It’s good, for privacy and all of course, but I remember here a Dell BIOS upgrade that basically wiped the TPM2.0 and so windows was asking for the recovery bitlocker key at boot. I have them on a encrypted USB key and anyway I can access my MS account from another device to find the key and type it.
But I’m sure a lot of people will basically say “well, fuck, I don’t have the key”, guaranteed.
If you have a microsoft account that you’ve attached to at least one windows profile, then that machine has been registered to that account, and the bitlocker key will be stored and kept to be viewed and retrieved by logging into their microsoft account, if the machine has not been registered to a microsoft account you will either have to have jotted the very lengthy key down or have saved it to a usb
From what I can tell when a customer brings in a computer they can’t boot and give me a look of “what did you just say to me you little shit” when I ask them if they can log into their microsoft account, they don’t give you a key.
Don’t know don’t care, anyone with half a brain saw windows was a sinking ship around the time they started putting ads in a $150 software but if that wasn’t enough forcing you to decline ads every 2 weeks or whatever is just psychopathic behavior so is the degraded search, I unironically would choose chrome Os or Ios over windows theses days especially since the world has moved to browsers and os doesn’t matter but any way you look at it the steam deck has proven windows has about as necessary as AOL these days, if you’re still using windows that’s a you problem, backwards compatibility be dammed you should not be relying on this company for anything crucial it can’t be trusted.
Good job being so smart, mama’s little smart man! You still have to eat your veggies before you can have any dessert though!
More seriously, the overwhelming majority of businesses use Windows as their end user facing desktop OSes. You’re legitimately just being a myopic asshat if you think that Windows can’t be trusted for anything important. (Inb4 you bring up Crowdstrike, which wasn’t a Windows specific issue, but a “we have code running at kernel level” issue, and hit Linux roughly three months prior to the big clusterfuck)
Also, your bit about $150 cost for the OS is dumb too. The average user is buying a prebuilt with the OS preinstalled. Technically they are paying for it, but it’s a wacky discounted OEM license fee baked into the full cost. Anyone not buying a rig with Windows preinstalled can use it unlicensed, can transfer license from pretty much any older Windows OS install from the last 20 years, can just use massgrave to activate it for free, or could go buy a discounted OEM license that they can only install to one machine. The full price license allows for install on multiple machines, which you don’t really need.
My point is, very few people are paying full price for a Windows license.
Full disclosure, I agree that Microsoft is a shit company. But this elitist shit is just stupid. Especially when it’s almost pure posturing.
Oh no the poor companies making money off a product might have to update a product made in 1992😱😱😱how will they ever recuperate an investment that is free every 32 years.
Also a Monopoly is able to use monopolistic behavior to force companies to use their product and mask it as “FREE”*** then still charge the user with ads is not a good thing just look at the price delta between equivalent windows and chrome books if you don’t believe me.
IM not saying you have to get the L word I would literally get a MacBook at this point.
Yes, NT 3.5 was released in about 1992. But it was actually a ported DEC Alpha OS from a few years before…so perhaps 1988.
And the OS today is very different from NT 3.5. So it’s not software that was “made in 1992”.
Not that when it was first released has any relevance anyway. Hell, I’m more partial to software that’s been around for ages. It’s demonstrated itself over time.
But I guess someone who’s still wet behind the ears doesn’t get that.
It’s good, for privacy and all of course, but I remember here a Dell BIOS upgrade that basically wiped the TPM2.0 and so windows was asking for the recovery bitlocker key at boot. I have them on a encrypted USB key and anyway I can access my MS account from another device to find the key and type it.
But I’m sure a lot of people will basically say “well, fuck, I don’t have the key”, guaranteed.
Which brings me to the question, how is Microsoft doing this, where will people’s keys be located? Do they force everybody to put in an USB stick?
If you have a microsoft account that you’ve attached to at least one windows profile, then that machine has been registered to that account, and the bitlocker key will be stored and kept to be viewed and retrieved by logging into their microsoft account, if the machine has not been registered to a microsoft account you will either have to have jotted the very lengthy key down or have saved it to a usb
From what I can tell when a customer brings in a computer they can’t boot and give me a look of “what did you just say to me you little shit” when I ask them if they can log into their microsoft account, they don’t give you a key.
Don’t know don’t care, anyone with half a brain saw windows was a sinking ship around the time they started putting ads in a $150 software but if that wasn’t enough forcing you to decline ads every 2 weeks or whatever is just psychopathic behavior so is the degraded search, I unironically would choose chrome Os or Ios over windows theses days especially since the world has moved to browsers and os doesn’t matter but any way you look at it the steam deck has proven windows has about as necessary as AOL these days, if you’re still using windows that’s a you problem, backwards compatibility be dammed you should not be relying on this company for anything crucial it can’t be trusted.
Good job being so smart, mama’s little smart man! You still have to eat your veggies before you can have any dessert though!
More seriously, the overwhelming majority of businesses use Windows as their end user facing desktop OSes. You’re legitimately just being a myopic asshat if you think that Windows can’t be trusted for anything important. (Inb4 you bring up Crowdstrike, which wasn’t a Windows specific issue, but a “we have code running at kernel level” issue, and hit Linux roughly three months prior to the big clusterfuck)
Also, your bit about $150 cost for the OS is dumb too. The average user is buying a prebuilt with the OS preinstalled. Technically they are paying for it, but it’s a wacky discounted OEM license fee baked into the full cost. Anyone not buying a rig with Windows preinstalled can use it unlicensed, can transfer license from pretty much any older Windows OS install from the last 20 years, can just use massgrave to activate it for free, or could go buy a discounted OEM license that they can only install to one machine. The full price license allows for install on multiple machines, which you don’t really need.
My point is, very few people are paying full price for a Windows license.
Full disclosure, I agree that Microsoft is a shit company. But this elitist shit is just stupid. Especially when it’s almost pure posturing.
Oh no the poor companies making money off a product might have to update a product made in 1992😱😱😱how will they ever recuperate an investment that is free every 32 years.
Also a Monopoly is able to use monopolistic behavior to force companies to use their product and mask it as “FREE”*** then still charge the user with ads is not a good thing just look at the price delta between equivalent windows and chrome books if you don’t believe me.
IM not saying you have to get the L word I would literally get a MacBook at this point.
Made in 1992?
Niw you’re really showing your ignorance.
Yes, NT 3.5 was released in about 1992. But it was actually a ported DEC Alpha OS from a few years before…so perhaps 1988.
And the OS today is very different from NT 3.5. So it’s not software that was “made in 1992”.
Not that when it was first released has any relevance anyway. Hell, I’m more partial to software that’s been around for ages. It’s demonstrated itself over time.
But I guess someone who’s still wet behind the ears doesn’t get that.
Hahahahahaha, oh yes, another “I have no idea how the world works Windows sucks” commenters.
Come back when you’ve managed a 10,000 computer enterprise.
No, wait, come back after managing a 12 computer SMB.
I don’t understand why you replied.
Because they need to feel superior.
The Linux boys on this site actually make me want to try it less.
They’re the Rick and Morty fans all over again.
I always worry the the backup USB drive would be dead.
I guess I’m one minority but kind of like an ability to fetch the key from the web. Doing that securely of course can be tough.
Web. USB. Printout in a safe. On my phone. In Keypass. Etc, etc.
I’m not relying on a single copy.