Just saw in another post that Microsoft is pushing their copilot AI into Windows 2022 servers. Windows 11 will become a data syphoning ad-riddled spyware. And Microsoft office will send everything you type to some AI learning machine god knows where.
This will be a huge privacy concern for governments very soon and may force them to switch to Linux and libre office. Germany is not even the first one to do this. French police already use Ubuntu on their desktop computers.
I work with government admins a lot and they’ve already told me the shit show they’ve been dealing with regarding feature updates somehow installing themselves on their devices despite it being disabled via GPO. Unfortunately, I think the government will just flex on Microsoft and force them to strip the shit out for their baseline Windows images rather than move to a Linux alternative.
Ya I’m pretty sure gov with E5 M365 tenants will just not have those features installed. Most govs have rules about data residency.
My windows PC bricked its OS in the last month, it was definately caused by an upgrade (corrupted hive). I strip my windows installs bare with a script so I assume it was looking for some telemetry service or something. Jokes on Windows, I was planning to switch the OS on that PC anyway. Annoying because it was bad timing.
Windows 11 will become a data syphoning ad-riddled spyware
Become?
Like, yeah, it’ll progressively get worse, but it’s already spyware and already has ads. Same goes for Windows 10.
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i wouldn’t call this a rebellion or battle. it’s just government trying to find the right tool for the job.
You’re assuming Microsoft will just respond to it with “Oh, OK then, we’re cool with this.”
They won’t.
Lots of problems that used to exist in this area no longer do.
Used to be that the de facto standard office format was doc/xls/ppt, now both MS Office and LibreOffice support both ODF and OOXML both of which are open standards.
Used to be that internal software was mostly written for the Windows API, now it is mostly written for web browsers (between which there are no longer any significant differences in terms of standards compatibility).
The world really is slowly getting better. I would like to help accelerate this, but don’t really have any ideas where to start.
now both MS Office and LibreOffice support both ODF and OOXML both of which are open standards.
There are standards and then there are “standards.” ODF was designed to be usable and implementable from the spec. Meanwhile, OOXML is just a glorified XML serialization of Word’s internal memory structures that Microsoft bribed ECMA to rubber-stamp.
Of course they are not equally good, no question about it. They are still both (technically) open standards and the main point is that they are both supported by both pieces of software, i.e. the practical difference between them is mainly in the UI, you don’t need to get the other one just to read files created by one of them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The plan is to start with LibreOffice and move through essential infrastructure and desktop OS to the full top-to-bottom open stack.
Microsoft’s focus on moving people to Office 365 and upping hardware specs for Windows 11 for no good reason makes taking a different path much more palatable.
In the past, its privacy stance saw it banned for use in schools in the state of Hessen, although the company has absorbed rectifying decisions that eventually followed.
If a change to Windows happens to break that compatibility, guess who picks up the pain and the bills.
Schleswig-Holstein itself will become a new hub of technical excellence in an area that intensely interests the rest of the world, in public and private organizations.
That may change if a new set of politicians are elected with a different agenda, but here we must give the voters the responsibility of keeping an eye on things.
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Good comparison. Though, germany is that to US anyway.
