Posted by tech234a 3/29/2025
Tough, isn't it ? Your security is very important _for us_. Your privacy is very important _for us_. See PayPal, Stripe, Google and other "services" for examples.
To directly answer: I have a Win 10 without MS account. Disk got corrupted, chkdsk cannot repair, cannot boot. Checking messages on screen was something like "online chkdsk failed". Unplugging the ethernet cable "fixed" the issue.
One that works this week, what I found online did not help.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...
Does MS try to force an automated upgrade on anyone who installs it.
An acquaintance of mine works for Microsoft. Every time I meet him, he always tells me how much money hey makes. I'm sure it's double of what I earn when I have a good year. A big part of me wants to earn that money, too. But an unwavering part of me knows, I could never work for Microsoft.
At this point it is not just bitterness from their anti-Linux, anti-FOSS FUD days:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010201090600/http://www.dot-lie...
It is knowing that I don't align with their philosophies, at all.
I can feel it every time I try to use one of their broken, unloved UIs.
I don't believe the problem is the engineers, the leadership of Windows fails to understand what the OS is meant for: getting out of the way so you can access the apps.
Yeah, Microsoft is a big place.
I heard the Acquired podcast episode on Microsoft, and I can’t pretend that their business strategies failed; they didn’t, and arguably it is the most successful company in history. I have a lot of respect for the business side.
And the things that rub me the wrong way are part of their success, e.g. embedding WWW into the OS early on.
The main reason I can’t work for them is their Vogon aesthetics. They’re like a square pair of shoes: not meant for you.
When I first got into computers an operating system was primarily known as a file-loader — a way or mechanism to load one's apps. Take CP/M as an example.
Big Tech and big money is not just Microsoft --- there's Apple and Google too, but if you don't want to work for MS, then the latter two might be "same but different".
I’m sure it’s just because he likes money, and because we have very little in common.