“If you can’t reasonably protect user data before it’s stolen then you don’t deserve to be in business.”

I work in IT as well, and you’re absolutely right. And it’s not fear of an attack or hack that causes change, it’s an actual incident or a near-miss that causes change.

Companies are fined all the time, and a LOT has changed in the last 10 years related to penalties related to hacking and/or exposure of personal data.

First you were complaining that they didn’t patch bugs AND charged for updates. Now you’re complaining that they do patch, but it’s not “free” because it takes up your time? Yes it would be great if patches didn’t break things, but as you said the frequency and severity of patches have increased drastically. When a…

They did release it (through the phone app), but I think it was limited to certain devices. Ultimately if you want to run them (Android apps) natively you’ll have to move up to Windows 11

Look at the endless horde of bugs MS has left unpatched, and in fact passed on from release to release. MS has left endless numbers of their own customer base hanging out their with their asses exposed, and their only answer has been “buy the new release.”

How was he being a dick? All he did was copy and paste exactly what he wrote in the article. The same article chronoboy quoted, so clearly they didn’t read before commenting.

Selling/trading isn’t “upgrading”. Plenty of applications/scenarios where you may want to only upgrade one component because the rest are perfectly fine.

I’d argue that the fact you had to copy your save data is a fundamental flaw, especially today.

I would hope it would be the second option, where you install and/or start a Game Pass game. There are plenty of reasons where you can go online, but not use Game Pass. And you can browse the Game Pass catalog without even having an account, so I don’t think that would count as “in Use either”.

Polygon wrote all of two paragraphs about it, most of which just referenced articles from 2020, and it wasn’t even a headline article. It was written based on a Tweet from the company saying they’re moving forward with closing and/or renaming the arcades, which they told us they were going to do a year ago.

A single MS account can have several subscriptions attached to it (i.e. M365, Game Pass, Azure, etc.). Most likely they can see usage for each subscription, and in this case if you haven’t used Game Pass in awhile it sounds like they’ll kill the subscription at some point.

To be fair...the industry doesn’t do much to engage gamers.

Don’t attack people based on assumptions.

Is it a monopoly though? The article says Sony is still #1, even AFTER this acquisition. MS may have just jumped up 10 places overnight, but they’re not a monopoly yet.

Sure, you’re free to think this. But just know your line of thinking is very close (if not the same) as those who think there are microchips in vaccines.

The generators would actually run for approx. 15 minutes every other day or so. They were set to turn on at “quitting time” so whenever we heard them, we knew it was time to go home. This was strictly to exercise the generators, keep oil and fuel moving, etc. Generators never caused us any issues.

That’s the customer’s fault for not having a flexible cloud strategy.

Similar to 10001010's story, I worked at a company with a similar setup that you described. Two circuits from two different power sources with diesel generators and a UPS that can power the entire DC for 10 minutes while the diesel generators spun up.

I would imagine it’s a privacy issue. They can only give out so much information before you’re able to narrow it down to a specific individual, which is a violation of privacy laws. They’ve already told us it was a man in his 50s, from a specific county in Texas. Just with that little bit of information the scope of…