I'm almost 45 years, started with MS-DOS5 as a kid and here I am writing that I entirely ditched Microsoft.
I'm not gonna bother you with all the reasons that I have, but the main reason is security. These big tech companies push you into their clouds, steal your data and spy on you.
To me back in the 80's and 90's Microsoft was all about innovation and cool stuff. Now these days, just like Google, it seems to be all about power and money. There seems to be barely anything happening anymore, aside from releasing a new Windows version every X year with the same stuff but the start button on a different location, and perhaps a few different colors and more and more cloud integration.
I've seen MSDOS, Novell Netware, a...
I'm almost 45 years, started with MS-DOS5 as a kid and here I am writing that I entirely ditched Microsoft.
I'm not gonna bother you with all the reasons that I have, but the main reason is security. These big tech companies push you into their clouds, steal your data and spy on you.
To me back in the 80's and 90's Microsoft was all about innovation and cool stuff. Now these days, just like Google, it seems to be all about power and money. There seems to be barely anything happening anymore, aside from releasing a new Windows version every X year with the same stuff but the start button on a different location, and perhaps a few different colors and more and more cloud integration.
I've seen MSDOS, Novell Netware, all Microsoft releases, BSD, OS2/Warp and a bunch of linux distro's. For now I'm on Mint as I love how tidy and clean everything is, not sure what is next.