And roku and chromecast track you just as much as a smart-tv!

I've also not watched OTA TV in years

I can see validity in that, given there is zero chance you're not cross-pollinating IP. I don't mean copy and pasted source code, I mean ideas and solutions, and you wouldn't be clean-room re-implementing them.

We all know the answer is a garage filled with rice

Make it targeted then. Lots of programs do this.

Were you around when XP launched?

It was universally HATED, especially for the "fisher price UI". Consumers wanted win98V3, and corporate users still like 2k.

7 everyone loved, but XP no way. It eventually morphed into something people liked by SP2, but that's some rose coloured glasses.

I personally loved it.

I've owned 3 garmin watches, and the family has owned 8 total. I've never seen one go more than 7 days between charges.

Some of them really only go 3-5 if you properly use them as a smart watch.

I seriously doubt the Canadian government is upgrading to windows 11 for their entire fleet already. Most enterprises will be on Win10 LTS, which doesn't need TPM2.0.

Yes, they are giving it up for paid accounts.

It's in the terms of service that they won't mine your emails once you're on a business plan, as there are assumptions about corporate IP etc.

Could they be breaking the license illegally? Sure, but there's several HUGE corporate clients who would be all over them if any hint of it came up (KPMG for one uses them).

It feels like something the EU could enforce, much like the charger issue.

Simply make it so that any "computing device" must have a bootloader unlock 1 year after it exits mainstream support.

No source code release, no IP infringement, just unlock whatever boot loader there is, and the community will figure something out.

I'd prefer more, but that should be doable with no issue.

They will make a perfect kiosk if it's up to date with linux security patches, and keeps e-waste out of landfill.

Where does it say Edge browser only? Or are you just making shit up?

I haven't seen anything released by microsoft that only works in Edge since edge was released. Up until they took the chromium engine there were actually microsoft products that worked in chrome and not edge itself.

Old microsoft crap from the 2000's and way early 2010s only work in edge, but that's because it includes a backwards compat IE engine. And stuff from those days deserve your ire.

If it's built off power platform you can integrate with pretty much any database.
sqlserver/oracle/mysql/postgres/any rest api/etc

And it integrates with git for change/release tracking.

so yes?

Companies doing a dedicated desktop distribution are mad.

But building your own stripped down distribution for a specific purpose makes a lot of sense, and is kind of what linux is designed to do at its core.

The original "microsoft linux" was used to run and manage virtual backend switches in the azure datacentres.

Things like OpenWRT, Synology's OS, HomeAssistant, etc all make sense as well as a custom distro. It includes just the few small things it needs.

Server Core 2022 requires a 1.4 GHz, 64-bit CPU and 512 MB of RAM.

That's absurd?

Also, what regression issues does windows 10 have compared to 7? Or do you just not like win10 (which is completely fair enough!).
Work I've done has found 10 to have better broad compatibility compared to 7. 11 on the other hand...

Australia doesn't do fixed rate mortgages period for more than 5 years, and he was claiming this was in Australia.

I'm not saying he couldn't do that in other locales.