You proved your own point quite well. You weren't good at identifying misinformation. You see no, concerns over his mental decline weren't labelled misinformation. Actual misinformation about his mental decline were labelled misinformation, such as those examples which seemed to show his brain stop during public events carefully cut together to misinform people like you, whereas in reality the full unedited footage showed him listening to people off camera and replying to them.

There were plenty of cases too where he did actually have a brain freeze, and none of those were taken down or called misinformation.

But some people (you) really need help identifying the difference.

What makes you think it's one or the other.

Step 1. Build cloud infrastructure
Step 2. Build a CPU intensive app.
Step 3. Make cloud infrastructure efficient to run to keep cost down through better cooling.
Step 4. Charge customer CPU hours to run the bloated app.
Step 5. Profit.

Yeah I identified the missing steps. Finally.

That is non-sequitur. Either they are a hardware company so they can get others to use the technology, or they aren't a hardware company and then why would they have interest in getting others to use tech?

Your post is ignorant of how these companies work. Not only does Microsoft have a consumer hardware division, but like all major tech companies with cloud infrastructure they develop a shitton of their own hardware for their own purposes, and this is one of them. MS is developing this for MS, not for others.

The EX90 is a European SUV, I think in America they call them "compact"

The problems are not just software. They have some actual hardware problems as well with reports of screens randomly dying and needing to be replaced.

What behaviour? At no point are they dropping support. In fact this is the opposite, they are upgrading hardware and continuing to support and making support easier for them without expense to you. This is the wrong hill you're choosing to die on.

Well the only people who "saw" this coming are those with a bias against China looking to apply an "I told you so" which doesn't make sense. I have a recent Geely sub-brand car and I've never been hit with a bug in the software system. A friend of my drives a Geely EX5, and the only "bug" there is that it was delivered from the factory with a scratched panel.

Those people who *actually* know Geely not only know that their software platforms generally work just fine, but they also know that the Volvo EX90 is manufactured by Geely, it was designed by Volvo is Sweden and this was Volvo's Swedish plant's fuckup and their fuckup alone.

The EX90 stands unique in the entire Geely group lineup as a horrendous car from a software point of view. But sure blame China like you do with everything else.

More accurately, they are doing one which also happens to benefit the other. The EX90 launched with a LIDAR system that was at the time unused. It was always billed as car that would be improved over time, but it also launched as an exceptional trainwreak. A true beta product in the *WRONG* way. When people were told their car would improve over time they didn't think this would mean "Maybe in 6 months time your key will work".

No that's not a cultural bias, that is simply cultural ignorance. No one is lying or expecting to argue with you. Viewing it in this way shows you don't remotely understand the culture, rather you are applying *your* cultural understanding to someone else's culture.

Yes that's how culture works. The whole car thing in America sounds moronic. The whole gun thing sounds moronic. The whole televangelists praying that drivers don't get shot after running over kids with mega SUVs sound moronic.

We have countless things where I live which too would sound moronic to a foreigner that are none the less perfectly normal locally.

Unlikely. Reading in a different writing form is not a change of cultural norms. It's page layout. If anything technology will be rejected by the people using it.

What do you mean "own" and what do you mean "history". Delete the second half of the sentence and ... yes the answer is yes.

Will you continue that stance if you're invaded? Remember war is tribalism at a fundamental level. It's easy to think you're above it when you're not affected by it.

I don't think he's getting money. I think he's laundering money.

Not really. What is unprecedented is a call for support for an OS that is not in any way in a long term support contract for over 10 years. You don't get this anywhere else. Heck for the most popular desktop Linux you get 9 months of support. MONTHS! Not even a year. And consumers do not usually seek out LTS releases.

The fact that a future version finally mandates hardware level security (the last consumer OS to do so, and I remind you it's no the 90s, we're in the world of OS acting as passkeys for external services) isn't artificial obsolescence, it's trying to force the one thing Slashdotters have been calling for for years: improved security.

It will not do so in the slightest. Governments are wholly unaffected by this, they are already running Windows 11, or they have LTS agreements in place. And they really don't care much what consumers do with their hardware.

This is the problem with your logic. We're here many years later. What was an antitrust issue in 1995 is now an expected minimum feature. Consumers expect that on a freshly installed PC the vendor provides an internet browser. Also no it's not more difficult to install a browser. Unless you mean clicking a single button (you can't auto default a browser, but you can automatically bring up the window for the user to click on your browser) is "difficult". I don't know anyone who uses Edge, and I know a lot of computer users who metaphorically couldn't tie their own digital shoelaces.

Your post is another typical case of Slashdot being out of touch with reality.

Slashdot logic: Microsoft doesn't take security seriously!
Microsoft: we'll re-design our security infrastructure from the ground up including hardware hardening and yeah we may be the last consumer OS to do so but we're finally improving security.
Slashdot logic:

Honestly everyone here is a whiney bitch.