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Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 51 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Any statement by Microsoft that doesn't include, "so we banned them from publishing auto-installed drivers for a year" is an insufficient response to this crime.

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

    “Yeah, so we punished our end users because of something a manufacturer did.”

    Like, I get the sentiment. But “no pushing drivers” ain’t the solution.

    I also have to wonder if M$ can do that? If the drivers are being loaded by the monitor and not something like windows update, M$ has virtually no control over it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Monitors do not need drivers. There would be no user impact to an ban on automatic installation of LG drivers.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, they absolutely do. You can usually get away with the generics but I’ve run across my fair share of monitors that support minimum resolutions until the appropriate driver is installed.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    This is the problem with Display Port / HDMI. VGA was so much better in a lot of ways. Video goes out, monitor displayed it or didn't but no "you don't have some special software to do a resolution". None of the "oh I have to unplug it and replug it or reboot to wake the stupid video port up. You just plug in cable.

    Display port is a bunch of annoying things that are unnecessary IMO and they refuse to fix.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    punished the users by having them install non-essential drivers manually?

    If the drivers are being loaded by the monitor and not something like windows update, M$ has virtually no control over it.

    the drivers are not loaded by the monitor. they are loaded by windows update. like when your motherboard loads bloatware into your windows install, that too is actually windows update doing it for the request of the motherboard. it would be pretty wild if peripherals could install random software without coordination of the OS

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