Not surprised at all. Emerson bought National Instuments on Weds. Of course, they are going to start chopping the elements that don't fit Emerson's business plans/use for the tech they acquired. https://www.emerson.com/en-us/...

People for whom a $2,000 NT4 compatible replacement system is cheaper than a $7,000,000 replacement electron microscope to eliminate the NT4 requirement.

RPI still has an active production VMS system on Alpha. Sadly, I have to keep it working, and the owner deemed it too expensive to upgrade to IA-64 before last order date. I kept that 8500 series VAX that replaced the 11/780 working until the console HDD failed.

I work at a university. The students are petitioning to replace the "archaic" rifd/swipe cards and keys with NFC readers to interact with their phones.

A bug that breaks email for self-hosted/on premise exchange only? If that's not a move to push hold outs to their cloud, I've got a bridge for sale.

I've got an open ticket at work to rebuild an NT4 box for an electron microscope. And that's one of the upgraded ones. The others output analog directly to Kodak products.

Because its the only browser left without Chrome at its core, and the internet has moved on to expect a Chrome based rendering engine. This is not a bad thing. I for one, am not looking forward to Google determining the defacto web standards ala IE 6 20 years ago.

I'm stuck on video conferences all day now. Besides not wanting the background noise, am making sure I've got enough bandwidth for the audio I need to work from home.

Storage is already going all M.2 or hotswap backplanes, which renders the +5V direct from PSU not needed

NY Law prohibits tax software from charging a filing fee for NY State returns above and beyond the cost of the software.

Bruker makes Linux based MRI and NMR units. They ship an HP workstation with a custom Centos 7 install with their units currently.

If this gets adopted, expect it to become the norm at some point in the future for all editions. Once software devs adapt their distribution to not lock themselves out of the edu market, it will be very easy to throw the switch and wall off the rest of the OS.

You need to spawn more overlords first.

As Arnold said, they'll be back

I don't know. I don't let Win 10 anywhere near machines I control.