A Computer Virus normally targets the weaknesses of an operating system in order to do horrible things to it’s user. But what happens with a multi-trillion dollar company spends a decade slowly changing their own operating system to act just like a virus?

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    I mean it was spyware for a while now. Just waiting for the secenario, some people already joked about.( This “we encrypted your files so you switch to copilot os” meme/satire screenshot.)

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    The surveilance economy was a grey zone in ancient time. Few did anything to put up a fight. In modern times it is normalized.

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    Windows is so entranched in people’s lives, they’d still be most used OS if the new update started shooting their house pets in the head.