Let me clairify once again, to dispel that whole most corporate machines have integrated graphics problem. The Xbox hardware, with great graphics and plenty of power, BECOMES the corporate machine. Running Win12 Professional. For those that wish to be called Professionals at work running an AD instead of those non-professional losers stuck over there in a Workgroup. (Not unlike the “Home” versions before.)

For any large business that does not want Microsoft products today, they often do not have a choice. Microsoft wouldn’t give a choice here either. You want Win12 Pro capable of joining an Active Directory? You’ll buy the hardware with it. Which happens to be, an Xbox. Or technically, you’ll probably lease it.

Dealt with NIST mandates for years. My users accepted it a lot better when we had a passphrase day. The day we make up a crazy passphrase they can easily remember. Do it over breakfast or a pizza lunch. Everyone appreciates it and it turns it into a fun thing to do every few months.

New NIST standards tend to hint at passphrases anyway. Might as well make it a little easier.

Passwords, are dead thinking. Pass-phrases are much easier to convey, much less likely to be compromised, and enable less frequent changes. Otherwise, you’re doing a lot of assuming and babysitting to ensure Password1 hasn't been compromised. Because it sure as shit won’t get changed unless you force it.

Lets see if shareholders like the high-ish returns.

Doubt they’ll be enough to fire next time to bolster it.

Seriously? Yeah, that’s about as stable as a crack addict working payroll.

Microsoft LTSC release schedules look like religious scripture by comparison.

By the time they’re done? Yes. Literally-literally.

All that (cough, preferred but not required) “experience” to rip every line of C/C++ out of Microsoft software. A million lines per engineer per month.

If we thought Microsoft was about Job Security before, they just turned it into Social Security.

Talking about Civil War using CNNs shit ratings, isn’t how you incite a Civil War. But you might get a couple of rednecks wanting to slap the living shit out of you for suggesting CNN is that important. To even CNN.

If it were, I’d be part of the US Military.

Paramount should look at the CNN ratings and figure out how many millions per eyeball CNN is costing them.

I doubt even the Military intelligence communities leave that shit streaming in empty lunch rooms these days.

Its not that I’m chastising NIST backup capability as much as I’m shocked that is the steps it takes to hobble one of the country’s most critical services.

Then again, what exactly was the impact? Good time to bolster recovery processes if there is a measurable one I guess. Doesn’t happen very often.

The moment we consent to this in any way, is the moment we lose all argument against "I didn't purchase that."

Their argument, buried on page 174 of the EULA, will be you talked about it enough to authorize it.

Perhaps start a mass petition to Visa with a letter from the consumer force. Perhaps said letter should include the words cocksucker and cunt, in the interest of clarity and equality.

That entirely depends on the cost/benefit analysis of such activity in controlled breaks (call it "lunch" and "tea time" if you wish to get culturally specific). Manufacturing plants often pay to pump in or allow music throughout the facility. With measured effect when it's removed. All depends on the cost/benefit.

Securing sales by mandating Windows 12 Professional only install on XboxC (as in Corporate) hardware, is something Microsoft can justify. All day, every day. The mode of the machine never changes, as it's purpose doesn't. It's still a business machine in a corporate workspace. You merely enable (via granular security) certain features for gaming at certain times.

(Sooth and calming voiceover) A Microsoft-centric solution from the chassis up offers the perfect solution for the existing Microsoft organization. Hardware that fits like a glove with hardware signatures integrating directly into Microsoft AD Security, offering biometrics combined with near-field technology offering even greater authentication options. Granular and consistent control across the entire enterprise right down to every port and protocol, with one certified hardware platform to support and maintain.

The AI CIO sales pitch practically writes itself. And shareholders drool.

*Win11.

Wonder how long it will take the anti-trust experts to try and insist that the Professional versions of their operating systems will only be available on Xbox hardware.

An XBox on every corporate desk? Why the hell not. GenGamer being interviewed will love the lunch breaks, and probably easier hardware succession planning than Win10 screwed businesses with.

The amount of pressure it would take to convince CompTIA to start selling AI, because AI?

Can’t imagine how big of a snort-fart that was. The CEOs approval took longer than the meeting due to giddy laughter overwhelming a signing hand.