Vivienne's (UPDATED) Guide on Boycotting Microsoft

Thanks to, uh, the Israel-Palestine war that's STILL currently ongoing afaik, opinions have shifted on the Israelites, and there's very likely chance that you will be lambasted off the entire internet since people will think you're in support of Israel.

With that being said... With them supporting Israel as far back as like.. 2021? (aka before the current war happened) This, unintentionally, now constitutes them as zionists, and as you know, if you're a company that's also a zionist, you're now forcibly open to people boycotting the shit out of you.

Also, it has been bought to my attention is that Microsoft has entirely rebranded Office, yet again. Now, the original rebrand? Dumb. The rebrand that they're currently doing? Abysmal.

Office afaik was, just recently, rebranded into 365's Copilot app, despite the fact Copilot has multiple standalone apps for every platform with Microsoft apps, as well as a web version.

Assuming all this is true, that means the thing that we've using to.. let's say.. make documents has been rebranded with AI slop. And with recent, Microsoft-related decisions, it's been made very apparent that Microsoft has became an "AI first, consumers last" company.

With all of this, it's about time a comprehensive guide steps up to the bat. These are my suggestions to stop supporting Microsoft to the best of your ability:


Away With Game Pass, Away With The Store, and Away With The Consoles

If you have a Game Pass subscription, shut that shit down.

If you're using the Microsoft Store, prohibit yourself from using it.

Game Pass has slowly became too overpriced, the Microsoft Store, unfortunately, is one of the many Microsoft apps that have telemetry, despite the fact that they shouldn't, and both of these have better options.

If you wish to buy games without the Xbox app or the Microsoft Store, I would like to suggest https://www.gog.com for a DRM-free way to buy your games. (Or, you know, pirate your games? Can't tell you how to do it though, law says it's illegal to tell people how to pirate)

If you happen to own an Xbox, I suggest factory resetting it in order to prepare to sell it. Assuming the AI bubble pops during the time you're reading this, you can use the cash you got from this to invest in a gaming PC or laptop.


Do Away with the Games

For Microsoft-owned games:

Minecraft is fine but I'd advise further actions if needed. For more information on such, check this link here. If you are vehement on the boycott and think this also affects Minecraft, may I suggest playing Hytale as a replacement?

For Call of Duty, there are fan run versions of older CoD titles. Do not play the recent titles as they still support Microsoft (and from recent examples, use generative AI, something I've taught you to avoid in the first Vivienne's Guide).

Do not play Candy Crush for that matter as King no longer owns it technically, though... who tf cares about Candy Crush apart from people who are above 50 years of age?

For Activision and Bethesda games, do not buy them, as you will end up supporting three scummy companies who cares more about the cash than the people.

If you still care about your money, it's heavily suggested you pirate these, and again, I can't tell you how to do it, but I'm sure you'll figure a way out sooner or later.


Move Your Body Freely

Use other controllers aside from Xbox's own.

They have BAD stick drift. Like HORRID stick drift. Like you can't even play ACNH on PC bad.

Bruhity suggested that you should buy a Dualsense, while I suggest buying non-Xbox Razer controllers or 8BitDo controllers, they tend to be pretty modern and budgetable.

The choice is up to you, however.


Linux Becomes a Full-On Necessity

Like using Windows? Depending on whether or not this sentence ages correctly or not, you're not gonna be liking this OS anymore!

Starting from the minute this paragraph ages like milk, switching to Linux will start becoming a necessity, regardless if if you want to do so or not, if you want your computer at full potential. And no, you will not have an option to opt out of this one, because...

  1. Microsoft is disabling local accounts, meaning you have to make an account if you want to sign into your computer.. which also means if they suddenly decide "oh, you also have to give us your government ID just to sign into your account", and you've been following the BoycottYouTube initiative, means you'll just be locked out of your computer.
  2. 25H2 may or may not gain the ability to miraculously incinerate the hell out of your hardware (if you're lucky, it's only your hard drive. if you're unlucky, it's your ram. (ram prices are off the roof, remember?) if you're extremely unlucky (aka you happen to be me), it's your entire computer, motherboard included)
  3. The fact they're trying to transition C and C++ coding to Rust via AI. The problem with this is that, well, Al tends to get a lot of things wrong. That.. and Windows has relied on the C language for a while now.. and with the fact translation is being done via AI, it'll be riddled with bugs, incompatibility, and app complication. Even worse, this entire update is specifically for Windows 11. Not a new OS.. no, it's a Windows 11 update. That means there is a high likelihood that this is a major update.. and major updates in Windows 11 are typically forced.

..which means there's a very high likelyhood your computer will become obsolete within mere seconds.

So there's probably no other option.. but to head to Linux and never look back.

I suggest looking up tutorials on how to install Linux and how to get drivers working on Linux. I, and many others, suggest Zorin as your first choice, dual-booted or on a live USB. I suggest you do this quickly, however, there's a high likely chance Microsoft won't be allowing you to do this very easily anymore.


Forget OneDrive.

If you're still following along with boycotting Microsoft, OneDrive will become OFF LIMITS to you. For cloud systems, use an open source cloud system like Nextcloud,, buy two to THREE SSDS to make up the equivalent of most of the storage you back up, or turn your old computer into a file server using this tutorial. For other equivalents to Microsoft products, ask around in certain subreddits, or search around on the internet in general.

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Pub: 04 Nov 2025 07:41 UTC

Edit: 19 Jan 2026 12:35 UTC

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