Yeah, I’ve got a better idea: Let’s not.

“We also plan on patenting atmospheric air and granting reasonably priced usage licenses for limited daily volumes to every man, woman and child on the planet. It’ll be great!”

Much like Vampires, no sane person should ever invite Oracle into their home: Both are bloodsucking parasitical leeches, and you’ll never be rid of the affliction.

Very interesting, although I’m going to withhold judgment pending some serious peer review.

That’s rich coming from the leader in the field of manufacturing demand out of whole cloth.

Where were you when the bubble burst, Bill?

…Oh you sweet summer child.

Yeah, but we have a choice as to whether we want to run it or not.

Then it’s a good thing it’s been a very long time since I last had to care about what Microsoft wants me to do with my computers.

“What I really like about the vehicle is the built-in female therapist who makes me feel validated and wanted no matter what stupid shit I do. She’s been a godsend since my wife left me.”

Funny. Normally we call people selling these kinds of products criminals and attempt to shut them down. Turns out those naughty lads were just going about it the wrong way. They should have gone public, floated the company and sold for dollars instead of bitcoin, and suddenly everything would magically have been just fine.

It’s a neat trick, and it works for other unsavory things normally not allowed too: “Unregulated militias and arms trafficking” becomes a “PMC”, “kidnapping and slavery” becomes “prison services” etc.

Same old tired song and dance.

I’ve got to wonder what they thought they were buying. It’s not like the warning signs were sparse these past, oh, ten years or so.

I’m sure that won’t be an issue for anybody working with confidential, privileged or private information.

For some odd reason.

Not to worry! When the AI bubble bursts and drags down the US stock market with it, it’ll have an impact on jobs all right.

The jackbooted black-baggers in full military gear carrying around assault weapons are ‘vulnerable’? To what? Aerial bombardment?

What were they even charged with? Light pollution?

Part of it is just resistance to change, but the hardware restrictions and AI encroachment are legitimate impediments in this case.

I wasn’t specially speaking to OP, so much as any visiting Window 11 / Microsoft 365 user. The poor bastards.