That is not what it's doing. I was the SSO admin at my previous employer with Okta and Azure.

It's to rid insecure passwords for MFA multifactor authentication and using your phone and biometrics to authenticate you. Your phone does this yet no one complains. Local passwords are highly insecure and the data is stored on the hard drive not a tpm chip like your phone is.

It needs an Internet email to identify you and retrieve your keys. Not to spy on you. It's a great feature as it's time to get rid of passwords. Under this Chrome will just prompt you for a pin when you enter a credit card or use Google Password managee. No passwords ðY'

It's a feature

I just used copilot last week and it was amazing. My boss needed a cute data dashboard on a project in less than 45 minutes from an Excel file with multiple sheets. Copilot I asked to do X sorted by Y on data vs volume of shares and within 10 minutes it wrote a report and analysis! This would have taken at least 4 hours manually?!

I probably will be modded as a troll and I am not. Copilot can analyze files and do so many things. Yes, it will stick around for business as something like this is too valuable as just a fad

It's been said a million times over, that people since Windows 95 and maybe XP that no one actively picks Windows with jubilation and excitement.

They pick their apps needed for work. That means Excel for most people so Linux is off the table. Your Mac does support Excel but it doesn't support Steam games nor Oracle SmartView to upload stuff from your ex ex ex boss from 2012 CRM bloatware for work. Not everyone gets to use cool macs and Atlassian projects and AWS and work from home.

Most PCs run in 20th century old school companies who are still discovering Exchange Online and use VMware and have large amounts of technical debt.

Or run games that just click and work in Steam under Windows.

Mac has a big disadvantage now since VMware is heading out to pasture and parallels doesn't support arm Windows still on m macs. So it's Windows 11 it is with hyperv, wsl, and docker.

The apps just work and with a few local gpo hacks it's usable

It is going to evaporate, slowly....

You know Blender is free open source software, right? Slashdot even helped it to become free and open source many years ago.

Yeah ok.

I do not know what world you live in but I have never seen a Linux desktop at work in my 30 years in the workforce. I have seen some ipads coming in for stuff like warehouse workers.

MDM like Intune or JamF is great for locking stuff down and rolling out apps on devices like tablets and even Windows desktops.

Until Excel, Quickbooks, Autocad, and every business software in existence gets ported Linux is not an option.

Crazy people still think WIndows is like Dos based WIndowsME/98 and thinks have not progressed in a quarter century.

If Windows was so bad and insecure then why does corporate America use and trust to secure their data and run their apps?

Linux is not an option for 97% of people as their first time OS. I used to use Linux 25 years ago. Today I want to get work done and run games and have something just work. No nvidia wayland issues. Hardware accelerated smooth scroll and anti alaisgned fonts. Chrome goes blip blip blip on Linux when I scroll up and down. Multi monitor support is even worse. Do not let me go on about the insecurity and horrors of Xorg.

Before I get accused of being a MS fanboy and modded -1 to infinity I want to say I chose this username name back in 2000 as I was a MS hater like the rest of you when I was young. I grew up.

I hate all operating systems now including WIndows BTW ... but for different reasons :-D ... since I am old and middle aged.

Linux is great and useful for dev and cloud stuff. Windows is great for multi monitor setup and boring win32 business apps. Android/IOS for content which does support smooth scrolling and fluid animations and fonts like we are in 2007 and later. I do not want linux as a host OS or a desktop or troubleshooting my own system every weekend trying to get a proton port of a steam game.

WSL is amazing and gets the job done. Without it I would have no tools at work. We must use Windows on our desktops.

The great thing about bloated frameworks and interpreted languages like nodejs and Python is more flexibility and quicker development time.

Electron yes we love to flame, enabled the cool integration of debugging and add on support of visual studio code as an example. The editor and ide could not do what it does without an interpreted language to change at runtime with something like C++

The fact that this was modded up as "Interesting" instead of funny is pretty fucking scary. Of course, now watch my comment will be modded up as funny because that's par for the course these days.

I started playing Mines recently, which is just a plain old free open source game from the repos.
Speaking of which....

Slashdot and old gray beards in Unix hate anything new and it is strange how they attack Rust when everyone else including Microsoft and Google love Rust and have no quarrels, SustemD was cool for awhile too and one comment on slashdot freaked out the whole Linux community for 10 years. Smh.

Solaris and Apple went with event driven init systems so stuff can move to the oudcand be flexible for a decade. Rust is superior in never way and while slashdotters love to blame Microsoft for writing insecure operating systems it was C that was the cause of it. Unix was avoided due to issues with buffer overflowa thanks to C and VMS and even Mac classic was used for the military for these reasons

That got back ported to Windows 10. Easily disabled though

Is it too scary because the start menu moved to the center?

I see no reason for the hate. Yes you can set the start menu to the left. People don't freak out hene they buy a new car when the dashboard isn't identical to the old one

What's wrong with Windows 11? I see so much fear and it's bizarre to say the least

Have you seen real estate prices today! They have doubled in 3 years. It is insane. How?

Airbnb, plackrock, and every millionaire wants in as a retirement plan to own 10 homes as they faster than inflation due to a lack of supply.

There are more people than homes and apartments today. UBI will make everyone but the owning class broke as rents will sky rocket and people will be homeless again