Many businesses need/want Exchange/Outlook and Excel; M$ knows this. So, M$ uses monopoly-like powers to install or offer products as a "bundle" at prices competitors with a narrower offering cannot match. Outlook and Excel desktop apps are still probably the driving factor for Windows OS usage as well, for business deployments. "Teams is free with O365" is why a company I know is trying to minimize or eliminate their entire Cisco voice and WebEx footprint. The only real problem is old copper telephone lines, some emergency phone regulations and a call directory.

I have often been down voted for bringing this up, now a very large government points out M$'s unfair bundling tactics. I hope they review decoupling Windows desktop OS license as well.

It's quite annoying that Comcast/Xfinity thought it was a good idea to co-opt a naming standard and apply it to their service/hardware. They are completely relying on most Americans to not realize it's simply a marketing trick to make you believe they are ahead of "5G" speeds/technology.

Who "owns" 4G, 5G branding/naming? Is it trademarked? Could Comcast be forced to stop this kind of misleading marketing? Could I launch a competing 11G internet service?

I understand that we don't know all the details, but very large companies have pretty terrible ethics records for this kind of stuff.

Looks like a new acquisition plan:
1. Evaluate a company to buy or license tech
2. Which is cheaper A) Poach employees or B) Buy company or C) License tech?
3. If choice "A", make sure they cannot compete against your legal budget.

"Rebirth" could fix all of our problems.

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After half the industry is doing it for a few years and struggling to sell their wares with it, Apple will announce the are putting AI in iOS, watchOS etc. at WWDC and be hailed innovative and courageous, leading to millions of new sales.

Am I being a bit snarky with my comment? Yes, but I also believe that's how it will happen.

Please tell me what you know about the Airman's actual duties and security clearance that preclude him from accessing the leaked documents. Age and rank don't heavily factor into the need for various security clearances.

His discord friends probably won't ever get sensitive government jobs, assuming they want one.

"A lifetime in a military prison is what this traitor deserves", if he is found guilty under the Uniform Code of Military Justice or federally prosecuted.

FTFY

No one in charge of the levers of power is going to warn a recession is coming and there is little they can do about it. That alone may cause a recession, in part, because greedy bastards will try to cash out and minimize losses ahead of a recession that may or may not happen to an unknown extent. So, the Fed, the President, the IMF etc. all say they have it under control and if all their plans work there will be no recession. We all follow along trying to hopefully avoid a recessiohttps://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/13/1132210/white-house-rejects-fed-staff-outlook-says-no-sign-of-recession#n until it is painfully obvious it is upon us.

Where is the real option?

MAX Resonable ($5.99/month): Add free, 4 consecutive streams, 1080p HD, 5.1 surround sound

If I have to pay more than I do now simply to avoid adds, I will simply avoid their service. So much of what HBO Max offers is produced in-house (Warner Bros., DC Comics, Discovery etc), that I'm directly paying them to deliver content they created, not ads.

I nearly replaced my Shield Android TV devices when they turned into add platforms, but it's hardware and I mitigated some of the obtrusiveness.

I may as well go back to cable TV if this continues across the industry.

At a high level, I agree with Google, but I think it's more related to bundling because so many business won't do without Excel and Exchange/Outlook.

If the MS Office suite was owned and sold by a separate company, the Azure platform may be less attractive with all the bundled stuff you get by simply subscribing to M365 licenses to get Excel and Outlook.

MS leverages this to offer discounts or making restriction on other platforms.

Also, why is there an Office version for Mac but not Linux more generally?

From my simple understanding, this allows AI to show you "important elements" (text and faces), over "non essential" elements like scenery without requiring new hardware or codecs. Am I right? So, they are finding a way to show you lower quality video when there is a poor connection without sacrificing "important elements".

That's neat, but can I turn it off?

In addition to the other observations as to why Dominoes failed, there are approximately 930 Italians for 1 pizzeria. 59,000,000/63,000

Not sure how Dominoes though they were going to pound the competition.

Why doesn't Apple simply buy theaters?

Oh, yeah, here's why:

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People that "spouts orders" don't have legal protection to prevent others from trying to issuing those same orders. Why would protecting that have value? Maybe you should try a car analogy.