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minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoWhy are they mentioning only Windows?
minus-squaretimroerstroem@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days agoPerhaps because it came from a Microsoft report. Maybe they only know of this being fixed in Windows? I would assume it’d affect all OSs but then again, I certainly do not know enough about these things to understand what’s going wrong here.
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-227 days agoThat’d be my assumption as well, but journalists better have to do better
minus-squarermuk@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 days ago“PCs run Windows. I have a Mac, which is not a PC.” - Average Tech Journalist.
Why are they mentioning only Windows?
Perhaps because it came from a Microsoft report. Maybe they only know of this being fixed in Windows? I would assume it’d affect all OSs but then again, I certainly do not know enough about these things to understand what’s going wrong here.
That’d be my assumption as well, but journalists
betterhave to do better“PCs run Windows. I have a Mac, which is not a PC.” - Average Tech Journalist.