Uh, this is 15% CrowdStrike, and 5% Microsoft at best. Delta's overzealous security team insisted on enabling BitLocker on absolutely everything, not just publicly-accessible floor machines used in the airports. Having to manually travel to each machine with a USB drive and a 48 character BitLocker key that has to be manually typed in just to delete one file absolutely destroyed their response time.

You want to know why I never invested in MS Mixed Reality?

I invested in Windows Phone, which was great until they dropped support for it. The absolute *BEST* phone I've ever had.

I had both a Microsoft Band, and a Band 2, which were great until they dropped support for them.

I have been dying for a Hololens to play Minecraft on, but they just refuse to finish development/consumerize it.

I love their products, but they can't seem to stick with them like I do. I bought into Oculus this time around... I have the Rift CV1 and a couple of Quest models.

I NEED a newer version of Hyperspeed / Lightspeed. I have played this game to death, and still play it.

As a co-worker and I were just discussing, the radio in your car is also a communications device.

Normally, I would agree with you...

I bought in to the whole Sirius/XM model of subscription-based radio with no ads... look where that got me.

I have been *working* in IT for over 15 years. Started with computers LONG before that. I am probably one of the best computer technicians I know (and have trained a good many as well) and can honestly say that experience will KEEP that perfect job, but not land it. I am very good at what I do, and others (customers and other IT people) recognize it when I am working on their gear. But without a doubt, 15+ years experience may look great on a resume, but you MUST have the paper just to get your foot in the door. I have applied to so many places, I've lost count. I have gone in to interview and sounded better than 95% of all the other candidates. But I don't have a degree. And I have been told by many employers that they would hire me in a second if I did. I figured this much experience would speak for itself. I even have 21 Brainbench certs and am Toshiba certified to work on their servers and laptops. But I don't have A+. I don't have MCSE. I don't have several hundred dollars to get them, although I probably know more about networking and computer repair than 90% of them. And THAT is the name of the game. Buy your "brand name" certs, cause out here in the real world, you can be a certified dumbass and get the job you want.

By the way, I'm still looking for that perfect job...