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M365 runs on Azure which is why is why I phrased it the way I did. Although in retrospect I should have said Azure / GCP or M365 / Workspace instead of mingling the terms.

This is why both Google and Microsoft dumped untold billions of dollars into developing Azure (Microsoft) and Workspace (Google). Those OS agnostic corporate productivity suites are meant to keep those companies relevant.

Oh it will be the year of the Windows 11 refresh, there's no question of that. Untold millions of business PCs will be making the change as Windows 10 goes EoL.

It's a very different story in the home market. Frankly the only thing holding Windows Gaming in place is decades of increasing personal PC ownership but that ownership / use rate is now declining as normal people transition to using smartphones and tablets.

In just a few short years, ten at most, gaming on Windows will be about as relevant as gaming on Mac. It may still be called "PC Gaming", you can already see media trying to redefine gaming on SteamDeck and other handhelds as "PC Gaming", but those games won't be built around the Windows OS.

You do still have to pass the General Exam but on his personal page he said that he did both the General and Amateur Extra at the same testing session so I counted them as one...but he did in fact have to pass two.

Everyone in the Amateur Radio community knows that the FCC is fed up with people using frequencies that they don't have legal access to and as a result they've been issuing increasingly harsh penalties over the past few years.

As for whether he was "doing it in good faith", well, I question that. The guy was trying to get firefighters to protect his radio repeater site and one of the repeaters located there was for his own business. He had a personal financial interest in getting a fire team over there.

I'm an Amateur Radio operator myself and I have limited sympathy for the situation this guy put himself in. The proper course of action was to leave the wildfire area and come back when it was over, not keep making illegal radio transmissions until a fire chief drives over there and tells you to shut the fuck up.

He wasn’t told not to, either!

First and most importantly Mr Frawley holds an "Amateur Extra" license from the FCC. That license class VERY CLEARLY doesn't allow the license holder to transmit on 151.145 MHz. A person literally has to pass a proctored exam proving that they know this. Since this guy upgraded to Amateur Extra from Tech No-Code that means he passed a second proctored exam proving that he knew what frequencies he was legally allowed to operate on.

Second and equally critical to your comment the fire operations section chief left the scene of the fire, drove to the airstrip and told Frawley to cease operations on the frequency. He got personally and directly told to STFU and obey the law, taking a section chief away from an active firezone.

The guy isn't some n00b; he's been licensed for a long time and well knew that what he was doing wasn't allowed.

Looking at the guys profile page and the article it seems clear that he did this because there were two radio repeaters under threat from the fire, one Amateur VHF and the other his own business band repeater. He had a personal financial interest in trying to get firefighting efforts redirected to protect his property.

Everyone in the Amateur community knows that the FCC will rain breaks on you for doing stuff like this so as an Amateur myself I have very limited sympathy for the predicament that this idiot put himself in.

Could be that they are taking a loss on the initial units in order to get going. Once the campaign backers are taken care the product is commercialized and then the price goes up. I've seen more than one Kickstart campaign used to launch a company in just this way. (Tempest PWS is another example).

Anyway they aren't vaporware. I backed the campaign and received my units today.

I'm popping by to let you know that I received mine today. I won't have time to play with them until tonight but I did unbox one and they look just as advertised.

I received mine today. I won't have time to play with them until tonight but I did unbox one and they look just as advertised.

Maybe, maybe, maybe we’ll finally see another OS take a big bite out of the OS market.

Which OS Market? The are several and the only one that Microsoft dominates is General Purpose PCs (Desktops & Laptops). Every other OS Market has a different major player. Nintendo owns handhelds with Valve as the secondary. Sony is on top in consoles with Microsoft as the secondary. Tablets are owned by Apple with Android as a strong secondary. Smartphones are the same as tablets.

I could type several paragraphs about why MS is still relevant, although less so as time goes on, for GP Computer OS but instead I'll point out that the reason so many games target Windows OS is simply because it gives access to the largest number of buyers.

IMO opinion the decades of continually increasing DOS & Windows PC based ownership that got the gaming industry to this point is quickly running out. Personal computer ownership has been steadily declining for years as people increasingly use mobile platforms like Smartphones and Tablets. Assuming that trend continue then it won't be long at all, maybe five years, before gaming companies find that Windows OS compatibility no longer provides a large enough target audience.

When, if, that happens there will be a rapid sea change in the gaming industry. I strongly suspect that this is why MS have invested so much money into creating platforms for game streaming. It's the only way they can stay in the game, lol, as personal computer ownership declines.

It’s going to be a flagship game that releases with a newer engine.

I'm pretty sure they already said that its going to run the same engine as Starfield.

A less hopeful take is that the success of ESO is going to prevent them releasing anything else in the universe until it dies.

This is what I'm worried about but I'm somewhat encouraged though because Rockstar is finally going to release GTA:6; perhaps the era of local games isn't dead quite yet.