Most open for frustration. Most open for ads. Most open for taking away control from the user.

Trust me, in a few years windows will be a monthly subscription, still filled with ads and no control over your own pc. Windows 10 will turn to a yearly subscription already. 30 dollars per year per pc for security updates. Office is already subscription based. Companies smell money, want to turn everything to a subscription.

They are as open as OpenAI

Embrace, extend, and extinguish. They literally documented it as being their strategy. Now the justice department is chasing Google who despite being bad, at least provides enough source code where people have created privacy-focused derivatives of Android. I’d much rather see them go after Microsoft first but the government relies on Microsoft, and Microsoft relies on our tax dollars going to the government so they can get them.

As an admin it gets so much worse. Twice a year your admin portal gets renamed, redesigned, merged with and/or split from another one, or removed, and all those changes are done halfway.
Which means some settings are only on the old version and others only on the new. Then the old one is discontinued even though the new one doesn’t have all its functions, yet.
So you completely rely on Powershell. But wait, there’s 2 incompatible versions of it now.

I’m currently thinking about a career change, after reading in Microsoft’s official documentation that you need to install the new version of Powershell, import the beta version of several commandlets and then run a long script provided by them, only to keep every user on your org from creating their own Teams teams.
And their newest feature is allowing every user to put in their credit card info and buy MS products on the company domain without running it by IT. It’s called “self service”, enabled by default, and you have to click on a slider to disable it individually for every. single. product. Microsoft. offers.

Go DAWless. Buy a Synthstrom Deluge for example. Still need a DAW for recording and mastering though :/ I wish there was Ableton for Linux. “-if you keep pulling shit like this” I can tell you without a doubt they are just going to intensify shit like this instead of stopping. I’m thinking of switching my main pc to Linux and use my old win10 pc disconnected for DAW. No viruses and hackers when there’s no internet. No Microsoft ads either.

They’re actually trying to force people onto 11 now? That windows partition that never gets booted sounds really close to becoming more storage for a windows-free life

For audio specifically you might find FreeBSD easier to set up. As a DAW, not as a desktop in general.

ALSA+PulseAudio\Pipewire+JACK are kinda messy compared to newpcm+JACK .

Reaper is available for Linux. I can’t vouch for it as I’ve not used it on there, but I’ve used it on Mac and it’s great. Generally well regarded and is pretty inexpensive.

Open to malicious actors, because of all the bugs.

Linux has way more CVEs: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/

(Partially because they don’t respect CVEs and assign CVEs to everything)

I disagree. Holding your hands like this is just a good way to not stand still.

Using this kind of open stance, from my experience, makes presenting easier and makes me more confident.

But yes, presenting peeps from BigEvilCo make it way worse.

Alt universe where MS went full fossy, the event focused on rolling release called “Open Windows”.

Their version of the Recall is called “Skylight” and is an extension of their full local AI “Peephole”, for which a lot of companies pay specific licencing fees of the input data it is trained on (depending on their needs & quality of selection).

Their search engine “Periscope” got some heat lately for giving users the option to display sponsored generic links.