It dominates the market without any effort whatsoever to force companies to distribute exclusively through them or otherwise weaken competition because it’s far and away the best out there.
And EGS (and EA Play, and Ubisoft, and GOG, and…) show that just making a functional launcher is far from trivial.
They haven’t reversed any behavior.
There is no circumstance that justifies having any account with anything Facebook owns, and stealing other company’s names to try to trick people into thinking they’re a different company doesn’t change that.
You know the kind of companies that do this nonsense on windows have the same incentives and give the same access to third party “security” tools on Linux?
Windows sucks. But the fact that it’s windows they broke is dumb luck.
I really have no idea why you think your choice of wording would be relevant to the discussion in any way, but OK…
It’s not “how I see it”. It’s a clearly defined legal term, that functionally means that you’re required to act in good faith.
It doesn’t mean more than that, and minority shareholders that have tried to sue on the grounds that they have any additional legal obligation have been laughed out of court.
A CEO can be fired for anything.
A CEO can absolutely not be criminally charged for not maximizing short term profits at all costs. That’s not what fiduciary duty means.
Biometric locks are not security against a serious threat actor.
Don’t use them unless you don’t care if they’re compromised.
They are not legally compelled to do so. That’s a nonsense myth, even for publicly traded companies.
Even if they do, though, if your business isn’t 20 people at 1 location, it’s going to be a giant headache to get people everywhere to fix them all.
There are a lot of heavy manufacturing tools that are controlled and have their interface handled by Windows under the hood.
They’re not all networked, and some are super old, but a more modernized facility could easily be using a more modern version of Windows and be networked to have flow of materials, etc more tightly integrated into their systems.
The higher precision your operation, the more useful having much more advanced logs, networked to a central system, becomes in tracking quality control.
Imagine if after the fact, you could track a set of .1% of batches that are failing more often and look at the per second logs of temperature they were at during the process, and see that there’s 1° temperature variance between the 30th to 40th minute that wasn’t experienced by the rest of your batches. (Obviously that’s nonsense because I don’t know anything about the actual process of steel manufacturing. But I do know that there’s a lot of industrial manufacturing tooling that’s an application on top of windows, and the higher precision your output needs to be, the more useful it is to have high quality data every step of the way.)
It doesn’t have to, though. Linux manages to do both just fine, with relatively minor compromises.
Expecting an OS to handle keeping software running is not a big ask.
Systemic failures are incompetence.
I’m aware of how they’re attempting to normalize their deception.
“Up to” is always fraud. No gray areas and no exceptions. If you put a speed on an ad, not providing at any point is not acceptable.
You absolutely can take the lines through the exact same eminent domain that was required for them to exist in the first place. You can pay with the fines for ever single customer they falsely advertised to, which doesn’t need new laws. Fine print doesn’t validate deceptive practices, and the whole point of the big giant numbers is to pretend that’s what you’re selling them. Or for failing to meet their contractual obligations for all the various other handouts they received for the sole purpose of providing broadband to everyone and didn’t bother doing for 100 years.
It’s really not that complicated.
You give the information on where the setting is, then have an “enable now” button that calls the exact same function as clicking the toggle on the other page does. Having multiple ways to do the same thing isn’t unusual and is trivial with properly designed code.
Anything short of providing what you’re advertising 100% of the time is fraud. It’s not even theoretically possible to sell more than you’re capable of providing while acting in good faith.
Every customer should be entitled to receive exactly what they’re advertised. Stop advertising shit you can’t offer. There is no possible excuse that makes you not a scumbag.
A perfectly acceptable alternative seizing the assets of every company scamming their customers and making them the publicly owned utility that they’re supposed to be.
has nothing to do with Google customizing results based on location, which many commenters seem to be assuming.
Because that’s what the title says. Language isn’t location.
Different results based on language is even more obvious of a fact than location, though. It would take an insane amount of work to prevent, even if it wasn’t obviously the desired outcome.
No one is expecting ISPs to have the bandwidth to handle every network at once maxing out their bandwidth.
We’re expecting enough bandwidth to have enough overhead that they literally never once fail to meet peak demand. Because every single minute they fail to do so should be a mandatory felony count of fraud against every single member of the board.
They’re wrong and their position is not valid.
If they’re offended they can fuck off. People are entitled to mock and criticize any bad belief.
Server side anticheat also requires trusted servers.
A lot of games are mostly P2P with minimal stuff actually happening on their own hardware.
Steam doesn’t require DRM.
The launcher is a massive value add, pretty much singlehandedly responsible for PC being a relevant gaming platform at all, and the features (that you can easily ignore) are also huge value adds to a significant number of people. There are no features that are “bloat”. There are things I don’t personally care about, but all of them are the single reason some measurable chunk of users prefers steam over anything else.