Not OP, but I've got a friend of a friend in the Windows org that backs this up. Most engineers are teamed up by manufacturers. HP team, Lenovo team, etc. These are the primary drivers of feature development. If it won't sell grandma another $500 HP laptop, they're not interested.
I’ve included this here because it’s highly relevant to the discussion. That said, anything not closely tied to revenue will not be prioritized, which limits the impact of this microsoft post.
I noticed that, too. However, I will say that having a couple weeks to watch Microsoft through the lens of the original post, I am inclined to adopt it as my current model for Microsoft's actual agenda.
As a result, I do not currently think that Microsoft is consumer-oriented. They have reinforced my opinion by doing anti-consumer changes in XBOX and then saying that they were pro-gamer. Seems like a pattern.
Maybe they will prove me wrong; I am sun-setting my final host that's running their software soon.
Whether solar is economically reasonable is a matter of the variables of your location. You need strong retail power parity laws, for example. If solar makes sense for one person it makes sense for the other people in the area. Why does there have to be a “catching on” effect?
Theoretically, if solar did not make much economic sense at all, it would be purely a signalling thing. And those kind of things do spread by the ”catching on” effect. People might then get solar panels just to be seen as the kind of people who have solar panels, i.e. not the wrong kind of people.
It’s kind of like when someone wants you to read something, so they hold the thing to read for you and read it out loud, while moving their finger at the words they’re currently reading. I know how to read!!!
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