You mean MS has outsourced QA to AI. I would think volunteers would have found that issue quickly.

Depends on what "preview” means. If it means an alpha build meant to be internal, such a bug is fine. To me this build was meant to be shown and tested by customers and closer to a beta build. Nothing ruins testing like the inability to test anything.

One time my company was asked to test some software for a supplier. The software would not run after install on any of our computers. There were no errors displayed to give us hints about what could be wrong. Despite weeks of correspondence with their development team, we could never get the software to run. After the testing period was over, they sent us a questionnaire. Unfortunately we could not answer most of the questions as we could never get it to run. One final question was about the readiness of the software for production. We said the software was not ready for production.

The development team was not happy about that and emailed asking for reasons why we said that. I assume their supervisors read the questionnaire responses. We told them that any software that would not work after weeks of correspondence and no hint about what to fix was not production ready. They responded they had since fixed all installation issues in the latest version. We answered back that we could only test the version we were given and that version did not work.

I did not say that. The OP specifically said there were no "Unix desktops." Read the thread.

Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..

"Once you die, your property becomes theirs"
or they can simply bankrupt you

I would guess weight is more of a consideration for consumer passenger airplanes than military ones. After all, airlines do not have magazines anymore to save weight.

Well it was a busy holiday season for the US. The rest of the world view Thanksgiving as a Thursday. American carriers were busy for sure.

This article and the data behind it are talking about what is and is not based on the Linux kernel not what the general population defines as Linux. You want everyone to ignore that while making your argument.

Strawman argument. Anyone who knows anything technical about Android knows it is based on the Linux kernel.

Classic whataboutism. You might as well speculated that a meteor will wipe out civilization and no one can update Android anymore. That is equally as relevant as your scenario. Android uses the Linux kernel today. It is considered based on Linux today.

Yes it is a lot of ignorance. As someone who is on slashdot, I assumed you would know better.

It's been, what, a week, and they got 6000 jets through maintenance during a very busy holiday travel season?

That speaks to fantastic logistics. There are anonymous folks out there who did a great job and deserve a ridiculously generous Christmas Bonus. :gallant bow:

While what you say is generally true about artificial deadlines, Intel’s problem is they were more than 5 years behind schedule. They were stuck on 14nm for years while TSMC and Samsung leaped ahead and are so far ahead that Intel was forced to contract TSMC to make some chips.

The topic of this report is Amazon is laying off thousands of people. Did you not read the title?

1) Linux is a kernel. Always has been. 2) The fact it is a kernel makes it more relevance because people can change the userspace. Linux can be used in a desktop OS, mobile OS, HPC OS, etc.

A Linux distro is not the Linux kernel. To contort your argument, you are willing to bring in irrelevant facts.

No, let's be clear: You don't care about facts. Linux is a kernel. It has been for 30+ years since the very beginning of Linux. Today there are Linux-based OS variants which you have low opinions. But you are willing to mislead and obfuscate about what is Linux because you are unwilling to accept basic facts. An Acura is still a Honda despite your denialism.

It does not change the definition of Unix desktop if a user does not use command line. It is still Unix behind the UI. By that argument, HP Unix was not Unix because HP made many functions menu driven by default.

And you muddled the conversation by saying there were Unix desktops at your work. That is not true. If there are Macs, there are Unix desktops

Again Linux is the kernel, not the UI or the distro. When you do not get basic facts right, your argument collapses. That is like you arguing that an Acura is not a Honda because the interior is different. The fact that Acuras generally use a large percentage of Honda parts destroys your argument.

Your entire post seems to be a No True Scotsman fallacy that ignores the basic fact that Linux is the kernel. By claiming something is not Linux because it uses the Linux kernel shows an ignorance of what Linux is.