They will accept higher costs due to delays and the like with offshoring, if those costs are less than paying the visa fees.

They will abandon paying Americans to do some of the work, and outsource all of it.

The reason this kind of scheme doesn't work is because the costs are different for every company. Some will pay it, some will do more offshoring, and a small number will employ more Americans. The only question is what the proportions will be, and which option your employer chooses. Hope you are in the last group.

Having used machine translation for years, I am well aware that it screws up. Even so, it's very useful and you get used to the mistakes it makes and learn to interpret them.

That said Google's English transcription is better than a human now, and IME is close to flawless. Meta's is probably a lot worse, but the potential is there.

Drones don't need air superiority to operate, they rely on numbers to overwhelm. At a recent arms show there was a company offering cardboard drones. Cost in monetary and material terms is getting so low that the challenge becomes mass producing them fast enough to swarm the enemy. Low flying, disposable, and very difficult to stop.

The important part is that they are talking about dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), not the typical solar panels you put on your house.

DSSCs are attractive because they are very easy and cheap to manufacture, and flexible. But they degrade fast with UV light, and the expected gains in protecting them have not been made. If their life could be extended to a usable amount they would offer an even lower cost option than already extremely cheap conventional solar cells, and open up some new applications.

Doesn't seem unreasonable. Support Windows 7 with security patches. No need for things like driver or feature updates, just fixes for known security flaws.

Will you continue that stance if you're invaded? Remember war is tribalism at a fundamental level. It's easy to think you're above it when you're not affected by it.

I don't think he's getting money. I think he's laundering money.

It was never really about the capability of the hardware to run Windows 11, it was about Microsoft's desire to cut costs by not having to support it. Every supported configuration has to be tested, and if issues are found relating to 10 year old drivers, they have to be fixed.

What we really need is a law to set the minimum support term, say 10 years after the last official sale. For Windows 10 that would be 2031. Even that might not be enough though - both Microsoft and Apple are notorious for releasing updates that cripple performance on older hardware.

Jobs had it a few times, but he usually just had a backup device ready to switch over to. I recall it at least once with a Mac, and famously with I think an iPhone where be blamed the large number of WiFi devices in the room.

Not really. What is unprecedented is a call for support for an OS that is not in any way in a long term support contract for over 10 years. You don't get this anywhere else. Heck for the most popular desktop Linux you get 9 months of support. MONTHS! Not even a year. And consumers do not usually seek out LTS releases.

The fact that a future version finally mandates hardware level security (the last consumer OS to do so, and I remind you it's no the 90s, we're in the world of OS acting as passkeys for external services) isn't artificial obsolescence, it's trying to force the one thing Slashdotters have been calling for for years: improved security.

It will not do so in the slightest. Governments are wholly unaffected by this, they are already running Windows 11, or they have LTS agreements in place. And they really don't care much what consumers do with their hardware.

This is the problem with your logic. We're here many years later. What was an antitrust issue in 1995 is now an expected minimum feature. Consumers expect that on a freshly installed PC the vendor provides an internet browser. Also no it's not more difficult to install a browser. Unless you mean clicking a single button (you can't auto default a browser, but you can automatically bring up the window for the user to click on your browser) is "difficult". I don't know anyone who uses Edge, and I know a lot of computer users who metaphorically couldn't tie their own digital shoelaces.

Your post is another typical case of Slashdot being out of touch with reality.

Slashdot logic: Microsoft doesn't take security seriously!
Microsoft: we'll re-design our security infrastructure from the ground up including hardware hardening and yeah we may be the last consumer OS to do so but we're finally improving security.
Slashdot logic:

Honestly everyone here is a whiney bitch.

You can't fail a demo due to a bug in the product if the product is working perfectly. He should accept the failure with more grace ala BSOD on Windows 95 when Bill Gates plugged a plug and pray printer in, rather than gaslighting everyone.

When you look at all of Europe, it's more like a weekly thing, and sometimes a daily thing. The ones that make the news are the bigger bombs like the thousand-pound bomb mentioned in TFS or the rare ones that cannot be made safe and have to be detonated in place, which can mean a lot of new business for window installers even with dampening.

You can't be the "baddest kick ass person on the block" without having an effective ability to fight. That means weapons, and it means training on how to use them most effectively. When going up against the Soviet Union, that means a nuclear arsenal. We made plenty of mistakes along the way, but we also helped ensure through deterrence that the Soviets never moved on Western Europe, and we helped ensure through diplomacy that World War III never broke out.

You would need to add at least a couple of 0s for it to even begin to seem reasonable.