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Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes up (www.techradar.com)
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Microsoft is working on a new project labeled Windows 'K2', intent on removing bloatware, reducing AI, and optimizing Windows 11 for gaming, with three focuses of 'performance, craft, and reliability'.

the issue is not about performance, is about enshitification. I mean, do we need TPM? do we need Microslop account to login our pc/laptop? do they really need to shove Copilot into Windows?

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[–] 11 points 6 months ago (4 children)

They are clearly scared shitless.

Consumers aren't MS's market anymore. It would hurt if Windows lost market share but it wouldn't be devastating.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    What is their market then? Corporate OS? EU is already planning to move off the Windows to Linux in corporate spaces. Things have been moving in this direction lately.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Their primary source of income is services like M365 and Azure. Its been like that for a while now. That's the main reason for the Win11 fuckup - they just don't care about consumers anymore.

    There are moves to get public bodies in some EU countries off of non-sovereign platforms but as a risk it is a long way off. You are right though, its definitely a worry for them.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yep, there's a reason they turned Office into a web app. Even if companies switch to Linux or macOS, MS can still sell them a subscription to Outlook/Office/etc.

    Company wants to move their servers to Linux as well? Well Azure also provides cloud based Linux servers, MS doesn't care what you run as long as they can make money off it.

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