In the short term it really helps productivity, but in the end the reward for working faster is more work. Just doing the hard parts all day is going to burn developers out.

I fear the change from monthly to annual only subscriptions is on the horizon

There is no need for a separate sound card now, it is built in.

You joke about murdering old people, but we do need to stop keeping them alive in states we wouldn’t keep an animal in. We spend a fortune on pointless end of life care with no chance of quality of life. Proper assisted suicide would greatly help the issue. Let them choose to go gracefully.

They’d be acceptable if they weren’t stupid expensive.

Active Directory, for joining an account in a network.

It is probably Home vs. Professional. Home has no AD either.

In personal experience there has been a big rise of Linux on the server and more people being forced to get used to it. Docker is pushing this along even more now. We are seeing the continued rise in osx and improvements in the Linux desktop. Moving away from windows is becoming more acceptable now, even in corporations. This will continue!