Yes cause they can’t sell you a subscription for your mp3 player.

Fucking rent seeking behaviour from corporate parasites.

They opened their doors to the goose stepping. Fucking corporate shitheads.

Vista called and wants it’s ugly back

Do it! Regulate these fuckers out of existence!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

Already showing signs of spreading.

They know only so many people will be aware of these changes and even less businesses will do anything to remove M$ tech from their operations.

This is what I mean with closing off the garden. They might have some openings but they are actively trying to lock in as many consumers and businesses that they can. They need to lock shit in order to stay profitable above all else.

They will amalgamate them into one big “Ai cross platform password management system” which is just optimized to suck up as much private data to train their fucking Ai as possible.

This is them closing their walled gardens. The goal is to trap those that don’t know better or ignorantly don’t care.

Stop using anything Microsoft related on any of your personal devices. It’s an American capitalism virus now.

Too many people are fine with that as long as they get their shiny pictures generated. Smh