IT Sysadmin from the non-profit circle checking in. It’s actually unseasonably warm right now.
I can’t speak for the pharmaceutical IT, Medical IT, metal fabrication IT, bakery IT, education IT, or embedded systems IT circles, though. Might be getting nippy over thereabouts.
This is terrible news for everyone like me that wants to incessantly tell people to switch to Linux. While I’m here, do it. Any distro other than Ubuntu and it’s deranged derivatives please.
I mean it’s a good thing they are doing this, but I was kinda hoping they would go full suicide like unity or musk’s twatter. It’s also too little too late. They should allow straightforward telemetry disabling.
That’s the first thing I thought of too. How awesome would that be to be able to uninstall all that garbage?
That being said, there has to be registry values that are set to flag it in the OS. Friends in the EU need to make a backup of the registry before updating and then check afterwards to see what changed.
Pretty sure you can just change your regional settings, I always install selecting English UK and I’ve never seen most of the shit people post on Lemmy.
Microsoft has published a new blog post which details how Windows 11 will be made compliant with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Economic Area (EEA.)
To be compliant, Microsoft has made several changes to the OS, which now allows users to choose between providers and uninstall most in-box apps.
The company describes these changes as specific to Windows 11 PCs in the EEA, so it’s unclear if users outside this area will be able to utilize these functions.
These changes will rollout in preview on Windows 11 in the Insider Beta Channel in the coming weeks, and will become generally available early next year.
The EEA is an economic and political union that spans 27 countries in the European and surrounding area.
In the case of Microsoft, this means not forcing users to use Edge or Bing, and ensuring the OS is interoperable with other services where necessary.
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Yep, they said a software update is coming next year.
Probably part of their legal appeal to get themselves removed from the Digital Services Act… something they’re a niche player in the messaging services industry… Never mind the fact iMessage has billions of users sending a quarter million messages per second.
They probably mean your browser/search engine settings will actually be respected, instead of what sometimes happens now where you can have set everything to not use bing or edge but still certain MS software will launch a search in edge, using bing.
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