Two possible reasons:

They agreed to installation of American spyware, probably not limited to models sold in the US, or they paid their dues to Trump, and he called the FCC.

As windows quality has always been mediocre at best, where does that lead?

What was the advantage again, except for seeing a few less ads if you are to stupid to install an adblocker?

If you need less oil to produce electricity…

Just wait until fuel prices hit 10 or 15 dollars. At that point, basically free electricity starts looking rather tempting…

In contrast to not using a VPN, which subjects them to illegal surveillance already?

Reminds me of my first computer which had no main memory at all. It used part of the 16k video memory through a kind of interface logic. With the processor having a 16bit bus, the graphic chip having an 8bit memory, and only allowing RAM access during the cycles where it did not need the RAM for itself, the machine was way slower than it could have been.

Does anyone seriously believe that not using a VPN would save you from governmental snooping?

Middle school interships?

Who the f makes zoom meetings public in the first place?

Apart from that, I would see this as a clear, commercially motivated copyright violation.

Not really. Most cash payments are made with €50 bills and below. Nearly anything beyond that is done by debit card.

Only those cars that needed a breathalyzer for reasons.

Not much of a loss, I’d say.

They still insist on stuffing AI down the users’ throats. Good that I never started with this windows crap.

Yep, that too.

Any program that requires OneDrive should be taken outside and shot.

That will slash their GDP. Brutally.

It is not actually a vaccine. It just puts your immune system in high alert.

If this was beneficial on the long run, evolution would have reached this point long ago and kept the immune system on this level on its own. The simple fact that it does not tells me that there are probably disadvantages that outweight the benefits.

My guess is that this stuff also raises autoimmune issues and allergies.

This will only start to stop once the fines for such data loss are high enough to make the costs for data protection look cheap in comparison.

Don’t know about Fedora. And you would have to do odd things to bloat any Linux distribution anywhere near a Winslop system.

My son had a netbook with win10 and office. This ate 27 of the 32 GB the thing had. An “important update” of 8 GB did not work, putting the device in a download and fail cycle.

I installed Linux on this machine - Kubuntu, with LibreOffice and a load of extra software. Took only about 4 GB of space.