what do you expect when the costs to manufacture their products rises and they have such small profit margins?

as if all this vibe-AI coding, and what have you, wasn't lazy enough already, it was aparently still too much effort some for people.

"...shipping a product with a bug that breaks this functionality says more about Microsoft's approach to quality than anything else"

been like this for more than 40 years

..to accept setting Edge as your default browser when windows asks you for the 100th time!

i had one too, and it was a great medium, and the external drive with both scsi and parallel port made it easy to use on many computers. one of the main uses was sharing files between my pc and amiga, i also took it to work where we had internet (didn't have it at home yet) and loaded it up with all the latest redhat rpm package updates and other new open source software.

for now...

They should use AI to solve the energy and global warming problem. Instead of contributing to it.

When I was in college (in 1995), this one guy was going on about a free OS that was incredible. All I could think of was, sure, a free OS that is good, what a joke is that going to be. So together with another friend we decided to install this free OS and have a good laugh.
The laugh was on us, it was indeed incredible, offering multitasking, multi user, memory protection, the cli was so powerful, and on top of all that, all the code was open.

they are competing against the Valve SteamDeck, which is their main worry as it could interrupt the dominance of Windows as the main pc gaming OS.

"Grigar says they're still looking for a PC that reads five-and-a-quarter-inch floppy disks."

Is that so special these days?

leave it to demo coders to push hardware to the limits, specific the ones that target retro computers. sometimes i can hardly believe what i'm seeing.

i only buy games on sale, granted, you'll have to wait, but you save a lot of money, steam sales or humble bundles are really great to get lots of games on the cheap. typically i never spend over €10 on my games.

who remembers the first few versions of gimp when gtk (gimp toolkit) wasn't even a thing and it used lesstif instead.
ok, i'm old...

turning 50 this year, i remember them all, started with an Amstrad CPC664, this was their first computer room, working together with a local computer store, at the end of the year we had the option to purchase the computers. Next year a permanent room was installed, it contained mostly commodore vic20 computers and a few c64, ofcourse, it was a matter of being first so you could claim the c64. one also had a printer and a floppy drive, the only software for it was print shop, lets just say many banners were printed that year :D
the next upgrade was to IBM ps2 desktop models, at the end, it were just clone ibm pc's from local shops.

way back, we didn't all have computers and only had limited access to them, maybe once a week for a few hours.
the rest of the week we used the computer and created code only in our head, to test out at that one moment we had access to one.