• bfg9k@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What’s MS’s plan after this? Everyone I know that uses Windows/M365 hate it more with every passing day and is looking to leave.

    I really don’t want to be in tech support in 2029 when they kill off old outlook. There will be blood on that day.

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      2 months ago

      I switched to outlook in browser only because their native windows software is so terrible. Wish I could leave that shit OS entirely.

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      2 months ago

      No one (meaning less than 1% of people) will leave windows (sadly).

      People are lazy as shit and rather swipe their credit cards and buy something new with windows than to even give Linux a chance.

      99% of people really don’t give a shit about privacy or freedom when it comes to computers. Microsoft could slap handcuffs on them and point a camera at their screen (yes MS is already spying with telemetry, but try expaining that to a regular person) and they’d still use windows.

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      2 months ago

      Sounds like you live in an echo chamber. Windows is still by far the most popular computer operating system, and it’s not even close. There’s no sign of people moving away from Windows en-masse. Windows 11 adoption has been massive.

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        2 months ago

        Sounds like you live in a contrarian chamber. People really do hate the “new Outlook” (basically it’s just Hotmail) and Windows 11 adoption has been slower than for most other versions of Windows. The requirements often mean needing to buy a new computer which a lot of people can’t afford, especially if prices go up because of tariff nonsense.

        There will be a lot of people still running on out of support Windows 10 systems at the end of the year.