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Re:Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed... by kaashif on Saturday January 21, 2023 @10:45PM (#34474026)
> Your downside is never capped, of course.

Of course your downside is capped. You're never going to wake up one day and owe Microsoft a billion dollars.

A real example of uncapped downside is when you sell call options on a stock, or short a stock. You actually can wake up one day to your broker telling you you need to find millions of dollars right now because the market moved against you. And it can get worse and worse, the downside is truly uncapped.

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Re:Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed... by atomicnumber3 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @10:49PM (#34474051)
>You're never going to wake up one day and owe Microsoft a billion dollars.

Unless you use Azure, of course. Then you don't even need to wake up to owe them that much.

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