Supervised != surveilled

No human should be surveilled on work. And if you're going to have surveillance on me, then I want surveillance on you. Would you be fine with that?

Most of their revenue is tied to other stuff though

1. Productivity / Business (~43%)

Includes:

Microsoft 365 (Office, Teams) - these can be likely ported to Linux if they're not already since they also work on MacOS? LinkedIn Dynamics (ERP/CRM)

~$120.8B

2. Cloud (~38%)

Includes:

Azure (runs on mostly linux, and moving cloud provider as a big corp is expensive, I don't see massive companies stuck in azure infra moving from it) Server products (Windows Server, SQL Server, etc.)

~$106.3B

I fully support the demise of Windows as an OS

But microsoft as a company has shifted away from Windows as their source of revenue, and will probably not be impacted too badly if it were to die completely.

The French move will hit the Productivity/ Business segment. Their motivation is to limit extra-European dependence so they will look elsewhere for this.

Similar to Germany with its DeutschlandStack and some migrations already ongoing.

> Microsoft 365 (Office, Teams) - these can be likely ported to Linux if they're not already since they also work on MacOS?

I thought the Mac versions were not a full fledged port and were missing features present in Windows.

You’re correct.

Azure services mostly run on Windows via Hyper-V, sans core networking.

> But it's easy to forget that humans have spent most of human history trying to escape subsistence farming.

Do you define human history as the last ~10k years or last ~100k-500k years?

But yes, certainly at least the last 3000 years for most humans have been spent farming to a large degree. But if we are even moderate in estimations of human origins, farming is very recent.

History means the time of recorded events, the 10 kya to present day, they used the word correctly. Anatomically modern humans are prehistory.

History certainly does not predate sedentary farming. It seems reasonable to put at around ~8kya.

Certainly, some people still live as hunter gatherers. I presume people can deduce I do not refer to them.

I think specifying "recorded history" would remove the confusion. Human history could refer to the history of anatomically modern humans, including before farming.

History is recorded, that's the definition of the word. Prehistory is not recorded which is what the 500 kya to 10 kya refers to.

The wikipedia for "Recorded history"[1] draws the distinction this way:

- Before writing: prehistory

- After writing: recorded history

- Both together: human history[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_history

History is a bit of a confusing word that way; I suppose I can see it can be used in an informal sense to refer to any timeline outside of just historiography, which does tend to refer to a distinct study from archaeology and anthropology. Noted.

You used the word correctly don't worry. Seems like the initial replyer meant prehistory.