Microsoft have been trying to move their revenue stream to a subscription model for decades. I myself have witnessed at least three previous attempts over the last 30 years.

That's some impressive customer resistance there.

And some equally impressive "bashing their heads against a brick wall" from Microsoft.

Sorry. You are too late.

The USA has given up on punishing lies, liars, perjurers, tax cheats, bribers, bribe recipients, and foreign agents.

I don't want to run OS/2 just for fun (shudder, I remember what it was like trying to use it).

So why are user applications not mentioned anywhere in TFA nor in this discussion?

More: I went via the Wiki to the Store, where there are only three "Office & Productivity" apps, none of which anyone has ever heard of before.

And you want me to pay for this?

What Lloyd's are doing is functionally equivalent to ....

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) got rid of 1500 experienced people, and replaced with 750 hired guns from the subcontinent... who turned out to be not as gifted as those who were shown to RBS before the contract was signed (surprise surprise).

These guys fucked up an update to the batch scheduler software, and fucked up restarting the batch schedule, which left RBS without any functioning banking apps nor any valid databases.

Over the weeks of disruption, the FCA said customers could not:
- Use online banking facilities to access their accounts
- Obtain accurate account balances from ATMs
- Make timely mortgage payments
- Access cash in foreign countries
In addition, the banks applied incorrect credit and debit interest to customers' accounts, and produced inaccurate bank statements.

It took more than four months to completely restore all the function for all customers.

AI is not just regurgitating garbage, it is creating new garbage.

Microsoft Copilot just told me with total confidence all about the wonderful parish church St Andrews in my village. But ...

That parish church has been here for 800 years and has NEVER been dedicated to St Andrew. We have no idea where this notion came from.

There is a special place in Hell for the people who trained Copilot.

We can easily replace ChromeOS with Mint, and let the updates continue...

I mentor at a Code Club. All our machines are donated, including 5 or 6 Chromebooks. We have installed Mint on all the machines to save ourselves the grief of the machines not being identical. Mint works fine on the Chromebooks.

Footnote: I am fairly certain that all our Chromebooks are older than 2021

Manufacturers will be motivated to not weasel out on battery guarantees. There's money in the battery. Because lithium batteries are 95% recyclable. And recycled lithium is cheaper than mined lithium.

[The 5% is plastic parts, such as spacers].

I recently attended an in-person presentation/demo by Kölling on his Strype editor (which edits by program blocks, not txt strings).

I promise you, he talks sense, and is very worth listening to.

Brexit has NOT screwed the UK

UK growth has caught up, and is now faster than the EU average.

You can expect that he will be found to be "sick", the 25th Amendment will be used to remove him, and install JD Vance as Prez.

Who will implement Project2025.

This has been the Republican plan all along.

Was this what you voted for?

It's not just that management are digitally illiterate , it's that they have this silly idea that every spend should be able to prove some value, a contribution to the bottom line.

So, AI, where's the business case? I am not convinced.

Except you forgot, there is no GPIO on your cheap laptop. So not at all comparable.

You are absolutely correct.

https://slashdot.org/~Ongeloof... has completely missed the point.

Not at all "USA only".. This is actually an international thing, and a technical writer thing.

Passive voice conceals who is acting. "The value must be set before running the program". Who is supposed to set it? The installer? The user? God?

Passive is harder work for the reader, and much harder for non-native speakers. Which is why use of passive is behind a lot of the complaints about "your documentation is unusable".

If you want to be understood, write in active voice.

Thank you. That makes sense, as to how it works.

And reminds me of why I dumped Windows and its works a decade ago.