This would put the US at an extreme disadvantage because the datacenter would be built outside of the US and used as leverage.

Better to put guardrails on how and where datacenters are built, and incentivize the things that cost more to do in the US.

Just change the name to “cheap energy”

I don’t think about Israel this much.

Sadly in both cases it was loans borrowed from future generations.

100 yds with iron sights isn’t exactly easy.

Happens to the best of us.

Crowdstrike has an impressive marketing budget.

BlackBerry cylance was a better product in every aspect but BB didn’t try to market it after aquiring it.

Is it implemented the same way beer company websites ask for your age?

Dell has their own instructions on making a bootable usb for bios updates:

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000145519/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive-using-dell-diagnostic-deployment-package-dddp

I think it’s part of the windows sdk but yeah it’s free.

Just use a win pe boot environment.

Free shipping is just the “out the door” price. It makes it easier to understand the total cost.

Your experience is not typical.

Windows only updates once a month. Rarely there is an out of band patch.

Updating after install is long, but it is optional, and it only happens the one time you install. If you’re reinstalling often then you’re doing it wrong.

I haven’t seen multiple restarts in many years.

You can always roll back an update if something goes wrong

.net updates are the worst. They appear to compile on each machine but it usually happens as a background task after restarting a restart.

But other updates are fine if you haven’t missed the previous month. They install in the background with lower priority. They download from other devices on your network, or from other devices closer to you than Microsoft’s cdn to reduce internet transit.

If you miss a month it will need to download the entire update, usually 1gb in size. Otherwise they only download a minimal amount of files.

Hotpatching is probably coming to everyone as they made it free for most business use. Updating Windows then wont require a restart except for 1-2x per year.

No they aren’t.

Feature updates take the same amount of time as monthly updates. It’s been like this for years.

I have a lot of win32 to deal with so not exactly ARM friendly but with recent hardware cost increases I’m aiming to support ARM by end of year and begin a real transition next year unless intel can pull a rabbit out of the x86 hat again. Panther lake has me cautiously optimistic.

Allspice racks mounted tomatoes would require your landlord to cumin to the kitchen to at least approve the modification.

Surprising good for small companies that don’t want to deal with hardware maintenance but are already in the m365 ecosystem.

Updates for drivers, firmware, etc comes right from windows update and not from a 3rd party app like dell/hp/lenovo business-oriented devices do.