Windows is attempting an app store and game store.

Remember when you had to go get Internet Explorer/Netscape CDs from computer places to install it? Used to come on AOL CDs, so Id just grab one of those and install it.

The days when a device was delivered as just a device were divine.

It is likely they will try and do exactly that. There were no laws created in the USA to prevent it from happening again. Not sure about EU.

Basically this is saying they are looking to offload risk.

I dont care who or what the app or device is... YOU ARE ALWAYS THE PRODUCT!

incorrect. Look at 2020/2021 shutdown.

Oof....

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Yup, in a few months they will increase the price. For no reason.

There are a lot of plusses and minuses to both Arch types.

If x86 is to increase in speed, they will need to remove old codebase to reduce the architect footprint. That means base OS work. If they do, they will need to add an option of some type new slot or pcix slot that will contain that legacy code base for people to have as an option. Consumers may not like that, but its the only way to handle it while the architecture matures.

If their next gen CPUs dont deliver (which maybe they dont because of all this money grabbing they are doing), then yeah.... its going to fail.

they got stock investment from USA, they got money from nVidia partnership, and this is all billions, their stock has increased in value (from 20 to over 30), and they are still desperate for money?

Smells like dead fish in here.

Maybe the next owners of the IP will have better luck, but if Intel fails, think of it... all the OS work, all the drivers, all the fixes, all the support gone, overnight.

AMD and ARM will have a lot of business and the CPU prices will increase exponentially.

They are collecting IP and insider info.

The manipulation of "AI" for political, or industrial sabotage as well has historical facts and references is the whole point.
Its been seen already, this manipulation, and it will continue. Maybe as a result, libraries will become popular again as a source of information.

This might surprise you, but most people who handle the jobs arent good at technical troubleshooting, arent good at handling things beyond what they have been taught, and need support to escalate to higher level support people who have been around longer and have a knack for those things.

But call centers tend to not have that because it looks bad on their reports.

In essence it is the business deal that is the problem and how they get compensated.
I worked for a company helping people install DSL, it was outsourced. This was way back when PPP was a new protocol, and a winsock rip sometimes had to happen because the person on the phone had a corrupted winsock due to hack, other PPP installs, and other things. Essentially the software added code to the bottom of the WInsock stack and if it already had something there, it would mess up the winsock beyond salvage.

We came up with our own rip and replace of winsock (thats what we called it), because we had a tier 2 that took time to learn these things.

But that is not profitable. In fact the company I worked for (I achieved Tier 2 status pretty quickly), didnt like paying people to sit around waiting for Tier 2 calls. Here is the trade off, a happy customer.
But they werent being paid for happy customers they were being paid for per call, no matter how long. Tier 2 calls would get complex, but we got so good it would be done within an hour or less and they would be on their way.

Hell, an executive even got in trouble for dictating that it was one issue per call, resolve it and hang up. Because that is more money.... that didnt last long as the customer (DSL company) got wind and got really upset.
So right there, you see the mindset of the customer, the mindset of the call center, and the lack of stipulations in the contract to prevent abuse.

This was all in the USA by the way, and it was right before it got shipped overseas (a year later it was overseas).

My point is, they want butts in seats to pull in money, but the dont care if its resolved, they dont care if the customer is happy, they care that they call back.

So if you want to target anyone, its the companies, not the person on the phone trying to help you. regardless of by script or with the ability and drive to troubleshoot.

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I think VMWare has a lot of IP though, which is likely more why they bought it.

VMWare has not had an improvement to its platform for years. The only thing was their Apps or docker instancing. Doesnt mean they dont have a lot of great tools, but they havent really done a lot.

Newer platforms provide more, and are cheaper.