all very true, and open source/linux companies like red hat had to release statements that they would cover any legal consequences against your company in case you get sued for using (red hat) linux. i know the company i worked for come pretty close to stopping all linux deployment because of this bs lawsuit, the announcement from red hat came just on time.

those are immigration officers, they can check the phones of immigrant specifically.
normal custom officers need a warrant to search your phone.

all benchmarks prove the opposite, the kernel keeps getting more capable and faster. it has become bigger for sure, but don't make the mistake of thinking that means it is slower or worse then the cute little kernel we had 20 years ago.

it could, but it wont.

windows should be free, because all the privacy and ads invading things it includes. if linux can be free, i'm sure microsoft can do the same.

it always puzzles me, when companies in trouble, cook up strategies to get back on top by making things worse for their customers. when has that ever worked?

but, any movie is available on pirated sites, even without stealing drives, still movies are being played at theatres...

MS just can't learn from their past mistakes, how many times have they been bitten in the past by just letting application run/install automatically when plugging in devices, media, visiting websites, clicking (non-application) applications?

These 'improvements' will get so many reviews, redesigns, input from different departments, that in the end they will fix nothing and you should be happy it didn't make things even worse.

AI fights back

you don't even know steam is using proton-wine or not, you just click the play button and that's it.

...that don't know this side of Microsoft, i think it is important to keep these stories alive. it explains so much of the current pc landscape, and these are the articles you can point to when somebody asks/says - but why is windows so dominant on the pc/desktop if is better?

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