That's probably why digital displays still have analog speedometer options. At a glance it's easier to tell what's happening with your speed, rev count, and other levels like fuel.
But much of that utility is useful for manuals and ICE-powered cars.
FTC really screwed themselves over building their arguments in the courtroom.
Right at the beginning of the announcement, Spencer appeared in an interview talking about it and started listing old ActiBlizz IP that the company owned, but did nothing with, saying that it would be cool to bring some of those franchises back.
There's no way you can argue against that. Bringing more games to consumers was always Microsoft's argument for the deal going through.
The tyre testing is likely also driving to a delta, so it's possible that Red Bull sees Daniel's consistency and ability to keep to a delta and extrapolate what he'd do at full speed including his sim performance.
Oh it's going to be bad. Really bad. Microsoft said over a billion people were using Windows 10 & 11, but the vast majority of those were on machines that already ran Windows 7/8.1 just fine (and may have been upgraded forcefully).
They tried once to limit hardware compatibility as Intel was switching over to 10th gen by giving people a cut-off point where new versions of Windows 10 would not work on hardware older than Intel 8th gen, but it was so poorly received that they walked it back (and did it with Windows 11 instead).
An actual EOL is going to be very tough to pull off because everyone expects their computers to last more than three years now.
We also don't know what his simulator times were like.