I have always considered myself anti-DST, but with these sensationalist headlines as of late I think I may be on the other side now.

I worked in a school district for many years in a similar role as this guy. Microsoft products are dirt cheap, if not outright free, for them. Hyper-V is an obvious migration path for them that could be done in a short amount of time.

There is also plenty of open source options available as well. Will anything be a 100% drop-in replacement with every single bell and whistle? No. Will you care in the long run? Probably not.

The article also says that their current offering is only from 2019, meaning any migration should be relatively painless without the fear of any legacy systems still running.

Not a fan of VMWare and the stunt they pulled, but to act like the world is ending (and especially to drag out the claim that kids education will be harmed) without considering any viable alternatives is a bit ridiculous.

We have plenty of time to pad our profiles. Let us all claim to cure cancer, world hunger, and save each of our old companies trillions of dollars and see those offer emails roll inâ¦

Your willful ignorance of the documented abuses is an actual example of gaslighting. Someone calling you out because you push misinformation is not.

Your link to an advocacy group report counts registrations, not real jobs, and the numbers are as padded as an overstuffed junk resume. The links above actually have quantifiable metrics and specific examples of hundreds of thousands of jobs in recent years where wage abuse was directly alleged, or admitted, as a result of the H1B program.

You can say that it is illegal all day long and be true. When you say it does not happen, you become a liar. When you cite misinformation, you become a zealot.

Almost all H1Bs are indeed paid significantly less than US Citizen equivalents.

Some examples:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.epi.org%2Fpress%2Fnew-...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fbusine...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fgrap...

I am not in favor of DST but be real. Americans will generally always have bad health, no matter what time of day it is.

Everything this guy says is shady. I hope his shareholders start holding him accountable.

Also, cheap labor

Went there at the later part of last decade and was stunned at how limited it was. At least Apple Maps worked, but I really never thought it would be the same situation still in 2025.

Said with a wink

True. A bit snarky but true.

The protesters on campus need louder megaphones then? /s

Less than 20k die in the US from guns when you do not count suicides. The heat deaths in Europe is always a staggering statistic to see, especially given the rhetoric that European politicians like to spout.

SP expert for 20 years here - can confirm. SP2016 and 2019 were much smoother and easier to install and manage than 2013 and earlier. Even 2013 was okay-ish after you installed the first major update, but 2010 and lower were utter nightmares.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this does fit the Microsoft MO of getting people to migrate to M365.