Posted on 05/24/2018 10:28:16 AM PDT by dayglored
FrogDad bought me a BigMac. I used it for 6 months and could NOT get used to Apples backwards icons and it didn’t have a database I could use. Apparently, Apple folks don’t Database. Every new thing I did was a painful spelunking adventure. After 6 months, I went to FrogDad and confessed that I wanted a Windows box back. The new computer had Win 10.
I’d get everything set up the way I wanted it, it would do an update and EVERY time SOMETHING would no longer work. The back-breaking straw was when our family calendar that we shared would no longer share. We futzed around for 6 months and finally got the auto-updates turned off so it’d quit changing my crap.
The other day, I wanted a timer, went to the MS Apps store to find a timer. It wouldn’t let me download a little app from their store because I have auto-updates turned off.
I HATE Microshaft!!
*sigh*
Link.
See reply 22.
Life is great without them 😊
What about for companies that use a firewall ?
Does the info get sent back then also ?
Gonna be sold out & backordered 3 to 6 months, I bet.
WOW, have you seen their prices!!!!
LOL
“As you use Office, we collect diagnostic information that helps us find and address issues, improve our products and services”
Then why do we still have bugs 23 years later in Windows?
Why does Microsoft ignore complaints from the users?
Why are updates so large? What do they really contain?
Is the file size to mask uploading your files vs downloading software updates?
I gotta check out Navigator Utilities, thanks!
I still use Windows 7 and Office 2010, but I have Windows XP with Office 2003 dual-booted on this same hard drive and I still love to go back to it. I’m gonna install the Navigator Utilities and check it out. Though I use the Quick Access Toolbar I’ll use NU if it helps makes things easier.
#19 Microsoft is also testing RENTING Windows 10 too.
If that happens I will switch to Linux.
Oh, because they regrettably (to them) neglected to spy on you for the last 8 versions of Winders. Or something.
What is not mandated, is prohibited!
Depends on the rules in the firewall. Blocking access to all of Microsoft’s distributed network of servers, without blocking other internet access, is quite tricky. Their IP ranges can change at any time.
My guess is that Windows would refuse to function correctly if it finds it cannot contact Microsoft for a long enough time period.
After all, you must have your Windows Updates...
Yeppers. I've read about that. MSFT has a problem: after they've saturated the world with their software, which has pretty much happened, what do they do for a revenue stream?
Answer: Rent their software.
Libre Office is free, easy to use, does not spy on you, will run on Linux if you dump Windows, and is usually good enough.
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