I still see it as laziness of design. It goes back to the days when sites required you to use Internet Exploder, er, Explorer... because it followed a different implementation track than Netscape/Mozilla, and IE accepted broken HTML because Internet Insecurity Server (IIS) would serve it that way. When you have defined standards and follow them with your site design, the browser a user chooses when visiting your site should be 100% irrelevant, and if it is that is the fault of the browser maker because they do not implement the standard. If you develop your site to require a certain feature of a specific make of browser be used, the fault is yours for developing a browser-specific site.

Same happens where I work. They default everything to Chrome but allow you to use Firefox and a couple of others as well. I just restrict my use of Chrome to the corporate intraweb stuff (training, help desk, etc). Overall, it's laziness of design of those intraweb sites... they force the developers to use one methodology over another instead of building things to a browser-agnostic standard.

Except that "micro" means "small," and there's nothing small about the shit they produce... so MacroShit?

This all changed when Congress started creating a lot of the 3+ letter agencies and gave them power to create regulations as if they were law... and those agencies report to the President. Executive Orders should never be law, and were only ever meant to be something that provides guidance on how to enforce certain existing laws. If we really wanted to go back to the way the Founding Fathers wanted it, those agencies would report to Congress and would work to produce things that Congress would have to enact as legislation. By creating all of those agencies, Congress abdicated its power to legislate to the Executive branch. Anything enacted as a regulation by the agency should be converted to legislation if we really wanted to get back to where we should be.

Trouble is, Congress refuses to do its job and likes to play games like Budget Brinksmanship instead. Remember, for members of Congress, job 1 is to get elected, and job 2 is to get re-elected. Anything for their constituents runs a distant third to those two.

This is all party neutral stuff. Both of them do it. Both of them make back room deals to keep themselves in power and screw us all, and woe be unto anyone who attempts to disrupt that ruling class of people who know better than all of us peons.

... when everything released by Microsoft is nothing but a gigantic public beta test.

And it inspired a two-part episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man"... Death Probe

They will if they want to keep the money rolling in from corporate site licenses, especially if those sites are doing government contracting or deal with PII, PHI, or other sensitive information like that.

I see no reason to spend $5-10 on burnt coffee... never mind working it up into these fru-fru things that have more calories than I need in a single day in even just the small one.

It's been this way for a couple of years now.

People using AI as a crutch will never do anything other than get themselves into trouble eventually if they don't know how to spot check results. If something AI responds with seems off, there's a good chance it is. Want to use AI to do menial tasks like "create an array where each entry is the name of regular file found in a specified directory" because you don't want to remember the language syntax of every scripting language available is fine. It also does an excellent job of taking large documents and providing summaries. But asking it to do "research" for you? You'll end up getting in hot water because it could generate false results. Always verify.

Yeah, I've seen the various videos and instructions, but the trouble is that it makes certain other applications fail such as the Microsoft Store, the search bar in the start menu... so if you can live without those, you'll be fine. On the plus side, it removes Bing searches.

... and do so while leaving the remainder of Windows actually usable instead of crippled... will be a hero to a lot of people.

... that overpromises and underdelivers... what a surprise.

Make the stuff they write start to interconnect as the semester progresses too. It will help them learn a lot more about how to make reusable code, common libraries, etc.

The only nit to pick here is that while gatekeepers might reduce misinformation spread, it is more about who's paying the gatekeepers and how misinformation is defined. It's more accurate to say that gatekeepers drastically reduce misinformation spread based on how misinformation is defined for them by their bosses, whether those bosses be a government entity, an interested corporation, or some other special interest group.