Microsoft, WTF is this?

[@techlinked]

hey guys its riley from the video speaking to you from inside the Windows 365 Link PC device thing. Sure enough it is empty as heck in here and very dark. I think they just stuffed a box with cardboard and a raspberry Pi. You should probably get a real PC instead so go to jawa.link/TLNov24 and check out the amazing deals available at Jawa. They are THE marketplace for buying and selling PC components and full assembled rigs. I don't know legally whether i can say they also carry astromech and protocol droids but i'm doin it

[@yukaira]

hi riley

[@MrTheinfoman]

Do you think a cloud based OS will replace Windows 11 or later down the line worse if they require you have to pay a subscription per month just to use your own PC that you bought could be possible they put that on next update to all computers that will be the final nail in the coffin seeing the Microsoft 365 link to be will happen to others computers as well.

[@Day100]

I too buy my used PC parts the smart way. Using my threatening aura and drooling of the mouth, I sometimes am even given money and wallets on top of the PC parts I want!

[@OanKnight]

I can't use Jawa, because I'm not continental USA or adjacent, so to hell with me for any kind of at least semi relevant advertising (made more annoying by the fact that I pay for youtube premium, so you're actually FORCING me into adverts, so that's a little annoying), or at the very least regional pricing, amirite?

[@LifeWulf]

I would use Jawa, except I’m Canadian, like you, Riley. You also can’t use Jawa technically, barring sponsored Scrapyard Wars episodes.

[@Danominator]

I love that the icon announcing guy had to start clapping to get everyone else to try 😂👏

[@johnstancell]

Jeb Bush: "Please Clap"

[@BlueScreenCorp]

Yeah cause this shit is all pointless and boring, its like being being excited by the reveal of a new trash pile

[@Danominator]

@@BlueScreenCorp Anything to keep the investors...happy? Satisfied? Geez, I don't even know if they care about this stuff anymore.

[@sinewaveaddict]

The annotation feature in teams does look useful for corporate calls tho

[@edwardagin9744]

This gave me Steve Balmer flashbacks. "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!"

[@explodingcb]

Microsoft’s marketing department seems to be testing the limits of confusion-based advertising.

[@MrTheinfoman]

More like testing if they turn an already licensed OS into more your to pay monthly subscription OS to use your computer

[@Mr.Morden]

This is a product for boring gigantic corporations and all the boring daily work stuff.

[@piengeng]

not sure why no one's talking about data privacy of windows on cloud, now every mouse clicks, file accessed, keyboard entry when using the OS, is sent to microsoft, indiscriminately.

[@dhillaz]

"The limit of confusion? They're not even close!" Sincerely, The USB Consortium

[@bassyey]

People acting like they'll die. They won't. Enterprise is all aboard Microsoft lol. They aren't targeting sweaty gamers.

[@bumbalaaa]

That applause held shame

[@MetallicReg]

It was a slow clap as a tribute to the grave of that one lone designer that Microsoft employed.

[@Fahad56744]

I had a second hand embarrassment. Surely the presenter felt something similar

[@trevorashman2258]

Jeb Bush vibes

[@efovex]

"please clap"

[@FF-Nation]

I wouldn't be surprised is MS just added a clap track over the video!

[@saad_ghannam]

1:37 Please clap

[@jeji5860]

Cringe 😂

[@CliffdogRussell]

Thought of this too 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

[@JustinSulak]

Was coming to the comments to say the same thing 😅😂

[@mgord9518]

Jeb!

[@Malc180s]

We're just like apple, except we do nothing interesting or exciting.

[@mathewhumvee]

Microsoft marketing team. If you need to start a clap, it’s not worth the clap

[@ReuelRamos]

Very microsofty product presentation

[@sanjay_on_the_rocks]

Clapilot

[@bradley3549]

Imagine being the guy who pulled the short straw to head up the presentation on the new freakin icons... Just look at his face, it says it all.

[@rajaspoorna6405]

Lol I just looked at his face LOL

[@mrburns366]

He's dying inside

[@SkyyySi]

350$ for a thin client that only works with a 30+$ monthly subscription must be one of the worst deals in computer history

[@bayanzabihiyan7465]

If that comes with the office subscription, then that’s not really that much of an increase for enterprise customers. At work, we already do a ton of our work on remote Linux boxes, but having the entire PC remote is an interesting play. We wouldn’t since we like our laptops for mobility, but some companies might spring for these.

[@johnmilton7578]

Or one of the best deals in computer history if you are the one providing it.

[@SkyyySi]

@@bayanzabihiyan7465 You can get a *more* capable device for like 100$, especially if you are willing to go to the used market (which, in my experience, most companies are). Now scale that up to 200 employees and you alread get a difference of 50,000$. Are you really sure that that's "not really that much of an increase"?

[@AsAs-nd7gy]

Some accountant somewhere will probably use interest rates and imaginary costs to "prove" that it saves a few cents an employee because his boss asked him to so the boss can get promoted and show "results". Then they will push this everywhere because one company is doing it.

[@justmechanicthings]

I feel so sorry for gen z and younger, being brought up in a world where every company is trying to normalize subscription based services for absolutely everything

[@fluidparadigms6719]

Dear Microsoft, Please stop.

[@barbaratyrrell3185]

Yes please stop hate windows 👎👎

[@that0nedegenerate]

Yeah, pretty much

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

They won't stop they don't care about our inputs let them figure it out. 🙄

[@musicalneptunian]

Dear Microsoft, please continue sending your product line down the 🚽 Yours Mr Linux

[@jarydf]

We are so close to a company marketing their product as not including AI and hitting it right out of the park.

[@evg3nius]

And we HATE AI. Proceeds to sell out millions of whatever they are selling

[@Uufda651]

There are not words for how unimpressed I am by all the CEOs trying to cram AI into things that do not need AI. And then making it difficult or impossible to disable that AI functionality.

[@BlueScreenCorp]

not to mention that the AI applications are either not useful or actively detrimental to the performance of your machine. The last thing I want is for things like program menu to start giving my AI generated explanation when I just want to run an application

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

So does Windows 365 and Microsoft 365 just stop working on December 31st on leap years? Guess we're gonna find out

[@youdontknowme5969]

365.2425 🙃

[@OhhCrapGuy]

It actually stops working on August 27th that year. No one can figure out why, Copilot keeps insisting there's no issue, and we fired all the programmers, so.... 🤷

[@AsAs-nd7gy]

nothing after ms office 2019 obtained from the high seas actually works at all lmao

[@johnberkers434]

It's all part of the 99.9% Uptime SLA.... It allows for it to be down for about 1.46 days in total every 4 years

[@musicalneptunian]

In the year 365365 if Windows is still alive your eyes will have no work to do A machine's doin that for you.

[@RichHomiePanda]

The guy had to make the crowd clap, that's terrible

[@boblangill6209]

A couple decades ago, the CEO where I worked had a big presentation to reveal: the new company logo. He was visibly disappointed at the lack of wild enthusiasm from employees in attendance.

[@RomainDelmaire]

@@boblangill6209 that's usually what happens when you hype yourself for something completely insignificant =') No one else will share your enthousiasm.

[@bodycounter9386]

No, it's terrible365

[@-DM]

I'm starting to not see the point in staying on Windows. I want it to look like Windows 2000 and be secure, offline capable, and non-AI everything.

[@sureberferber9101]

Microsoft discovered yet another way to motivate users to stick with Windows 10.

[@JoshR-k9q]

Just open the window and let the penguin in. You'll be okay. Your captor won't hurt you anymore.

[@Fahad56744]

​@@JoshR-k9q A Firefox user, a Linux user and a Vegan walked into a bar......

[@ClayMann]

I think Microsoft has seen the writing on the wall for years now as far as consumers go. But they need you for a few more years so they can have all that juicy training data on just how you use their OS, services and apps. Once they have that in the bag. Microsoft will end up like IBM. You won't hear about them but they'll be there, in the background. Running everything online and for business. They've all but cancelled a hundred product lines that used to be consumer hits and now the line-up of hardware is purely existing to serve business but with the fake marketing sheen to make them seem like they're for consumers too, sort of if you squint a lot.

[@magikarpusedsplash8881]

@@Fahad56744 and his name was​ @JoshR-k9q (I jest, I use Windows 11 and Linux, and I'm equally satisfied with both)

[@BrightsunSingh]

you do realise that Microsoft 365 isn't Windows 11 exclusive right?

[@RandomAnimeGamer]

$300 for a cloud PC is not cheap

[@Jon717]

$349 is just the price for the box. The cost of the cloud PC service is completely seperate. Their cheapest plan is $336 per user per year.

[@RandomAnimeGamer]

@@Jon717 That's even worse - just get a cheap offfice laptop and it'll run O365...

[@ZedDevStuff]

It is apparently. Dell and Lenovo's alternatives at 700+

[@JerryLoffelbein]

Sony buying Kadokawa is MUCH larger and different than trying to acquire From Software, it's more about furthering their ownership and controlling international rights and distribution of anime/manga. It probably doesn't concern the Playstation group at all as they've been aggressively trying to separate itself from anime games since the PS4 era.

[@dojomojomofo]

Yeah, Kadokawa is in the top 4 Japanese publishers nationally... I don't even know how to translate this to US - it's like if 30% of your books were suddenly Sony

[@MX26_]

Even past that kadokawa also has it's hands in a bunch of other media like NicoNico douga (Japanese video streaming similar to KZbin). I know it's not necessarily in the wheelhouse of this channel, but focusing on just fromsoft feels like a bit of a miss from TL

[@WalcomS7]

Sony buying Kadokawa is almost hypocritical. They basically abandoned all of Japan, moved everything to California, and shut down some of their best studios for no reason to focus on all their western stuff, only now to suddenly think Japan is worth investing back into for... presumably a Japanese game series that's popular in the west? The reason I loved Sony so much was the awesome mix of both Western and Japanese games and was a die-hard fan up until the mid-point of the PS4. Japan Studio single-handedly kept the Vita even remotely a thing here in the US.

[@RizzyGyatt]

Sony isnt buying kadokawa for your rehashed video game from 2009. They're doing it for the anime and manga control. life is more than your video games, I promise.

[@empire_of_lesun2088]

@@RizzyGyattthey might not be able to because of shueisha relationship which would tank there other ventures.

[@azaril7780]

It's not Sony interactive buying kadokawa, it's sony group, different branches, Sony group doesn't have shit to do with playstation, sony group owns Crunchyroll

[@avi8aviate]

@@RizzyGyatt As if Funimation and Crunchyroll weren't enough...

[@optimusprimal577]

​@RizzyGyatt If you don't mind me asking how would the acquisition affect the manga and anime distribution network

[@mrflamewars]

$349 for eWaste - It's the same old Thin Client / Network Computer rubbish - this junk has been around since the late 90s. Garbage the same way a Chromebook is garbage in that it's mostly helpless without a network connection. My answer was No Thanks back in 1997 when I first heard of this junk and it's still the same now. Stop wasting resources on this rubbish!

[@mariussignorello]

The healthcare and banking industries love these things for security and centralization.

[@gibbsfreenthalpy]

For their intended use case in enterprise solutions ThinClients are actually really good. You don't need a high powered PC if everybody works on VMs in your company anyway, and that happens a lot in enterprise IT structures. And even after primary use has ended, they aren't all bad. I for example use an old one as a home assistant host for my smart home (cheaper than a similar raspy and with about the same power consumption), I know of others that build cheap nas or Media PCs with them etc... so they actually can have a ton of use, just not as a stand alone Desktop Workstation. That said, this m365 cloud thingy sounds a bit ridiculous, especially as there are a lot of cheaper options already available.

[@Feynt]

To be fair, home users could enjoy thin clients too. But we had that. It was called the Steam Link, and now it's software to run on a raspberry pi. Which is less than a third of the price...

[@andreirachko]

They have their uses, I see them all the time. The only part concerning me is the $350 price tag, but I’m sure MS will be willing to give discounts to large buyers.

[@daniel-pablo]

Just once I wish people would boo loudly when execs announce stupid crap at keynotes

[@AndiKola]

0:57 I'll do you one better, we've used thin clients that boot from the network for a long time. So not only they don't have windows installed, they don't even have a disk installed, they need only an old junkbunx which had a cpu, network card and 512MB of memory. But instead of 349$ they're usually free.

[@raynerhandrian1486]

1:55 Can we get a live close caption from English to Simplify English so when someone talks about "We need synergy our blockchain web 3.0 AI-powered" to "We gonna scam you and take your privacy at the same time"

[@OhhCrapGuy]

I've got an "AI" that just replaces every sentence with "blockchain", "Web3", or "AI" with ten thousand shrieking murder victims. Wait, shit, that's gonna trigger on this comm..AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@mister_monkey789]

I think the bigger deal with Sony purchasing Kadokawa is the anime market. Right now they’ve already acquired Funimation, Aniplex, and Crunchyroll. With Kadokawa Unser their umbrella, they would have a near monopoly on anime distribution in the US, if not the entire world outside of East Asia. The only anime distribution company I know of off the top of my head is Hi-Dive, and their market share is probably around the market share of Firefox (i.e. statistically insignificant)

[@KTSpeedruns]

Microsoft: "We're dedicating an entire slide and minutes of your time to announce that some software has a new icon." Crowd: *bored as fuck*

[@cryptic_daemon_]

Microsofts marketing department making Linux looking good every moment they advertise Windows!! Love it!

[@andreirachko]

At this point they even make MacOS look better

[@musicalneptunian]

They make Temple OS look good.

[@onetwofourfive]

M365 icon, wow, marketing level 99 - he even clapped himself 😂

[@TurntableTV]

I swear, these people that work at tech giants are disconnected from reality.

[@NotTheGaslighter]

​@@TurntableTV Yes... but they're making shitloads of money, so they could not care less about the corporate cult within Microsoft

[@Morgogmoonsparkle]

Getting excited over a new logo it's pretty lame and sad. Really? What does it add to the project. Absolutely nothing

[@jer1776]

Microsoft looked at all of the e-waste smart junk laying around that companies discontinued service for and thought "Hey we can make that too!"

[@Greenadine0]

Having to start clapping yourself to get the crowd going is wild

[@mhudn]

Nowadays, it's just "plz clap" 💩

[@ieatpies114]

"and armored core :(" For those that know, we didn't forget about this one.

[@Muhluri]

As an AC fan, unfortunately AC is small time and constsantly get ignored. It's funny when I hear people say "I played every fromsoft game" then continue to ignore the ENTIRE AC series

[@Exponaut_R-01]

1:34 It's a bad sign when they have to start the clap, that one clap beforehand does not count-

[@Mr.Bimgus]

The video feels so.. quiet. It's just Riley by himself in a room.

[@emptywig]

Go back and read the credits. 😉

[@Mr.Bimgus]

@emptywig :(

[@cinderwolf32]

Damn it! Riley broke into the office after hours and started making TechLinked videos again!

[@rodhester]

The announcement of the icon reminds me of the movie Idiocracy.

[@MichaelGGarry]

It reminds me of the Box 3 Signature Edition in Silicon Valley...

[@Braiam]

6:57 I feel the editor there.

[@hanoslul3276]

Armoured core is probably my favourite franchise of all their games

[@DevonLadd]

1:36 Very nice of him to remind everyone that was falling asleep, that this is a moment they should clap at

[@Warlord_Megatron]

I bursted out laughing when I saw that he was the one who initiated the clapping

[@Warlord_Megatron]

"comeon guys start clapping at our groundbreaking innovation"

[@Ram84_1]

Can the DoJ also force google to SELL KZbin?

[@n9ne]

i cried when valve sold their remaining steam controller stock for $5 a piece and was seconds late from purchasing one. that's the one controller i have always wanted. what i really want is something like nintendo joycons but shaped like meta quest 3 controllers and with steam controller layout. i don't know why people want their controllers to be one unit. more comfortable having both sides separated. also figure gyro would be better this way.

[@YooZherName]

Art Direction *and* Production Management would have been too much for a single savvy AI soldier, so I see you had them share the load. Well played.

[@alhypo]

By attending this Microsoft event, you are obligated to applaud this new Windows icon.

[@JakePIXL]

The new icon reveal announcement felt like they had guns pointed at the audience to make them clap.

[@shashankshekhar9476]

07:51 IRON MAN reference

[@saad_ghannam]

So early nobody has snitched the sponsor segment yet

[@BooleanDev]

Kadokawa is so much bigger than just gaming. They are a massive publisher of manga, light novels, and owns multiple anime studios. They also own light novel and manga publisher/translator J-Novel Club. Sony already owns animation studio Aniplex/CoverWorks and anime streaming site Crunchyroll (and Funimation, which they merged with it) This acquisition would be an effective monopoly on all IP Kadokawa owns, shutting down much of the competition in the anime/manga space

[@Montisaquadeis]

If Sony gets their hands on Kadokawa they will have control over the MAJORITY of Anime, Manga, and Light Novels in the west which is a BAD thing

[@Rainoffire]

According to some sources, it seems like Kadokawa went to Sony for help, as Korea's Kakao was gradually increasing shares. So they went to Sony before falling into the hands of Kakao.

[@erebuxy]

It is kind of funny that Kadokawa is referred as the parent company of the game studio that made Elder Ring. Kadokawa is HUGE, and not only in the gaming industry, but also in manga, light novel, movie and anime. Imagine Disney buying Universal.

[@mirrenboarish]

1:39 That is one hell of an awkward clap he started there. Audience: "What are we meant to feel?" Presenter: be impressed people, clap with me! Audience: "Oooooh we are meant to be impressed?!?" proceed to join to clap. God that was hard to watch.

[@ManTa-o5y]

$349? WTH is MS smoking? $175-199 tops! It most probably costs MS less than $80/unit.

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

I really wish that Linux developers had realised earlier that if they'd all worked together on ONE solid distro/kernel instead of muddying the field with hundreds of them, they could have actually properly rivaled Windows and MacOS by now - and had a huge rise in new users of late looking for an anti-AI operating system. Even in the corporate world, where they could have promoted their platform on the grounds that, unlike Windows, theirs isn't a massive corporate espionage risk with all that "AI in everything" actively scraping all documents and Excel spreadsheets etc and sending that data to Microsofts servers for "training".

[@YurttheSilentChief1]

I bought a tiny pc that looks suspiciously like that box for my aging mother who still does not care to learn how to technology.

[@jujenshrestha7584]

microsoft wants to go bankrupt

[@Wolfrich666]

Microsoft cant go bankrupt, almost all PCs in the world use their garbage software, almost all the software industries depend on them, governments depend on them, its the biggest company in the world, they can suffer, but will never fall, they are just too big.

[@Stef.Cata051]

For that money you definitely buy something that has an os that runs locally. Probably even more powerful

[@Spaghettiinspace-ou2tc]

Riley having different intro in technews every episode. Its just perfect way to enjoy morning

[@ktvx.94]

The audacity of mentioning all of Dark Souls, Elden Ring AND Skeiro but not Armored Core when talking about From Software.

[@The_Keeper]

Man, Microsoft really needs to get rid of Nutella, he is running them into the ground with his "everything has to be cloud" fetish. Seriously, they were somewhat decent before he took over, and as soon as he took over he started cutting everything good from the company.

[@BrightsunSingh]

They were pretty much at the end of the line when he became CEO, in the 10 years since then the stock has grown by about 1000% compared to compared to the -14% growth from 2000s to 2014. If I was an investor I would be happy, the only problem is that most of us aren't. Don't blame Nadella, dude just saved his company by selling it to the devil, blame the devil. The investors are dumbasses who probably use Macs anyways.

[@williamtopping]

Indian CEO's make the best CEO's.... /s

[@kaasbaas9532]

uh no, azure, windows terminal, wsl2, github, devops. a lot of what microsoft is doing works great, the biggest problem is 11

[@bayanzabihiyan7465]

Investors LOVE subscriptions, because that’s predictable and stable revenue with 100% margins. Thus everything is switching to subscription. Cloud is essentially amortizing and centralizing hardware usage as the typical laptop or desktop is idle like over 90% the time and could easily be shared. Latency is constantly getting better and is “good enough” for desktop use already. Microsoft’s enterprise customers whom want the office suite (most of them) shell out monthly subscriptions per user to use that software. And Google docs while decent for most new age companies, can’t fight the versatility of having offline applications instead of browser ones. Microsoft does this stuff for tue enterprise, consumers are a bit harder to crack.

[@giddycadet]

@@williamtopping hey we're making fun of dumb investors here. not being racist. leave

[@thatpitter]

Why are we changing the Microsoft 365 logo again? Please can we just go back to when it was office

[@light-master]

I'mma go back to my Windows 10 LTSC computer. Y'all have fun with this weird obsession with the computer equivalence of a nuke on a timer.

[@pseudonymos_]

Never been a better time to be on linux!

[@musicalneptunian]

Yep. A minty minty minty time!

[@OriginalPiMan]

It's not really tech or gaming, but what I see in Sony's plan to buy Kadokawa, is them becoming an even bigger player in the world of anime and manga. They already bought and merged the major players in anime streaming outside Japan, and they already own some anime production studios in Japan. I don't have the numbers to say how big they would be, but I'd be confident to guess they'll be the single largest player on the market.

[@Montisaquadeis]

If Sony gets their hands on Kadokawa they will have control over the MAJORITY of Anime, Manga, and Light Novels in the west which is a BAD thing

[@schubs409]

I already miss the off screen banter. 😢😢😢

[@wh4070]

When he started clapping to try and get the crown clapping, my brain instantly cut to Bret Farve's "slight clap into hand washing" scene.

[@classicsagat]

that pause before two people start clapping in the clip lmao

[@maridaudran]

Roy, Decker, Tears in the rain? Someone just finished watching BLADE RUNNER...

[@Arkaido]

I have been playing Delta V: Rings of Saturn. The tears in the rain comment ( 6:46 ) comes up every time i find a heap of corpses to profit off of lol

[@superhavi]

I knew we were heading into this direction, when they forced Ballmer out and exchanged him with that Indian call center dude.

[@robster7787]

People are trashing on Apple’s M4 Mac mini, only for this Microsoft crap to be much worse.

[@wojciechosinski5927]

Trashing on Mac Mini? Where?

[@billmilosz]

1:39 Copilot365 introduced to OVERWHELMING enthusiasm at the event!

[@HikaruAkitsuki]

So basically, you will buy their thin client to use subscription base OS and the system is actually not yours if you stop the subscription? What the freak.

[@protectme4278]

Ya know what? I'm not even gonna wait for Windows 10 EOL. Switching to Linux this weekend.

[@Stellanora]

Welcome to the club :) Just remember to stick to fairly popular distributions and ask for help if you need it. I'd personally recommend Linux Mint, but it's really up to you

[@arnox4554]

@@Stellanora MX Linux is better than Linux Mint. Mint is OK, but it's based on Ubuntu which is a generally unstable distro and not a good foundation for a distro anymore.

[@siddharths4676]

I suggest Pop OS Alpha version with Cosmic DE , it's still in the work but feels like charm .

[@rahulramdev8519]

this comment section is why linux for the masses is still a far fetched reality

[@MortalMercury]

@@siddharths4676 I need to know if you were kidding or not

[@kellymoses8566]

They make Zero client computers already. They can basically do nothing bur run a PCoIP client and a TCP/IP stack to connect to a remote desktop. They are very light and compact and have excellent battery life and are inherently secure.

[@handlemonium]

150-200 bucks flat on Amazon 👍

[@lauriekimani]

Copilot M365 is the production managet😂 and windows 365 is the art director.. Good one, LTT.

[@ClellBiggs]

Hmm, the last few episodes of TechLinked have been missing something.

[@Triflixfilms]

The writers/hecklers, Jessica and Jakib

[@laughyourashevilleoff2546]

The one guy clapping when they announced the new icon sent me. Bet it was the graphic designer who made the icon.

[@illwillgotem8200]

Honestly the only market I can see this windows 365 box in is the education industry. I really can picture this being used for school libraries and college study centers.

[@ThePike220]

i started this video with one thumbnail, and ended with another, truly an era of all time.

[@JamesTDG]

3:46 Sorry, I just choked on my chips while laughing at this bullshit

[@judewestburner]

Hmm... I was a Citrix engineer in the late 90's when they still had anything worth selling, deploying hundreds of thin client devices.

[@DavidGaravito]

Riley, After all these years of watching your show, i want to personally say i think your presentation and character has been so cool to see develop. You have grown to become a great host. (:

[@coffeedudeguy]

Well done Art Director and Production Manager

[@drxym]

The only reason I could see this being useful in any way is if a company is basically evil. People arrive at work, they find the first desk that is free, they login and do whatever all day long. So somewhere like a calling center where probably every machine is running a couple of pieces of software and it doesn't matter much if the computer is real or fake. But $350 for a dumb terminal and then a subscription on top? That's outrageous quite frankly.

[@johnt.848]

A Chrome book that is subscription based, no thanks.

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

So ironically, this DOJ conclusion is actually going to make *less* competition. Something like 95% of Mozilla revenue comes from Google directly, so without that... RIP firefox.

[@terranbyte2619]

to be fair Mozilla hasn't been managed that for a long while, and only has put minimal amount of effort into making firefox appealing to more users while spending more time on half finished projects to try and diversify their revenue sources.

[@thelakeman2538]

And mozilla shouldn't have been relying on that anyway, the search engine deal did more to hobble their ability to innovate by inflating exec salaries for doing nothing and keeping the company on effective life support, while all their innovative projects were sent to the mozilla graveyard, nor was mozilla able to do what proton did i.e build their own integrated email suite like google, while any products they did launch were launched too late or were stuck in limited availability. Mozilla wouldn't have been able to keep doing mistep after mistep if it weren't for the search deal. Also mozilla still has large reserves, enough to sustain themselves for few years even at current expenditures, so you shouldn't be too worried, they've always had the resources to turn things around but terrible leadership.

[@DesmondKarani]

I'm curious, why does Apple get a free pass in the US when like 80% of people use iPhones there? 🤔

[@sihamhamda47]

All open source communities should team up together to support Mozilla and Firefox once the breakup happens

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

@@DesmondKarani no they don't. You're probably a young adult or teenager if you think that, because that's the target demographic and highest market share.

[@whyyshovel420]

Bro i always wonder wtf does microsoft think before making these dumb af decisions....

[@mabelmarie2377]

Highlight for me was the throwback to SeaMonkey.

[@Beef1188]

You can tell just how awesome the new branding is by how the audience rioted from enthusiasm and burned the studio down.

[@NathanBudd]

That Iron Man reference was not lost on all of us Riley! Well played sir.

[@davidhungerford3473]

Watching the AI/Copilot stuff, all I could think was, "I'll need to watch for this showing up in an Update so I can disable every last vestige of it immediately."

[@antoinecharlesdegaulle580]

Microsoft can either over deliver with Copilot or under deliver. Only time will tell.

[@agoddamnferret]

1:37 that is the face of a man who wasn't happy but was CLEARLY vetoed hard

[@chrisproductions6262]

People didn't seem to like what Microsoft was talking about

[@knobwobble]

1:35 "Please clap."

[@musicalneptunian]

Or face the wrath of the Great Leader Kim.

[@becuasegoodreason]

1:32 " ... we (stuptly) changed logo ... " {waiting for applause}

[@alanhilder1883]

Some people complain that they are treated like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed bull#$%^. As an electrician, I can say we are jealous of mushrooms, they feed mushrooms.

[@brinsonmcbride]

Lol the synergy joke made me feel older than it should have

[@kaiboshvanhortonsnort359]

Can we get the icon in cornflower blue?

[@brinsonmcbride]

@kaiboshvanhortonsnort359 only if we can find the balance between differing opinions from the stakeholders in a fusion of ideas

[@Psycheitout]

...If Chrome has to be decoupled from Google that means Chrome would have to compete on an open market right? which means they would be disincentivized from making unpopular moves, like preventing you from using pop-up blockers... I don't know this kind of sounds like a good idea.

[@nerida3347]

Speaking about space, TU Delft students built a really neat space plane! It managed to go up quite a bit not past the official boundary yet, that's a different test i think

[@Marta1Buck]

co-pilot? more like cope-a lot

[@bob_obba]

Oh great, now my whole computer is just a subscription on a server somewhere.

[@Ringo-t4l]

hey microsoft, how confusing you want your services lineup to be? Microsoft: Yes

[@BrownFoxWarrior]

I love just how dead that applause was with the icon reveal.

[@timothynoll4886]

10/10 Bladerunner reference. Definitely original. Made me giggle like a child.

[@wolfbrave4866]

I get the Ironman reference. Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!

[@godbob5835]

oh man when that dude from microsoft clapped... i felt a wave of second hand embarrassment it was like 'ok we did something now everybody clap please'