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Some MS office products are wedged deeply into companies’ workflow, and that software lock-in supports Windows software lock-in. Maybe it doesn’t fix the deeper problem, but a compatibility tool developer won’t fix that anyway. That comes from people updating business processes per company.

If it helps more people get off of Windows, it goes about as far as a global patch can to help solve part of the problem.

VLAN? Why would you let a monitor have a network connection? Grab the Mac address, and put it on a denylist so you don’t accidentally give it an IP address as part of your setup procedure.

Every day they put their list of features into copilot and let it set the new name for the product, whatever it says goes. This could be an improvement over their current strategy

The contention isn’t that they’re selling things to civilians, but that they’re selling things to members of the Russian armed forces, which they’re then using as supplies in combat. They’re part of the military supply chain in an unofficial way. I’m not sure it’s 100% cut-and-dried, but it’s clear reasonable people could call that a military target, and I’m inclined to think they’re probably right.