This will be perfect for my Plex server.

Why do you need so much compute in your Plex server?

Wouldn't a cheap GPU be better for transcoding tasks?

I'm pretty sure that was a joke

Woosh.

In short, high density housing, apartments. Not everyone wants to rent a little apartment the rest of their lives, particularly with the incredible limitations they bring with what you can do at home. There's a whole world out there that apartment dwellers can't participate in, and most people would prefer not to live in an apartment if given the choice and the financial means.

That’s fine but it’s not a fantasy that we should be specifically subsidizing for people that cannot afford it.

Welcome to Microsoft.

I'm confused by this because we've been using Falcon at work for over a year now, perhaps longer, as I just started a year ago. What are they making available that wasn't already?

What were you using Falcon in, and for what?

It's not "so expensive". It's a couple of cups of coffee from Starbucks, for 720 hours of content per month per person. Even if you factor in 8 hours a day of sleep you could watch it for 16 hours per day per person for one low price. That's about US$0.01 per hour.

I obviously don't watch anywhere near as much YouTube as you do.

The price is higher than I pay for any other streaming service. I don't drink coffee, but a quick look suggests it's 4 to 6 cups of Starbucks coffee here in Australia.

I remind again that this is the price I'd need to pay for my household, not just one individual (just like the other streaming services I subscribe to which is used by the whole household).

Sure, they could charge you per view, which is being done indirectly now through ads. You're not entitled to free content no matter how much you think you are.

I'm absolutely entitled to whatever bytes some server is happy to send to my machine. It's up to my machine to then decide which ones of those bytes to actually turn into light and sound.

I am not entitled to anything, but as long as I have control over my devices, I will surely exercise that control :)

I presume this means you're now pirating. If so, then you've admitted you're a criminal. Nice work. If not, the what are you using your NAS for? Purchased content like I am?

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I presume you like to get paid to do your job. I'm a bit miffed at that.

I'm a bit miffed at you thinking additional profits would go to employees, rather than in the pockets of a handful of shareholders.

What kind of car do you drive?

The downside is you have to put up with Microsoft's ineptitude. I was on a Microsoft project for about 6 months and it was a terrible experience. Everyone was out for themselves, asking questions was treated as an annoyance. Condescension at every turn. It was a small team and perhaps not representative of all of Microsoft, but it was a bad enough experience that I'd never consider working there in any capacity.

My experience was the opposite. I was surrounded by veritable gods of the industry but you wouldn't know it in-person; I even shared a hallway with at least 2 people who had their own Wikipedia articles.

Yes, I had a bad case of imposter syndrome too.

Microsoft is a massive company. Each org and team are very different. I worked there for a few years and my team was extremely old school (waterfall, no automation, all manual QA, heavy upfront planning, etc) while I had friends in other parts of the company where it was pretty much the exact opposite. The same can be said about talent density, innovation, etc.