Turns out it was just for MS 1st party software.
I agree with your concerns and in particular I have concerns about the future misuse of such. What’s to stop a future Microsoft from using this to remove competing software from your computer? If caught all they have to do is say it was a glitch in their automated detection algorithm. Blocking a competitors software for even a week would be massively damaging to that competitors business.
By the way this is precisely the reason I do not agree to Google Play’s terms of service. Google Play includes the same language and gives Google the right to remotely remove any software from your Android device without notification. The idea, of course, is that it’s for security purposes so Google can remotely remove malware from Android devices, but this can easily be used for strategic purposes.
P.S. I remember a few years ago Google Maps would not work on Windows Phone browsers. Microsoft cried foul and said Google was doing it on purpose, Google, of course, said it was just a glitch, but didn’t fix that ‘glitch’ for quite some time.
Google Admits It Was Deliberately Blocking Windows Phone Users From Google Maps
“‘As far as Larry and Sergey [Brin] are concerned, they’re thinking about it beyond 10 years, even 100 years from now,’ this person said. ‘All of the HR policies I’ve had exposure to, a lot of the programs even within Google, they’ve all had that long-term vision. In order to succeed at that long-term point, you have to not be afraid to disrupt your own company.’”
I find it interesting that google is constantly shuffling around their management. You might think that would complicate things if managers and directors are often being added to and removed from projects.
What’s interesting here is that this is precisely how compartmentalization works. If you don’t already know compartmentalization is the method under which governments use to keep classified information classified. It ensures that no one person knows enough about a project to endanger its secrecy.
For instance you might have a team of engineers working on a turbine, but they don’t know what that turbine is for and their superiors are continually moved around so that they never have full knowledge of what a particular project is or what its ultimate goals are.
There are other sources that state that the piracy block will mainly concern software obtained from the Windows store, so if you have a pirated copy of Maya because you’re too cheap to pay, that would not be covered by the scope of the policy.
The only people who really have a right to be angry here are the pirates themselves. If you pirate everything and are one of those extremists who want to force everything digital into becoming free and/or open source then you deserve to have your OS vendor intervene in your machine.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me." - Pastor Martin Niemöller
as a NON Microsoft user
Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha - have fun
went Microsoft FREE 10 years ago with the move to Linux
but
for NOW it only looks like the SHIT / crappy thing called “SecureROM” is affected
now securerom should have never been used in the first place as a DRM
the upside is most of the games will be available you you to
RE BUY $$$ - yes rebuy something you already BOUGHT!!! - have fun
from steam and a few other game makers
so fork out some more cash to stay with Microsoft
Err… The Steam storefront has a version that works with Linux as well. Also, chances are some of your old game CD’s from 10-20 years ago may now be unplayable (due to wear and scratches) or simply don’t work with new versions of Windows (because of usage of API’s that are no longer there). Even if they do work, they might not run well because they operate at resolutions below what new monitors can support and speed along at unplayable framerates because of hardware now being too powerful.
Tell me this though, do you use Linux because you believe it actually provides a superior experience or do you use it just to stick it to Microsoft?
back in 2004-5 i realized that i was using MS Visual studio less and less and was using MinGW and GCC
to the point that visual studio was dusty and sitting mostly unused for 3 to 6 months at a time
and that 95 % of the software i was using i had built using gcc in mingw
a few games i did not build but some of them HAD linux versions any way
so i dumped windows
installed
debain
slackware
and eventually Fedora in mid 2005
there is right now only ONE( non game) windows program i use and it runs fine in WINE
and a few time wasting games from " binary zoo"
– cool eye candy
Personally I don’t think Linux is a better operating system than Windows, neither do I think Windows is better than Linux. They both have strengths and weaknesses. I will say that I ‘feel’ safer on Linux, but I don’t really know for sure if that feeling is warranted.
Linux is more open. I just tried to transfer an audio recording from my girlfriends iPhone to my laptop only to find there’s no way to do this without installing Apple software, iTunes. It amazes me how much effort someone is willing to put in to making something less functional than it already is. Anyway I can see Windows going down that path to, but Linux doesn’t really have any reason to.
My Android, on the other hand, let’s me access the whole filesystem from my computer, Windows or Linux, except for protected files needed by the OS. At this point Google doesn’t have anything like iTunes or a popular desktop OS to tie their phones to.
Personally I’m hoping the Ubuntu mobile OS and Firefox OS start becoming more widely available.
Linux is faster than windows in some cases,
but oh god did it piss me off,
It did not want to install steam for some reason, AT ALL
but I digress,
I am not worried about pirates, I’m worried about how this system can obviously be abused, as Atr explained.
Protecting IPs is a waste of resources. This may be my next essay. Microsoft is wasting money with this model and upsetting patrons by pushing it.
It obviously has little to do with re-cooping losses. Over and over, that just isn’t the result. All of the proposed solutions are proving to be negative sum games. If they would take the time to extrapolate a little farther they would wind up with increased quarterly profit due to cost cuts. The real problem is lack of will to look at the trends with anything resembling objectivity.
I would say that their model is hazarding this evidenced breakage with lack of pliability. This is because they are just not even trying to research the new models and develop their own. The focus rather appears to be competition with emerging models as job one. They are just being hostile to change. More diversity in their HR policies could augment their collective intelligence. Remaining competitive will likely mean keeping them closer. When you can’t beat them… join them.
I was planning to buy Win10(even with an SSD) for playing games on decent hardware but this is just another reason to call it a day with Windows.
I’ll keep me old Vista laptop for the games I own so far, but otherwise I’m sticking with Linux(Ubuntu) and hopefully SteamOS will do well in sorting out the gaming side of things. If not, a console will do.
Here in the states there are a lot of things police are not allowed to do, for instance they’re not allowed to willy nilly search your house for evidence of illicit activity. They’re even required to inform you of a lot of this when they arrest you, called the Miranda Rights.
The whole point of this is so that they aren’t given so much power that they can abuse. Here in the states we don’t trust our law enforcement officials not to abuse power so laws are created to limit that power.
I’m wondering why we should trust Microsoft and Google more than we trust the police?