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Comment Re:So hear me out on this one (Score 1) 95

I think that the billionaires are planning for that last one. Bill Gates is buying up large tracts of farm land, and most of the tech oligarchs are building huge compounds for themselves that probably have huge doomsday bunkers in the basement. Their families will be OK when World War 3 or the AI apocalypse happens.

Comment Re:Future of Xbox (Score 1) 42

That already happened. Windows 11 has an XBox app that lets you stream console games from your PC if you have an XBox Game Pass Gold subscription.

It really seems like Microsoft is just giving up on new hardware and leaning in hard to cloud streaming.

Comment Re:Without Controls (Score 1) 48

I think that they are also greatly overestimating the quality of the IT support that most schools have.

When I was in school, I already knew how to set up PC's and Macs in high school better than they did. I was basically 2nd level tech support for my school library, because I could figure out his tech problems before they bothered to check it.

Even if my iPad hacking attempt failed, I could probably just turn in the broken iPad, give them some lame "I don't know what happened to it!" excuse, and let their IT flunkies re-image it for me. Odds are a senior level IT person who would notice what really happened would ever see it.

Comment Re:It's a Bold Strategy (Score 2) 116

I'm not sure if going all in on AI data centers is the best strategy for long term growth, though. When the AI boom busts a year or two from now, they're probably going to be sitting on billions of dollars worth of high capacity DDR5/DDR6 ECC memory inventory that consumer applications won't want or need.

At that point, I'm not sure if Micron will even be able to survive the transition back to consumer memory sales without a government bailout. Although there is a good chance they'll get one, they really shouldn't be counting on that.

Comment Re:Why would folks stay logged in to Youtube? (Score 1) 61

Probably so you can be quickly notified about when the channels you subscribed to post fresh content.

It's quite effective, as I find that I get notified about new videos just minutes after they're posted. Give me a chance to post a comment on the video that people will actually read, instead of getting buried in the other 2,000 comments for a popular video.

Comment Re:Microsoft's has a Windows 11 problem! (Score 4, Interesting) 116

I'd imagine that Microsoft will "fix" this issue soon enough, by insuring that all future versions of Office and probably every new game or application gets published on the Microsoft Store requires Windows 11 as a minimum requirement.

Then they'll just EOL the older versions of Office and wait for their customers to be forced into upgrading. Probably add some new AI bloatware features into the Office document formats as well, just to insure that the older versions can't open them properly.

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