OS makers are going to have to support older hardware longer. Win10 is already pushed out another year because MSFT tried to force new hardware for Win11.
Also the massive valuation is seen by other capable countries and competition will be fierce. You can't continue to push your operations that aren't profitable without the government propping it up.
Other countries are already willing to foot that bill in batteries, EV, Photovoltaic, chips etc. And they have a big interest in controlling the space over their heads.
I don't think begin first here was defensible to begin with. There's a reason that the tax payers foot the bill from the start of the industry to today.
GDID stands for Global Device Identifier; it's a unique identifier assigned to every Windows install that tracks device-specific telemetry. It's the reason why sometimes changing a major component in your PC can revoke your Windows license. Anyhow, the court documents from the case reveal that Stokes used Windows, from which investigators were able to link his physical hardware to specific internet activity and locations.
AI is just a tool. A power saw lets carpenters build more easily and so does AI, until you have to pay the real price of it and then its a 747 that hardly anyone can afford.
Sure, but they keep raising the price of everything. And in a world where ram and STORAGE are at a multiple premium, deleting high density discs is completely outside of reality