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While it's true that mechanisms like TRIM can in many cases improve performance and extend drive lifespan, the only thing that's required for SSD garbage collection is for the SSD to be aware of which internal blocks map to logical blocks written by the OS (obviously always true for any standard SSD where garbage collection is even conceptually possible).

In practice, all SSDs have internal capacity greater than the nameplate capacity exposed to the OS, so all SSDs start with a reasonable amount of spare capacity; enabling TRIM merely increases the available spare capacity in proportion to the number of currently unused logical blocks vs. never written logical blocks — blocks outside all allocated partitions (unless written by something other than a filesystem [e.g., manually, or via a naïve disk imaging, diagnostic, or RAID rebuilding tool]) and blocks that allocated filesystems have never had the need to use (unlike SSD firmware, traditional filesystems don't practice "wear leveling" when allocating space, so, e.g., a 1TB filesystem that has never contained more than, say, 100GB worth of data at any point will probably contain a large number of LBAs that have never been written, independent of how much data has been deleted and overwritten).

I don't expect third-party desktop application developers to continue supporting Windows 10 until 2034, given that the IoT Enterprise license agreement prohibits desktop use.

Which is not to say most applications won't continue to run, but it wouldn't surprise me if, say, Valve stopped supporting Steam on Windows 10 in five years or so, as they did with Windows <10 last year.

You can create server-side rules via “Settings → Mail → Rules” in Outlook Web. While more limited than Outlook for Windows client-side rules, they're fine for simple "move emails from x to folder y"-type rules, and are particularly useful for people like me who rarely use Outlook at all.

You can also create server-side rules in the Exchange admin center if you have access.

Assume words don't contain numbers and numbers don't contain words, then provide a convenient UI for selecting alternatives?

For fielded input matching known patterns, recognition can also be constrained by pattern matching and general validation rules (e.g., VINs are 17 characters long, cannot contain the letters I, O, or Q, and, given prior information in other fields, can be further constrained by manufacturer code, model year, and by requiring a correct check digit).

Want to make a bet?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/fcc-admits-defea...

Reminds me of a one-sided bet eight-year-old me made with my dad in 1986; he reluctantly agreed to buy me an Atari 1040ST (to complement the 8-bit Atari and PC/AT clone I already had at the time) if the Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl.

Imagine my (lack of) disappointment when he refused to honor the arrangement twenty years later.

Customers are typically unhappy when Microsoft refuses to fix critical bugs that only arise when running Windows on older hardware.

To the average user, "Windows installs without error and hardware appears to work" = "Microsoft supports running Windows on this hardware", even if the hardware is EOL and requires drivers that haven't been updated since Windows Vista.

While I have no idea how (or even if) it's being used, League of Legends requires TPM 2.0 to be present and enabled on Windows 11 PCs:

https://support-leagueoflegends.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/artic...

About 1.9% ($4.706 billion) of Microsoft's FY 2024 revenue was from devices "including Surface, HoloLens, and PC accessories" (and not including Xbox hardware).

About 9.5% ($23.244 billion) was from Windows "including Windows OEM licensing and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system; Windows Commercial, comprising volume licensing of the Windows operating system, Windows cloud services, and other Windows commercial offerings; patent licensing; and Windows Internet of Things."

Compared to FY 2023, devices revenue decreased 15% and Windows revenue increased 8%.

Source: https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar24/