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Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.

Without Builders, you don't have software, and without software, you don't have users. This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.

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[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago

.NET is just a runtime, not problematic at all, and definitely doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with ads, spyware, and AI.

We should also get rid of the Windows C++ Redistributable packages as well!

[-] Reality@feddit.org 40 points 1 day ago

It's probably Microsofts best product

[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 13 points 18 hours ago

Probably it's best stupidest name too, except maybe renaming the remote desktop app to "Windows App".

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

Yep. Plenty of games depends on it too.

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