Yes, it is FUD. Microsoft did coin the term - LAST CENTURY.

IEâ(TM)s JavaScript was not because of EEE, but was just a product of an extremely simple imprecise language standard in a time when all browsers raced to add new features that were nit part of any standard. For example, Netscape Navigator added layers while IE added frames. In that case,IEâ(TM)s addition was the one to be eventually codified into the language.

Borland was not killed with EEE. In fact, Borland had their own non-standard additions themselves. Remember their added syntax to C++ for handling events in OWL? Very nice, but certainly non-standard.

Sun was not successfully extinguished by EEE (even though Java was where the term came from). They were more harmed by their insanely short-sighted outcome of their court case that meant Java didnâ(TM)t run out of the box on Windows at all. How much more would Java been used if developers could have relied on the language being on the most popular OS without a large (for the time) download and install.

And where did the embracing and extinguishing go all the countless other times EEE has been mentioned here? Did Microsoft extinguish Linux when they submitted code the the kernel (or any other open source project that has been reported here and met with that rallying cry). Did the extinguish Linux when they first added WSL to their platform? Did they extinguish ... whatever ... when they made .NET, PowerShell or VSCode for Linux? Did they ever crush developers by asserting their submarine patent rights over any program written in C# (as has been said here many times)? No. That is why I call it FUD.

If people limited the term to actual instances like adding non-standard features to Kerberos, then it would be reasonable. But unfortunately it gets used virtually every time Microsoft is mentioned on this site. With way more incorrect predictions of EEE than actual instances by Microsoft, there is simply no other term that can be applied than FUD.

Someone should hack slashdot to allow just your comment to be modded up to 11. One day there will be papier-mache statues of you to celebrate one of the great humourists of the 21st Century.

I replied to my own comment (because you can't edit on slashdot) with the video showing that they do indeed show the applications as separate windows with their own start menu icons and taskbar entries.

Ah yes, that old FUD. The problem is that this isn't all Microsoft code - they are using distros made by other people to do the heavy lifting. Here is Ubuntu, which you can see was made by Canonical Group Limited. Here is the page on Ubuntu.com about it. If you search on the Microsoft Store for "linux" then you will find the other distros available like Debian, SUSE, Kali etc.

It is all open source, so here is the source code for the kernel. Here is the source code for the GUI parts.

So if they do extend anything, it would require cooperation with the distro makers to start adding things that would break the rest of the Linux world. If they did add anything we would all see the source to it, so how could they possibly extinguish anything?

Further to my own comment, here is a video demonstrating WSLg. The applications appear as separate windows, with their own entries on the taskbar.

The user interface for the applications is pure Linux, so no it doesn't fix the disparate user interfaces. To do anything else would introduce huge compatibility problems.

You are a bit out of date. RDP has supported RemoteApp since 2008.

This allows you to connect to individual applications that appear on your remote system just like it is a local application. It has its own window and can have its own shortcut on your start menu. The remote program has access to your local resources like your locally installed printers.

How is this labelled as informative? The lawsuit is being done by the old owners of Humble Bundle, not the new owners.

Jeff Rosen and John Graham both stood down as CEO and COO respectively in March 2019 and are now president and CEO of Wolfire Games. That means they had absolutely nothing to do with the recent decision to remove the payment sliders from Humble, and IGN/Humble has nothing to do with this lawsuit.

And one doctor said that Hydroxychloroquine was a miracle cure for COVID-19. Perhaps we should look at studies and not just ask "several doctors". A quick random search on what the experts say shows that taking supplements (including vitamin D) to prevent COVID-19 infection is not supported by any clinical evidence or that the evidence is sparse, indirect, and inconclusive.

By all means take vitamin D and lose weight, but don't stop social distancing, mask wearing, and washing your hands because you think that you were somehow protected by doing the former.

So you can come up with one single example that proves that regulation is not the voice of the little guy? What about all the safety regulations of the airline industry that costs them a fortune but saves many lives? What about all the regulations that the Trump administration scrapped (eg Environmental ones) that cost polluters a fortune but saves many lives? What about food safety standards, workplace safety standards, vehicle safety standards? These cost big business a fortune but save many lives.

There are plenty of examples where regulation is the voice of the little guy. And as for the right to repair, isn't this more about not having regulation forcing companies to allow others to repair and them using existing, non-related laws to clamp down on 3rd-party repair shops? Which regulation are you referring to?

This is totally wrong. Nvidia isn't like a court of law. They do not need to create a precedent of crippling cards for one reason so that they can start going after non-EA titles. If they do actually start crippling no-EA games, then by all means come back and complain because it would be a totally anti-gamer move.

Do you know what isn't an anti-gamer move? Preventing the crypto crowd from grabbing all the cards so that gamers can't buy one at a sensible price! The whole price problem of graphics cards is the reason that I haven't upgraded in a few generations now. Even the card that I have is lower-powered than I wanted because I thought that it would tide me over until the prices got back to sane levels - but they never did. And if graphics card maker listen to your advice, they never will.

Do you want to know the real kicker? They already kind of do what you are worried about. They optimize their drivers for specific, popular titles so that their cards look better in reviews. They make deals to assist particular developers so that their games work better on their brand of cards. Why are you complaining about the poor cryptocurrency people not being about to use cards made for gaming purposes and not start complaining about what their software people are doing?

How is that a major problem? Where do you think the wet market got their animals from? Are you suggesting that they raided the lab, because that is totally unfounded speculation. Perhaps you think the poor market vendors should use the same Antarctic bat colonies that Obama should have been studying instead. Or perhaps it is more likely that they simply source their produce from one of the same areas that the lab studies. But hey, never let Occam's Razor get in the way of a good conspiracy theory!

The bats are in the Wuhan region, whether you think that it sounds like it is far away or not. Is there a closer city to their caves that you think they should have used?

The Chinese were studying coronaviruses in bats because it was foreseen that the virus would eventually jump species and become a threat to mankind. Why is it suspicious when what they speculated was true actually happens? If I tell you not to run out onto the road because you might get hit by a car, and you do it anyway and get hit, does that mean that I actually made that happen?

You would have been totally at home during the dark ages. If someone ever said that you shouldn't eat a particular plant, and when people did they got sick, then person would get burnt as a witch. The modern equivalent is when scientists want to study a potential problem and then that problem happens. Witches, I tell you!

Did you know that the reason why scientists wear white lab coats is that they are flame-proof suits designed to protect them from the ignorant masses? Well there is as much evidence for that as there is that the virus escaped from the lab.

Do you think that they just randomly build labs to study coronaviruses in bats anywhere, and that it is a complete coincidence that they just happened to pick a place that was in a region that is home to bats that have multiple coronavirus strains? Are you saying that it was just as likely that "Obama" could have built this lab in the Antarctic, thousands of miles from any bat?

Are you also concerned about how dangerous hospitals are because there are so many sick people in them? Do you often find yourself wondering how deers know to cross at the "deer crossing" signs? Do you think that "danger, falling rocks" signs make nearby cliffs lose integrity? Is it some elaborate conspiracy that 99.9% of people who drown were near water at the time? Who is Big Water trying to silence, and what do they have to hide?

No, if you are going to study something then you go to the place where it needs studying. Don't try to make it some grand conspiracy just because the chose the right place to build a lab.

I'm afraid you are mistaken. Whenever you have a tax based on consumption, it has an effect on people's behaviours. Customers will buy less of something if they think that it is overpriced, and businesses have an incentive to change their carbon footprint to reduce the amount of tax on their goods. If a company switches to renewable energy sources then their tax bill goes down. It is simple, and a well-known rationale for such a tax.

It is not about using the money to make a sustainable future. Rather, it acts as an incentive for businesses to adopt sustainable practices to avoid paying those taxes in the first place. The goal is not to make money, but rather to change behaviour. This is a long-established economic principle.