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holy shit, MS really IS trying to kill their platforms. Ads in Windows, ads in GitHub ads in bing (does anyone even use bing?). You get ads, you get ads, everyone gets ads!
add to the fact that in the past year they've had the worst series of updates to their OS. It's always been bad but easily in the past few months it's been "holy shit" bad.
I think you don't understand: the plan is that nobody has any right, or means, to escape being an inmate in the parasiting-regime.
the OS-has-to-know-your-age-and-report-it laws coming in, to break Linux from the Microsoft/Apple/Google world .. if Microsoft isn't pushing that to become totalitarian law, then they're incompetent-at-enforcing-their-dominion, which they definitely are not..
IOW, they must be pushing that kind of law, as a means of eradicating the true competition.
Enforcing learned-helplessness & inability-to-escape is the intent of 1984's "reality", right?
We're seeing it happen, but .. semi-privatized.
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