good enough is always good enough. If that wasn't the case 90% of us wouldn't be typing out /. posts on a windows PC.

And good enough can be shockingly terrible, especially when we've had 40 years of non stop mega mergers and zero anti-trust law enforcement. They could care less what you, the customer think, because your options are to shop at one of the other companies they either own or own a controlling share in or go without.

And increasingly "go without" isn't an option because they're buying critical infrastructure.

Being a workplace is a norm at... a workplace. You're not supposed to "become" a machine like corporate office. You're supposed to "start" and "remain" that when it comes to office work. Because that's what a productive office looks like.

Google's problem is that they haven't hired people to work in a long time. Instead they hired for racial and sexual quotas and then selected from those candidates for with very specific extreme political opinions. And so they got exactly what they hired. Disruptive revolutionary activism based on popular racial supremacist opinions held within that political class they focused on maximally hiring.

Fuck around, find out. Google found out. The fact that you need to tell adults that workplace is for working is just a hilarious cherry on top of a cake of idiocy.

to where ever labor was cheapest, but all anyone can remember about his books is that a few tinpot dictators borrowed them for speeches.

Everyone who publishes that data is just providing free evidence. Why would they do that? Who knows, but this is smarter, and only slightly less scrupulous.

They charge so much that it's literally cheaper to have a new part soldered to the board. They're fostering an industry dedicated to bypassing their ridiculous design decisions.

It took no skill, because you made no point. You just threw up and called it a meal.

On average everyone gets along. But the world isn't run on averages. It's run on a vocal minority, as Yitzhak Rabin found out the hard way after supporting the Oslo Accords. He was "leadership" and he was "better". Unfortunately he got assassinated by a citizen of his who disagreed with his policy.

Don't pretend that this problem lies only at the leadership level. People elected these leaders, Benjamin Netanyahu is not a dictator.

You'd be surprised. It just normally doesn't make the news, but there are plenty of companies which go through crisis like this which result in upper management working weekends to build plans to recover and successfully make it out the other side. Executives don't normally get to clock off at 5pm. Fuck em, they get paid enough, let them work for it.

The only unique thing here is that it made the news.

No. That kind of action means their CEO is Korean. We get it. A good ol' American CEO would miss the profit and delivery targets for the quarter, simply fire 10000 people, recall their most anticipated hot Cybertruck, and then go crying to shareholders to approve the world's largest remuneration package for his incompetence instead.

Except they aren't forcing anyone to do so. It's end users forcing that practice, and most providers out there offers non-MS alternatives nowadays. Heck the OS isn't even OEM discounted anymore. You literally recover the full price of a retail Windows license if you opt out of it. Seriously go jump on Dell's website and pick something like a G15 gaming laptop and watch the price jump around by $200 as you do the highly complex task of clicking the button to select Ubuntu instead of Windows 11.

No. Antitrust agreements are related to other products in competing markets. There's no one out there offering a market for online accounts for your Windows login. It's not anticompetitive to require it.

In fact it's pretty much becoming the norm to require accounts these days. Especially when so much functionality is tied to online services (including advertised functionality of Windows).

The hilarious part is that while you don't trust your personal stuff to MS's Cloud. Corporations have no problem trusting sensitive documents which could move their share price and affect whole economies to that same cloud.

Sorry kiddo, but you're no where near as important as you think you are.

No. Microsoft wanted that to access her Microsoft account. Something that could provide her access to all her computers, encryption keys, online software, cloud sync'd files, purchases. ... YOU WANT THIS TO BE DIFFICULT.

She could have just as easily nuked her windows install and started another account. Her access to her computer is not locked away by Microsoft.

Sea levels are rising. Technically all cities are sinking ;-)

Which is my point. We should actively be praising those who actually obey the law rather than skirt the law exposing themselves to liability. They had other approaches they could take. They didn't. You're just upset because today they are following a Chinese law.

I am in awe. It takes some real skill to completely miss my point by that wide of a margin.