Maybe they'll be kind enough to create a proggy called "Kill Cortana" that actually works.
Ever heard of
winget uninstall cortana? Yeah, that works.
If Bing and Cortana die a horrible death because of this I will be very pleased.
Microsoft deserve all the bile and vitriol they've earned with those two words.
Being cynical. Hip with the techies, isn't it. You guys just looove to whine about every single thing. I've personally used Bing and it's not all that bad considering services like DDG also use it. But I'll give you that for Cortana, never liked her and promptly destroyed her from my machine, the only preinstalled thing I remove.
Whats their demands- stop telemetery, advertisements on windows?
Want to stop telemetry, to have privacy, all that stuff? You're not safe even if you don't use Windows. Kindly unplug your ethernet cable and ditch your ISP. You're not safe even then. Tracking exists in the form of SIM cards, credit cards, and a plethora of others.
And you live in a capitalist dystopia. Like it or not, you're going to get advertisements. Personally it took me less than 30 seconds to unpin all that stuff from the start menu in Windows 11 (which isn't even installed unless you click on it - they're basically shortcuts) and replace them with my own stuff. Do consider this - some people use those.
Despite how much I paid for Windows and despite the advertisements it comes with, I can easily remove them, it does not affect performance, they do not come back after a feature update, and it's still the best OS I've ever used having tried Linux on bare metal for months. I still regret doing that to this day. Their user base still has me convinced they crawl straight out of the 10th circle of hell.
Ads in explorer, I hear you furiously typing? Those are tips and tricks to remind ignorant idiots to back up their files once in a while. Or they're promotions for MS's other products that some people might find useful. Power users can simply dismiss those. But God forbid Microsoft promotes their own products in their own OS. Apple does it too but who gives a shit about that, huh. Only when MS does anything do people huff and puff their rage out.
I've been living a much more relaxed and productive life once I stopped trying my futile attempts to block corporations tracking me. I sadly can't do anything about it, so why should I care anymore.
I'm really starting to root for the likes of LAPSUS$.
Bad idea. You don't know the ulterior motives of these pricks.
I've legitimately seen the same regurgitated thoughts about Microsoft in just about every single thread. This is comparative to the standard horde hate of Epic, for example. Yes, we get it, you have a hate boner for Microsoft. How long are you gonna go out announcing it to the world until you're satisfied, and turning threads into pointless debates?
Anyway, the time for dispelling my pent up emotions is over and I'd suggest you check out line two of my signature before you bother to reply. Who are these LAPSUS$, some new cool kids on the block? Thinking they're big shit going around hacking everyone? Well they're not impressing me. Take down the entire Fortune 500 list and we'll talk. Maybe not even then. I can never sympathize with hacker groups.
