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    Why Are You Staying On Windows 11? (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Just dual boot...

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    (FWIW the downvote wasn't me)

    That sounds like you're suggesting that Microsoft wouldn't care what was installed locally to be able to net-boot / run the rest of Windows.

    I think it's all but certain that they'd want user's computers to to boot into something they made, or at the very least, slapped their branding all over, even if that was only a wrapper for their web browser.

    I can definitely see them going down the line of saying that their online apps aren't guaranteed to work under any other system, going so far as to throw in a few deliberate stumbling hazards for anything that isn't theirs. (Until anti-trust, etc.)

    And thus, dual booting will still be something that people do. Even if - as you clarified - they're not going to cripple that as well.

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

    I think it’s all but certain that they’d want user’s computers to to boot into something they made, or at the very least, slapped their branding all over, even if that was only a wrapper for their web browser.

    Oh yeah, absolutely. They might even make Edge send some additional data to verify that it's the browser being used. They might even add attestation with a binary is pinging Microsoft with messages signed by a microsoft private unique per machine and generated when the user signs in. They could add a paid subscription to limit the number of devices connecting to the cloud instance. For an extra fee they could add connection "from any device or browser".

    Or or or. There are a bunch of things they can do. They could also, as I said, just allow any browser to connect, but looking back, yeah, that's probably naive.

    Who knows and who knows how fast (or slow) governments would react.

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