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Subject: Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:50:26 +0300
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:02:39 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

> On 20/09/2024 01:47, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:01:34 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
> >  =20
> >> In particular, MS has not added anything I want in Office since
> >> 2003 and in the OS in particular since 2005. Windows 7 is still
> >> better than windows 10 or 11 or 12... =20
> >=20
> > Would you entrust mission-criticial business operations to obsolete,
> > unsupported software?
> >  =20
>=20
> His suggestion was to /continue/ the support and updates for existing=20
> systems, rather than making new ones.
>=20
> But would /I/ trust mission-critical business operations to Windows 7=20
> over Windows 11 ?  Well, I wouldn't trust it to anything Windows, but
> I certainly trust Windows 7 more than Windows 10 or 11.  The more
> useless crap added to the system, the more scope it has for failures
> or security issues.  (The only Windows systems I currently have are
> Windows 7.)
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> I am not sure I can think of anything I want to do on Windows, and
> which I can do with Windows 11 that I could not do with Windows 2000
> - excluding running programs that refuse to run on earlier systems
> without good reason, or hardware that does not have drivers for older
> systems. (In Mitch's dream world where MS continued to support old
> systems, those would not be issues.)  There are a few things that
> newer Windows does better than older ones - it makes better use of
> more ram and more cores, for example.
>=20
> > Open-source software is more responsive to community needs. =20
>=20
> Absolutely.  It is not perfect either, but it is a lot better in many
> ways.
>=20
> >  =20
> >> MS would make more money by allowing old OSs to keep running and
> >> sent the employees home... =20
> >=20
> > They=E2=80=99re going to charge businesses who want to stick with Windo=
ws
> > 10 a steadily increasing support fee. Charging lots of money to
> > those who want to stick with old versions of your proprietary
> > software sounds like a business model with a much more promising
> > future, don=E2=80=99t you think? =20
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> MS can't make a business from supporting old software.  While there
> is a proportion of more technical people who are happy with "if it
> ain't broke, don't fix it", a much larger proportion of potential
> purchasers are in the "the latest is greatest" camp.
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>=20