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Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools (www.neowin.net)
submitted 10 months ago by quantumcog to c/technology
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TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2.

One more reason to switch to Linux

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

What they are doing has that upside of being an indicator of "how many people are really held by the balls with MS hand". MS "shoots itself in the foot" and Windows users just eat it, then it can do more.

When you are a monopolist (or a bully, or a robber baron), this makes sense.