With Windows 10, Microsoft sells you out
“[…] your interest in how your computer works and Microsoft’s interest are no
longer aligned. While you will want your computer to do things quickly
and efficiently and unobtrusively, Microsoft will want it to do those
things slowly and clunkily and painfully; because every delay, every
useless dialog box you have to click through, is another opportunity for
them to show you an ad. And while you will want your computer to keep
your secrets secret, you won’t be able to trust Microsoft to want the
same thing anymore, because suddenly all those secrets are worth money
to them. They can use them to match you up even more exquisitely with
advertisers, who have become Microsoft’s real customers for Windows.”
Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name
“Total data: George sent out 50 queries, and had his manuscript requested
17 times. He is eight and a half times better than me at writing the
same book. Fully a third of the agents who saw his query wanted to see
more, where my numbers never did shift from one in 25.”
Nach mehrwöchiger Pause gibt es nun neue Fundstücke von mir.