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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • AMD wasn’t quite “happy” to sell their fabs, it was necessitated because they were facing bankruptcy. People forget but the prevailing opinion was that AMD was going to bankrupt within a few years.

    Their pre-Su CEO, Rory Read, often gets shit online for being there during a bad period, but he made some difficult and necessary decisions that saved AMD. Part of that was the GF selloff.

    I highly doubt Global Foundries is even in the position to buy Intel, they’d most likely want to give them a cash infusion in exchange for tech or for selling fabs (which intel would probably accept, since their fabs are currently under-utilised… in other words they have too much capacity, and yet are still building more because Chips Act says they have to). That would be good for GF.




  • Why on earth would they bundle gamepass into Office365? Office365 is pretty much used for business and educational institutions. Everybody else is a rounding error.

    The overlap between Office365 owners and Xbox gamers is extremely small.

    You’d just end up pissing everybody off by combining them

    • “They’ve added how much to the price by adding this gamer nonsense?! I don’t need that crap, I want office software!”

    • “They’ve added how much to the price by including fucking PowerPoint and Outlook?! I don’t need that crap, I want to play games!”

    And not to defend MS, but a 43% increase isn’t nearly doubling. A 100% increase would be doubling.









  • This is bewildering. What a shame.

    I had minor gripes with some of their services but Proton has broadly been pretty great in my eyes.

    Some CEOs baffle me. Surely, even if they are massive fans of one US political party over the other, they’d have the sense to keep it to themselves to prevent it becoming a thing that causes a fallout with existing/potential customers? But no. They’re too fucking narcissistic for that, and they think everyone wants to hear their opinions and follow them.