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by dageshi 725 days ago
Most people do trust them already, they're still the worlds biggest desktop os by a large margin.

So erm, it probably wouldn't make any meaningful difference?

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Actually no we don't. I work for a company with 10,000 windows seats and we use it because we're basically locked in and stuck with the steaming turd. And the rug is getting pulled on Windows 10 now.

Notably one of our biggest security threat vectors is actually Windows. The security model on it is so crap it's either locked down so it's completely unusable via GPOs and behind DLP proxies and firewalls. Or the risk is accepted and as a regulated industry we get fined to death if anything goes wrong.

So no we aren't happy, we don't trust them but we have to gargle it anyway.

> Most people do trust them already,

Forced to trust them. Windows is the default at most companies, and the cheapest laptops on the market (the ones that will shove ads all over Edge and your start menu) run Windows also.