They know, read their yearly financial reports. They said for a decade that Windows is not only not profitable, there’s no future for it. Microsoft for several years now is a company that sells cloud and opensource services(Linux, Github, etc).
you need an active online account and the key will be saved online
Is there a legit reason for this? Why can’t they just encrypt the data with the password used to access the online account?
In Linux-land usually we just recompile all of the software from source
That’s just incorrect. Apart from 3 guys who have no better things to do no one in “Linux-land” does that.
It probably won’t, they were banned due to sanctions that the EU completely support. Though they were unblocked so it raises questions was the ban even legitimate and also why it took 2 weeks to unban them.
Edit. Also will it be as easy to organize ban of other services by making a commit with Russian vpn?
Yeah, nothing important. Just your banking apps, personal documents, photos, government apps, emails, all the services linked to your phone via mobile number, personal chats, work chats, 2fa codes, some other not important stuff. But at least it doesn’t have your games. Unless you play games on your phone, then you are fucked.