... or are there enough military oppressing Los Angeles already?

'broken' depends on which side of the wrench you're holding

Military. Industrial. Complex.

whoever added that clause got a sizeable bonus.

Their Trumpian replacement will double the subscription fee

your bone spurs are showing troll

soon enough they would find that no manufacturer that relied on service revenue would offer them to the military, and if they did, likely for substantially higher costs, to 'recover' that lost service revenue.

The military would sign the check tomorrow and twice on Sundays.

That's great for the hypothetical future where they implement backcompat and never release another console-exclusive. But that backcompat doesn't exist right now, and they do still occasionally release console exclusives.

That's Microsoft's strategy for first-party titles. They don't have control over third-party developers. And even then there are some exceptions. Halo 5 never got a PC release, and for something more recent, the 2023 remaster of Goldeneye didn't either.

If there aren't that many third-party xbox exclusives, that says more about the viability of the xbox platform than any specific strategy on Microsoft's part.

If Microsoft had managed to produce a usable game streaming service, I might agree, but nobody but nVidia has pulled that off (with GeForce Now).

By the same logic, you could call this a Playstation handheld, since you can run Sony's streaming service on it.

Besides, you can't really use a game streaming service unless you're tethered to a good home Internet connection, which renders a mobile gaming device somewhat useless.

I'll admit I only know what I've seen at the companies I've specifically worked for. But even at a company that would need such things, most of the employees wouldn't be generating those kinds of documents. You could get licenses only for those few that actually need it (as you'd do with Photoshop or whatnot) and keep everyone else on something cheap and simple.

Come to think of it, at my current company (medical billing SaaS), I'd bet that if you took all of the employee-generated text and grouped it by what application created it, most of it wouldn't come from Word or equivalents at all. It would have been typed into email, chat, or issue tracking software. About the only time I read an actual internally-created document is when I read about benefits when enrollment comes around each year.

I didn't mean Google Docs specifically, I meant something of that level of capability. There are open-source equivalents that one can self-host.

They are probably confusing ânobody noticedâ(TM) with ânobody caredâ(TM).

Yay, a new version of OS Update Simulator Extreme.

I haven't touched my existing Xbox in years because I know what's waiting for me...100 gigabyte update culture. If they make updates optional I may consider console gaming again

This handheld not Microsoft hardware, though, it's an Asus.

If they're on PC Game Pass, then they're not Xbox games, they're PC games that happen to also have an Xbox port. Not every Xbox game has a PC port. Halo 5, for example. You can play it on your Xbox console, but not on the ROG XBOX ALLY X, because it's a PC, not an Xbox console.

The term "xbox game" does not appear at all on the page that you linked to (outside of the fine print and navigation), let alone the phrase "Play all your PC and XBOX games."

The closest this thing gets to letting you play Xbox Games is "Stream with Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta)" which is just super laggy cloud streaming, and "Xbox remote play", which is just streaming it from a local Xbox console.

So the system responded that it was an already claimed serial number and not an invalid serial number? Who the fuck would do that?

Let's say someone put in a claim.

Well what is to stop them from trying consecutive serial numbers to see if they can get even more?

It was easy to ignore until now.