Esau

Color me surprised.

I've been watching this for years and, frequently, Apple stock value goes down after the company announces it has met or exceeded expectations. I have no idea why this happens.

Any anyone else use plain tex these days?

> This is clearly a trend

More like a virus.

Considering that most people cannot tell the difference between a high bitrate MP3 and source, it would seem to me that this will be wasted on most people (myself included). That said, it is nice to have the option.

I can't speak for OP but for me, I disable it because UEFI is an over-engineered mess that solves no problems for me.

You know, if Amazon made an Echo that hung on the wall and had Hal's red "eye", I think I would have to get one despite myself.

>I don't need ECC

We all need ECC. It should be a standard feature by now.

It's not just Windows that is bloated; so is macOS, Android, and iOS. The wastefulness annoys me and I don't want to hear its okay because we have tons of disk space and RAM - it is still wasteful.

I understand why they kitchen-sink operating systems - its mainly so they can crow about new features when releasing new versions of the OS. But I wish they would offer alternate installs for those of us who are proficient.

Aside from ZFS, there is nothing on that list I personally want. And I've never liked mandatory access control - standard UNIX permissions please.

OS/2, Nextstep, and BeOS were all better than Windows (IMO) and none of them succeeded. Some of it was missteps by the OS vendor but not to be forgotten was Microsoft's deals with PC makers that locked out competition.

So they still haven't turned it on after all this time? I was under the impression that they were going to roll it out.

I know this is about Microsoft but Apple and Google have been performing this tomfoolery as well - basically trying to trick/force people into creating an online account.

Google should be particularly called out for this dickish behavior - for forcing people to have a Google Account just to create a local ChromeOS account. (Hopefully, this has changed.)