Microsoft just copies Apple now for the most useless features.

Looks fancy but decreases productivity.

Windows UI has gone downhill in every version since Windows 7.

I wouldn't be surprised if every image removed from Facebook will end up in a "For Your Eyes Only" folder that only Zuck has access to - with duplicates removed.

That's fishy... Fish and chips...

Anyone that remembers the popular sticker on Amiga computers saying "Intel Outside"?

And with a license model that can be recalled at any moment.

The problem isn't to create code that's making bread&butter stuff. The problems starts when someone figures out that there's a bug in the system and has to figure out the root cause.

Since language models evolves rapidly it will also be hard to maintain the code just a few years from now. Especially with a self-learning evolving language model.

Add to it legal requirements that changes over time.

Watts and watthours makes more sense.

Is your data of the type that you need a fully protected unrecoverable storage or can you actually accept that your data can be accessed when there's physical access to the media?

The ability to recover data is actually something that's quite important, last week I did a recovery of data off a laptop that wasn't encrypted with bitlocker. That was the only way since the previous owner had passed away due to old age and passwords weren't available and there was no way to recover the password through M$ login since the phone number used for recovery wasn't active anymore or even in the hands of a completely unknown unrelated person since it had been reused.

But Microsoft of course promotes their accounts and Bitlocker "for your safety". But not for your inheritors, especially in this electronic age where most documents are purely electronic and never printed. So some important documents might be unrecoverable.

The easiest way is to make sure your debt is in the currency you control and then make that currency value approach zero by an inflation race.

Bitcoins are likely dead whenever the world goes sour. No or spotty electricity as well as spotty internet can cause it to split in value on different continents as well as countries banning them due to money laundering and criminal activities.

The US dollar is a risky currency right now. Cash isn't king anymore. Metal and oil is preserving value better even if it can swing up and down it won't become a black hole.

Not only that - this can be weaponized too allowing M$ or the US government to create serious trouble for a lot of people.

"We've simplified your experience..." -> "We have dumbed down the UI even more"