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A Computer Virus normally targets the weaknesses of an operating system in order to do horrible things to it's user. But what happens with a multi-trillion dollar company spends a decade slowly changing their own operating system to act just like a virus?

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[-] Rollade@lemmy.ml 27 points 7 months ago

I mean it was spyware for a while now. Just waiting for the secenario, some people already joked about.( This "we encrypted your files so you switch to copilot os" meme/satire screenshot.)

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 43 points 7 months ago

According to one commenter on the linked video, that had happened to someone

[-] osanna@thebrainbin.org 16 points 7 months ago

dang. windows literally is ransomware now. Surely this is the year of the linux desktop??

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 9 points 7 months ago

One can hope :3. I don't think there's gonna be a mass windows exodus any time soon though, the majority of people are either too entrenched, or don't know/care enough about computing to consider alternatives

[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

For me all it now takes is that the games and software are able to be used on linux

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I am sure that you can sue microsoft if they do that (At least in europe, i think)

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 5 points 7 months ago

Certainly :3. I think that was pointed out in the replies to the comment. Of course the practicality of actually suing microsoft may be more complicated even in europe

[-] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Stallman was right. IMHO.

[-] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago

The surveilance economy was a grey zone in ancient time. Few did anything to put up a fight. In modern times it is normalized.

[-] hayvan@piefed.world 3 points 7 months ago

Windows is so entranched in people's lives, they'd still be most used OS if the new update started shooting their house pets in the head.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I’ve been saying this since the Mac vs Windows flame wars of the early 90s.

[-] electrotabby@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago

And still it forms the central cogs in the corporate machine.

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