I don't know about the US, but in Canada (where this story originates) the banks are not allowed to up your limit automatically, and they are required to stop sending you credit increase offers if you request it.
Gas station is designed for being there as long as it takes to pump a few dozen gallons of liquid.
[pedantic mode on]
"a few" - 3 or more
"a few dozen" - 36
Unless they are driving a large pickup, AND running it below 5% capacity before refuelling, nobody's pumping a few dozen gallons into a passenger vehicle.
I'm only directly familiar with the academic licenses (if you haven't already go look up the definition of an "education qualified user" if you really want some heartburn), but I'd never heard of Windows 10 for Business before. Must be a nomenclature thing.
Academic institutions are somewhat spoiled. Every A3 EQU I buy (roughly a staff or faculty member) comes with 40 student use benefit licenses, which gives a student a full installable Windows and Office license, AND a VDA license for any remote session hosted in Azure.
Of course, they did it by hiding the command line and making everything browser based. Power users will hate that, but it's what the mainstream end-users apparently wanted.
For a minimal command line, CTRL-ALT-T brings up the crosh shell.
"Power users" can type "chromebook linux" into their search engine of choice to find this page: https://www.chromium.org/chrom...
Businesses effectively get Windows for free. As a small user you get it free with your IT purchases, as an enterprise user you get them free with the enterprise licenses for backend servers.
Checking invoice... Nope.
The Microsoft 365 plans now include Windows 10 (Pro or Enterprise) as an upgrade to the OEM Windows license on the box. (Which is why enterprises buy computers with Windows Home installed rather than paying twice.) Prior to that, Windows 10 upgrade was available as an addon to the Office 365 plans.
Server licenses do not include any client licenses. In fact, to access any server requires an additional client license, either a per user or device CAL or an external connector for non-enterprise users. Different subsets of these are bundled in the M365 plans but not all.
This is a simplified explanation. Larger orgs literally have full time people who deal with this stuff. My software vendor has a licensing team dedicated to Microsoft. It's gotten better over the years, but it's still the most convoluted paperwork that I have to deal with every year.
A distributed note system that is read-only sounds like it is pretty gimped
It's not read only. Access through the Teams interface is read only, but the direct web interface (and thick/mobile clients) is not.
Zoom, WebEx, Office365, AWS, Box, Dropbox, Workday, Slack etc have all been dealing with outages and shortages over the last 2 days because literally everyone is offsite.
OK, normally I'd ignore this misuse of the word literally, because really, nobody loves a grammar Nazi. But how could you miss the chance to say "virtually everyone is offsite"?
Nope, that implies it's beautiful now. 38 years of fast food garbage from drive throughs has pretty much destroyed that. Interestingly enough, that slogan was introduced in 1973 with the first plates to use renewal stickers instead of annual replacements. So even then there was some tie-in of the slogan to waste reduction. (Prior to 73 there was no slogan at all.)
We need something more like Make Ontario Beautiful Again.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
