>>Let the conspiracy theories begin ...
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>>UPDATE: checking out hardware specs for SharePoint Server 2019, it has this paragraph at the top of the page:
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>>"Important: If you contact Microsoft Customer Support Services about a production system that does not meet the minimum hardware specifications described in this document, support will be limited until the system is upgraded to the minimum requirements."
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>>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/hardware-and-software-requirements-2019
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>The mainframe* is back!
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>* the business model of mainframe, that is

The very (c)rude shove-shove-kick-kick is about two orders of magnitude above the usual nudge-nudge-wink-wink. This is sheer blackmail - yes you can do it your way if you want, but if you do you're a renegade and we won't support you, and don't for a moment think that this is a bug-free product which you can use without support.

I can already see today's Craig Berntsons finding good reasons for this and explaining to us ingrates why this is justified, just the way the capitalism works. Get over it and move on, they would say. I wish them a car which won't kick into reverse in a garage whose walls aren't green. Or maybe it may, but the function isn't quite supported.

There are two things from M$ I still use: skype and fox (on linux, both). And there's very little use I find for skype now, just to stay in touch with the two out-of-town daughters, and perhaps bi-weekly to say hi to the old gang from the last gig.