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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Because at some point it becomes too expensive to keep pushing updates out to stop all those people that are jumping to make use of any holes in the OS. Remove all hackers and you'll never need to upgrade your OS. Except when you want new/updated functionality.
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Except the updates will still be available for the older CPU-based machines, so what you said makes no sense. This is a strong-arm tactic by Microsoft (using the advantage of their near desktop monopoly) to force their users to move Windows 10. There's nothing anyone can do about it, but let's at least be honest about what's going on here.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Nobody is holding a gun to your head that you must buy that new pc and upgrade that OS. If you never go to the internet, you can keep on running XP on that machine from 2010. Just don't expect it to run on that machine from 2016. And even if you do go to the internet, if you don't care about hackers, etc, you'll just go ahead, nobody is stopping you.
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Obviously. I've already posted that I will have to avoid the newer CPUs for my wife so she can keep running Windows 7. (Not going on the Internet is not an option.) Fortunately -- for me -- Linux doesn't have any of these monopoly enforced "take it or leave it" choices. I can use whatever hardware I want without any restrictions.
What's amazing to me is that so many will apologize for Microsoft's unprecedented, strong-arm, monopoly behavior. Do you actually
like being controlled in this way?
A lot of Windows users don't like this ... here's a link to another article about Microsoft's strong arm tactics. (And this is from a guy who likes Windows 10.)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/30242...e-tactics.html