Since I paid a premium for an OS that didn't pull this crap, can I expect the price to drop sharply? If not, my next phone/tablet won't be Apple. ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE? This is the hill your market share dies on. You have been warned.

No. I never use MS account login and I never will. Way too many red flags and security issues. The day there isn't a workaround, is the day I stop using Windows all together and that day seems to be fast approaching.

This cartoon from 2005 applies just as much today. https://www.reddit.com/r/Propa...

It will speed up error checking, code testing. Syntax correction and intelli-sense suggestions. But it can't create anything. It also cannot see its own mistakes. So programmers will have a really stupid smart assistant, but programmers will still be needed to make sure the AI code isn't a hallucination that is syntactically correct, but actually total gibberish - in my experience in the last year using Claude, it spits out some great looking but totally worthless code. And you need someone who knows their stuff to vet this kind of thing out. And create the new code AI cannot. So yes, programming will change (as it does every 3-5 years) but programmers won't be replaced any time soon.

"Protect the children" No. Not the job of the state. That's parental responsibility. And I say that as a parent of two adults who grew up with the internet. Anyone who suggests it IS the job of the state to gatekeep on children's (or anyone's) behalf almost certainly has an agenda and it won't be what they claim.

Whatever will we do for overpriced buggy unoptimised sloppy ports of (at least a year) old games? Oh no, anyway...

Since the reported failure rate of A.I. worker replacement currently runs at 96%, I'd say he's either wildly optimistic for the benefit of shareholders, or just plain drinking the A.I. chat kool aid. Either way, it is not going to happen.

A lower price, RELIABLE 8TB drive would be nice. I bought two Seagate Ironwolf drives for my father for his 2-bay NAS, which he uses for backup (very low use). One failed within three months and it took almost as long to get them to replace it. Ideally, some 8TB SSD drives suitable for NAS use that don't cost £600 a piece would be good too...

What like iPhones? Or 30% of ALL the world's manufactured goods? 60%-70% in the USA. Try bringing something into your home that ISN'T made in China, either totally or in a significant proportion of it's parts. You'll find it a major a challenge.

Downgrading to Windows 11 (and that's what it was) became very noticeable immediately. The Task Manager and START menu are now background tasks, not part of the underlying platform, so it's easy to have them locked out by a crashing task or driver issue, when in Win 10 they ALWAYS responded short of a blue screen. My Core i9 machine which used to be snappy and load almost instantly from it's M.2 boot drive, now plods to the desktop and often just hangs for seconds at a time where nothing is running (apparently) and no memory is being used, but the PC is unresponsive. It's just a piss-poor user experience. And do we get fixes? Nope. Arbitrary installations of AI & bloatware. The whole "Must use MS Account for login" is beyond dumb; a security nightmare! Same account and password used for EVERYTHING that's a cloud based (e.g. exposed 24/7 to hacking). Microsoft (if they care at this point) should look on this as another Windows Vista moment, where they need to downsize, optimise and streamline the entire platform. Treat it like a game engine and not a billboard.

In December I bought BF6 via Steam. Played for a couple of weeks, liked it, so purchased the £30 "Phantom Upgrade" DLC. I never got it. Steam just say "you played the game, so no refunds" despite having never received the content. They just send automatic replies. Screw consumer rights. Their response in their FAQ is "It's EA's problem, not ours". EA just refer you to their FAQs (also useless) and also do not read anything you send them. So £30 down and nothing to show. If I take legal action, I know Steam will kill my account, taking decades of games purchases along with it. They need to be held more accountable. My consumer rights entitle me to a refund within 30 days NO MATTER WHAT and Steam just blew that off.

Explains a lot.

It's a step, all be it small, in the right direction, but it needs to be a global switch. Along with "Do no recommend videos I've already watched" as an option (come on YT, this is just BASIC stuff!)

In so far as driving their customers out, to the point where anything is a better alternative. I canned my Netflix subscription five years ago. What have I missed? Worse and worse episodes of Stranger Things? The Witcher TEMU edition? Massive amounts of filler content? For higher prices and fewer features & options. Keep digging that hole Netflix. Right next to Blockbuster's.

Companies in the USA and EU outsourced the lion share of their parts production to another country, one with a shaky relationship to the rest of the world (at best) because it gave them bigger profit margins. The same trade blocks have then started a trade war with China because their products are cheaper (the same reason they outsourced to China in the first place). Now the chickens have come home to roost. Maybe (if they don't go under) they'll have the sense to invest in their own microchip production. Less money for shareholders, but the industry will continue to exist. Will it happen? Probably not. Workers in the EU & USA don't want to work for less money. Unions object to reductions in workforce (a necessity). Investors and shareholders will cut & run.