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minus-squaretimroerstroem@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months 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-up0·4 months agoThat’d be my assumption as well, but journalists better to do better
minus-squarermuk@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months ago“PCs run Windows. I have a Mac, which is not a PC.” - Average Tech Journalist.
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 better to do better
“PCs run Windows. I have a Mac, which is not a PC.” - Average Tech Journalist.