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a) it will help noone (piracy), however Microsoft as a vendor will no longer be trusted by many countries

b) this will be a middle finger to retail users, not large companies and government who are more likely to test updates before installing them

c) I find it interesting that many Silicon Valley companies took investments from DST (=Usmanov =Putin). Putin and his friends directly benefit from those companies, but I see noone asking Apple to brick laptops for engineers of those companies. Should we ask those at least donate to humanitarian efforts? I've submitted a question (poorly worded perhaps) and it was flagged almost instantly.