People still use Dynamics?
Oh yeah... vendor lock in. Forget about that.
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"Similarly, they've introduced the replacement for VBA in Excel. It's crap and hard to run on multiple PCs due to the security"
To be fair, that's what they seem to have been trying to do to VBA recently anyway. I know if they pull the plug on it at our place there will be howls of protest.
The second you do business in a country, you're subject to that country's laws. The USA are rather sticklers on that point, as are the EU - rightly so.
You can easily argue that acquiring the personal information of a person living in country X can only have been obtained directly or indirectly from country X, thus rendering you liable to the jurisdiction of the privacy laws in that country, whether you like it or not.
The fact of the matter is that California privacy laws, Canadian privacy laws, the GDPR et al are going to apply to anyone who does business with anyone who lives in the country where those laws are on the books, and corporations will eventually realise that they have to pay attention to that and obey those rules.
We all know this was some middle manager who thought they was clever. They got asked about the opt outs and said "why do we want people to opt out? Just ignore that, we want to reach everyone, nobody cares about the opt outs". (I suspect there may have been some "do as you're told" and "who's the boss here" involved as well)
They are allowed to show adverts. They're not allowed to process personally identifying information to serve those adverts without the users' consent.
The intent of the law is that there should be several options: tailored adverts, generic adverts or fee and no adverts. Facebook don't want to offer the middle ground.
"Our technology is not designed or licensed for use against human rights activists and journalists,"
Because we all know that every user adheres strictly to the exact letter of the terms and conditions of any End User Licence Agreement and never deviates from this strict compliance policy by even an iota.
Not.
The only solution I can see is to break Microsoft up. Four companies - one gets Azure and no software products. One gets Office, nothing else, and they're not allowed to do any cloud services. One gets Windows, nothing else, no cloud. Last company gets everything else, no cloud services, no Windows, no Office.
None of the four are allowed to share staff. They're not allowed to buy software directly from each other but most go through the channel. The other 3 are strictly forbidden from using the first's cloud services for any purpose.
Draconian? Yes. Will it make anyone feel any better about things? Doubtful. Will it solve anything? Probably not. Will any politician dare to do it? Of course not, Micros~1 will donate far too much to make sure it never happens.
Because cloud! It saves money because we don't have to pay techies! And we don't know where our data's physically hosted so we can use that as an excuse on data protection enquiries*! Everybody wins!
* didn't Facebook actually do this once, I seem to remember?
I used Partition Magic extensively for many years. What a great piece of software that was. Think I still have disk images of my copy around, although the original floppies are long lost by now.
I once amazed a friend by shrinking his C drive enough to create a new 140MB partition and free up another 120MB of space on his C drive. Good times.
Virtual beer to you for the trip down memory lane, and the heads up on the new version of gparted. -->
I suspect that if Apple didn't change PWAs and simply said to the EU "we need more time to build an API to allow alternative browsers to do it because this isn't easy" there might well be sympathetic ears at the other end. After all, breaking PWAs benefits only Apple's own app store.
And yeah, it affects me. Maybe I'll finally break my Wordle addiction.
Interesting to see the reaction to this on Reddit - I have seen is a bunch of people really upset about this and planning to use delete scripts to change their comments and posts to nonsense before deleting them and the account with it. Probably not enough that Reddit will actually care, but that would be true to form given their recent actions.
Apple removing features does annoy me. To run my iPod classic the way I want, I have to have a specific version of ITunes and the last.fm scrobbler on Windows, or end up with a totally unsupported mac. To most people that's a "ho hum who cares" moment, but the more of these they create, the worse the experience gets.
And yes, I know, the hardware was desupported years ago, and other alternatives are available, but even so, it galls me.