Near as I can tell (I'm a Mac user), MS keeps business people on it by integrating their apps together. This is a godsend to the C-Suite who have other things to dork around with than their computer. Office contains just about anything they want to use. They do not know anything else and they do not want to know anything else.

I periodically have runins with Office on a Mac because the management really likes bullet points and needs to lift them from our docs lest they be forced to think for themselves. Their idea of a Pooperpoint window means a bloody mess of smaller and smaller type several layers deep (populated by bullet points) or with some diagram contains several different kinds of arrows. They feel this helps organize their thoughts. However, a well-constructed Pooperpoint slide deck can be done, it requires one do more than know Pooperpoint. Organizing one's thoughts so others can understand the flow is not easy. Pooperpoint gives the management the idea all they need is to slap bulletpoints and arrows on slides and Presto, Instant Pudding. If you go more than two layers deep in bullet points, your audience is lost. And only a sparse few on a window enough to guide your talk over. If you are using Pooperpoint for something else, you might want to consider using something else.

The rest of the apps to me seem like garbage, including the mechanics of Pooperpoint. I'm happy doing documents in Latex including pictures and diagrams. Word is just too painful, but requires no thinking as long as your formatting is simple. But then I only write math and logic and am not about to spend days poking symbols into fucking Word. Doing slide decks is then easy for Latex (using the Beamer package). I can just cut and paste from my other documents. Latex (and Beamer) makes making whizzy things in slide decks hard, but then whizzy things should not be in slide decks.

I run a few companies, more than 950 people are working with me, I have a few system administrator, it is a serious matter. Eventually there are people in any company that have access and control that really allows them to do damage that is massive enough that the very survival of a company is in question. This immediately has an effect on all of the clients, all of the people working for the company, partners, families, infrastructure contractors, quite a few things really. This type of behavior really compromises what people think about IT professionals everywhere.

schooling is used to control how kids think and act so they follow 'society values'. Governments who do this want to make sure that their political and religious beliefs are instilled in the next generation of voters for the rest of their lives.

Big tech companies don't really know what to do with 10x engineers. 1x engineers they manage out or warehouse until the next layoff, 1.5x engineers get promoted, but when they get a 10x engineer they try to make them into something different. Typically this means taking them away from hands-on engineering and trying to get them to do things that are more "high impact", such as engineering management or tech leadership. If they're not good at these things this frustrates everyone involved. If they are... well, they've probably traded a 10x engineer for a 1x manager or tech lead, which likely isn't a good trade.

Most employees at big companies, including tech companies, don't innovate. They're not allowed to innovate, and if they try to do so they're told to keep working on their TPS reports or Jira tickets. Laying off such engineers won't reduce innovation at a big company.

The people big companies allow to innovate are either product/marketing types, or in tech companies people with titles like "principal" and "distinguished". Most of these people don't actually innovate either (and the innovation coming from the product/marketing types is usually bad), but occasionally you get people who can, and that's where all the innovation from big companies is.

If you want to innovate, become a founder. If you're at a big tech company, you can probably ask management and they'll tell you the same thing.

US: Hey MS, we just wanna type in a text file, which app do I use?

MS: Well, you can use our AI Powered PowerText-to-SuperFile app. It does it all, writes your text for you.

US: No, no, no. We want to write the text.

MS: That's not the AI-Way, you really want to use our AI Powered app, it will answer any questions you have while it writes your text.

US: Errrrmmmm.....cannot I just write text file on my own?

MS: Uh-oh, I guess not. We do not have an AI Powered app to do that.

US: Nevermind, Linux and MacOS will do just fine. Now go away.

MS: Ooops, too late, our AI Powered Agent has already accessed you bank account and transferred the required sum into our coffers for wanting to use an un-AI Powered app.

US: Eat death!

MS: So you want to commit suicide. May we suggest our AI Powered Schedule-Your-Death app?

Thank you, National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers. But we've been hearing this song about underfunding for decades now and funding has gone up by massive amounts while education has not, in fact, gotten better.

Or, we can continue to pump CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and *hope* it does no harm even though our physics says it will. Please explain your physics scientist credentials to us so that we may not merely assume you are just another nutjob who likes to float unsupported in a sea of ignorance.

CERN is only smashing small ions together. At most, a black hole created would have the collective mass of these plus the energy needed to accelerate them into ion punishing speed. That's a might small black hole and not a threat to anyone. It would probably disappear quite quickly due to Hawking radiation. A brief google brings up:

        https://angelsanddemons.web.ce...

As they mention, some cosmic rays have more energy that what is created at CERN and if ion irritation black holes were forming, there's multitudes of them. And if they were dangerous, we'd all be dead.

No one claimed the vaccine was a 100% miracle cure except the anti-vaxxer's claims about the vaxxers. Nice projection, do you do this often? You can help, you know.

I think the plan is for AI-bots to buy all the shit for which we used to have money. It allows the rich to bypass the dirty proles. It will be one giant, mutually recursive backscratching exercise.

So, you read the headline and somehow the entire report was bleeding obvious? As test321 below noted, please inform us about what aspects of the report you found obvious.

Optimally, there should be a credit based system that counts seconds or so. Per program pay is probably more realistic though.

It is a waste to pay for total availability, when the real use can be much less, and 99% of the content is uninteresting.

Logically if you were to watch everything 24/7 you would pay the full price.

This code was made available (if less than lawfully, nobody who matters complained) over ten years ago; I believe the conclusion of that story is here.

See the bottom line? Start firing to meet it, don't figure out how to properly run the business.