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minus-squareyeehaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-26 months agoHow much longer till Microsoft uses Windows computers across the world as a botnet. For working on it’s AI. Or some other bullshit.
minus-squarerem26_art@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agolmao its a matter of time before MS decides they need to DDoS someone so hard their data center explodes and they’ll be ready to do it
minus-squareyeehaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoNot sure if it’s still a thing but I remember they also used windows to distribute updates to other windows PCs in a bittorrent-like fashion.
minus-squareAshu@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIt still does it. The only thing is that the awareness of this feature was spread in a way to make it sound like it was just stealing your internet for nothing (which looking at it one way, it was) so most people just turned it off.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoAnd you’ll have to pay them a subscription fee to do it. If you don’t pay, your computer is bricked.
How much longer till Microsoft uses Windows computers across the world as a botnet. For working on it’s AI. Or some other bullshit.
lmao its a matter of time before MS decides they need to DDoS someone so hard their data center explodes and they’ll be ready to do it
Not sure if it’s still a thing but I remember they also used windows to distribute updates to other windows PCs in a bittorrent-like fashion.
It still does it. The only thing is that the awareness of this feature was spread in a way to make it sound like it was just stealing your internet for nothing (which looking at it one way, it was) so most people just turned it off.
And you’ll have to pay them a subscription fee to do it. If you don’t pay, your computer is bricked.