[Info-vax] Microsoft "innovation", was: Re: Where to locate software

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-06-09, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Prompted by rolling upgrade subtopic, but more widely applicable:
> Microsoft may claim that Windows has various different innovative
> features. They are after all well known for bringing 20th century
> computing technology to the 21st century world.
>

In a way, with clustering, my signature has never been more
accurate. :-) Microsoft are indeed finally bringing 1980s technology
(but from a rival) into their own operating system here in the 21st
century. Not the way I meant the signature but still... :-)

However, this is one Microsoft "innovation" I think we could all
do without:

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/06/10/1350245/visual-studio-2015-c-compiler-secretly-inserts-telemetry-code-into-binaries

Simon.

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Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world