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From: "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
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Subject: Re: Laptop replacement
Date: 28 Mar 2025 08:36:24 GMT
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On 28/03/2025 in message <vs4s91$1g5go$4@dont-email.me> Lawrence 
D'Oliveiro wrote:

>On 27 Mar 2025 08:28:42 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>
>>On 27/03/2025 in message <vs2ptj$3jchh$2@dont-email.me> Lawrence
>>D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>>Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to obsolete,
>>>unsupported software?
>>
>>I use Windows 8.1 on all my machines that will run it because it allows
>>me to download updates and install them when convenient to me. Why this
>>facility doesn't exit on Win 10 goodness knows.
>>
>>I see you've been suckered by MSFT marketing bullshit :-)
>
>I don’t use Microsoft OSes at all.
>
>What was that about being “suckered by MSFT marketing bullshit” ... ?

You said "Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to 
obsolete,
>unsupported software?"

-- 
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
The fact that there's a highway to hell and only a stairway to heaven says 
a lot about anticipated traffic numbers.