Important notice in this regard is that there is agreement on this among both left and right wing politicians.
So this is NOT something that will change with new administrations in either government or local communities.

When this is implemented, I don’t see any way for Microsoft to get that business back!

Edit PS:
It’s not just office, it’s also mail and cloud services.

I’m quoting from the article.

“masked individuals” entered a university building and caused "property damage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/30/eu-israel-gaza-war/

BRUSSELS — A rare rebuke of Israel by Germany this week underscored Europe’s growing willingness to pressure the Netanyahu government over its siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which is testing the tolerance of some of Israel’s staunchest allies.

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-tone-with-israel-is-getting-harsher/a-72691002

Germany’s tone with Israel is getting harsher

Obviously it’s not illegal to criticize Israel.

I admit that is very bad, but I doubt you can’t criticize Israels war crimes and oppression and illegal settlements in Gaza.

I’m pretty sure this article is one big lie,

the school soon faced political pressure from Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor

This sounds like complete bullshit, the Israeli ambassador has zero power over a school, and outside interference would be regarded as intolerable.

and Berlin’s conservative mayor Kai Wegner, who demanded that its leadership “cancel the event

This does not sound right at all, this would be a major attack on freedom of speech, which is protected in Germany not only by German law but also by EU requirement to observe human rights.

The university then did call off the talk, vaguely citing “security concerns.”

There is no way a school would just give in to such obviously illegal pressure. If true this would be a huge scandal in Germany.

Yet many people here seem to swallow the story with zero critical thinking. 🙄

Goddam I had to read that headline 3 times before I understood the implication!
That is outright disgusting, and such practices ought to be outlawed.
Or as Trump would say, very cool and very legal way to make money.

Ha! The joke’s on them, when we achieve 100% idiocracy their educations will be worthless. We are way ahead of them. 🤣🤣🤣

When Microsoft battled Android to sell their own phones, they demanded a $35 license fee for “Microsoft Patents” on Android!.
AFAIK that was about the same as a Windows OEM license! Just about every Android phone maker folded and agreed to pay!

So IDK Microsoft can be very aggressive in their license pricing. There are also different versions of Windows, and a multi language license is AFAIK more expensive.

Still for me it would be absolutely insane to pay that much, as I would just format it anyway, and install Linux. And with Linux I can use whatever language I want!

Wow $140 USD is a lot for preinstalled windows IMO. 😱

Horrible! They sold out, but not as quick as expected.

Great article, but when comparing to BYD 5 min charging, the CATL system is incomplete.
The new CATL battery can handle faster charging, but they haven’t made chargers that can handle or deliver the needed power, to charge that fast.

BYD has built the the entire infrastructure from charger to battery, the charging system in the car can handle the 1MW charging power required. (1000 volt at 1000 amp). A battery that can handle it from 10-60% And finally they are setting up charging stations that can supply that level of power.

The CATL battery is great because it shows we can go even further, but BYD has their system available NOW!

What may be the biggest benefit IMO though, is that the new CATL battery will allow cars to charge very fast even with smaller batteries. Which may introduce a completely new type of cheap EV with medium range that can charge super fast, so they can still be used reasonably well for occasional longer trips too. This is also helped by the more than twice as high durability of the new battery. Smaller batteries need to be charged more often, and these batteries can handle that too.

What did Trump expect? That Huawei and SMIC would just throw the towel in the ring?

“Huawei is a ferocious competitor,” Mr. Allen said. “It brings a mixture of very high quality talent, psychotically driven work culture and the deep backing of the Chinese government.”

USA basically declared war on Chinese IT industries more than a decade ago, almost forcing Huawei out of the smartphone market when they had become the leader of it! Seeing how Apple became the richest company in the world on the back of the iPhone, Huawei obviously lost enormous amounts of profits being excluded from that market.

USA is still attempting to prevent China from being competitive, and obviously China is determined on every level not to let that continue, all the way from the top of government over major companies to the researchers and workers. It may not be exactly a war, but it definitely is a very serious competition.

Now China is hitting back for real, because they have the power to do it, for instance preventing USA from having certain rare earth minerals. And the loser will be USA, and that will soon be very clear.

American bully tactics have alienated everybody including allies, so USA is alone on this. And alone USA will lose.

Is this global or just USA?

Are you talking about remote controlling cars from India or something?
That last sentence makes very little sense to me.

How is that relevant? I’m pretty sure the latency would be too high, so it wouldn’t even work.

Ah OK you are talking about the navigators, that “help” the car when it can’t figure out what to do.
That’s a fair point.

But still 1 navigator can probably handle many cars. So from the perspective of making a self driving taxi, it makes sense.

Because they are driving under near ideal conditions, in areas that are completely mapped out, and guided away from roadworks and avoiding “confusing” crosses, and other traffic situations like unmarked roads, that humans deal with routinely without problem.
And in a situation they can’t handle, they just stop and call and wait for a human driver to get them going again, disregarding if they are blocking traffic.

I’m not blaming Waymo for doing it as safe as they can, that’s great IMO.
But don̈́t make it sound like they drive better than humans yet. There is still some ways to go.

What’s really obnoxious is that Elon Musk claimed this would be 100% ready by 2017. Full self driving, across America, day and night, safer than a human. I have zero expectation that Tesla RoboTaxi will arrive this summer as promised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice
It seems it’s still legit, but of course Libre Office is the better choice.

For me it was about freedom, and not being locked into the Microsoft sphere.

Past administrations have all had hands toward what we have today.

Absolutely, as I wrote Obama was just unlucky that it was under him that these things were revealed.

It’s disheartening to feel so powerless in the face of such a FUBAR-POTUS clown show in the chainsaw wielding circus.

I am really sorry for all the good Americans that have to suffer the consequences of this administration.
It will probably get worse before it gets better.

No I don’t, Obama was a good president and USA was a strong ally under him.
I hate Trump.
But it’s alarming IMO that a president that we consider moderate and a friend, still think these things are OK.
And Obama was just unfortunate that it was under him that these things were revealed.

As should have been done already 10 years ago. When it became clear American authorities can seize any information even when stored on servers outside USA, by any American service provider.
And Obama claimed it was a “fair balance”.

USA has in many ways acted almost like a totalitarian regime for decades, disregarding their own laws, international laws, and especially the laws of other countries, even allies.

This became very clear when Obama stressed that illegal surveillance/monitoring wasn’t used against American citizens.
Obviously meaning that citizens of other countries have no rights, and there are no laws preventing American intelligence in any way.

As it turned out, what Obama promised wasn’t even true, and Americans stationed in for instance Iraq, were very much monitored.

With regard to information of other countries, USA has CLEARLY demonstrated, that they have no regard for decency or even laws.

This was revealed when Obama was president, and the Republicans are even worse!!

USA and EU has made an agreement on this, claimed to make it legal in EU to use American cloud services.
But as we have seen, no American administration gives a fuck about such agreements or even laws, so that agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.