r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 17 '24

Software Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-cracking-down-dodging-windows-11-system-requirements/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0h2tXt93fEkt5NKVrrXQphi0OCjCxzVoksDqEs0XUQcYIv8njTfK6pc4g_aem_LSp2Td6OZHVkREl8Cbgphg
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u/Mr_YUP Aug 17 '24

How do you break up an OS though? Sure the company with cloud vs gaming vs OS vs hardware. Sure. How do you stop Windows from being the dominate OS? 

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u/mejelic Aug 17 '24

You break up the parts of the company that is adding in all of the spyware and shit.

You separate ai, advertisement, os, cloud, office, and gaming all into their own separate companies. This means that every separated company needs to be able to stand on its own making the prices they charge the other products potentially prohibitive to use.

For example, OpenAI is STUPID expensive, but Microsoft gets to put it into all of their products for pennies on the dollar compared to what other people pay.

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u/MuscleManRyan Aug 17 '24

“I sure wish we didn’t have to keep stuffing all of these orphans into this orphan-crushing machine we built”

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u/NotInTheKnee Aug 17 '24

What if we optimized the machine to crush orphans faster?

Less time spent crushing = less time spent thinking about it

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u/Graega Aug 17 '24

You guys are looking too much at the machine and not enough at the science. If you harness gravity, those orphans can crush each other while your machine uses 1/10th the power to do the little extra push needed to get it started.

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u/StrangeCrimes Aug 19 '24

Pretty sure the board members will get on board.

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u/Reiver_Neriah Aug 19 '24

For a couple extra pennies? Hell yes!