As a person paying to use their service, what's wrong with the term? Renting something doesn't make you a peasant, rich people rent things all the time.

You're just trying really, really hard to make a perfectly logical business decision (until you prove your identity, you can only send 100 emails/day) into some nefarious policy.

If your business rents a storefront to conduct business, your business is a "tenant". If you rent virtual space online to conduct business, why is it insulting to be referred to as a "tenant"?

As I read this, when someone signs up for email service they are only able to send 100 emails/day until they verify their identity.

WTF is wrong with that?

From TFS:

Do customers STAY on "Microsoft.com" domain for any length of time?

Prove who you are, get a proper domain, send out all the emails you want... Again, I ask, WTF is wrong with that?

Do people really want to stay on the onmicrosoft.com domain for their email, or do they want their own domain?

It's just a case of MS Derangement Syndrome, a close relative of AMZ Derangement Syndrome, where the sufferer becomes uncontrollably upset at the mention of MS or AMZ.

Wow, they list me half-way into the second paragraph:

The satellites we are discussing are going to be "planned and built over the coming decades", WTF does that have to do with a hurricane heading toward the U.S. coastline THIS WEEK?

The reporter is acting like DJT ran out to the launch pad and started ripping sensors off the weather satellites as they were ready to launch - these things are just specifications and goals written down to secure federal funding.

As best as I can figure, these satellites won't be built under the Trump admin, the Vance Admin (8 years), the admin after that, or maybe even the admin after THAT, and I suspect that if these sensors are really as important as the reporter wants us to think they are, someone, in the next three administrations, might just add them back.

I bought an EV last December, I like it, but despite living in a single-family home I do not have an in-home charger for my car.

The economics of it don't add-up.

It can cost up to $5,000 to require a house/garage to add a permanent wall charger, while electricity at Tesla superchargers sells for 34/19 cents/KWh, the cheaper rate is only available after 11:00 PM until sometime before the start of morning commute hours (5 AM?)

I'm a night owl, and I don't mind charging after 11 PM to save a few bucks, but that's me, and not everybody is like me.

The practical answer is to get the "240v dryer circuit" charger and let the car slowly charge overnight (if the car isn't moving for 8-12 hours, what's the benefit of charging up in under an hour?).

I'm about 9 months into EV ownership, I'll probably get the dryer circuit charger, but really just as a backup.

Microsoft will not share windows source code with a third party, that just won't happen.

And what would be their motivation? To allow people to keep using 10 year-old software instead of updating (for free, if they have a retail copy of Windows 7, 8/8.1, or 10) if their system supports it?

This EOL date for windows 10 has been covered in the mainstream press for FOUR YEARS, people have to stop pretending they weren't aware of this...

If AT&T had their way, you would never own your telephone, you'd lease it from them.

I can tell you were born well after the breakup of AT&T.

How much longer does MS need to support your 8 year-old systems? Windows 10 was released back in July, 2015 - it's time to move on.

Your systems have been fully depreciated, move on... your systems are from 2017 - more modern system might pay for themselves with lower electric bills.

The mainstream press has been running stories about the end of windows 10 support in Oct 2025, no responsible person can possibly be unaware of this eventuality at this point.

Also, how does ending support make software users at GREATER RISK? Once the software goes off support, every risk, every exposure, every issue remains in place, constantly, for ever - the software doesn't change (that's the definition of ending support), so how do users wind up being at greater risk?

Gaggle is a tool to monitor activity on SCHOOL DISTRICT provided social media applications, she used a school device to access a school social media app and made her comment that was picked up by gaggle.

I think schools offer their own social apps to 'protect' the children from predators, and the district monitors their own app for abuses.

The reaction was over the top, the oversight was appropriate.

Gabber is run by the school, a 'safe' social media app for students, I assume.

The district pays for it.

The district gave the girl the account.

The district gave the girl a device (laptop, tablet, chromebook?) to access the device.

The district had every right to monitor what students do on school systems using district assets...

Imagine the district didn't keep an eye on the site they operate and offer to the students, when one student starts cyberbullying another on the site, the district would have no idea. In that case the victims parents could sue the district and would likely win.

I don't understand the need for the app, but if they offer it, they need to monitor it.

What an asinine hypothetical.

What did the 13 year-old say? It's not in the summary, so we have to imagine what she might have said...

Explain to me why calling the police to roll a cruiser to the middle school, pick up a 13 year-old, put her in a jail cell over night and deprive her of any contact with her parents for 24 hours was the right thing to do?

Can't the district call the parents? Doesn't the school have counselors/social workers? Psychologists? Why was the immediate response incarceration?

That district should expect a HUGE lawsuit.

Wait a minute, are you blaming the CEO because the software license agreement didn't require users to NEVER escalate anything uncovered to law enforcement? Really?

Your anger should be directed toward the folks that picked up the phone and called the police/pressed charges against the 13 year-old girl...

She made the 'joke' on a school account using a school device - that's reasonable IMHO - now, had she made the comment on Facebook, Instagram, or X, that's different, but she was on a school system, that's fair.

I fail to see the problem - if students say things in "school accounts" using (school) "devices", then yes, the school district SHOULD monitor the activity!

The issue here, clearly, is that every adult involved in the response to this incident took it WAY TOO SERIOUSLY - they deserve to be called out and asked to defend their part in this incident, and the parents need to sue the school district over the way their child was treated by district employees.

If the child was kept away from her parents overnight, the police have some explaining to do as well.

Short of posting a bomb threat or a kill list, I can't imagine what the student said that caused the school administrators to call for the child's arrest by the police, what possible crime was she accused of? But, despite the absolute over reaction, monitoring student activity on school accounts and devices.

Oh, and this wasn't a false alarm, it was an over-reaction.

Really?

That's hard to believe. "g-men"? "Oil Execs"?

Seriously?

That reminds me of the story of the guy that designed a miraculous carburetor the "the boys from Detroit" bought and buried...