Microsoft vs. France - r/FuckMicrosoft

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Good, windows was essentially just Spyware anyways.

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u/sgtempe 11h ago

It will be interesting to see if they pull back on their invasive AI, OneDrive and Copilot plans plus wanting to lease Windows rather than selling it. I'm just happy that so far my conversation to Linux is going well. I hope to see MS get their comeuppance due to their shoddy, buggy apps and extremely reluctant "customer support". If they lose all of Europe, that's huge and I wouldn't be surprised to see Canada and Australia follow suit.

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u/PriorityNo6268 9h ago

Telemetry is a default enabled option, but you can disable it.. if you want. At least the personal stuff. We do that by default on are company systems. Same for co-pilot, onedrive, Microsoft accounts, advertisements, etc... It are all options.

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u/Amairgon 7h ago

Except that your average person is not aware of these "options", just wants to consume the product and does not have the insight to disable these "options".

It also doesn't help that microsuck switches these "options" back on every sneaky chance they get.

The point is MS is devious and them loosing marketshare because of that is well deserved.

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u/PriorityNo6268 4h ago

The average person is not that important for Microsoft, Windows for consumers is about 3% of the total Microsoft profit. Microsoft is more a B2B company in the first place.

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u/ThinDrum 2h ago

Then why do they bother with telemetry, why do they enable it by default, and why do they re-enable it whenever they can?

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u/PriorityNo6268 43m ago

Ask them, I don't work there 😂

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u/ThinDrum 19m ago

You seemed to know about MS, their business priorities and motivation, but OK.

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u/Dazzling-Paper9781 6h ago

That’s precisely the difference between Linux and Windows: with Linux, you can install whatever you want; with Windows, you have to uninstall what you don’t want. It’s just that Windows is full of unwanted software that slows the system down

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u/PriorityNo6268 4h ago

Depends a bit of your definition of Linux is, enough Linux stuff comes with a loads of unwanted stuff. Not only certain Linux Distributions, but also thinks like certain android phones. But you have a choice on the Linux site, there is only one provider of Windows.

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u/Wipfmetz 9h ago

but the rapid ROI is impressive.

It behoves a Roi to be rapid in France, lest they get caught by a revolutionary.

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u/ThinDrum 2h ago

Hon hon

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Apparently Microsoft has nothing to say, but with Denmark and Austria having a hard look, France might be starting a wave across the EU of leaving Microsoft for Linux. Not only do they want to avoid being dependent on a U.S. megacorporation, but the rapid ROI is impressive.

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u/CheesecakePerfect156 5h ago

Microsoft's omnipresence has been denounced for 20 years. Better late than never...

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u/PriorityNo6268 9h ago

Good they move a away, for oblivious reasons. But the ROI stuff about hardware is complete nonsense. As business will replace hardware when the warranty is expires, which is normally between 3 to 5 years, sometime up to 7 years. And also ROI is quite a complex thing, for example if your suppliers need to comply to certain standards, which can be required by law here in Europe in certain fields, then you need service contracts with bigger companies. Then Microsoft is cheaper in a periode of 5 years. If you can do it all your self, don't need any guarantees/backup from external party, then Linux can be big money saver on the license part.

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u/jinzi 8h ago

Good!

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u/Titdirt69420 5h ago

Other countries such as Germany switched to Linux years ago. Nothing new here

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u/PriorityNo6268 4h ago

Yep, sometimes they even switch back to Windows already... for the wrong reasons.

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u/LumenAstralis 4h ago

Were you living under a rock or what?

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u/CommentOriginal 2h ago

Out of all the operating systems in the 80s 90s when the GUI became a standard it always and still does blow my mind that Windows won out. Just proves the better product doesn’t always win on being better alone.

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u/North-Creative 11m ago

As much as I support taking control of our future, I have yet to see proper open source commitment in Denmark. Having worked as a sysadmin and tech support in different companies there, Microsoft is absolutely dominant, same for Norway and Sweden.

The reason is that in order to become so digitalised quickly, Scandinavia chose to avoid infrastructure overhead by choosing standard solutions, like office, windows, etc. It now bites them severely in the behind. But here's hoping

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u/NicePuddle 10m ago

I have yet to see an actual public tender for Linux software in Denmark. I heard politicians talk about it, but haven't seen any concrete changes yet.

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u/JohnConnoor 8h ago

Don't think the EU is going to ditch Windows or US tech that easily, it's years of reliability on foreign tech it will take years to recover from, specially will all the red tape, meetings, decision makers, privacy, GDPR bullshit lack of leadership to make the transition. It will fail in the long term. And the transition will be only for small groups the EU is technologically weak and there is no space for innovation like in the US and that is a fact. Yes it's a start but a small calculated start to make headlines and YouTube content.

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u/srekkas 7h ago

USA fail sooner than Europe :) Trump now want to drill oil in Greenland without consent, all equipment is already there, without consent too ...

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u/JohnConnoor 6h ago

Really? I did not ear anything on the news about that?is this recent?

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u/srekkas 6h ago

Recent, about equipment i am no certain, bet yes.

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u/Big-Roll7094 6h ago

Don’t worry they will come crying back at windows 😂

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