procedure. Security updates are not supposed to change anything about how a server works, so the risk of breakage is very low.
And they need to be installed as fast as possible, to patch holes that are now known to every attacker.Microsoft were the ones who pushed out a new Server OS installation and labelled it as security update.
I’m shopping for an MSP that is Linux-centric. 70 workstations and a handful of servers but I will drop MS in a heartbeat if I had the right support to fall back on.
And their newest feature is allowing every user to put in their credit card info and buy MS products on the company domain without running it by IT. It’s called “self service”, enabled by default, and you have to click on a slider to disable it individually for every. single. product. Microsoft. offers.
LMAO that is a special kind of pathetic
It’s maddening, cause it’s so blindingly obvious what went on in their minds when they implemented it that way.
“If just 0.1% of the users do that, it’ll make us $XX million. Can you design a popup for it that we can show all users when they open Teams?”It tells me as an admin that the software I manage as my career isn’t designed to be useful anymore. It’s only designed to extract the maximum amount of money.
It also tells me it’s time to get off this ride, cause Microsoft is evidently pushing towards a future where they administer the system, not me.
What the hell‽ Also who would buy Microsoft products for work with their own card‽
Middle management building a shadow IT. They’ll have their own company credit card for their department.
When one backdoor closes, three more open.
The goatse OS, if you will
Shit, I came here to say the same.
Your computer: a yawning maw
We: watch
I did not need that image in my head right now
What about later? Around noon, maybe 1 in the afternoon?
Remind me later
!RemindMe (4 hours)
Sorry, my alarm didn’t go off! Would now be a good time for you to think about goatse, @hupf@feddit.org?
Thanks! Perfect, right for bed time.
most open to user privacy violations?
Most open for frustration. Most open for ads. Most open for taking away control from the user.
Trust me, in a few years windows will be a monthly subscription, still filled with ads and no control over your own pc. Windows 10 will turn to a yearly subscription already. 30 dollars per year per pc for security updates. Office is already subscription based. Companies smell money, want to turn everything to a subscription.
Windows 360¹ will cost 30 bucks a year (adjusted for inflation) and will automatically upgrade you to the latest version of Windows as soon as it comes out. Additional benefits include improved security by blocking non-Store software and having your OS settings managed by Microsoft – Windows 360 will even automatically restore them if they should end up getting changed, e.g. if Recall somehow ends up disabled.
¹ Not to be confused with Windows 365, which is an entirely different thing.
So nice of them to manage my settings, even restore them when I changed any. Blocking non-store software is also great, forcing people to use the store is something Apple has done forever and totally doesn’t create a monopoly position and never restricts access or anything…
Paying money to give them total control. Are you fucking kidding me. They can shove an entire mid-tower pc case up their asses, lube is only on a subscription base available (1 drop of lube for just 7,99 per month, or 3 drops for a premium subscription of just 18,99 per month!)
These days I’d say Microsoft is getting even worse then Apple with extorting their customers.
I doubt microsoft will force consumers to pay, but that could happen to business.
edit: italics instead of bold.
Damn, I fucking hate the word “consumer”. It sounds like people are eating their pcs.
You don’t? Really nice with some basil.
Am i not supposed to do that? What’s the point of computers then?
idk
It sounds like people are eating their pcs.
Can we find a way to monetize this practice?
Windows365 is close to release. Subscription based OS without local storage. Not just for businesses.
makes me want to vomit
They are as open as OpenAI
Didn’t they call it “the most secure” a while ago?
Why are they allowed to openly lie?
In the case of marketing, it’s just considered an opinion, mostly because if anything like that is ever put forth to a Judge, there’s 900 odd ways to loophole it.
“We meant our assholes, your honor; as open as they come.”
“We meant uhm… accepting.”
It could be called puffery. A claim so ridiculous that no reasonable person would consider it a claim
A probably a bit political for this topic, but most companies are allowed to lie about most things. Only a few things that they’re not allowed to lie about.
and for those few things they’re not allowed to lie about they pull out every trick in the book to come as close to lying as possible without outright doing it.
And even when they are not on paper, they are in fact.
Their official marketing is to call Windows 11 “the most secure version of Windows ever” or something along those lines. They definitely use “the most secure” in their marketing, but I think they do it in a way where it is only in reference to previous consumer versions of Windows if you actually parse out what is being said.
Because there are no consequences for them
Right after that slide the guy is talking about how Microsoft is “committed to remaining the most reliable and secure platform”…
Yeah they’re all full of shit
Open? Sure, definitely open… To vulnerabilities
Open windows with no screens to keep the bugs out.
Open to what exactly…?
OPEN TO WHAT!?
Open to advertisers
Infection, zero days, and data collection. TOTALLY open to those.
Everyone but the user.
Open to data collection opportunities
They’re probably talking about their customers opening their wallets
Nice profile picture!
Open to the outdoors, to let the fresh air in.
That’s how you cool down the modern cpu.
Our collective anuses.
What they actually say in the video is that they are open to developers making software for their platform.
They pretend like they are the nice people, by providing decent development tools, with which to create.As someone who switched to Mac in 2007… viruses!
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Sometimes the elites poke fun at us with obviously untrue, absurd statements. It’s the equivalent of grabbing someone’s fist, pushing it in their face, and saying “stop punching yourself”.
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All users activity open for us to scrape! Recall™
The most open operating system!
Microsoft: Fuck your privacy!©
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(Or Recall Premium+ to get fewer ads)So that’s why it says ‘get your ass to Mars’…
most open to what? mostopentowhat?!
Most open to “enhancing your operating system experience with special offers and promotional materials”!
Viruses? Malware? Hackers?
Mostopentowatch
Most open to making money at the expense of security.
"“What they were telling me was counterintuitive to everything I’d heard at Microsoft about ‘customer first,’” Harris said. “Now they’re telling me it’s not ‘customer first,’ it’s actually ‘business first.’”
DiCola, Harris’ then-supervisor, told ProPublica the race to dominate the market for new and high-growth areas like the cloud drove the decisions of Microsoft’s product teams. “That is always like, ‘Do whatever it frickin’ takes to win because you have to win.’ Because if you don’t win, it’s much harder to win it back in the future. Customers tend to buy that product forever.”
Who in their right mind would ever think that any publicly traded company is consumer first? Their only goals are short term profit followed long term profits. Everything else is in pursuit of those two things.
Exactly zero fucks are given about long term profit.
If any company cared about long term profit they wouldn’t be destroying the ecosystem.
enshitification cycle: First good for customers, then they abuse their customers in favour of their business customers, then they abuse those businesses to claw back everything for themselves.
They are on step 2.
