Microsoft Continues to Attack Users' Choice
Context: Diversity of Views, Diversity of Sources (IBM is trying to impose monoculture on and inside Free software, too; if you disagree, you'll get attacked)
And not just IBM:
SO Microsoft Dell (or Silver Lake, the entity that has been attacking WordPress) will "drop long-running XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude brand":
And "the main brunt seems to be on models known for Linux support," an associate opines. Because who needs choice anyway? We may "have to look into changes to official Linux support post-rebranding..."
According to this, it's about "HEY HI" (hype) to a large extent. Microsoft depends on that hype to buy time. To quote: "It also announced two laptops in the Dell Pro Base range: a 13- and a 14-inch model each initially powered by Intel Core and Core Ultra processors with between 8GB and 64GB of RAM, up to 2TB of storage, and Windows 11 or Ubuntu Linux bundled."
Well, "Ubuntu Linux" is mentioned there, but only further down.
And "it's like this in the shops too," we're told, "none of the displays involving new computers mention either Windows(tm) or Microsoft(tm) anywhere."
In the same publisher, Brandon Vigliarolo reports that "Microsoft [is] now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google" (a spoof like this would be considered illegal; even if Bing is dying in some places that doesn't make spoofing OK).
So in short, users' choice is being taken away, and we're meant to believe that "freedom" (or choice) still exists. Neither choice nor freedom remain. See what Doctorow said over a decade ago about “a war on general purpose computing“.
We're being herded into uniformity. They try to technically impose this uniformity using restrictions which impose back doors on everybody. They hope to do the same to the Web under the guise of "safety" or "combating misinformation". █