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Microsoft's 'Windows K2' initiative is meant to save Windows 11 — but doesn't address the root problem. Why Apple is the most plausible answer, and why Linux deserves an app-store approach that doesn't depend on the distribution underneath.

Tagesschau is shutting down its Apple Messages for Business channel and pointing recipients exclusively to a WhatsApp channel. A license-fee-funded broadcaster is migrating from a privacy-friendlier messenger channel to a markedly more problematic one — and ignoring platform-neutral alternatives along the way.

A commentary on the Signal phishing affair, the reflex response from a Bundestag Vice President — and the very loud silence of the Digital Minister.

Windows has become a design flaw. Copilot, Recall, TPM sniffing, plus a cloud strategy that costs productivity instead of delivering it. Macs are the rational choice in business. The software argument no longer holds in 2026.

The coalition cuts the fuel tax and calls it relief. Nothing changes at the pump — except the profit margins of oil corporations.