Everything we do is built around the fact that we planned to have more people tomorrow than we do today, when the opposite is true, now what?

Our entire society (globally not just in the US) is built around population growth, without it, lots of our institutions will collapse.

Yes, there is direct revenue and indirect revenue from companies buying various MS AI services, it's quite popular in the enterprise market and slowly becoming an essential asset to companies and there isn't much competition (box.net maybe).

I can't fathom how anyone would think protecting a business model, especially one that is nearly 100 years old, is a good idea.

So other countries are still ok?

You may want to add it was your grandmother's dying wish for the company to hire you.

This. Except mass layoffs will just self-induce the crash.

At least it comes with mental health services with the price, because if you're buying this junk you need to see a doctor.

There is no equivalent that offers device management, virus/malware protection, email/office (online, offline and mobile), file sharing and all under a unified security model.

Nothing against Libre Office but Microsoft has a full ecosystem system that is too hard to compete with in the business world and especially in government environments.

You're right, you need to go offline when you don't need stuff from the Internet, kind of like using dial-up modems.

Linux already does this with sudo apt-get upgrade.

They should be cut off from the entire Internet.

I switched to Bing a few years ago (my Microsoft Cashback Rewards are up to $1900), but did find myself occasionally hitting Google whenever I got tired of the first page of paid results on Bing. That being said ever since OpenAI came on to the scene, I don't know that I've actually used a search engine for anything other than shopping.

I'm sure someone asked Trump about this and he was like "yes, I love crispy bacon".