I feel like the headline and all these comments have WAAAAAYYYYY too much faith in the technical savvy and/or privacy concerns of the average pc user. They are not committing suicide. They know that a very small minority will be upset by recall and AI but the vast majority don’t know enough to care and definitely won’t take the time to learn about why they should care.
They are not committing suicide. They know that a very small minority will be upset by recall and AI but the vast majority don’t
run IT for big companies.
The small minority are those people. I do IT consulting and have contracts with several companies… We’re road-mapped to remove windows from everything possible, we deal in PII and cannot risk any facet of microsoft’s nonsense to collect it. And windows has a history of turning shit back on after being explicitly disabled. The business market is much larger than the general consumer market. And new workers who grow up in environments like businesses that work in Linux, will likely have had chromebooks in school. Meaning that Windows will not be defacto in those people’s lives at all. This is shooting themselves in the foot (or possibly face) indeed.
Hey it only took til 2024 to get it on the roadmap! Hopefully complete by . . . 202. . . 7?
By end of year outside of a handful of systems that are critical and cannot be replaced (My last count was literally a dozen). I spent a good chunk of last year ripping vmware and windows out of a lot of systems. I got halted this year because of SOC2 audits though… Gotta get back on the kill M$ train.
(Yay proxmox and whatever flavor of linux was easiest to support for a function [typically debian, sometimes alpine])
I work in healthcare IT. EHR clients and other necessary software that hold PHI (protected/private health information) run only on Windows. Recall seems to require a PC with a discrete 40 TOPs NPU so none of the current workstations. There is an opt-out already so I’m sure, though not positive, it can be turned off with a group policy.
I, optimistically, think this is a moot point for businesses. The goal is to get consumer data to sell not lose business purchases.
Cynically, I think it will be forced on consumers with, eventually, no option to turn it off.
I work in healthcare IT. EHR clients […] run only on Windows.
OpenEMR doesn’t. I also do some work in healthcare too for a small office. (Though admittedly not a lot at all). Paying a license (for support) to an opensource works for my client. It’s opensource so I know it’s not going away… and openemr is completely browser based as far as client goes.
Getting locked into these bullshit softwares is half the battle though when it comes to corporate shenanigans.
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I, optimistically, think this is a moot point for businesses. The goal is to get consumer data to sell not lose business purchases.
I dunno… Some of this shit is leaking into the business/server side. More and more stuff appears that nobody asked for.
Our previous experiences with companies being hacked and leaking personal information on the “dark web” with little consequence to the bottom line anecdotally proves otherwise.
I do think there’s a big shift of business to Apple for this reason. In the cybersecurity world Windows is - no exaggeration - the reason for that industry’s existence.
I feel like the headline and all these comments have WAAAAAYYYYY too much faith in the technical savvy and/or privacy concerns of the average pc user. They are not committing suicide. They know that a very small minority will be upset by recall and AI but the vast majority don’t know enough to care and definitely won’t take the time to learn about why they should care.
run IT for big companies.
The small minority are those people. I do IT consulting and have contracts with several companies… We’re road-mapped to remove windows from everything possible, we deal in PII and cannot risk any facet of microsoft’s nonsense to collect it. And windows has a history of turning shit back on after being explicitly disabled. The business market is much larger than the general consumer market. And new workers who grow up in environments like businesses that work in Linux, will likely have had chromebooks in school. Meaning that Windows will not be defacto in those people’s lives at all. This is shooting themselves in the foot (or possibly face) indeed.
Hey it only took til 2024 to get it on the roadmap! Hopefully complete by . . . 202. . . 7?
By end of year outside of a handful of systems that are critical and cannot be replaced (My last count was literally a dozen). I spent a good chunk of last year ripping vmware and windows out of a lot of systems. I got halted this year because of SOC2 audits though… Gotta get back on the kill M$ train.
(Yay proxmox and whatever flavor of linux was easiest to support for a function [typically debian, sometimes alpine])
I work in healthcare IT. EHR clients and other necessary software that hold PHI (protected/private health information) run only on Windows. Recall seems to require a PC with a discrete 40 TOPs NPU so none of the current workstations. There is an opt-out already so I’m sure, though not positive, it can be turned off with a group policy.
I, optimistically, think this is a moot point for businesses. The goal is to get consumer data to sell not lose business purchases.
Cynically, I think it will be forced on consumers with, eventually, no option to turn it off.
OpenEMR doesn’t. I also do some work in healthcare too for a small office. (Though admittedly not a lot at all). Paying a license (for support) to an opensource works for my client. It’s opensource so I know it’s not going away… and openemr is completely browser based as far as client goes.
Getting locked into these bullshit softwares is half the battle though when it comes to corporate shenanigans.
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I dunno… Some of this shit is leaking into the business/server side. More and more stuff appears that nobody asked for.
Also eClinicalWorks doesn’t either, as it’s also entirely cloud based. It does require (a user agent string that says) Chrome though.
And yes, I’m not worried about the computers I control; it’s the ones we connect to that I don’t which concern me.
A massive breach on the scale that recall facilitates tends to change such things.
Our previous experiences with companies being hacked and leaking personal information on the “dark web” with little consequence to the bottom line anecdotally proves otherwise.
Sometimes.
I do think there’s a big shift of business to Apple for this reason. In the cybersecurity world Windows is - no exaggeration - the reason for that industry’s existence.