The end points (the servers, and the client) know what is occuring. At any point they (the streaming application, or streaming server) can inform the company what you're watching.

The browser isnt owned by a Murdoc/Liberal party interest with automatic subscription to both on installation.

EG: The Age browser and Fox (cable) browser for only $100 per month ontop of the phone contract.

Wouldn't be the first attempt by Microsoft

Microsoft Xenix and i believe they tried with early Linux as well.

> 1. There are certain apps and games that only work on Windows. While Proton [wikipedia.org] is coming along nicely for gaming it still has a ways to go.

Proton, being a steam project for games is probably only going to support steam 'applications', read games.

CrossOver is more suitable for non-game applications, and it is a more mature project as it has been running longer. As it is a paid product, if a supported software is not running then support is available to get it running (support can also mean patching, which may just be profile updates for applications).

Windows 7 updates have included telemetry.

They dont look, ergo they arent breached.

Do hospital computers really even need to be connected to the internet?

Hospital workers need access to patient files, need to upload results, access medical texts, etc. If this is all available on an intranet, extranet or the internet is debatable with 'the cloud' and 3rd party outsourcing.

Air gap them and have IT staff install USB stick isolation

Again. An X-Ray is taken, and the results are then sent from the machine to a technican work station for processing, then to a specialist to be reviewed and a report written, then send to the referring doctor. This doesn't even count the actual IT Services involved.

USB stick isolation

This isnt the issue. Most of the time it is lack of downtime and paching. That X-Ray machine hasnt been turned off since it was installed. Its PC control computer is probably still on XP and unpatched. USB sticks are not the problem.

Windows should only be used if Linux is just not an option for some reason

Linux is not special. Windows is not special. Both need patching. Both need hardening. once those are done (and done regularly) the applications installed on end devices and services then are the issue. End devices then have the special issue of having users destroy them (clicking on phishing emails, etc)

https://www.linuxfoundation.or...

Look at all these acquirers! It is a wonder there is any Linux Foundation left!

So you're happy to use an unoptimized CLI executable if it takes 10 minutes to run, instead of an optomized one that did the same job using a more efficient algorithm in 10 seconds?

It is interesting to note all of the posts commenting on 'how Microsoft cant invent X'
* DOS
* NT
* Mobile phones
* Interfaces
* etc..

However when comparing MS to any of the other companies within the articles or their competitors, none of these companies 'invented' new technologies within a vacuum either.
* Apple
** OS X was the NeXT project. Apple essentially bought Steve Job's company off him and force him to be CEO again when they started going down the toilet. NeXT itself was essentially FreeBSD with an upgraded user interface.
** The iPAD not the first tablet, demonstration tablets can be show from Microsoft, Compaq, palm, etc. Depending on what you're defining 'tablet' as.
* Android
** Android itself is built on the Linux kernel. All that is new here is that took off to the point that it is a 'universal standard' almost for embedded devices.
* Linux
** A uni student sat down with two computers and copied the code on one, into another using open source tools. Nothing was invented, this was quite literally how Linux started.

As for MS DOS. Manuals of programs, etc used to include function libraries. The original author has literally sated that he took a CPM manual, looked at the functions and replicated their behaviors (input, outputs). I'd essentially call this the beginning of the POSIX standard, however it also points out that he didn't 'invent' his own operating system.

Nothing was 'invented' from scratch. Something was built from something.

Windows Hello supports hardware tokens (Yubikeys, etc)

Pythia - Battlestar Galactica : "All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again"

World of Warcraft: Stayed up, Launch events (IRL, Online), not eaten, bought special edition expansions, guilds, vent, etc. It is all old news.
Space Invaders: hanging out at arcades.
Rock concerts are the devils work

Every generation of game, or fashionable thing has the same problem

Besides having a weird time delay (experienced on many systems) where the OS doesn't pick up the first couple of letters in the password field, start menu, etc. So you have to 'wait' for it to catch up after pressing alt-ctrl-del when logging in, pressing start to search, and all number of actions that should be quick and thoughtless...

It also has a search that doesn't work as good as windows 7s. Someone it has gone backwards. Want to quickly get Notepad++?

Press start button (on keyboard) and type note... wait it didnt pick up the n, so its got 'ote'.. it worked out you wanted "Notepad" and every file indexed on the system with 'ote' in it, but no other application on the system with the string 'ote'. NotePad++ is picked up with 'ote', and Windows 7 doesnt have a stupid delay after pressing hotkeys.

Turn off WiFi, use Cellular Data. Now you're not restricted by the school's IT policies.

"What if they are not visible?"

Then you're relying on M&M security.

"What is about to come out of the laser printer, a few seconds before it literally gets printed out on paper in plain text."

I'd take a guess that what comes out of that printer would be internal documents which may or may not contain financial, PII and other confidential information.