This! The idea of "shareholder value" as the ultimate and singular goal was a mistake, as the world and particularly the US is slowly finding out.
This short article is so true it hurts. And of course management never understood this in the first place.
Wie bitte?
As long as MS Office just works and there is no real legal problem with using it, there is just no incentive for businesses to take on the enormous costs and risks involved with changing stock a critical piece of infrastructure. MS has an iron hold on that market and it will need a major reason for businesses to even consider switching.
I have some good insights into what actual European businesses use as office software. I'll let you know if I hear about nextcloud.
For now at least, office still reigns supreme.
Crunch the numbers. Many topics can be expressed via numerical values and the results can be quite surprising.
Those midterms are going to be a shitshow.
Oh good yes, pleeeaaaase! Every time I read something talking about LLMs as if they are sentient I cringe. It's so stupid.
Consider this: if ICE took him tomorrow and disappeared him, what would happen realistically?
Everyone could have seen this coming years ago. I still remember the first images from the ICE facilities where small children were separated from their parents and held in steel cages. Google it, it was heartbreaking.
That was the moment I realized where the US was headed.
It didn't even cause much protest, people were just shrugging it off. These were not humans, but immigrants, after all. Being from Germany I had a good understanding of the depths of inhumanity ICE was already willing to entertain back then. US Americans not only let this happen, they wanted more of it. Now they're getting it.
Either these "safety drivers" are staying, making the whole operation ridiculously expensive or they go, plunging the service into abject chaos. This is fun to watch from far away.
Endlich funktioniert die Seite wieder und ich konnte meine Unterschrift darunter setzen.