Thread 106943847

Is it the end of Microsoft?

No. Why would it be the end of microsoft? Even if the market crashes HARD, microsoft isn't going anywhere.

did something happen?

>>106943869
besides forcing the new spyware update and patching all the previous "alternatives" that used to allow you to have a placebo of privacy?
https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-173-vulnerabilities-including-exploited-windows-flaws/

>>106943847 (OP)
they get money from businesses that pay them for licenses.
they do not care about users and never even pretended that they do.

>>106943886
Yeah, that's nothing new. Given how common Windows is, their cumulative update patches fix at least 100+ vulnerabilities each month, sometimes cracking 180-200.

Yes.

>>106943869
The death of Xbox and Microsoft repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to Windows

>>106943847 (OP)
Was introducing a Google account the end of Google? Therein lies your answer

>>106943847 (OP)
>buy steam deck
> install linux distros

>>106943847 (OP)
No, because despite it being 2024+1, there is no alternative that "just werks" and you're coping if you claim otherwise. This is enough for the average normie who already broadcasts every detail of their life on social media.

>>106944191
>there is no alternative that "just werks"
You have it backwards. There are plenty of boomers who never updooted from previous versions of windows. The "alternative" is to upgrade. But why even upgrade? It's scaremongering.

>>106944246
>But why even upgrade?
In order to enjoy security and current software that works.
>It's scaremongering
As is the notion that you don't have a digital footprint that can be traced back to you as long as you don't use Windows.

>>106944270
>fell for the scaremongering
The security you get from a router and firewall is 99% the best it will ever be, regardless of OS.

Microsoft and Windows are too big to fail

>>106944294
In the context of a hacking attempt that is deliberately targeting your system, yes. For the viruses that you'll run into with everyday use, keeping your system or at least anti-virus up to date is more important.

>>106944191
is that data even useful tho? it's been like 2 decades and datamining/advertising companies just trade it around like a shitcoin

>>106943886
Win 10 ameilorated still working fine.

>>106943847 (OP)
>US big corp
>going broke
The American tax dollars will help Microsoft if this happens.

>>106944708
actually the govt just prints the money so the entire world paypigs

>>106943847 (OP)
They have way too much money, and the majority of the world would still rather slurp up their slop or clutch their old systems than try to learn something new.

>>106943847 (OP)
Microsoft is the government, and the government is Microsoft. Ergo, it cannot end.

Every time I switch to Linux I end up running into shit that pushes me back to windows, despite my hatred for it. I don't see that changing any time soon. Distros are too fragmented to have any real progress be made besides incremental improvements.

>>106943847 (OP)
I wish Microsoft would end forever, and to never resurface. Windows will be the OS looked back full of scorn.

I'm happy to just use Windows 7 forever.

>>106944819
If Microsoft shut down, millions of innocent people would lose their jobs + access to welfare.

No, the military industrial complex would collapse without XP. The last white man's OS.

>>106943847 (OP)
God, I fucking wish. But sadly nothing will happen (as usual). They'll just keep coasting on their unlimited money and government/military deals.

I think the new spinny loader thing is really cool

>>106943886
>they release a patch fixing some vulnerabilities as they do every week
>OMG is this le end, windobrossss?!
God, I wish.

>>106944294
>The security you get from a router and firewall is 99% the best it will ever be
The security you get from a router and firewall is completely irrelevant to malware, drive bys and most of the shitware you can catch today.
Is this something you assumed yourself out of retardation, or is it some narrative your agency is trying to push?

>>106944351
>ameilorated
That's not even a word, probably infected with botnet.

China is going all in on HarmonyOS.
HarmonyOS 5 is not even based on Linux or Android anymore, they have a custom microkernel OS. Now there's a PC desktop version too.
Not looking so good for Windows and MacOS.

>>106943869
They nuked local host access lmfao

>>106945963
All the ChinkOS developments + Apple releasing a budget Macbook + Google polishing up a desktop version of Android, all of this is REALLY bad news for Microsoft. They will still stay afloat but Windows market share will finally drop from the 99% mark

>>106945980
Facts

>>106945911
Malware is a user problem.

>>106945963
Yeah but did they have to make it so mac-looking?
I hate the mac aesthetic.

>>106943847 (OP)
Windows is but a drop in the ocean compared to the shitloads of money they make with Azure.

>>106946588
is it tho?

>>106946395
No, never. And that attitude doesn't protect you against it, either.

>>106943847 (OP)
My company still use Windows NT for a handful of critical system. And there's no real plan to replace those system yet.
The world is heavily dependent of, and thus indebted to, Microsoft Windows.
It would take more than 20 years of terrible decisions making for Microsoft to die.

>>106946618
How does malware get past router and firewall?

>>106946766
The router and firewall do nothing to prevent it from getting past, your question is misconstrued.
Everything you post evidences how ignorant and confused you are about these matters.

>>106946821
You didn't answer the question. If it's a consumer router with a NAT, how is the malware going to get on the computer? Last chance.

>>106943847 (OP)
You say it like it's a bad thing.

>>106947054
Your question was misconstrued, based on false assumptions. State a query that makes sense and I will probably answer it for you.

>>106943847 (OP)
No, pretty much this >>106943858
microsoft ist relevant for the US-Government, its security and the US' interests. For microsoft will not fail as long as the United States exist in its current form.

>>106944191
>there is no alternative that "just werks"
macos for consumer devices
for enterprise more and more companies are making that costly switch also. none wants to work no cringe-dows, even linux seems more attractive.
>>106945963
I checked HarmonyOS on a deeper technical level and it looks very clean compared to the alternatives. Meanwhile Linux trannies added rust and can't figure out a window managment solution. it's fucking joeover

>>106947094
So if the problem of malware isn't the router/firewall, and isn't a user issue, what is it?

>>106947097
wrong, and microsoft will fail because they foster massive inefficiencies. enterprises may seem to put up with that but there are 10year off migrations plans being build all around the world. the web makes it possible to be windows agnostic. linux while still a pile of shit is getting better and mac is just too expensive but that is that.

>>106947115
It can be downloaded by a browser from simply loading an ad, or a malicious resource not even the site owner knows it's there. The idea that every malware or virus infection comes from a user input is very 1990's.
Nobody needs to consult you in terms of information security, you are unequipped, probably deliberately.

If your hope is for people to install a severely outdated, unpatched and likely vulnerable OS to easily add them to your state-sponsored botnet, you're underestimating your audience. Or at least I fucking hope so.

>>106943847 (OP)
Lmao, no they have Azure and the office suite, they will be fine.

>>106947142
This is user error for enabling these vectors though. You make the assumption that a user is entitled to expose themselves without consequences. Without a user, there is no malware.

>>106945963
Kek, and you niggerfaggots constantly complain about Linux having no software and think a chinkshit os will do even a better job is fucking laughable.

>>106947142
>simply loading an ad
sure

>>106947196
NTA but he's right. Malvertising is a thing.

>>106947216
Of course you could just use an adblocker. Or if you are really paranoid block all images, videos and javascript by default and enable when user wants to to roll the dice.

>>106943847 (OP)
No? Azure alone would keep them afloat

>>106945696
>If Microsoft shut down, millions of jeets would lose their jobs + access to welfare.
GOOD

>>106947242
>Of course you could just use an adblocker.
That presumes a browser with that ability will continue running on that system and that the vulnerability has been found and added to a block list.

>>106947590
>jobs
>welfare
The brain of the /pol/troon.

>>106943869
They permanently turned off localhost

>>106947216
4chan has been hacked for a decade by everyone not stupid enough to announce it while the Jap and the Niggajeet had no idea what was going on.
If you could easily get malware from just visiting a site on a modern browser a significant part of the 4chan userbase would have been infected now yet seemingly that's not really happened.

>>106943847 (OP)
No. The turbofags who care about ads, loss of performance and forcing people to throw out perfectly good hardware are something like 0.001% of Microsoft's income. The overwhelming majority of their moneymakers are corporate clients with a lot of employees who pay them for tons of IT related stuff. The rest are normalfags that will eat every piece of shit they are served. The niggercattle, if you will.

It's the same kind of people who went through the facebookization of the internet and never thought it was weird. They will literally take a picture with a dildo in their mouth if they saw 2 other retards do it.

>>106947142
>The idea that every malware or virus infection comes from a user input is very 1990's.
i was under the impression that it was the exact opposite in the 90s and 00s. like yes people were retarded and clicked the iloveyou.exe they got in an email but iirc the internet was much more of a wild west because everything had a shit ton of vulnerabilities due to lack of oversight. there was even like predictions that the internet would eventually be come unusable due to too much spyware, spam and viruses everywhere.

but anyways it turns out that if you bolt on enough bloatware onto an OS or a browser, it eventually becomes secure even if bombed 24/7 by various third world troll farms and cyberwarfare sectors. that is, until we get a proper hot war and it turns out there are a shitload of backdoors in everything

>>106949133
So let's dispel your shit for brains misconceptions right away.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/ddos-botnet-aisuru-blankets-us-isps-in-record-ddos/

I don't need retards creating attack vectors here on the board. It's very important that anyone browsing the board identifies attempts to make people run old OSes as malicious and probably Chinese and Russian-sponsored.

Windows 11 is complete shit. Running windows XP or 7 in 2025 is not a solution to anything.

>>106949183
>It's very important that anyone browsing the board identifies attempts to make people run old OSes as malicious and probably Chinese and Russian-sponsored.
oh yeah i agree 100%. that was kinda my point though: the insane bloat of a modern day browser and OS comes partially from having to make everything thirdie-proof.

also i somehow don't really believe microsoft is *really* going to withhold updates to the windows 10 unless you buy into some extra update subscription (tm) because at that point they are going out of their way to monetize and be complicit in cybercrime. are they really going to say "yeah we actually want most of our windows 10 users to become a part of a botnet run by a terrorist state"

>>106945980
Windows hasnt been 99% in like 25 years.
Macbooks are very popular now

>>106949327
>10% marketshare
>very popular
About as popular as being gay, it seems.