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minus-squareunalivejoylinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year ago What’s next? Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day. They already do this in Windows Server. Every unscheduled shutdown and restart requires a reason so it can be properly audited.
minus-squareBilliamlinkEnglish15•1 year agoWhich is logical for an enterprise-level application. For a consumer-level app, this is balls.
minus-squareunalivejoylinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoUnless of course you don’t actually own your PC. That’s what Microsoft wants. Soon, they might make it so you can’t install other OSes.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigodlinkfedilink1•1 year agoI’m sure that’ll be fun for the IT guys. “Why is our website down?!? What do I pay you people for?!” “Sir, the subscription for our server OS wasn’t paid because the company card was declined.”
minus-square@BURNlinkEnglish1•1 year agoAs the other commenter said, this is a good precaution to have in a server OS. My FreeNAS/TrueNAS setup also require that. For consumer OS, no it’s less than ideal, but for enterprise users it’s a very good feature to have
They already do this in Windows Server. Every unscheduled shutdown and restart requires a reason so it can be properly audited.
Which is logical for an enterprise-level application.
For a consumer-level app, this is balls.
Unless of course you don’t actually own your PC. That’s what Microsoft wants. Soon, they might make it so you can’t install other OSes.
I’m sure that’ll be fun for the IT guys.
“Why is our website down?!? What do I pay you people for?!”
“Sir, the subscription for our server OS wasn’t paid because the company card was declined.”
As the other commenter said, this is a good precaution to have in a server OS. My FreeNAS/TrueNAS setup also require that.
For consumer OS, no it’s less than ideal, but for enterprise users it’s a very good feature to have