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.
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.
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.
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’.
This whole new subscription thing is just stupid and makes everything WAY more expensive. What used to be $100 (and always works!) is now $50+ a month, and goes to severely restricted mode once you stop paying. If it even works at all. Sad that everyone is doing it - Adobe, Microsoft, many CAD developers, etc.
Microsoft is the “Big Blue” of the 21st Century. Now unable to get out of its own way and unable to change.
They will put out a patch to fix the broken crap caused by the last patch and create 500 new problems with the 1 patch they just put out.
Just like 5000 times before.
I’ve had Win-7 Pro x64 running on 2 2009 HP commercial/industrial grade HP Compaq 6000 Pro Microtowers, and I have no intention of changing. Eff MS.
Microsoft gives a steep discount for many companies. I paid $14.99 for the full Office 2019. At stores it is $400 !
https://www.microsofthup.com/hupus/home.aspx?culture=en-US#mainContent
If I could not then I would buy an older version at Ebay. Prices are under $30
https://www.ebay.com/b/Microsoft-Office-and-Business-Software/3768/bn_723723
I would not pay a monthly payment for a office program or Windows!