A quivering glistening mass.

They are as good as their Word™

Official cutting off your nose to spite your face policy.

You are catching it now too, but such is the way of it. People do not want levelled counter views and debate they want to scream bloody villainy and evil doings and then disappear into the crowd when everything turns out fine. And do it all in the name of free speech, as long as its only their speech of course.

You mention Windows Me and Vista as low points but Windows 8 was such a donkey that your memory must have blocked it so you could go on with your life. And you just know this wonderful new streamlined and privacy conscious version is going to look suspiciously like Windows 7 which most users wanted to stick with anyway.

The machines becoming stronger and smarter than us and starting to wonder if they needed the monkeys around was always a fly in the ointment of that particular utopia. Not to mention the monkeys themselves feeling a bit like a fifth wheel and getting demoralised.

Microsoft adds the bloat themselves, and ever increasing telemetry reporting back, promises to update W10 for the lifetime of the device, reneges on it with W11 quoting security as its rationale but leaving 400 million users without security updates. Does all this at a time Linux is becoming very friendly and android phones have a desktop mode so they can be plugged into a keyboard and monitor and bypass the need for Windows. Microsoft has a bit of a think about the market value of its idiot direction and decides to remove a lot of the crap slowing the OS and give people back a little privacy, touts it as a new way of thinking about personal computing.

Why a quarter

Is this not just a jaundiced slant on the future we were all promised where machines do all the work and we lay around in togas eating blancmange.

This is being presented as more doom laden than is warranted. Ostensibly it is an effort to stop less technically able users from installing malware, certainly there will be unspoken ulterior motivations but such is the world we have allowed to grow around us. As far as overarching evil plans go this is quite a benign example.

Is it really news that tech and associated companies say the security of their users is important to them while grossly violating that principle.

Microsoft thinks it’s a very simple question, it has only two answers, you answer simply yes or ask me again in three days. That’s not rapey at all.

Art knows its on shaky ground.

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The US was never very natively scientific but it saw the power of science and so bought, imported and kidnapped its scientists. It no longer sees things so clearly but China has 20/20.

Governments will ban anything and say anything rather than say parents should be responsible for their children.

As soon as marketing people say things like ‘focussing on experiences’ you realise they do not know how people use Windows.

The term slop isn’t helpful, all game environments are generated and realtime bespoke generation is certainly the future. AI will penetrate every niche as if the world was its first slightly fat girlfriend and so it is a safe bet it will commandeer resources like its freshers’ week.

Every collection is eclectic until you understand it.