With all the dropping of older HW support, I seems like that OS from that big cloud company from Seattle ðY"

I fully agree with you. But Google won't release their own apps as native on the largest desktop platforms either.

Also there is safediskshim https://github.com/RibShark/Sa...

Secdrv is there you just need to enable it.

We need to get back to on-prem software. SaaS is just a money sink that is killing more business than it helps. I bet this city could have modernized their SAP erp to the latest version and saved over half that money.

All of Azure runs on Windows CoreOS https://techcommunity.microsof... I think saying Linux has won is short sighted.

We need to do this in the US, along with all of these streaming services are required to release physical copies of all of their shows.

The concerns are overblown. 1. This is just in beta. It may never go to production 2. It is totally local, if you wipe your machine your history is gone 3. There is a simple on and off in the settings.

Windows Server is actually good. It includes everything you need to run. The problem now a days is that it isn't small enough for containers, but it is cheaper than suse enterprise or rhel

This seems to make an opening for closed source software. That way corporations and governments can point the finger at one person or corporation when an issue occurs.

Actually, more of Netflix subscribers are the ad subsidized ones

Now is the time for Microsoft to bring back windows phone/ windows mobile. The interface is still better than anything out there, and they could get traction in this market.

We need to reverse this process. It starts writing software for the desktop again, and not just webapps. Then we need to be able to buy our music, movies, books, etc ..., but from places that understand those items.

This makes Windows Server Standard edition seem cheap $500 for up to 16 core that is a one time fee. It also makes Windows 11 Pro worth it, I can get that license, if I have to pay for it around a one time fee of $99.

Pretty soon there will be a one to one ratio of full pcs to smartphone where everyone as one of each and they don't need a better device.