No, no, see management can direct their direct reports to call Microsoft and say “please escalate, urgent, unable to work” and the Telephone Support Representative who totally has power and authority to do something about this will get right on it. Oh, and if they don’t, nothing will happen. And if you threaten to leave Microsoft for someone else? They’ll laugh and laugh and laugh… “Good luck,” will be the last thing you hear.

Hooray.

Trump also believes he’s a very stable genius and the entire planet knows that’s bullshit, so what’s worth reporting here again?

You mean like how his policies really cut into the profits of Farmers in both his first and second term.

Did he do that?

Not always. Sometimes it’s the firewall.

Look at it from the other direction: Why do most large software vendors now require “The Cloud” for licensing instead of it being on the Device?

So, if the Local can inevitably be tampered with or bypassed (just like other parental controls which they apparently think aren’t sufficient) what really is the point? Children’s safety isn’t improving. Who’s benefiting?

Not that “The Cloud” is safer or in any way better. Just trading liability, culpability, and making enforcement more difficult to bypass. “Oops, lost your data, we’re really [not] sorry. Here’s $2, get yourself something nice. No, no, you still have to give us your data and pray it doesn’t happen again. We promise it won’t. Maybe.”