The last good Windows was 7, and at a stretch, maybe 10. Microsoft has finally jumped the shark and shown what a piece of crap its OS is and users are leaving (or staying put on version 10) in droves. I'm not sure Microsoft knows how to turn this decline around.

Streaming companies pay almost no tax, given their ridiculous "transfer pricing" schemes. So I see this as another way to at least get some money out of them and into the Australian economy. It's not going directly to the Treasury, but at least it will support Australian industry and jobs, and therefore the Australian economy more than they are doing now.

What an abomination this has the potential to be. The Spotify DJ is crap (I never use it) and I doubt much will come from this waste of time. I certainly won't be paying for it!

Devs love to work on eye candy. Fixing bugs is boring. It's why "the year of Linux on the desktop" still isn't a thing.

That's not the case here. With everything being online and easily trackable and monitored, it's almost impossible to slack off and yet still produce the work. I find we are more productive because there's no time wasted commuting to work or with the unavoidable interruptions in a large office space (where it's hard to concentrate anyway).

There isn't enough office space to accommodate everybody so it'll certainly be interesting. Maybe they'll go back to the tiny desks and chairs we had in primary school. All this just to prop up some coffee shops and some cafes nearby? Seems a bit of overkill.

I only use my Echo Dot to listen to my Audible audio books and streaming radio stations. That's it. There's no way I'm gonna buy stuff via voice only where I can't view pictures and read reviews of products and compare them to other products. That's just laughable.

And why should I care? If an acronym is going to be used in an article (or even an excerpt) then please, for the love of god, tell us what it stands for.

Change the channel, Marge.

Ads are how it pays for the video streaming service. I tried ad blockers once but so much stuff stopped working or loading, so I don't care anymore. I rarely buy crap that's advertised anyway, and if something looks interesting, I'll search to find the best price (which is hardly ever from the ad site itself).

I wrote my first web app in Perl and we used it at my workplace for a decade. It's a shame that Perl went through a drawn-out engine rewrite and is now just a lowly scripting tool again (and even in that space, nowhere near as popular as it was in its heyday). Such a shame.

I'm gonna get a lot of flack for hating on Python but its insistence on meaningful whitespace has kept me at bay (that, and the fact I'm not a data scientist or anything).

I once tried Dart to write a mobile app in Flutter but its strait-jacket code formatter told me all I needed to know.

If you're too lazy to write a proper code parser/formatter, then your language isn't for me (and probably a LOT of people).

It's no great loss because Dr Who has been circling the drain for years, and from what I've seen on recent episodes, has well and truly been flushed.

Yes, it's totally cringeworthy.

My ripped collection is in a somewhat messy state because of the lack of easy solutions that I find acceptable. Since joining Spotify Premium recently, I'm in the process of selling off some of the least-listened-to CDs on my overflowing shelf. Ain't nobody got time to fuss over ID3 tags and file names anymore :-D