Flip side - AI code generation makes developing small ‘throw away’ tools for niche problems trivial. There are plenty of niche tasks for which there are no existing software tools. Writing your own via vibe coding - i did this myself for a temporal disk space calculation tool. In an hour. Including walking across the street to grab a coffee, and checking it in to github. Previously this would have been a few hours of searching the internet before writing something myself with less features and more bugs in 3-4x the time.

It makes it economical to solve problems in code.

Like it or not there are legacy industry specific hardware adapters out there for ISA. That's why it was quite late to be removed from motherboards.

yup, most "investors" these days are tech traders, line go up = good, line go down = bad, buy/sell based on stock price movements.

The USAF would like to have a word with their QF-4 Phantom drones.

Allow me to be pedantic...

It was actually Citrix who "invented" the Windows Remote Desktop concept. Citrix licensed the Windows NT 3.X source code, and created a customized version they called Metaframe. They added support for running multiple interactive sessions, and had an abstraction layer for connecting keyboard/mouse/video to each session. Citrix created the ICA protocol for remote desktop. Microsoft bought back the rights for NT 4.X and created Windows Terminal Server (code name "Hydra"). Rather than use ICA, Microsoft created their own RDP protocol (which is loosely based on an obscure video conferencing protocol). Originally you could run both ICA and RDP on the same server; I'm not sure if that is still supported.

That is one perspective.

IMHO, for most Windows users running most Windows applications, remoting the entire desktop is usually the best experience.

Remoting individual applications, as with X over SSH, is a niche use case. Citrix could do this with ICA, but it wasn't used very often.

Note: The fact that you are reading /. means you are not in the "most Windows users" group. I'm not talking about you. :-)

Next, they'll require McDonalds to sell Big Mac combo meals for $2.50 to qualified low income customers.

I've got no love for ISP's, but where does this stop?

Exactly this. Unless you have some bespoke high end media production or engineering apps, the platform is mostly irrelevant now. it's almost all web.

Some of the more tech knowledgeable are relying on smartphones and tablets too, if they fit their needs. The days of needing a desktop or laptop for general purpose tasks are pretty much over. Unless you're an IT guy, gamer or need some high end engineering or media production apps - you could probably get by with a tablet with far less PC janitor work.

Using Azure, AWS, or any other cloud service isn't about saving money. At least not once you get to any sort of scale.You can almost always host it yourself for less.

What the cloud provides is flexibility. You can spin up additional resources on demand, and shut them down when no longer needed. You can get these resources in data centers all over the world.

Whether that flexibility is important enough to justify the added expense will depend on what you're doing.

This isn't how big companies like Microsoft work. The LinkedIn part of the business is organizationally distant from the Azure part of the business. There may not be any management in common until you reach the CEO level. Azure mind as well be a different company.

You also have to consider that LinkedIn started as a separate business. They already had significant IT infrastructure in place when Microsoft acquired them. The decision they're facing is not "should we use Azure?". The decision is "should we fix something that isn't broken?"

10nm shipping in volume in 2016, etc wake me up when it ships and actually posts performance numbers.

This. Iâ(TM)d pay $5 Aussie for this. It the current pricing is hilarious.

You can get 1TB and larger SD cards now.

iPhone manages it, because the memory/resource management isn’t a dumpster fire