Path: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Jeff Gaines" Newsgroups: comp.misc,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: Laptop replacement Date: 28 Mar 2025 08:36:24 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net KSQ5o/vQfA/lNpR6r86glgxJJBGzp91/3NJMAynytRTD8ZKLAI Cancel-Lock: sha1:tqQrw22eJN8pjyRRI7Spcs6rgvE= sha256:f28wZUxW9qIus4kalIq43EqKICY3V/aVrwM4qrNs/hs= User-Agent: XanaNews/1.21-f3fb89f (x86; Portable ISpell) X-Face: `{n`"d>nF^Uwzc:,L`j,x X-Ref: news.individual.net ~XNS:00005C2E Bytes: 2047 On 28/03/2025 in message Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >On 27 Mar 2025 08:28:42 GMT, Jeff Gaines wrote: > >>On 27/03/2025 in message 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.