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0 pointsCamperBob21y ago0 comments

What business is it of yours?

Or Microsoft's?

Or Apple's?

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Microsoft care quite a bit because security vulnerabilities of end user machines that were out of date was a huge issue. Since they basically stopped allowing users to run outdated versions, that problem has effectively disappeared.

CamperBob2OP1y ago

So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users. Got it.

Suggest reading up on the history of personal computing, and then ask yourself if this is how it was supposed to go. At this point, even Mac and Linux users are starting to feel the loving embrace of their OS vendors' paternalism.

wvenable1y ago

As soon as computers are on a network that changes things. A compromised machine is a danger to others.

> So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users.

I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.

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wvenable1y ago

CamperBob2OP1y ago

So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users. Got it.

wvenable1y ago

As soon as computers are on a network that changes things. A compromised machine is a danger to others.

> So it was necessary to destroy the product in order to save its users.

I fail to see how an updated OS is a destroyed product.

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