Godort

“He’s thrown out the old playbook. He’s not going through normal diplomatic channels.”

The man tries to treat politics like the Mafia dealings he’s more familiar with. “I know a guy” is the official channel

It does feel that way sometimes, but humans as a species are shockingly resilient. This isn’t the first crumbling empire we’ve had to deal with, nor will it be the last.

I’m jealous of the kids that will learn about this era in school in about 60 years.

It’s going to be a really interesting social studies subject linking the rise of Web 2.0 to the fall of America

This will rely on having an executive team that can predict trends beyond the next quarter.

Doubling down on advertising, telemetry, and AI in an overly bloated OS looks really good if you only care about the profits that brings for the next 3 months, rather than how much your userbase resents it. MS is fully capable of turning this around immediately by just making LTSC available to the public without needing to buy a MAK through an enterprise channel, but that means throwing away some recurring revenue in favor of claiming a lost userbase