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I know people who still use Windows 7 and hate 10. It gets the job done, and modern browsers still run on it because there were no serious API changes between 7 and 10.
Keeping a windows 7 system connected to the internet is a bad idea in 2022.
last I checked I would need to login to my local machine with a Microsoft account to do a clean install. deal breaker.
Before installing windows disconnect from the Internet. Otherwise it forces you to use a Microsoft Account.
Sorry, what did they think was going to happen when people saw just how blatantly Microsoft said, "You know, the problem with Windows 10 is that we just haven't expressed enough disdain for our eyeballs? The ones we can't really sell to our real customers yet because we wrote Windows 10 as an OS..." I will not run Windows 11 on any personal computer. I will discourage anyone else from doing so. Reasons, in no particu…
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Brenda in accounting isn't going to run Ubuntu even with the cute animal names. Until that happens,there will be stacks upon stacks of windows optiplexes being sold every day. Also nobody misses sloaris. I'm going to chalk that remark up to a misfired punchline.
I, for one, genuinely miss Solaris--though when I think hard about it, I miss Sun hardware with SPARC in it more than Solaris itself.
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What changed between a 7th and 8th gen intel cpu that made it not work?
Lots of articles on this.. i suspect similar issues of security and performance for the reason mac deprecated that hardware too on current os.
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Windows 95 was a complete turd. Windows 98 was pretty good.
Windows 95/98/Me were all bad.
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How is character map broken?
On Win10, if I hold alt and on the number pad type 0153, the character ™ is input. This has worked on every version of windows since 3.1. It does not work on Win11.
Feels like Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot with Win11 as far as consumers are concerned, and instead sees the future of Windows in enterprise.
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My wife has never owned a windows laptop; she's been on Chromebooks exclusively since 2017. I don't know how far apart the ratio is, but now you know one more ;)
Chromebooks are an US phenomenon. In Europe you hardly see them on sale across traditional chains. And when they happen to be there, regular shop visitors will notice how their section gets increased promotions until they finally manage to get rid of them.
So, maybe I'm misremembering, but wasn't Windows 10 meant to be the forever-Windows? I'm almost sure there was some marketing to that effect from Redmond at the time.
It was, until Mac OS moved to version 11 (now 12, and counting). Microsoft couldn't risk being seen as less advanced.
Same reason why Chrome is at version 100 and Firefox is right behind at 99.