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Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded?

Subject Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded?
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11
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From CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
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Date 2025-03-27 12:17 -0400

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On 2025-03-27 11:50, Paul wrote:
> On Thu, 3/27/2025 8:36 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:
> 
>>
>> At the very least, Microsoft should have understood that both ArmouryCrate
>> (used by most ASUS hardware) and Samsung Magician (used by most Samsung SSDs)
>> are legitimate pieces of software and whitelisted them. The fact that even in
>> those cases it feels the need to "detect" whether they are good or bad is troubling.
>> For now, I feel better disabling the setting.
> 
> Microsoft wants to remove *all* third party drivers. That's
> the long term intent. The "Vulnerable Driver Blocklist" is an
> interim solution, until they are in control of all the drivers.
> 
> They want to own all of Ring 0.
> And you can have a portion of Ring 3 :-)

I don't mind drivers being certified by Microsoft if that's what they're 
looking for. If, however, they want to write the drivers for all 
hardware, they will probably be playing catch-up forever. If, however, 
it results in hardware automatically being detected like it is in Linux, 
I'm for it.

-- 
God be with you,

CrudeSausage
John 14:6

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Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-26 20:16 -0400
  Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-26 21:44 -0400
    Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-26 21:56 -0400
      Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-27 00:48 -0400
        Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-27 08:36 -0400
          Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-27 11:50 -0400
            Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-27 12:17 -0400
            Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-09 18:50 +0000
    Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-27 02:36 +0000
      Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-27 00:26 -0400
      Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-27 16:14 +0000
    Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2025-03-27 11:01 -0600
      Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-27 18:24 +0000
    Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-03-27 11:32 -0700
      Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-27 19:23 +0000

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