Posted on 01/22/2019 5:56:46 PM PST by upchuck
Win ping.
No good.
h/t to my friend Leo for the article.
Microsoft is now an Indian company and all the negative traits that go with it.
Microsoft haters will always hate. Why don’t they sell or give their computers away and move on?
They are going to steal and use the kernel. The kernel license states it must always remain open source when used. I knew if MS was warming up to any open source software they were going to try and steal it somehow and profit from it.
Absolutely nothing wrong with the computers themselves at all. They can work just fine without MS. :)
I was a MS Slave for +20 years.
“Free at last, thank God I’m free at last!”
I used to be perfectly happy with Windows, but 8 and 10 got me so mad that I started using Linux Mint.
Ever since they started talking about moving what has classically been on your PC to a cloud or SaaS etc, I’ve been irritated.
I cannot wrap my head around people that use a computer and save files - and not know (nor care) WHERE they’re saved.
Granted, I’m old fashioned. I was an MCP back before it was fashionable. I’ve used fdisk and format. I’ve moved jumpers around on drives, and motherboards for that matter.
If I create a file full of banking data or other personal information, I know (within reason) who has access to that data. I know if it’s backed up. I can take any number of precautions to protect that data.
If my computer breaks, I can fix it in a matter of hours.
When my data, my OS and my hardware is running in some anonymous cloud in God knows where and it’s compromised, or breaks, who’s going to fix it? Habib? No. Hell no.
Are there advantages to having it remote? Absolutely. There are also countless downsides.
That’s what turned me off Win 10. The dependency on the internet, the cloud, and online MS app subscriptions.
Greedy bastards, they ain’t getting another dime out of me with their unsecure extortion practices.
I’ve got computers with Windows 7.0 and 8.1 with MS Office 2010 and I’m happy as a clam and will not upgrade even if free.
Windows 10 Enterpride LTSB is perfect... bug and security patches. No new features.
And it looks and performs like classic Windows.
Currently got convinced to do some govt research and got issued a govt notebook computer w/Windows.
Gasp, all the bad things about that awful company came back so quickly. Thankfully, I can still do the real work on my Unix and Apple machines and then transfer the files to the work machine.
They really are bad. Sorry, just my opinion.
Put me down for a ‘no’.
Thanks to upchuck for the ping!
“Microsoft haters will always hate”
A long time Linux user.
Not a Windows hater, well had never been in the past.
That evil Win-10 update ate my password! A common problem.
Mostly just a naked Win-10 partition for the few times I need it. My wife’s employer requires the current version of IE to log in...
OK, so I reset Windows, should be quick?
MS servers were clogged with a bazillion other users with similar problems.
I let it cook for a couple of hours and never returned.
Yes, I can still resurrect it, but why bother?
Do not quite hate them, but still pissed with them.
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