“If you don’t have another cloud destination, don’t worry… we’ll automatically save it to your OneDrive account we FORCED you to get when you activated your operating system. Why no! You CAN’T turn it off! Also, we won’t let you edit your files without internet connectivity. You can never be too safe!”

Literally the ONLY thing stopping this from happening is they don’t think they can get away with it yet. I’m NOT going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

And in a SANE world, somebody who learned a lesson would be using their knowledge so we don’t keep repeating the same crap over and over again.

Toyoake in Aichi

No, I didn’t expect that, which is why it was stupid to say it in the first place. You can’t turn this around and put it on the customer to have to read between the lines what the business is trying to actually say. How about, the multi-billion dollar company that has entire buildings full of lawyers doesn’t make claims that it can’t back up?

I’m not saying it’s right to expect that the Windows operating system was never going to have to have a paid upgrade again, but it was also stupid and wrong to make the claim that it wouldn’t. That’s on them. Nobody held a gun to their head and told them to lie to their customers and then later claim they didn’t mean it. And furthermore, why give them the benefit of the doubt? You think if you were in trouble because of something stupid you said, Microsoft is going to come to your aid? Is it being fair? To a company that wouldn’t care if they accidentally bankrupted you with a forced update?

And sure, they can "clarify"all they want that he didn’t mean the words that he said precisely and accurately in unambiguous English. It doesn’t change the fact that he’s not some random employee. He is an executive. He knows, and everyone else should know as well, that he speaks as a representative of the company. Otherwise what’s to keep them from lying through their teeth about whatever features they want? “It prints free money! It’ll cure all your diseases! No, no… he didn’t mean that.”

He’d probably have an easier time with the lawsuit if instead of appealing to upgrade logic, he just went with, I don’t know…

THE TIME MICROSOFT PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED WINDOWS 10 WOULD BE THE LAST NUMBERED VERSION AND THAT THEY’D NEVER NEED TO UPGRADE OS VERSION AGAIN.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32658340

Pepperidge Farm remembers, Microsoft scum.

I want to believe this is real SO badly, but it’s just too perfect… It can’t be… can it?

Because collapse is coming.

There’s a book called “The Forge of God” by Greg Bear, and in it,

And if your projection gets you through yours, more power to you as well. I’m just a guy on the internet. I don’t know why getting the last word here is so important to you, but far be it from me to deny you something you seem to need so badly. I’d think that high salary of yours would free you from needing the validation of making speculative personal insults at random shitposters who hurt your feelings, but hey, if you want it, you take it. Congratulations on your internet victory!

Well, you’re right. Everyone has to draw their own line. I’ll agree with you this is probably less egregious than some, and I personally do make make purchases I shouldn’t from institutions I shouldn’t to get by.

But I do every single one of those holding my nose and acknowledging I’m contributing to a problem.

I made a general comment, and my opinion has not changed. You didn’t have to make it personally about you, but you decided to come defend your honor against a nonspecific shitpost. Just like MY opinion is mine, yours is YOURS, and you didn’t need to jump in here.

Heck, I specifically addressed my initial comment to “lazy, doormat Spotify users” and for some reason you decided I was talking about you.

You are so cool. I am very impressed.

Look, I can’t expect your assessment of value proposition to align with mine - we are different people.

But if I were a paying Spotify customer, and they gave $250 million dollars to pay someone I think is actively damaging the world, and then started charging me MORE to pay for it, there is ABSOLUTELY no amount of cost benefit and convenience that would keep me there.

I will sit in a dark, silent room motivating on pure spite before I would accept such an indignity.

“I’m SO good at making money that I don’t care when people cheat me out of it for no other reason than because they feel like it. This is something I am proud of.”

Lazy doormat Spotify users: “Okay… but this is the LAST, LAST, LAST TIME FOR REAL. Do it again and there’ll be a hashtag and a series of Tiktok memes!”

Most things can be done with a lot less resources than you think

Not for getting billions in unnecessary funding from people with too much money and such poor decision-making that I wouldn’t trust them to house sit for me.

A fellow member of boiled, unsalted chicken club!

Don’t forget the tabasco.

This is a reference to the book, House of Leaves_§ by Mark Z. Danielewski.

§panda_abyss, in his seminal work on referring to House of Leaves, mentions this reference in the Lemmy_† Thread “3. DFW 4. ibid”.

† I used to work as a tattoo artist you know.