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Old 01-21-2016, 09:50 AM   #2219
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Which led me to the following choice. If I had to run a 3rd party VM to run old software, instead of having one embedded by Microsoft, (which had been provided by Microsoft, invisibly, since Win 95), why should I keep upgrading with Microsoft? A VM is the same under any operating system. Why should I have to keep paying to upgrade (this decision was before Win 10), and trying to work around the latest "feature cuts" (because they weren't worth supporting), "phone home" (required Authorization) OSes, and no guarantee that any software I bought for the Microsoft OS would still be able to run with the next gen of OS? I got fed up and cut the Gordian Knot. . .and went to Linux as my main OS.
We each make the choice that's right for us; there's no single solution that's right for everyone. If Linux is what works for you, that's great.
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