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What MS could do, and would make sense, is to just withdraw from the UK Market.

I know they won't actually do that, but it would seem they would make more money in the US, Canada, EU and other countries that approve the deal, than they would if they ignore the deal and stay in the UK.

Besides which, the UK would relent and ask them to come back anyway.

Supposedly it can tell 'dangerous' liquids apart from things like drinks and shampoos.

It's not poorly written or broken, at least it wasn't for most of it's history. Windows does an awful lot of stuff very well, something MacOS and Linux are not even close to, e.g. backwards compatibility. You can still run a Windows 95 app on 11 and it will run pretty much perfectly. There were some very smart people working for MS who helped design the NT architecture.

It's just the last few versions have really gone to shit. I saw a link to some comment on HN where someone on the Windows team was posting about how all the Apple users got hired and kept trying to make 11 like MacOS, and the seasoned Windows people were losing fights and just quitting. That explains a lot.

The thing is, those claims about MacOS have been true for some time, while Windows becoming this bad is a relatively recent thing. 10 was the start, and 11 was a huge escalation.

Thank you. I'm going to add that book to my list, it sounds interesting.

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> The MacOS UI is one of the better desktop environments I’ve encountered

See that's just hard for me to understand. At every point it seems to get in the way. Someone else in this thread made a list of the UI behaviors that they thought were odd, e.g. pressing enter on a file results in a prompt to rename it.

I think it's hard to measure and compare UI stuff though, because we become so biased by what we're used and what we find easiest or most comfortable to use.

> I am all ears now. Go on!

You came out swinging with bs accusations of racism, and tons of insults, clearly breaking the HN guidelines numerous times because of your own asinine assumptions.

Why should I bother to put in effort to converse with you, when you are going out of your way to misconstrue and insult, and coming from a place of extreme defensiveness and patriotism?

If you had not tainted this entire thread, I would have loved to have a productive discussion, and if I'm wrong be corrected and learn something.

But how is that possible now after your tirades and insults? As you even said you took what I said emotional and became very heated. Worst case, I might be ignorant, but I'm not racist or hateful against people of any race or country, and you said an awful lot of crappy things, much worse than anything I've said.

> It still makes you racist.

No it doesn't. It just makes you incredibly insecure.

It's not more complicated than that.

> Maybe instead of accusing someone of racism

@philonoist did that right out the gate in this article with no evidence or support. It's their goto thing.

People want to keep drawing comparisons to the US, which obviously has a ton of issues, (and FWIW I'm not even from the US), but I absolutey think those issues should be addressed as a priorty as well. But as I said originally, there is a difference in degree between the extent and type of problems facing the two countries, and dare I say one set is more severe than the other.

> India, poor as it may be, has brought some wonders into the world of science, particularly space missions, at times launching missions that achieve similar results with orders of magnitude lower costs with truly innovative ways.

I would never doubt that or claim otherwise.

> Please don’t categorise people, science and innovation based on where it comes from.

What comment did I make that indicates that is what I am doing? I don't, and would not do that.