Rear view mirrors are not that common with commercial vehicles and are already replaced by cameras at least on the Tesla’s Cybertruck (the least of that car’s problems).

While getting rid of the rear window is kind of a surprising design decision, I don’t think it’ll spark major controversy.

I don’t think they’ll ever give up on that. It’s still a major sales driver for licenses.

They really can’t. Windows personal versions are what makes it attractive as corporate desktops, which brings in a lot of money and favors their brand of lock in. Every Fortune 1000 has thousands upon thousands of VDIs, each with its own Office and Outlook connected to either a huge network of Exchange servers or a hosted SharePoint+OneDrive+Exchange environment, all brought together by an Active Directory.

Take Windows out and the whole rest of the proposal gets less attractive.

As someone who repairs and collects old computers, it might be one more tool.

Maybe that’s their resentment - that they could have profited from it and didn’t.

Autotools can be daunting if you plan to write code that’s portable to Ultrix, IRIX, Apollo’s UNIX whose name I forgot, NonStop, UNICOS, OpenVMS, z/OS, macOS, and modern Linux.

Nowadays we don’t bother supporting dozens of platforms. Even Windows is something we can push aside and suggest WSL if you really need to run it under Windows.

And I even try to make sure my code runs correctly on z/OS (which IS a UNIX).

It was in the heat of the moment.

Sorry. I couldn’t resist.

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That’s possible as well. I wish common terminals (the kind that is shipped with the OS) would do ReGIS, Tektronix, or even sixel (yuck!).