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by smadurange 2397 days ago
Or you are just so bogged down in history that you have a difficulty changing your opinion. Few decades is a long time in our line of work.

Microsoft didn't change out of charity or ethics. They were forced by the direction industry was heading as a whole. Cloud, opensource software, Google, AWS started making Microsoft irrelevant unless they changed.

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Bogged down in history. One has to admire at least a little bit this attempt at gaslighting someone into not trusting their own experiences and Microsoft's long negative track-record which they're still adding to.

The telemetry scandal which has been reported on everywhere proves that Microsoft just changed into another Google. They're still collecting telemetry today, in spite of all the protests. A few hours isn't a long time in our line of work...

“A few hours(...)”

Are you referring to this?

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/infosec/atom-community...

The telemetry in windows is ongoing so I’m just wondering if I missed something new