Microsoft doesn't have access to Chrome's internals like they do Windows components. The only thing they could do is block it.

... Hedy Lamarr when we need her?

Back in the last century, New York politicians were decrying the fact that the city was becoming a "food desert". You can't support much more than corner bodegas, with their beer, cigarettes and chips based on walk-in traffic. The city decided to relent on some development regulations and allow big box grocery stores with parking garages, fresh produce and better product selections.

We'll see how this turns out. It will, of course take years. In the interim, politicians will declare success.

When Covid hit and companies allowed WFH, where did the people go? When they were forced back to the office, they were also forced back to the cities and the empty office buildings. Over many people's objections.

And, no, they shouldn't still be supporting 32-bit computers.

I agree with that.. But as for hardware drivers: There are components which people can have purchased brand new a few years ago which are now "Unsupported" by the manufacturer, because the model was arbitrarily retired and a newer upgrade model was introduced with no actual improvements.

First they make sure all people need to buy new PCs for Win 11, now they make sure that you won't get drivers for your old hardware.

Yeah.. Now we need some kind of software program that can Backup all installed drivers and provide a means to Install them or inject them into a new install of Windows. On old hardware you may have a working system now, but what if you need to reinstall it?

Perhaps Microsoft recognizes Chrome for what it is: An advertising portal that shouldn't be in the hands of kids.

"Small businesses don't have RTO or RPO requirements. High uptime is an enterprise feature."

"they were going to bump me up one tier of features that I didn't need, and charge 5 grand per year but in 3-year lots"

"You were using the bundles incorrectly! The essentials edition was only meant for proof of concept for small businesses, not once you were using the product for realsies. Your company was not getting the true value out of it, because you were buying the wrong edition and not enough units of our product all along."

... since The Guardian's article on San Serriffe

We don't know. The CCA revenue breakdowns and fund allocations are unauditable. That was a part of the law. Because as one of the supporting legislators testified, "The public just wouldn't understand."

Let's hope we are. We're responsible for the CO2 rise. A collapse of homo sapiens population to 5 or 10% of current levels would solve that.

The current "solutions" appear to be targeting populstions too poor to adapt. So I'm OK with this. Washington State's CCA is hardest on the poor. I can afford higher fuel and food prices. Or a Tesla. The poor can't.

Except we have to keep some migrant labor around. Who else will dig the graves for the poor? Not me.

Shhh. You are challenging religious doctrine. In spite of the Mauna Loa CO2 graphs demonstrating a time constant on the order of weeks or a few months for atmospheric concentrations, dogma requires that it be "hundreds of years". Or all the climate models fall apart.

... offers two options: Drug addiction. Or trying to outrun the local police for a minor traffic infraction.

Old British common law. Peasants owed labor to the lord of the manor. And upon dying, owed that lord a "death tax" as compensation for the loss of that labor.

Much of US law us based upon this common law. And, following our revolution, the elites started to realize how bad an idea an actual "free" population would be.