On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 17:15:47 -0800, Mike wrote:
On 2/11/2019 3:13 PM, pjp wrote:
In article , lid says...
On 2/11/19 8:00 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
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In a new blog post entitled ?Helping customers shift to a modern
desktop?, Microsoft has announced that it will indeed start charging
Windows 7 customers a monthly fee from January 14th 2020, if they want
to keep their computers safe.
This SHOULD refer to security updates, not permission to use the OS.
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When I became a beta tester for 98 I once stated it was MS's intent to
eventually charge for everytime you use their software. That's what Bill
Gates once said a long time ago, e.g. he was entitled for payment
everytime you used the software and not just the once when purchased.
It's MS's intent to force the industry into this model wether it best
for their customers or not.
Want to use Word for an hour, that'll be $1.00 please, tack on another
dollar for "whatever". etc. etc. they'll nickel and dime us to death.
Sorry but FUC*K THAT.
It's inevitable.
The cellphone model already does that.
Want data? No problem. Fork over $40 a line for
4 lines and get lotsa data, whether you use it or not.
I pay $40/month for unlimited data and text. But at a cost of
only 100 minutes a month. And they don't roll over. For me, this has
not been an issue.
Oh, after a set amount of data, it goes from 4G LTE to 3G. But
there is no additional cost for me. I've yet to reach the limit, so
this is also not an issue for me.
Somebody has to pay for that Superbowl commercial.
Linux has not offered a viable alternative for the desktop.
I disagree. Mint looks and feels a lot like Windows. And it has
more than enough programs available that it could easily take away
MS's status if not for so many machines being pre-installed with
Windows.
Another computer option, though maybe just for Google fan boys
like me, is the ChromeOS. No, it's not the same as more common
Operating Systems, but it's pretty good, IMO. You just have to be
comfortable with Google knowing *everything* you do when using it.
Android has the phone market.
That I agree with completely. Apple is holding it's own, but
Android has the lion's share of the market.
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