No more Microsoft
What does that mean?
What do we loose, how will programs operate?
I have no idea what it means, if anything! I was replying to Bob’s post that was quoting Whiplash on Telegram, so I’ll take it with a grain of salt, as always.
I don't know, but I can certainly imagine something better than Microsoft. Back in the early '70s, under DARPA funding, MIT and GE developed a truly secure OS called Multics, a play on words of the then- and still-popular Unix. Compared to Windows or MacOS, it had the advantage that the underlying hardware was secure, unlike the Intel and Motorola processors. But it basically disappeared. It was sold off to hapless Honeywell, who killed it and buried it. It could easily have been migrated into a secure desktop system within a few years of the appearance of Windows and MacOS. And something like it could be revived now.
I think the powers-that-be didn't want a secure operating system. They wanted the ability to penetrate anybody's computer system at will, so they promoted Windows over any secure alternative.
I expect the new regime to be more respectful of people's privacy.