why would they bother? he no longer works for them, the fault he reported on had been acknowledged as a fault by Boeing and Spirit and he was fired for missing another fault. why would they suddenly be targeting him a year later?

That is true, but let's not forget that most Windows users are not Rocket surgeons either.

Yikes! That's a pucker string moment. Microsoft really needs to do like Linux and MacOS does. Let us choose when it reboots to install. They seem to think that the most important thing in computing is their OS, and that it takes priority over the work we are doing. Or trying to get home.

The OLED screen jumps out at me as a useful upgrade. An iPad is mainly a screen.

Although, they make some nice non-OLED screens too.

I think perplexity.ai is in a honeymoon phase of not having been sued yet. GPT4 has become very cautious about analyzing or quoting copyright material including papers, whereas perplexity will still go ahead and access them and do the work for you. It's great, but I wonder if it will last.

People want to see their 401k's go up, and whoever's in charge of making sure $BIGNUM goes up this quarter at google wants their bonus. There is no single individual who personally owns the $110B google has lying around.

They most certain do have offices in those locations

https://about.google/locations...

Not sure offshoring is an appropriate term for a global company hiring globally.

If you're hiring somewhere you don't sell anything, that's definitely offshoring.

Most Linux people simply don't care about Market share.

Because if Market share = the best, VHS was the best videotape system ever invented.

Not sure what you mean. MacOS is Unix, and I spend as much time in Terminal as I do programs.

I can install the software I want, and seriously, the meme that Macs are completely locked down is right up there with Macs only using one button mice.

I think he goes to Circuit City to get his computers.

But to me, other than having to pay the Microsoft tax, Installing Linux is about as simple as you can get. Go to Linux Mint https://linuxmint.com/ Or others, download it, burn the iso to a thumbdrive with say Rufus, boot then install. Have an internet connection, and it will sense your hardware and install the drivers, easy peasy.

If you prefer something other than Mint, you can go to distrowatch.com, and have fun.

There are a lot prebuilt options too. https://us.starlabs.systems/pa...

Yup, in starting the transition to Linux on My Windows machine that "isn't eligible", Linux installed easily,

So soon, very soon, my personal use of computers will be free of Windows, I'll only have my BootCamp W10, for the increasingly rare uses.

For different use cases, it will be different. For my use case, 10 is a problem, and 11 doesn't cure that problem. But the people want Windows, because it is the so called standard. It messes up sound drivers, and it gets unstable after downloading but not yet installing updates, and Windows does BOHICA updates. My Enterprise 10 version once restarted involuntarily during the worst possible time, in the middle of an event.

The irony is they saw the same thing running on My Mac and asked about it, it looked a little different, and had more features. I explained to them, telling them that this same software has more uptime, because I choose to do the updates, and the downloaded updates don't mess with the application and they wanted to know if they could get Mac on Windows. This is what you get when the people making the technical decisions have no technical knowledge. They stayed with Windows because it was the standard.

It was less than a year ago that KB5026372 was breaking VPN connections; and now they've broken them again?

While Bootcamp technically isn't a VM, it is certainly more capable than a bog standard Microsoft box.

My group uses a lot of audio, and updates bork the audio pretty often, even before it is actually installed. My Bootcamp install has not suffered from that so far.