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From: "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
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Subject: Re: Laptop replacement
Date: 29 Mar 2025 08:25:55 GMT
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On 28/03/2025 in message <vs7cti$3rjgm$2@dont-email.me> Lawrence 
D'Oliveiro wrote:

>On 28 Mar 2025 22:05:31 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>
>>On 28/03/2025 in message <vs71dj$3gfnr$6@dont-email.me> Lawrence
>>D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>>On 28 Mar 2025 08:36:24 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>>
>>>>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?"
>>>
>>>Yes I did. And?
>>
>>You have been suckered by MSFT marketing bullshit.
>
>But I don’t use Microsoft OSes at all.

You don't have to to fall for their marketing BS.

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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Captcha is thinking of stopping the use of pictures with traffic lights as 
cyclists don't know what they are.