old_rider
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Like I said "I am having no issues"..... and if MS comes down to it and tells me it "wants money" to keep using it, i'll load up the mint (I am comfortable with it) and go on living. I have several copies of older windows programs that I can use ( I paid for them), even though in a couple of years those versions probably won't be supported (no software updates) the computers will still be running. They cannot "Force" you to pay to use the software..... not yet anyway, a few hundred bills in the house and senate (if they pass) later and they might be able to. If they tried, people would not buy a computer with windows on it and the company would go broke. I can b1tch with the rest of folks when it comes to invasive programming, its all that money that can be made from it that keeps programmers writing it. Believe it or not, your congressman/woman, passed bills letting these folks do this to you, or voted down bills that would put a stop to it. My advice on win 10, for those of you not "savvy" with software, WAIT.... read everything you can about it, watch all the videos you can about it. Its just like every other product you will buy in the future..... personal invasion..... TV, Cell Phone, Laptop, Tablet, heck even some of your household appliances now come with Bluetooth, so you can set up stuff using your cell phone....guess what, its coded to report to "home base" how you use it, does it in the back round of your data phone... I looked at water heaters last year, ended up replacing my old dripping one with a brand new "programmable", and guess what? It has a jack for data line! yup, so it can report to the utility company how often it turns on or off "your usage cycle", and the temps you set up. Seen the commercials on new refrigerators? some of them have wireless capability..... Anyway... listen and learn.... then make your decision....
About invasive stuff, so Ubuntu doesn't have it? who checks freeware for Trojans, key clicks, dark exe? Just askin', not dissin'
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