PC optimizers are not a new concept, and they have been around for quite a while. Nowadays, many consider them unnecessary, but having an official program made by Microsoft that is capable of (allegedly) speeding up your PC may sound quite appealing.
However, Microsoft’s PC Manager has already raised quite a few eyebrows when customers caught it recommending some questionable optimizing techniques, injecting affiliate links, and shamelessly claiming your PC needs repair if Bing is not set as the default search engine. Yikes.
Cool idea MS. If only you had access to the OS itself to prevent it from gradually slowing down and littering the system with junk. Since we can’t fix Windows (Only the maker of Windows can do that!), let’s make a dedicated band-aid app to fix Windows.
Maybe whoever is working on Windows will get the message and fix those problems that your tool was built to fix.
Funny thing that my Android phone and Linux desktop don’t need antivirus, don’t accumulate junk in registries or system folders, and don’t require dedicated optimization tools.
Although I agree in general, the antivirus complaint isn’t really fair. Windows was by and large the largest install base, especially in the corporate sector. It only makes sense it became the most targeted. Scam apps and that’s do exist on Android and Linux, they’re just mitigated other ways. For now.
‘Antivirus’ is a cope. Anti-libre software bans us from removing malicous source code.
This is the same kind of thing I’d expect when a once nice android app gets bought out by a company like tencent.
Bundle a battery manager and RAM optimizer bs in the file browser or something, fill it with ads, maybe they could have microtransactions for some of the “features”.Only possible with anti-libre software, never nice.
Oh so they’re just straight up including malware with windows now. Cool.
Windows is malware, anti-libre software.
Remove anti-libre software, Windows, to optimise infected devices.
reduce ads and pop-up interruptions
Or they could just … Idk … Not put that shit in there in the first place?
Or we could not infect our devices with anti-libre software. Don’t beg them.
