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To: 867V309
>>>>>>2 years is not "almost immediately." I'm using W8 and I like it, and it is fully supported with security patches.<<<<

Question: How many security patches for Windows 8 you installed since May 15 this year?

Methinks none. I also think you were not paying attention to what is going on.

Here's why. When 8.1 upgrade was released, I downloaded it the next day but could not install it(dreaded xxxx12 error message). As a result, I was NOT able to get ANY security patches for Windows 8 because there weren't any anymore. "Remedies" Microsoft provided on their website were completely useless and reminded me of Windows 3.11 time joke about an aviator being lost and landing on Microsoft campus.

As a desperate measure, I had to uninstall Windows, install fresh Windows 8, dowload and apply 96 (!) patches and then install Windows 8.1 upgrade, and all my software applications.

What a waste of time. Because of the Microsoft shoddy product, I had to spend the entire Saturday working on this. My time is worth at least $400, more than Microsoft charges for Windows. Good thing is I was able to do it alone and not having to pay someone to do it for me.

If you are still on Windows 8.0 your PC is at risk.

44 posted on 07/18/2014 6:36:16 AM PDT by DTA
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To: DTA
My time is worth at least $400, more than Microsoft charges for Windows.

That always amuses me when people say that about something they are doing on their own time.

52 posted on 07/18/2014 9:20:53 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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