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Re: Windows 10 

By: De_Composed in GRITZ | Recommend this post (3)
Thu, 20 Mar 25 9:31 PM | 40 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 05760 of 06217
(This msg. is a reply to 05755 by scubavol)
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Scubavol:

Re: “I’m retiring next month.”Congratulations! I love being retired. I get to do what I want to do, when I want to do it.

That's part of my beef with Windows 11. I've got software that I wrote a long time ago that does exactly what I want. I spent a long time building it. While I enjoy programming, it's not my whole life anymore. I've got other things going on like building a bad farm, and building a bad (but gigantic) bookshelf, and opening a few thousand boxes to see whether I still want whatever I put into them 25 years ago, and getting rid of the crap I don't want.

Staying current with application updates that don't improve my efficiency or enjoyment is time consuming. I don't appreciate being forced to do so. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes to mind. And if I find that somebody is intentionally breaking my stuff, I tend toward annoyance.

BTW: I retired in 2018 from I.T. Security. I was formerly an I.T. manager, a Sys Admin and a C programmer. The Luddite you may think you're speaking to today has only started being that way in the last few years. Give yourself seven years or so and, assuming you'd like to spend your retirement on things other than what you were doing when you were twenty, you may find yourself becoming the same way. Cheesy Grin Cheesy Grin Cheesy Grin






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Re: Windows 10
By: scubavol in GRITZ
Thu, 20 Mar 25 6:54 PM 		Msg. 05755 of 06217

You do you, skipper. I have 3-decade relationships with clients, the successful of which – and the ones that last for 3 decades are successful- would be embarrassed to bitch in 2025 that Office 2007 is obsolete. Databases can be brought forward for anyone sober. I did know a guy who was not super bright but made a fortune maintaining an antiquated database for a Chicago-based national bakery concern that nobody didn’t like because they didn’t have the foresight to… well, they had no foresight. And after paying him well enough to fly weekly from Georgia to Chicago for an extended period, they failed. So be comatose at your own peril.

Anyhoo, I strive to no longer participate in the Special Olympics of internet debate. I’m retiring next month. I got to go bike shopping now. I’m currently infatuated with the Triumph Bonneville Bobber, though I’m not sure how to load it for extended trips yet!

PS- Don’t do Microsoft Drive. Just read about it. Not complicated. Don’t. If you already have, go back in time and don’t.

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