... sadly for the Americans, the rest of the world now knows they can't count on a US based provider for this kind of thing any more.
It was uncomfortable enough relying so heavily on American software back when it couldn't be switched off remotely on the say so of an idiot. Today it's an intolerable risk.
When I went to work for post-acquisition Tivoli (IBM) they issued everyone two PCs, for the most part a pair of PPro 180s, one running Windows 2000 and one with OS/2 so that you could use it to run ACME, a screen scraper GUI for RETAIN. You had to keep Windows so that you could run Notes, but if you just used a 3270 emulator and learned to use the application directly (which was often necessary since ACME updates would lag RETAIN) then you didn't need OS/2 any more. So yes I had to have Windows, but then I also had another machine on which I could run whatever I wanted.
The Windows machine came in handy for Diablo anyway.
Okay, what did you find to be so insulting about what I said?
Thanks for proving my point. I don't know why you do that so readily, but I do appreciate it. Of course, you won't understand how you've done that, but we can add it to the list.
You appear to be bitterly pessimistic there buddy. It's tiresome and unhelpful.
You appear to have your head in the clouds. Reality is where shit happens. Pretending otherwise is what's tiresome.
The only VM with good Windows accelerated graphics performance is VMware, period. It feels gross to write that, but it's true.
I have one for space cadet pinball...
You failed to read between the lines there.
You think it's not an problem if a hostile superpower with massive manufacturing capacity is going to go through some hard times?
You remind me of Macron being all happy to make Trump sign a treaty at Versailles. How did that go the last time?
Windows has failed, the experiment is over, Windows is a joke, and no professional would be caught using it, if they want to be taken seriously.
The problem is government. OK, nobody takes government IT seriously and for good reason, but they still need to interface with the government constantly. Since every fucking governmental entity in the USA is based on Windows and IBM, we're all forced to be able to interoperate with those. Microsoft has deliberately made their Office suite non-interoperable with false standards that require epic effort to duplicate to a working extent.
Local governments use Windows to interoperate with State govs. State govs use Windows to interoperate with the feds. Microsoft is a defense contractor and part of the panopticon (literally every whistleblower has had something to tell us about how our government uses their control over Microsoft to spy on us, they're a known member of PRISM, etc.) so the feds will "never" stop using Windows, and trying to keep the rest of us using it too.
I put never in quotes because sure it can change... but only way too late.
Don't you think that quite a few of the chip companies will pop together with the bubble, if a bubble pops?
Not unless a lot of new capacity is added. There are not a lot of fabs being built to increase memory production capacity. Not only will the AI demand not vanish overnight, but there is also going to be a lot of pent-up demand from consumers to satisfy. They will be comparatively pleased to pay only slightly elevated prices.
What would be better is if operating systems weren't absolute shit that requires a gigabyte's worth of updates every 2 weeks.
That would be ideal, but barring that, we could use WoL to wake them up when they need updates. The technology is only what, 30 years old?
The transition will take some time, so it would be nice if the US does not do a total collapse, but a slow slide into the 2nd world. But even if that collapse happens, the rest of the world will be ok.
The USA is the world's second largest manufacturer of heavy equipment, and it won't just go quietly. The death throes will be substantial. Meanwhile we've been getting a tech transfer from Ukraine so the USA can function in modern warfare.
Nothing good happens if the USA fails.
you could run your preferred Linux distribution natively, but that might not be an option, particularly if an organization is keen on the "security, manageability, and integration of the Windows platform."
Are the security, manageability, and integration in the room with us?
1) Microsoft just pushed an update which fixes a bunch of Windows problems, but fucks up Office, they obviously did zero integration testing.
2) This update was mandatory, it could not be declined by any means, even though it was known to fuck things up. So much for manageability.
3) Don't even fucking get me started on security when Microsoft doesn't even know what the fuck happened at least the last two times there's been a serious security breach of Azure. There are no logs. They have no clue.
Only a complete chucklefuck with zero industry experience believes Microsoft provides any of those things. Even policy is a shitty joke when it doesn't do half the shit you want and the other half is unreliable, you still wind up needing the scripts and other bullshit for windows automation that people cite as a problem when you need them for Unix.
If I'm not trying to insult you, but you take offense anyhow, that's on you
If you're not trying to be insulting, but you're being insulting anyway, you're a stupid asshole.
We don't. Feel free to read the news about Windows 11
Which American values? There's not one set.
For example, this nation was founded on racism and theft. Are those the traditional values you mean?
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
