You will be assimilated.
Posted on 11/06/2015 8:53:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I installed it on my two laptops and like it.
I am holding off putting it on my main PC until the privacy and auto update problems are addressed.
That one instance might be a single test machine, not actually being used for production.
Yup. My "enterprise" (home business) is an air-gapped XP machine, a sometimes connected Win 7 machine and a Linux box for routine web stuff and email. I have a spare Win 7 machine that I will probably try Win 10 on but will mostly leave it off the internet. I want to see what will run on it.
“MS also does a dishonest thing in counting upgrade numbers that may not apply in this case. When they field a new OS nobody wants, they eventually relent and include rights to “downgrade†to a previous (and better) version. Witness Win8 and 7 install rights. And that does help move the systems and licenses. BUT....let’s say that someone’s offering a machine for which they bought a Win8 license, but which you’re willing to purchase because they’ve already “downgraded†it to Win7. It shows up, it has Win7, and you’re happy, but MicroTruth still counts that as a Win8 adoption, since it was theoretically a Win8 license they sold to the PC maker.”
No matter how many times this trope is trotted out, it never reflects reality.
If you were to add up all of the supposed stories of this, then 100% of people would still be using Windows 98.
The number of people that do this + the number of people that install it for “30 minutes” before going back to a previous version + the number of supposed Linux converts and people that rushed out to buy a Mac = next to no one.
I thought it was a good idea at the time when I bought 3 retail copies of Windows XP on the last day they were available to the public. They have never been installed on a computer and only one has had the package opened. Seems a waste, in retrospect.
When you’re giving it away for free, WTF do you expect ? And the spyware’s free too !
You will be assimilated.
Pound people to death with free spyware.
Ping for your list???
Thanks, but I’m being patient, and waiting for 250M, a quarter of the way to the published goal. Have gotten a number of complaints from the list about doing pings to articles celebrating every 10M increment. MS Sales doubtless loves the press and biz mags love the page hits, but who on FR wants to get 100 pings about “Another 10M installs!!” on the way to 1B?
Promises, promises...
Cortana can assimilate me any time she wants.
Oh, wait....
You meant Windows 10.
Never mind... :-)
Don't get rid of them!!
Wait patiently and they will earn you your investment back. Check out the unopened copies of Windows, going all the way back to 95 and 98, that are offered on Amazon and similar sites. There will be a market for XP for a long time, and the value of your copies will increase.
I thought as much. . . that's why the question marks. i seriously question if 11% of the goal is anything to crow about. I didn't post an article on OS X El Capitan reaching a 25% penetration a couple of weeks ago either, even though. that adoption was a bit more voluntary without the continual in your face push that Windows 10 is getting.
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