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From: | Helmut Karlowski <helmut DOT karlowski AT ish DOT de> |
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Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support |
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Date: | Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:56:18 +0200 |
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> > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is > > on the way. > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still coerces users > towards the software as (an expensive) service model and follows the dictum > that Microsoft knows more about what you want than you do (default saves to > microsoft cloud storage, grabs your pictures for background slide show > without asking, etc.). I hope I can customize it to behave like XP (only the goodies of course). And shutdown/disable all the spying internet-connections. > Their recent "security" patch that put machines in an endless reboot cycle > shows the company still hasn't focused on quality or customer needs instead > of corporate profits. Win10 has no new innovations that customers need, few > if any actual security improvements, and a huge price tag in terms of > upgrades, expensive services, and retraining. I'll stick with Win XP for a > while longer then switch to open source products and Linux when I must. In > the mean time, I guess I will have to say a sad good-bye to Cygwin when they > leave. Unfortulately I think I'm bound to windows which is all malware anyway since1991 ;) -Helmut -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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