For a moment my perception of Microsoft was that it has become a cool company (github acquisition, Linux Sub-sytem). I was impressed by how Satya Nadella turned the company around (at least in terms of image).
Between Recall and the mandatory account login to install Windows 10 I am progressively reverting to how I felt about them.
I think 'parts of' microsoft really did become cool.
In developers world, pushing open source, or in gaming - xbox game pass is just best value that there is.
But for every cool department, there also exists one that still behaves as a predatory corpo. And it seems to me like their main target are 'normie' users.
Microsoft is ultimately a for-profit publicly-owned company, and are motivated to increase shareholder value. Being perceived as cool by the open-source community might play into that in some ways, but ultimately there isn't any revenue there.
So sorry, they were never cool to me. I still use them, but if I must switch to win 11 soon, I might take that as an opportunity to finally cut loose my last dependencies with windows.
More than 60% of Azure is run on Linux [1] and the writing was already on the wall when the Linux subsystem was conceived so I don't think it's a good example of EEE.
It's somewhat hard to find, so lest anyone thinks I'm making it up, here are two things I have heard of - DirectX passthrough and (probably related) DirectML passthrough
“The only good thing about Recall is that it has been the definitive decider of moving away from Microsoft permanently because for them to create such a ‘feature’ shows a complete lack of care about people’s private data - they’ll be leaving a huge jackpot prize for anyone who breaks into a system.”
I've just installed and configured KDE Neon Plasma 6 and I'm really liking it a lot. Feels closer to Windows than my other Ubuntu and Xubuntu installs.
Microsoft desperately wants those sweet, sweet recurring revenue streams they can get from advertising and selling personal user data. Forcing login was step 1. Recall is step 2.
lol they never really sold me on it. WSL1 with its nano processes is neat, but Teams is a disgusting mess and MS has been rather consistent with treating their users like cattle.
Between Recall and the mandatory account login to install Windows 10 I am progressively reverting to how I felt about them.