"Two years is also a good time frame in which to plan a migration, and letting a vendor know you're considering that option can work wonders."
Actually doing it can also work wonders.
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"There are no ARM ATX motherboards or disk images you can boot from to boot such board. Now you know why ARM will never become a mainstream PC."
Why should an ARM processor use an ATX motherboard? It's perfectly feasible to start from scratch and establish new standards for H/W extensions and firmware. The fact that nobody has seen fit to do it doesn't mean that nobody will.
Some of us have long memories and remember the S-100 motherboards. There was no provision for 16-bit processors let alone 32 or 64. By your logic it follows that16, 32 o4 64 bit processors could never become mainstream.
No. It's telling customers to send their old PCs to landfill and buy an OEM Windows licence with a new PC attached. If it fails I wouldn't be surprised to see a new W11 special edition tat will install without the H/W requirement but it won't be a free upgrade or else some more paid W10 support deals.
There may well have been a bit more in the detecting side of it but as a story the mainstream media will understand buying pizza is the way to explain it.
Nevertheless, having blagged their way through the weakest link and amassed a lot of money they do tend to thnk they're an awful lot smarted than they really are. Basically they're just hi-tech versions of the teenage robber who threw his jacket away when he escaped with his library card in the pocket or the one who threw away his cap with his name written inside - both real cases from the old days in Belfast.
About 3 days into my IT career I was parachuted into a client site where one of the two company bods had just left to go freelance. They knew what rate we were being body-shopped at. Very shortly the other one left as well & I quickly became team leader on the site. It took a long time to rebuild* the finances after a long time as SSO in the Civil Service to be able to make a move like that.
" Build might be more accurate.
Will the stakeholders include those who have given personal data to the age verifiers and may have concerns abut security? As the likes of Kidron have this extended to more sources of information such as Wikipedia* it's likely to become an issue for all of us.
* If the kids are using it to research their English history homework they're likely to come across a lot of distressing material.
"Foxconn initially promised 30,000 jobs, then reduced that number to 13,000, and ultimately delivered just 281."
How many does it take to run a data centre?
"Foxconn abandoned the project ... Badger State locals wondering if they were going to get hosed again,"
And once the AI bubble bursts it may well happen again.
I think it wasn't the lawsuit itself that helped Linux, it was the fact that it was the only thing SCO tried. Under the previous owners SCO had become a mature server. A lot of small businesses ran on it. As a desktop OS it was far, far too expensive. It's true that for a short while there was a developer offer which was free and came with the usual Unix developer tools but I don't think it was offered for long and, although there was no mechanism to restrict it, it was only supposed to have a short licence period.
If SCO had set out to attract the student/enthusiast/developer population by making it affordable they'd have beaten Linux as it then was on quality. It's even possible that a more competitive price might have kept Microsoft out of the server market. No wonder Microsoft egged them on in a fight with an opponent they couldn't beat; it was a diversion that allowed MS to take over as the small business server OS.
"The UK committed economic suicide at Brexit."
That was phase 2. Phase 1 was Brownomics - get the future to pay for Blair's electoral bribes.
Expand Universities beyond reasonable sizes, paid for by student debt and making a degree the entry level for jobs which were by no stretch of the imagination graduate jobs.
Tax future pensions now by cancelling tax relief on dividends in the funds' holdings.
Set the Bank to tie interest rates to a measure of inflation that excluded housing costs resulting in cheap loans being ploughed into inflating house prices leading into a financial crash, a legacy of housing the kids can't afford to buy and a stagnant economy.