This reminds me of a ruling by ANACOM (Portugal's FCC) where the subsidised Fiber, granted installation and exploitation rights to a single one of our ISPs, which should be providing infrastructure to people that paid for it in secluded areas, is only ever made residentially, commercially available by that ISP when there is no alternative whatsoever. And guess what ANACOM accepts as an alternative: 2-8Mbps WIRELESS 3/4G or COPPER DSL!
There are thousands of villages in Portugal that have multi-Gbps Fiber installed but also have a faint, miserable 3 or 4G connection and/or copper, where Wireless and Copper fail to reach even the tens of Mbps and are always unstable. Yet since both Wireless and Copper have the POTENTIAL of reaching those numbers (even though they never ever do), the ISP is allowed to NEGATE access to the state-sponsored network, and only sell residential copper and wireless, because those services simply bring in more revenue (Copper: requires a phone fee that adds up to 50% cost; Wireless: is much more expensive and has data caps)!!!
This mostly happens because that infrastructure is also exclusive to the ISP in such a way that they don't even have to re-sell the Fiber to competitors, because in rural areas ANACOM exempts competition rules that would force the ISP to re-sell the Fiber!
This is Big Telecom at its worst. They fed from state funding to expand their networks, then lobbied the state authority to allow them to make use of the state-sponsored infrastructure as they please, even by keeping the villages initially targeted to benefit from the infrastructure in the shadow!
No seriously, that might as well be the excuse from Oracle. They are pretty much saying "since Google used this language/API that we wanted to patent troll AFTER they forked it and already had Android all rolling, we pretty much can't be on that market, because the way we WOULD be on that market was to do nothing more than demand royalties from Google by using this technology that we simply purchased without actually thinking through that it was OPEN SOURCE BEFORE".
I could say this is funny. But it is actually way more than that.
I live in a country where the state subsidises pretty much every health issue. Except glass lenses and frames. You go and make a health insurance around here and guess what it doesn't include in all but the top-of-the-line plan: everything eye prosthetic-related. It is literally cheaper here to perform corrective eye surgery than to buy 2 or 3 pairs of glasses (if you do it through public health and wait around 8-20 months).
And it's getting worse. 3 years ago I paid 35 bucks for top of the line Zeiss lenses, 70 a pair. In the same shop last month, I refreshed my frames and was charged 75 for each lens, 150 total, only this time they were the second best model. Same brand too. And I consider myself "connected" with the clerks, as I've been going there for some time and allow some tax and insurance shenanigans we both take advantage off.
Something even fishier I've noticed, is that frames have gotten cheaper as a way to fool the customer. You can buy a cheaper frame while trying out stuff at the shop, but you're pretty much forced to pay whatever lenses they have around, because the shop knows what's "better". I rarely see anyone downplay the lenses they get in opticians - they will always follow the suggestion of the clerk. Then you end up paying as much or more for the lenses than the frames.
In my country (Portugal), most people own a smartphone plan with pretty much "unlimited" minutes (from 500 to the thousands). These minutes include calls to most numbers, including other phones and landlines.
You would figure company support numbers would be landlines, right? And indeed they are based on a landline, but practically every single support number in Portugal sits behind paywall so-called Blue (808-prefixed) and Unique (707) numbers in order to keep customers looking for support in check. No only support, to be honest - every single company that previously did business through phones but transitioning to web-based measures, such as banks, mail/package services or even food delivery are pretty much using this tactic.
And of course, there are the smart-ass tech companies, such as Dell or our 3 ISPs. Dell has a great shenanigan, and I believe this one is international - they ask you to input the Express Code of your product for faster service, when in reality this will almost always put you last in line. If you ever had complications calling Dell support, next time try not putting in anything, even after they offer to "explain" where the product is, and you will be picked up almost immediately after. Local ISPs on the other hand have a nice tactic - they don't even offer phone support anymore (THE IRONY!), force you through a ticketing system where your sent messages are NOT kept for review, and they will always reply BY PHONE!!! What a great way to prevent contract liability. I had to set up a reminder every 6 months to ask my (whatever current) ISP when my current contract ends, because ending contracts early here is a thousands of Euro affair and we only ever have negotiating power when not under a contract.
But I guess she really likes jail. I mean, you could both lie under oath and get away with it, or even tell the truth and know that it won't make shit difference on the opinion of the government (which in the US, has been proven to be the entity that controls justice) about Wikileaks. Even so, Chelsea prefers to go back to jail. Somebody needs to tell Chelsea that it's already too late to trust in heroic actions against that state.
Java has an image problem, not due to the fact its desktop frameworks look ugly but also that it looks ancient as object-oriented programming, licensing and performance trends go. It has a public relations problem, but for those that are in the industry, its pretty obvious its life-support system is alive and well.
If you look outside the desktop, Java is fine. As previously stated, Java is core to business players - it serves a central purpose in many middleware, server and database-related solutions. Then there's the fact that Oracle is its owner and major sponsor, and RedHat closely behind it both maintain its momentum, while its essential role in the world's largest mobile platform accelerates it. Some will say even in Android Java is faltering, but Kotlin avid programmers know full well that, like Kobol and other tech in critical applications, Java will take decades to be detached from Android. The same can be side about the businesses solutions where it is central.
So while Java's core language development might stall in favor of supporting cooler, "du jour" paradigms that act as stepping stones for new players to have something fresh to stand upon, the JVM and its many clone runtimes are here to stay. And while languages that code for them keep basing themselves off of Java for bytecode endgame, so is Java.
Yes, 7zip is great. But you started using an unzip tool for the sake of the argument, and I kept it going. It would apply to anything else, such as MS Word documents.
what if I only want this compression tool for decompressing my own files? Do I have to pay another commercial WinRar license just because the owner wants to sell me, what to my use case effectively is, some snake-oil?
It's a nice tip you got there, but companies want to make money, continuously, no matter your rights. That purpose of theirs will never align of our intention of buying stuff that we really own.
Maintenance and security should also be user choice. Not giving that choice isn't much different than what Apple, Ferrari, hell, even John Deere are trying to do. They want monopoly on maintenance because of what they say is "brand appeal" but we all know is flat out profit from stupid margins.
I didn't need a security patch on my good ol' Photoshop (insert any other relevant offline app or even OS). What the hell can go wrong if I'm not using it online or already taking measures myself to prevent problems? Why do I have to be financially bound to these companies' decisions if I already paid for right of ownership, even if just the executable form.
This is a far cry from all these companies to keep being relevant selling you services after their initial goal of selling you products. It's the best marketing ever - it's marketing you don't need, because it is enforced on you.
There was a time stable software was a standard, not a luxury. Now, the definition of stable is whatever the software maker decides at that point in time. This doesn't make sense. The user is the one with his requirements in mind. That's what makes people buy some piece of software and expect a life-long license. That's also why cloud apps are cheaper and have a time-frame. The real problem comes when the two worlds mix: you buy a piece of software that is offline only but is a time bomb, with expiring license and basically stopping because the local clock got past a point or the remote clock from the authentication server did. Or the opposite, when you purchase an Office 365 cloud license but have access to a download of the offline suite which will only work for as long as your remote account hasn't expired.
totally this. A decent chair doesn't need to cost 1000, but you can expect to shell out 500 (maybe less without taxes - euros here, not USD).
I'm adding Thinkpad to the options. Lenovo is at least as good as Dell, and better than other son both maintenance, and IMHO incredibly superior in build quality. I'd also argue a solid monitor this year will have to be USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, have at least 2 downstream USBs, and charge at least 60w. This will be a 300+ affair, but will save you a docking station and a secondary power brick for her docked-up scenario, either at home or on the move.
Dell ("for Work") or Thinkpad, unless MacOS/iOS are absolutely necessary for her line of work or she really has a preference.
Let her decide the line, model, etc, as long as it's in a reasonable budget. Make sure support is extended for 3 years, includes accidental damage and dedicated professional lines, because I doubt you have outside insurance yet. Hardware downtime costs are exponential - you still pay for your employee's time, but they do nothing. You want to have the best support possible during the 3 years that hardware cannot be ejected from the company (in Europe, that's the usual time of materials depreciation, for taxation purposes). You can further extend the warranty later if you or the employee decide the hardware doesn't need a refresh 3 years after purchase.
I suggest the "economy" 14' lines from either Thinkpad or Dell specifically. Not because they are great bang for buck, but because they are very serviceable by both you, your employee or the official support. These will usually have spare parts available locally, and even if they don't, units available for replacement in a jiffy.
that is exactly what apple wanted to avoid: BASTARDS! like you trying to use their property for longer than they expected you too, before shelling out another thousand bucks.
I honestly don't know any, but I have a suggestion: look around to see if any of those you tried but have drawbacks that don't seem to be commercial (e.g. the ones that use broad permissions), and see if they are open-source, or if an open-source version exists. If it does, you have 2 options - 1. use the app as is, since you know what they have access to and how they use it, so in theory it should be "safe" or 2. checkout the source and remove any offending functionality, but this does require a level of Android development expertise
I can partially see your point, but it's pretty obvious battery degradation is, and has been the main reason for a phone upgrade, ever since real smartphones started hitting the market. Sealing batteries is now common practice even on lower-end phones and smartwatches. Just for reference, I have reently upgraded my Garmin Vivoactive HR to a Vivoactive 3, and despite being basically the same device with slightly better CPU and a rounded display, I have noted that they have purposely made firmare updates from it's launch back in 2017 that makes battery much worse, the worst ones released as soon as the new Vivoactive 3 Music came out. Companies WANT to promote new products by making old ones obsolete. Vivoactive HR battery at launch was about 10 days with half hour daily activities (GPS). VA3 at launch was reported by reviewers as the same, and the HR's battery was already down to 5-7 days in similar conditions (after firmware upgrades). My VA3 currently won't do more than 2 (!!) days with half-hour activities on both. The Music one on the other hand - people reporting 8+ days of battery life. And obviously their Fenix devices' main feature is that the batteries last a lot longer.
Today, I find it nice they downgraded that article and replaced exactly the same news to a stock market insight - "yeah nah the largest company in the world won't make as much sales as it expected, likely will still profit anyways, GG".
From a country that pretty makes hunting it's national sport, I find it amusing it took them this long finding a solution. And I'm baffled it doesn't include a rifle.
Just chiming in My Crucial M4 128GB (Micron) drive also died on me 2 months ago after very mild use since February 2013. It was my OS drive in a Windows 7-10 desktop which O mostly used for 3-5 multiplayer games through the years, or the odd media consumption. It was a machine that was on about 1/20 of the entire 5 years and 8 months.
yeah I should have probably used "all", "all of" or some other expression. I likely was going to mention 2 but ended up adding a third country, but even if not, to a non-native english speaker like me, the train of thought is lost even when reviewing my own text.
The US is a great country, with a diversity to envy and genuine potential to keep leading democracy, if they get ahold of its reins like they do every other decade. But one canot forget that both US, Russia and China, the 3 world potencies, have all taken ahold of land, or even entire countries as hostage for negotiations. It is, after all, the country that seeks to arrest its own whistleblowers. Leadership has been a real problem in the world lately, but America does get the prize of being the most flamboyant about it, even though they aren't nearly has tainted as the other 2 in corruption of the democratic process (but they ARE a bit though).
There is still absolutely nothing that comes close to MS Word when it comes to a WYSIWYG Word processor and as a Review tool for multi-version, multi-author (asynchronous editing, not collaborative, synchronous multi-author editing). And even though Word has been "dealing with it" with cloud features, Sharepoint/365 and whatnot, there is nothing that comes close to Google Docs for collaborative work....except maybe git combined with LaTeX. Although for purely synchronous authoring, especially working on very, VERY close sections, not having to "save a file" (or commit it, so it gets pushed to others) and having versioning built-in, Google Docs still beats the rest. And WYSIWYG also still goes for Word at the end of the day.
maybe you should consider countries and communities where, considering scenarios piracy is not applicable such as government as education, there is still a need for office an productivity suite but there isn't 200 fucking usd/eur/gbp for a standard office license. Get your thinking out of your developed economy bubble and you might actually figure these apps get used. A lot.
And for reference, I use libreoffice all the time for minor, in-Linux edits or scratches that prevent me booting Windows (where my employer readily has an office deployment I use maybe twice a year on my dev code, for red tape purposes).
I actually made a case for the company developping the paid resource based on free software - they deserve the cash it while there isn't anyone else doing it. I just find it appauling that FOSS people didn't jump head first at the opportunity of getting more Windows users to *nix that WSL provides.
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This reminds me of a ruling by ANACOM (Portugal's FCC) where the subsidised Fiber, granted installation and exploitation rights to a single one of our ISPs, which should be providing infrastructure to people that paid for it in secluded areas, is only ever made residentially, commercially available by that ISP when there is no alternative whatsoever. And guess what ANACOM accepts as an alternative: 2-8Mbps WIRELESS 3/4G or COPPER DSL!
There are thousands of villages in Portugal that have multi-Gbps Fiber installed but also have a faint, miserable 3 or 4G connection and/or copper, where Wireless and Copper fail to reach even the tens of Mbps and are always unstable. Yet since both Wireless and Copper have the POTENTIAL of reaching those numbers (even though they never ever do), the ISP is allowed to NEGATE access to the state-sponsored network, and only sell residential copper and wireless, because those services simply bring in more revenue (Copper: requires a phone fee that adds up to 50% cost; Wireless: is much more expensive and has data caps)!!!
This mostly happens because that infrastructure is also exclusive to the ISP in such a way that they don't even have to re-sell the Fiber to competitors, because in rural areas ANACOM exempts competition rules that would force the ISP to re-sell the Fiber!
This is Big Telecom at its worst. They fed from state funding to expand their networks, then lobbied the state authority to allow them to make use of the state-sponsored infrastructure as they please, even by keeping the villages initially targeted to benefit from the infrastructure in the shadow!
No seriously, that might as well be the excuse from Oracle. They are pretty much saying "since Google used this language/API that we wanted to patent troll AFTER they forked it and already had Android all rolling, we pretty much can't be on that market, because the way we WOULD be on that market was to do nothing more than demand royalties from Google by using this technology that we simply purchased without actually thinking through that it was OPEN SOURCE BEFORE".
I could say this is funny. But it is actually way more than that.
I live in a country where the state subsidises pretty much every health issue. Except glass lenses and frames. You go and make a health insurance around here and guess what it doesn't include in all but the top-of-the-line plan: everything eye prosthetic-related. It is literally cheaper here to perform corrective eye surgery than to buy 2 or 3 pairs of glasses (if you do it through public health and wait around 8-20 months).
And it's getting worse. 3 years ago I paid 35 bucks for top of the line Zeiss lenses, 70 a pair. In the same shop last month, I refreshed my frames and was charged 75 for each lens, 150 total, only this time they were the second best model. Same brand too. And I consider myself "connected" with the clerks, as I've been going there for some time and allow some tax and insurance shenanigans we both take advantage off.
Something even fishier I've noticed, is that frames have gotten cheaper as a way to fool the customer. You can buy a cheaper frame while trying out stuff at the shop, but you're pretty much forced to pay whatever lenses they have around, because the shop knows what's "better". I rarely see anyone downplay the lenses they get in opticians - they will always follow the suggestion of the clerk. Then you end up paying as much or more for the lenses than the frames.
In my country (Portugal), most people own a smartphone plan with pretty much "unlimited" minutes (from 500 to the thousands). These minutes include calls to most numbers, including other phones and landlines.
You would figure company support numbers would be landlines, right? And indeed they are based on a landline, but practically every single support number in Portugal sits behind paywall so-called Blue (808-prefixed) and Unique (707) numbers in order to keep customers looking for support in check. No only support, to be honest - every single company that previously did business through phones but transitioning to web-based measures, such as banks, mail/package services or even food delivery are pretty much using this tactic.
And of course, there are the smart-ass tech companies, such as Dell or our 3 ISPs. Dell has a great shenanigan, and I believe this one is international - they ask you to input the Express Code of your product for faster service, when in reality this will almost always put you last in line. If you ever had complications calling Dell support, next time try not putting in anything, even after they offer to "explain" where the product is, and you will be picked up almost immediately after. Local ISPs on the other hand have a nice tactic - they don't even offer phone support anymore (THE IRONY!), force you through a ticketing system where your sent messages are NOT kept for review, and they will always reply BY PHONE!!! What a great way to prevent contract liability. I had to set up a reminder every 6 months to ask my (whatever current) ISP when my current contract ends, because ending contracts early here is a thousands of Euro affair and we only ever have negotiating power when not under a contract.
But I guess she really likes jail. I mean, you could both lie under oath and get away with it, or even tell the truth and know that it won't make shit difference on the opinion of the government (which in the US, has been proven to be the entity that controls justice) about Wikileaks. Even so, Chelsea prefers to go back to jail. Somebody needs to tell Chelsea that it's already too late to trust in heroic actions against that state.
Java has an image problem, not due to the fact its desktop frameworks look ugly but also that it looks ancient as object-oriented programming, licensing and performance trends go. It has a public relations problem, but for those that are in the industry, its pretty obvious its life-support system is alive and well.
If you look outside the desktop, Java is fine. As previously stated, Java is core to business players - it serves a central purpose in many middleware, server and database-related solutions. Then there's the fact that Oracle is its owner and major sponsor, and RedHat closely behind it both maintain its momentum, while its essential role in the world's largest mobile platform accelerates it. Some will say even in Android Java is faltering, but Kotlin avid programmers know full well that, like Kobol and other tech in critical applications, Java will take decades to be detached from Android. The same can be side about the businesses solutions where it is central.
So while Java's core language development might stall in favor of supporting cooler, "du jour" paradigms that act as stepping stones for new players to have something fresh to stand upon, the JVM and its many clone runtimes are here to stay. And while languages that code for them keep basing themselves off of Java for bytecode endgame, so is Java.
Yes, 7zip is great. But you started using an unzip tool for the sake of the argument, and I kept it going. It would apply to anything else, such as MS Word documents.
what if I only want this compression tool for decompressing my own files? Do I have to pay another commercial WinRar license just because the owner wants to sell me, what to my use case effectively is, some snake-oil?
It's a nice tip you got there, but companies want to make money, continuously, no matter your rights. That purpose of theirs will never align of our intention of buying stuff that we really own.
Maintenance and security should also be user choice. Not giving that choice isn't much different than what Apple, Ferrari, hell, even John Deere are trying to do. They want monopoly on maintenance because of what they say is "brand appeal" but we all know is flat out profit from stupid margins.
I didn't need a security patch on my good ol' Photoshop (insert any other relevant offline app or even OS). What the hell can go wrong if I'm not using it online or already taking measures myself to prevent problems? Why do I have to be financially bound to these companies' decisions if I already paid for right of ownership, even if just the executable form.
This is a far cry from all these companies to keep being relevant selling you services after their initial goal of selling you products. It's the best marketing ever - it's marketing you don't need, because it is enforced on you.
There was a time stable software was a standard, not a luxury. Now, the definition of stable is whatever the software maker decides at that point in time. This doesn't make sense. The user is the one with his requirements in mind. That's what makes people buy some piece of software and expect a life-long license. That's also why cloud apps are cheaper and have a time-frame. The real problem comes when the two worlds mix: you buy a piece of software that is offline only but is a time bomb, with expiring license and basically stopping because the local clock got past a point or the remote clock from the authentication server did. Or the opposite, when you purchase an Office 365 cloud license but have access to a download of the offline suite which will only work for as long as your remote account hasn't expired.
totally this. A decent chair doesn't need to cost 1000, but you can expect to shell out 500 (maybe less without taxes - euros here, not USD).
I'm adding Thinkpad to the options. Lenovo is at least as good as Dell, and better than other son both maintenance, and IMHO incredibly superior in build quality. I'd also argue a solid monitor this year will have to be USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, have at least 2 downstream USBs, and charge at least 60w. This will be a 300+ affair, but will save you a docking station and a secondary power brick for her docked-up scenario, either at home or on the move.
Dell ("for Work") or Thinkpad, unless MacOS/iOS are absolutely necessary for her line of work or she really has a preference.
Let her decide the line, model, etc, as long as it's in a reasonable budget. Make sure support is extended for 3 years, includes accidental damage and dedicated professional lines, because I doubt you have outside insurance yet. Hardware downtime costs are exponential - you still pay for your employee's time, but they do nothing. You want to have the best support possible during the 3 years that hardware cannot be ejected from the company (in Europe, that's the usual time of materials depreciation, for taxation purposes). You can further extend the warranty later if you or the employee decide the hardware doesn't need a refresh 3 years after purchase.
I suggest the "economy" 14' lines from either Thinkpad or Dell specifically. Not because they are great bang for buck, but because they are very serviceable by both you, your employee or the official support. These will usually have spare parts available locally, and even if they don't, units available for replacement in a jiffy.
inflation and cryptomining were a bitch this decade for PC gamers
that is exactly what apple wanted to avoid: BASTARDS! like you trying to use their property for longer than they expected you too, before shelling out another thousand bucks.
You da real MVP.
I honestly don't know any, but I have a suggestion: look around to see if any of those you tried but have drawbacks that don't seem to be commercial (e.g. the ones that use broad permissions), and see if they are open-source, or if an open-source version exists. If it does, you have 2 options - 1. use the app as is, since you know what they have access to and how they use it, so in theory it should be "safe" or 2. checkout the source and remove any offending functionality, but this does require a level of Android development expertise
I can partially see your point, but it's pretty obvious battery degradation is, and has been the main reason for a phone upgrade, ever since real smartphones started hitting the market. Sealing batteries is now common practice even on lower-end phones and smartwatches. Just for reference, I have reently upgraded my Garmin Vivoactive HR to a Vivoactive 3, and despite being basically the same device with slightly better CPU and a rounded display, I have noted that they have purposely made firmare updates from it's launch back in 2017 that makes battery much worse, the worst ones released as soon as the new Vivoactive 3 Music came out. Companies WANT to promote new products by making old ones obsolete. Vivoactive HR battery at launch was about 10 days with half hour daily activities (GPS). VA3 at launch was reported by reviewers as the same, and the HR's battery was already down to 5-7 days in similar conditions (after firmware upgrades). My VA3 currently won't do more than 2 (!!) days with half-hour activities on both. The Music one on the other hand - people reporting 8+ days of battery life. And obviously their Fenix devices' main feature is that the batteries last a lot longer.
Yesterday, theverge highlighted this as "Apple says cheap battery replacements hurt iPhone sales - The easier it is to replace a battery, the less willing people are to buy a new iPhone", which was a scandalous way to finally admit they knew and intended to fucking with batteries on purpose.
Today, I find it nice they downgraded that article and replaced exactly the same news to a stock market insight - "yeah nah the largest company in the world won't make as much sales as it expected, likely will still profit anyways, GG".
From a country that pretty makes hunting it's national sport, I find it amusing it took them this long finding a solution. And I'm baffled it doesn't include a rifle.
DxOMark is the most obvious paid reviewer website ever. I don't have proof, but man that top 10 can't fool anyone.
Just chiming in My Crucial M4 128GB (Micron) drive also died on me 2 months ago after very mild use since February 2013. It was my OS drive in a Windows 7-10 desktop which O mostly used for 3-5 multiplayer games through the years, or the odd media consumption. It was a machine that was on about 1/20 of the entire 5 years and 8 months.
yeah I should have probably used "all", "all of" or some other expression. I likely was going to mention 2 but ended up adding a third country, but even if not, to a non-native english speaker like me, the train of thought is lost even when reviewing my own text.
The US is a great country, with a diversity to envy and genuine potential to keep leading democracy, if they get ahold of its reins like they do every other decade. But one canot forget that both US, Russia and China, the 3 world potencies, have all taken ahold of land, or even entire countries as hostage for negotiations. It is, after all, the country that seeks to arrest its own whistleblowers. Leadership has been a real problem in the world lately, but America does get the prize of being the most flamboyant about it, even though they aren't nearly has tainted as the other 2 in corruption of the democratic process (but they ARE a bit though).
There is still absolutely nothing that comes close to MS Word when it comes to a WYSIWYG Word processor and as a Review tool for multi-version, multi-author (asynchronous editing, not collaborative, synchronous multi-author editing). And even though Word has been "dealing with it" with cloud features, Sharepoint/365 and whatnot, there is nothing that comes close to Google Docs for collaborative work. ...except maybe git combined with LaTeX. Although for purely synchronous authoring, especially working on very, VERY close sections, not having to "save a file" (or commit it, so it gets pushed to others) and having versioning built-in, Google Docs still beats the rest. And WYSIWYG also still goes for Word at the end of the day.
The fact this doesn't get a mention is baffling.
maybe you should consider countries and communities where, considering scenarios piracy is not applicable such as government as education, there is still a need for office an productivity suite but there isn't 200 fucking usd/eur/gbp for a standard office license. Get your thinking out of your developed economy bubble and you might actually figure these apps get used. A lot.
And for reference, I use libreoffice all the time for minor, in-Linux edits or scratches that prevent me booting Windows (where my employer readily has an office deployment I use maybe twice a year on my dev code, for red tape purposes).
I actually made a case for the company developping the paid resource based on free software - they deserve the cash it while there isn't anyone else doing it. I just find it appauling that FOSS people didn't jump head first at the opportunity of getting more Windows users to *nix that WSL provides.