Microsoft is building things on top of it:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/container-networ...

I was convinced that a party of all Ninjas and Samurai would be unstoppable, but I never could make it work. I recall leveling up to a point where a high enough character would get 3 attacks per turn, and then when hit counterattack twice. Multiply this by the whole party.

But realistically, at some point this flurry of attacks every round just fell over because you need better magic users for enemies with certain weaknesses. My memory is fuzzy, but it also may have related to the increasingly large hordes of enemies which would dilute the effects of so many attacks.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/iran-war-polls-popularity-appro...

53.8% disapproval

I have an old tank of a Brother laser printer whose only issue is feeding paper. 0 fuckery with DRM or spyware or subscriptions.

Only kernel drivers.

> You aren't connecting to Active Directory without Microsoft's blessing.

I think you're talking about EntraID. That is true enough. You can just spin up Windows Server and create a domain controller, no problem. You don't need Microsoft for domain services, though - you can use other domain controller types. (You don't get GPO and other things - that's not a 'walled garden' thing, that's a feature set which other systems don't have)

> In that respect, Windows is only open from an end user perspective. In all other respects, it is closed, and it is closed tightly.

Not so tight as you seem to think. And anyways, I was specifically referring to building windows apps - which you did not disagree with. You absolutely can pull down various free tools, build an app, package it up as a .zip or .msi and distribute it from a variety of places. The Windows app store is a walled garden, but you don't have to use it.

If you're referring to Windows, this is not very walled at all. You barely need a computer to write and release windows apps, let alone money.

Office, perhaps? Or a variety of other products.

The growth is not dramatic, but steady over time:

https://institute.bankofamerica.com/content/dam/economic-ins...

Facebook seems to be in this game. Constant notifications to install the app, and as well increasingly degraded experience in the web version (both desktop and mobile).

- My current comp is X, but that's not what I am worth to you.

- I've done my research, and someone with my experience is worth Y. I expect at least Y.

You set your salary expectations with your opening bid instead of letting them make the opening bid. It's also contingent on you having done your research =)

Winforms just work, and have a well defined set of behaviors. It does not matter that they do not look as nice for most people.

https://wtfmitchel.medium.com/how-to-get-fired-from-microsof...

A lot of similarities, except the medium author was not part of PG but support. He also had recently suffered a brain injury.

The amount of each incident is fairly low, and probably goes a long way to funding the local community.

But the number of incidents is nuts - well over 1000 per year.

Which is weird, because that is undeniably the hard way. Lobby Google to add protections to Chromium.