Because if they simply announced they arrested an uber driver for the fire, no one would believe them?

Also, they are likely proud of their slam-dunk evidence.

It's like the stupid minority, trans, and others that choose to fake hate crimes against themselves to prove how the attacks are common and how they are victims.

You know, like the waitress that writes anti-homosexual slurs and customer receipts, then posts a picture on social media, or the lesbian couple that spray-painted anti-gay slurs on their garage door, and others...

It was aimed at Gateway Computers, remember the Holstein design on the boxes?

Yes, WinXP is a viable option now that Win 10 is going off support... /SMH

He obviously meant "There is no one Linux Operating System" - it's 'helpful' Linux Advocates that discourage 'normies' from dipping their toe in the GNU/Linux operating environment...

Microsoft appreciates your help with keeping people running Windows.

What? This is about third-party pass-thru fees, outside the control ofvthecISPs:

They simply want to add up all the stupid charges they have no control over as one simple line item - it's not really that big a deal.

I'm old enough to remember when Congress passed a law that taxes ISPs so that politicians could get some money to spend on their pet projects. The ISPs retaliated by listing the taxes on every bill, and lawmakers got upset and tried to block the ISPs from enumerating the taxes imposed on them.

The ISPs won, Congress whined, saying that ISPs were supposed to pay the tax, they weren't supposed to pass it on to the consumer!

MS doesn't care - the gravy train is corporate software assurance contracts, they aren't concerned about the fate of machines that don't run a supported version of windows - they just aren't.

Wells Fargo has 20,000 desktops, and they pay $50/year for each desktop to cover Windows and Office license subscriptions, and there store literally thousands of companies like that who pay millions in fees every year.

They aren't sitting around hoping your grandmother's 10 year-old tower PC doesn't turn into a Linux workstation...

Win 10 also runs just fine on older hardware - exactly what problem does running Win 10 in a VM solve?

It still needs a license/COA.

It still won't get security updates.

And running Win 10 in a VM on a Linux box requires a level of sophistication and motivation many/most casual Windows 10 users don't have.

It's a shame Microsoft only gave users, what, 4 or 5 years notice before dropping support for Win 10...

In other news, every Intel-based Mac except a few very particular models, are no longer supported by the latest macOS - where's the outcry?

Agreed - and lets not forget that Apple owners pay a premium for their Macs with their shorter useful life.

This is a bit silly, there wont be tens of millions of 5-15 year-old PCs being tossed in the local dump by Nov. 1st.

The VAST majority of home users running machines incapable of running Win 11 will simply keep running Win 10 (they really don't care, and they'll be happy to be free of Patch Tuesday).

The real shift will be corporations that are not quite big enough to lease their computers and refresh them every three years.

The real consternation will be the small business users - Dr offices and small businesses that really just need something to run quickbooks on and surf the web... and their 5-10 year-old computer certainly may be "good enough", but honestly, it may just be time to upgrade...

Bullshit.

Citation?

The last time I heard of a U.S. student being caned was in Asia, where he was visiting and committed an offense (graphitti, iirc) and the news shows went wild with the story/scandal!

Isn't this something akin to the things FDR did during the Depression, paying artists to produce art? Of course, in this case the Irish gov't isn't requiring they actually create/produce art.

Ireland has a history of treating artists differently, so it's really not that big a deal in my opinion, but opinions vary.

It's what, 4,000 people, collecting about $4,000/year each - please describe the level of outrage you think is appropriate for the 5 million plus Irish citizens...

So you think we (US Taxpayers) should suspend farming subsidies and watch the cost of domestic food stuffs go up? Interesting.

And please, describe a few of the "FUCKTON" of subsidies the government gives to oil companies that DON'T apply equally to every other company in America? As a reminder, for every gallon of gasoline sold the oil companies profit a few cents, but your local, state, and federal tax collector takes in dollars of taxes - if we punish oil companies to the point they go out of business, then what? How will you replace the tax revenue? How will people/goods move around the country? Etc...

WTF? Are you of the opinion that software companies exist offer good-paying jobs to programmers? If a programmer in the U.S. can be replaced by one (or more) cheaper programmers, lowering the cost of producing the software, I think the programmers that were displaced either were over-paid or under-skilled.

I'm sorry for your situation, but perhaps, dear Brutus, the fault lies not in the stars but in thineself? Just a thought...