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Subject: Re: Microsoft makes a lot of money, Is Intel exceptionally
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:33:04 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>> 
>>> 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...
>> 
>> Would you entrust mission-criticial business operations to obsolete,
>> unsupported software?
>> 
> 
> His suggestion was to /continue/ the support and updates for existing 
> systems, rather than making new ones.
> 
> But would /I/ trust mission-critical business operations to Windows 7 
> 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.)


The one hidden gotcha with Windows 7 is that you need to run “Disk Cleanup”
yearly to remove the slowdown codes, else your computer will turn into a
snail, slow to respond to even keystrokes and mouse movements.

Hit the clean system files button and select ALL options.

Prepare to be surprised at how fast Windows 7 becomes after cleaning.

This applies to all versions of Windows, Microsoft and its vendors want you
to upgrade every five years.

> 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.
> 
>> Open-source software is more responsive to community needs.
> 
> Absolutely.  It is not perfect either, but it is a lot better in many ways.
> 
>> 
>>> MS would make more money by allowing old OSs to keep running and sent
>>> the employees home...
>> 
>> They’re going to charge businesses who want to stick with Windows 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’t you think?
> 
> 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.