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Why bother to pay for the M$ license fee while you're going to rub out the disk and install Linux at the first place? (just bought a laptop from System76 recently)
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Sure, and I'm careful not to impose my value judgements about whether an innovation is actually interesting to the question of whether it's an innovation. But personally I find that improving touch interfaces is this decade's version of adding a wheel to the mouse.
You said Linux was "a real threat, especially with MS failing to innovate." This was an unrestricted claim that ignored a massive amount of Microsoft innovation. I pointed out that you were wrong and now you're quibbling about another of your personal opinions. Why make the same mistake twice? Seems to me that the whole Microsoft Windows ecosystem -- across Azure, PCs, games consoles, smartphones, and iOS and Android…
You're quoting somebody else there, friend. I jumped on this particular subthread because I wanted to point out that your list of innovations boils down to "Microsoft improved the user interface for touch devices."
> your personal peccadilloes
Peccadilloes? I do not think that means what you think it means.
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You said Linux was "a real threat, especially with MS failing to innovate." This was an unrestricted claim that ignored a massive amount of Microsoft innovation. I pointed out that you were wrong and now you're quibbling about another of your personal opinions. Why make the same mistake twice? Seems to me that the whole Microsoft Windows ecosystem -- across Azure, PCs, games consoles, smartphones, and iOS and Android…
> You said Linux was "a real threat, especially with MS failing to innovate." You're quoting somebody else there, friend. I jumped on this particular subthread because I wanted to point out that your list of innovations boils down to "Microsoft improved the user interface for touch devices." > your personal peccadilloes Peccadilloes? I do not think that means what you think it means.
Sorry. My apologies!
> I jumped on this particular subthread because I wanted to point out that your list of innovations boils down to "Microsoft improved the user interface for touch devices."
No, it doesn't. I use most of them on a desktop PC that doesn't include touch. Also, cloud and cross-platform capabilities go beyond touch.
> Peccadilloes? I do not think that means what you think it means.
I know what it means. And in the UK, it's not specifically sexual in connotation. However, I did spell it wrong ;-)
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I guess they just wanted to lock out Windows 7/8. They don't gain anything by denying Linux to a few people. But preventing that the buyer can downgrade to Windows 7 fits exactly to their strategy and makes sense for Microsoft. Also, an agreement to lock out Linux might not be legal from an antitrust perspective, whereas an agreement to restrict usage to the current version of the OS is much less critical.
Why lock on 7? (Probably same reason than promoting free 10, but I didn't get that either.)