"Premium"?

I've used rackspace. "Premium" doesn't really describe the product you get. Free products from both google and ms perform basic functions far better, and without those basic functions I'm not sure what "premium" functions can bring to the table to make its use worthwhile.

Maybe their support is top notch but...it's email. A decent admin interface, a solid product, what need for support?

When I started at a new job 15 years ago they were on rackspace...and it sucked. Spam/phishing detection was horrible, I'd spend 30 minutes every day just sifting through crap, and that was on a new email address. Boss had a 10yr old email address, that was way worse.

Couldn't get us off of it fast enough. Even gmail is better. I can't imagine how any business functions with them.

- Teachers can be wonderful...in the moment. Regardless, they don't have to live with the consequences of failing their students, parents do, so it's not their responsibility.

- I'm not even talking about homeschooling. My daughter attended public schools, but I never blindly trusted everything was going well. I stayed on top of her grades, kept in communication with her teachers, made sure she had the extra tutoring she sometimes needed. I was glad to have great teachers supporting me, but that's what it was; they were supporting me, not the other way around.

An interesting note; I got a lot of push back from some teachers and administrators as she got older, particularly in jr high ( strangely enough ). They wanted me to back off and let them teach her, they didn't want me helping her with her education at all. Nor did they want me packing her snacks and a lunch ( school food was absolute trash ). It got so bad I ended up at school board meeting relating my experiences. Things got better after that, but it really demonstrated to me how much better off our kids and the education system would be if parents adopted my mindset.

Dear Educational System: It was YOUR FUCKING JOB to make SURE that students had either sufficiently long attention spans, or skills to cope with shorter attention spans. As one who suffers from ADHD and still has always been able to read and enjoy even long, complex novels, I tell you that you get ZERO respect or tolerance from me for caving in like this.

Point of fact, it is not. It is their job to provide such education/training/tools to students to utilize, but the job ultimately and always belongs to the parents.

To highlight this point, let me ask you this: if a student fails to achieve, who deals with the consequences? The school, or the parents?

It's past time for parents to realize our children's futures are our responsibilities, not the education system and certainly NOT the governments. Neither of them care, nor could they ever care as much as we do.

10 still had a host of issues. It's just moderately better than 11, hence it has a "good" reputation.

How low are our standards if that's the case? MS is worthy of such scorn, but they're hardly the only ones who's software continues to get worse and worse as time goes on.

Rare is the software upgrade that is actually an upgrade.

Get off my lawn.

Surely, if they're essentially taking the game away from people who paid for it, those people are entitled to a refund, right?

All true, but it should be added this isn't a recent thing.

Oh, the AI buzz is recent, but MS has had quality control problems in flagship software for decades. How many control panels are there? How many "kinda" work? How many versions are we going on with that kind of nonsense? And instead of fixing this, they focus on AI and...notepad...for some fucking reason.

A good point, but I still wonder; is this prevalent enough to warrant such legal action? Just how many people are "pirating" music today?

Movies make sense, but this is the Music Association.

I guess I find it odd that people are downloading full albums with enough frequency for this to be a large enough issue for the music association to still be barking in the courts about it.

To say nothing of VPNs.

I'll be honest, I'm kinda surprised this is still a thing. It's not 2001 anymore, Napster isn't really around anymore.

At some point all of these streaming services will realize they're behaving like the music industry of the early 2000s, with much the same consequences.

Not any time soon, mind you. They aren't that intelligent.

I'm honestly surprised anyone in the military ever allowed this in the first place. Not being able to repair tech in the field is an automatic NO from me.

Seems like an obvious liability.

Wow, you trust the Trump administrations values so much you want to pass those along to kids?

That's certainly a choice.