From what I’ve read this Marcel LUX III SARL company is also just a holding company under EQT. So nothing major has changed there.

I mean, Canonical is also privately held and not publicly listed. And it looks like this is the same private equity firm that owned SUSE fully before taking them public. (Marcel LUX III SARL is a holding company owned by EQT Private Equity.)

It’s literally just a Unicode character.

From elsewhere:

𝕏 is a generic Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”

Antitrust suits result in more varied options than just breaking a company up. Microsoft had to have certain aspects of it’s operations supervised by the Department of Justice for years, and had to make mandatory changes with respect to browser bundling that only ended with Windows 10/11.

Intel has settled some antitrust actions – namely lawsuits by AMD – with money and cross-licensing agreements. They’ve spun off some divisions and operations over the years but none forced that I can recall.

Depends on what you mean. It’s a more arduous process – but even if this injunction were granted that process would still play out unless Microsoft just decided to give up. But in another sense it’s not as high of a bar to reach as a preliminary injunction, which the court by process has to make certain assumptions with a presumptive bias towards the party not seeking the injunction.

This is just the fight for the preliminary injunction. The FTC can still use antitrust proceedings to prevent/unwind the merger.

Didn’t the theatrical cuts release with the first DVD sets well before the takeover? (Albeit yeah, that’s 480p.)

It’ll be interesting to see if that number climbs once Windows 10 reaches EOL.

IIRC some of the employees who still have company-owned computers, etc have tried numerous times to return them with no response from Twitter. Like you said probably because those people were fired as well.

Typically the tech bro billionaires buying those tend to fall into the realm of people who expect to be unquestioned dictators of their own little fiefdoms in a post-apocalyose scenario. To the point of shock collars to keep other people in line, etc.

Like /u/spez.

You also can’t sell it, and thus also can’t buy it used. This is the final move to end the used market for console games.

If you’re using Android there’s Launcher 10 on the Play Store that lets you use the Tile UI and the right-side app list/drawer. I’ve been using it for around a year now and really like it. Of course it can’t change anything other menus or anything, but it’s nice.

It does have one-time IAPs or a monthly subscription to remove ads and to enable live tiles as well.

They had one too many miscues with updating Windows Phone and breaking compatibility. WP7 devices couldn’t upgrade to WP8. They waited until WP8.1 to roll out the WinRT platform with cross- compatability between PC and mobile apps. Then 10 died before they could get the Android bridge stuff working.

Their app problem was made worse by Google’s direct sabotage. They were constantly taking down any third party YouTube app and at one point were even jerking Microsoft around – offered to allow MS to develop a YT app in partnership with Google. Everything was fine through development and testing until just before release. Then Google informed MS that the app was no longer acceptable, and they were required to use only HTML5 and no native code.

On the main screen open the menu top left, settings, look and feel. You can scale the font size down. Agreed the default was just a hair too big.

I’ve been using Bing for years, well before ChatGPT integration. Mostly because of the rewards program. The search results are on the same level as Google, so I figure I’ll get a few bucks here and there while I’m at it for giving away some privacy.