[higgmeister]

bump for later

[PROCON]

Curiosity bump

[HonorInPa]

Opinion piece without much substance.

[Texas Eagle]

Windows 10? Sheeeeeyit. I’m still using Windows 7.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Well, I'm sick of all the unwanted AI "assistance" that I never asked for, and cannot figure out how to turn off. I'm sick of being flooded with overly vague, uselessly general information when I go to look something up.

The real laugher is when you ask technical information about a product. You provide a detailed issue, the exact model number, and what usually comes back is some variation on "look in the manual".

Complete joke.

[Libloather]

I still have an extended warranty on XP.

[Highest Authority]

Will all this fit in the memory of my Vic-20 computer?

[Scarlett156]

Linux.

[Republican Wildcat]

All you had to do was click a couple of buttons to “continue” Windows 10 for another year.

it was the “end”...that wasn’t.

[FreedomPoster]

With Windows 11, Microsoft convinced me to finally get a Mac.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Heh. I’m side-stepping Windows 11. I’ve got free extended support on Windows 10. I have all my files on both OneDrive (Microsoft) and Google Drive, and solid-state drives.

I can go to Linux at any time and run a Windows emulation.

I’ve never bought Windows 365. I want to own my software. I have a copy of Office 2007 I’m still using.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Heh. I’m side-stepping Windows 11. I’ve got free extended support on Windows 10. I have all my files on both OneDrive (Microsoft) and Google Drive, and solid-state drives.

I can go to Linux at any time and run a Windows emulation.

I’ve never bought Windows 365. I want to own my software. I have a copy of Office 2007 I’m still using.

[threefinger]

If you think Microsoft is even a little bit in peril, you obviously don’t understand the machinations of Bill Gates. He didn’t get to be a multi-billionaire by being a business dunce.

[Lockbox]

Don’t have control over your data, which will be monetized for profit, and must have full time connectivity, another source of revenue. No thanks!

[Myrddin]

When I moved to my last employer in 1991, the technology was X Windows terminals connected to a Sun or HP server. All the software was on the server. The X Windows terminal was essentially a dedicated screen/mouse/keyboard to render a GUI environment...much like a generic browser in the current day. It sounds like the industry is moving back toward the 1991 model of having everything on the server with a generic GUI platform at the user end.

[minnesota_bound]

I figure in the future I will use Linux Mint or similar and use VirtualPC and install Windows 10 so I can run programs there that won’t run in Linux.

Reason is so I do not get spied on by Microsoft in Windows 11 and the coming 12. Windows 10 is good for many more years so no hurry.