[xist]

The article is referring to enterprise usage - and you're quoting all the consumer level attributes (aka cheap/sometimes subsidized version).

At the enterprise level where this is intended to be ran, things are much diffrerent.

If you're not aware of the differences or use cases, perhaps you're not the target audience who should be using or configuring it.

[gerdesj]

Why don't we give the willy waving a miss?

Win 10 and 11 are steering you to cloud first, out of the box. That's fine if you like it, but I don't and quite a lot of my customers don't.

The real problem is about data sovereignty. I'm a Brit and ... MS isn't.

[xist]

The article is about use in an enterprise. An enterprise runs professional/enterprise/ltsc versions which do NOT steer you to the cloud - what data sovereignty concerns have you seen in those editions of windows/server? They've gone through a lot of pains to ensure those concerns are taken care of for enterprises/governments so i'm curious the ones you think they missed.

You can make the argument for their consumer editions sure, but that's a different product with different features, different price point for different users.