Microsoft will assist the FBI in unlocking your Windows PC data if asked
www.windowscentral.com
Microsoft says it will provide the FBI with BitLocker encryption keys if requested for PCs that upload their key to the cloud via your Microsoft Account.

With Microsoft bodging the operating system by disabling offline accounts, cramping AI in everything and obviously don’t giving a flying f*** about your personal data: how far did you come sweeping that company from your or your family members life?

For me, it is still hard to evade Microsoft, as for reasons, companies and governments are still buying into that ecosystem (Teams, OneDrive, Office, Azure, …).

Did you manage to cut or phase Microsoft out?

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    Microsoft hasn’t given a fuck about consumers for decades since it’s founding

    FTFY

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Nah, up to the 2000s Microsoft actually had a product people wanted. A platform to work and play on, biggest range of programs, open hardware standards companies could develop products for and mass market adoption to pull software developers in. The developers at MS designed software they wanted and needed, and most professional MS products I worked with hat an awesome documentation that explained features well and encouraged you to try it out with short and relatable examples.

      Apple was expensive and mostly incompatible hardware and low market share. Amiga had better graphics, but was mostly a gaming system and had a lower market share. PC was a something people already knew from work, and everyone was pirating programs and games, so the “cost” of buying into the PC was relatively low for the consumer.

      However today Windows sales are a small part of Microsoft profits. The bigger share is cloud computing or office subscriptions. That’s why they push Copilot into everything, and they annoy you to use a Microsoft account for everything so they can push you into their subscriptios.