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It's in the free 21 Beta version.

The point in the article is that 'debloating' does nothing for performance. And they're right. Uninstalling things you don't run does nothing for performance. Background tasks largely don't interfere with foreground processes thanks to the foreground process boost Windows uses.

Windows handled this via virtualization[0]. What you assume is false because it was specifically planned for by Microsoft.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

That makes absolutely no sense.

'vim' wasn't designed for multi-user use. Nor was emacs.

Applications don't need to somehow be "designed" for multi-user systems. It's up to the underlying system to enforce application isolation in various ways, which NT has and does.

You’re correct.

Azure services mostly run on Windows via Hyper-V, sans core networking.

GP dates back to Win95/NT4.

NT was designed as a multi-user system from the ground up.

> The brainwashing, high tolerance for pain and misery (and expense!), and lock-in makes it close to impossible for ordinary computer users to escape.

Or opposite of the house, the arrogance and presumption.

This is the only document you need to understand traceroute:

https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sun...

While a thief or LEO could boot the OS, just having the motherboard doesn’t give them access to the underlying data. They would need to have a valid user account.

Funny enough, I do read the Copilot Studio and Dynamics Customer Service and Power Platform documentation and understand it. But reading documentation from any vendor is a skill. Don’t throw me in front of Google or Oracle documentation and expect me to understand it off the bat.

And of course companies in the US are wanting to make money/capture markets. They’re not a charity. None of that has any relation to holding back the industry. Unless you wish to explain how they hold back all FOSS projects.

You don’t need to be rude in your replies. This is HN, not reddit.

> and bitlocker doesn't count.

Wat? Bitlocker is the answer to your question.

> In my limited experience with bitlocker, the disk is decryptable automatically as long as it's in the original motherboard.

It's unlocked (not decrypted) when the OS boots, yes. You can optionally enforce (not on Home) other unlock methods, such as PIN before the OS boots.

> I want my FDE to be based on a password or a keyfile, not simply by some code in the motherboard.

That's less secure than TPM.

Why would you put Grandma on VeriCrypt in the first place? It's the more 'difficult' option for FDE.

What does this even mean? It's like throwing around the word 'bloat'.

I only have experience with the M365 enterprise services. I don’t use M365 for personal stuff, I’m too cheap for that.

I have plenty of users using it for real productivity purposes. Yes, it has access to Exchange Online calendars.

You’re using the wrong app. You need the M365 Copilot app which supports Entra IDs.

You can buy a perpetual Mac Office 2024, if you want.

If you put me in front of AWS I'd have the same reaction. Or GCP for that matter, where I did have your reaction.

It's familiarity and knowing how the beast operates. I know how to read the docs and understand the licensing.

Any one piece of software could be a pile of shit with a terrible UX, but you're going to find those who are so familiar with it that everything else looks alien.

This isn't all that accurate. Unless Chrome only presents the private working set, this will include shared or sharable memory.

Which you can disable in Settings.

This is nothing new for any browser, unless you believe in the mid-late 2000s Chrome was being "slowly deprecated by the industry" for sites that refused to work with Chrome.

These are just lazy developers, or developers who don't want to bother testing against FF. It happens. Move on. This is not some industry trend.

It's no different from NT in that respect. macOS is significantly worse at handling OOM events than NT (even NT4, for that matter).

You never had GlobalProtect take a multi-Gbps connection down to <20Mbps due to all that userland processing of packets thanks to Apple's lack of vendor kext.

No, they're not "better positioned" to utilize memory.

NT has a far better VMM than macOS does and handles OOM significantly better than macOS (and Linux, for that matter).

Look no further than the various Mac subreddits for applications such as TextEdit, Calculator, Safari, and other first and third party applications leaking like a sieve to the point of OOM for multiple versions of macOS at this point.

Not to mention, Macs are sharing that precious memory with the CPU; on those 8GiB machines, leaving 7.5GiB or less (depending on what you're doing) for the kernel to use for non-graphics services.

Early macOS also had rollup windows. I greatly prefer that to minimized windows in macOS, which are impossible to quickly access outside of the mouse or unminimizing all windows with a key combination which I can't remember.

OS/2 part deux

It looks like you have this discussion confused. This is about Macs, not phones.

No where did I say you can’t get a hold of one, I said they don’t have the volume. They’re behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell.

The x86 market is massive and dwarfs Apple’s Mac manufacturing.