Any is too much.

Office is their last line of defence. But the walls will not hold. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead.

When you are spending your $20B fortune in $2B chunks it goes pretty quick.

Frankly, they can keep the source. Burn it with fire.

This is an example of why Microsoft's software ought not even be considered by a serious professional. It ticks all the boxes. Denial of service without user interaction. Security vulnerability with remote root potential. Workaround requires disclosed remote root potential. Recovery requires hands on the device.

It is only going to get worse.

If it machine checks its performance as a space heater will be slightly reduced, as the lack of spam zombie workload will leave it in an idle state.

I suppose if you wanted a font of information about disastrous bugs marked "ship anyway" and unreported faults, you could do worse than a suddenly terminated tester.

No, it has always been this way. And their internal documentation is also crap.

You will be thrilled to know that way out in Ephrata, WA they have had gigabit fiber to the home for 14 years, and in gritty Tacoma just south Click! Network sells 100mbps Internet - both through the power utility. But in Seattle, no. Not you. Those power utilities were grandfathered in from before the Qwest/Comcast Protection Act was made a stare law. That is why internet technology in Washington is almost exactly backward: high speed in rural areas, dialup in Seattle and the capital.

Incidentally, I caught a guy pulling underground fiber in my neighborhood recently and grilled him. Apparently we are finally scheduled for fiber to the home Real Soon Now. The guy said the company "wanted it done yesterday" and that they were definitely bringing fiber to the homes where my home is. Hopefully it will be with a decent company. I didn't recognize the name of the company but apparently they are going to lease it out anyway.

Actually the Android apps available to the average user on Google Play far outstrip anything that has been available on Windows. By a factor of 3x. With a trusted repository too, which is something Windows never had.

You might want to check out minimsft.blogspot.com

The upgrades come in Google Play Services now, so OEMS and carriers can't block them. 85% of Android devices are updated by Google now.

You can post on a forum from your mobile device over any available network.

Android Linux moved a billion hardware units last year and this year surpassed the Windows all-time installed base. It is selling above 6x Windows. People using Android have never seen an update mangling this severe, but on Windows it seems a quarterly thing. This whole "Windows rules the world" thing is becoming absurd. Windows rules a small and shrinking backwater - the realm where people are willing to tolerate stuff like this.

As I was standing there before the shrine of knowledge completely stunned, another potential patron joined me. For half a minute we stared at the portal that would not open before he turned to me to ask: "They close?"

"I guess so." I replied. We stood there a moment more, as if that would change things. And then we left.