Am I the only one felt a bit jealous about this? My boss never buys ME concert tickets.

Sure, but what is your other option? Flying Spirit? By the time you're done paying extra for all of your carry-on bags and various weird add-on charges, you'll probably up paying the same price as Delta or United.

Yeah, I'm not sure how Microsoft profits off of forcing you to reboot your computer to install updates.

I do understand how making Onedrive sync terrible improves their profits, though. By making it back up a bunch of worthless temporary files, they're upping your cloud storage requirements. Most people probably never bother to check what crap it's backing up, and just pay extra for the additional storage.

It sounds like working at 2025 Microsoft is a lot like working at 2005 IBM. You're now always in danger of losing your job in the annual cost cutting layoff, or maybe even a special bonus layoff if the company didn't meet the quarterly numbers.

Of course, back then, they were just outsourcing jobs overseas. Now they're saying that they're going to replace your job with AI, but odds are that they'll also replace you with an overseas resource if the AI thing doesn't work out.

Yeah, Core Java 2 for college. Wow... I feel old now.

They're better than the cryptocurrency cheerleading articles, anyway, which seems to be Slashdot's other favorite topic.

Yeah, if you haven't switched to OpenJDK or some other open source Java variant at this point, you pretty much deserve the auditing pain that's going to be inflicted upon you.

I mean, come on... you have had years of warning at this point.

You would think that a place like northern Minnesota would have a much lower risk of tropical storm damage.

I'd expect that this problem is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. I'm just thinking about those tens of millions of Amazon Echo and Google Home devices that were bought around 2017-2018. Amazon and Google are probably going to end support for those soon. The only real question is if they're going to give up on this unprofitable platform entirely, or just force their users to upgrade to newer smart speakers.

It might also be that people are realizing that 45% off of MSRP isn't really a "deal" for items that never sell at MSRP.

Most of the stuff I checked for Prime Day usually cost around $500, but were "on sale" for $450 with discount from a basically meaningless MSRP of $800. It's going to take more than $50 to get me to pull the trigger on those items.

The CNBC summary of the bill does a good job of describing what's in it. There are a handful of middle class tax cuts in there, so it's not ALL doom and gloom.

I gotta admit, the 13" Macbook Air is a good choice for college students. It's relatively fast, built well, reliable, and isn't nearly as overpriced as a Macbook Pro.

If my kid used this presentation on me, I'd be sold. Although, personally, I'd like a Lenovo T series instead because I know that I'm going to have to deal some at least one oddball software version for a class that only works on Windows.

They both look pretty content in that picture. Makes sense... Bill G got control of most of the world's laptops and desktops, while Linus got control of most of the world's servers and smartphones. It's almost like they decided to spilt the entire IT ecosystem in two, and also decided to keep Apple around for sport.

I'm assuming that you're using the Enterprise version. The Home version is an ad filled mess.

Plus, we've read this story on Slashdot many times before. It usually ends with Microsoft "Generously" offering discounted or free Office licenses to the next IT executive in order to bring them back into the fold.