A Computer Virus normally targets the weaknesses of an operating system in order to do horrible things to it’s user. But what happens with a multi-trillion dollar company spends a decade slowly changing their own operating system to act just like a virus?

    • osanna@thebrainbin.org
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      11 days ago

      dang. windows literally is ransomware now. Surely this is the year of the linux desktop??

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        11 days ago

        One can hope :3. I don’t think there’s gonna be a mass windows exodus any time soon though, the majority of people are either too entrenched, or don’t know/care enough about computing to consider alternatives

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      11 days ago

      I am sure that you can sue microsoft if they do that (At least in europe, i think)

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        Certainly :3. I think that was pointed out in the replies to the comment. Of course the practicality of actually suing microsoft may be more complicated even in europe