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Re: Windows 10

By: Zimbler0 in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 21 Mar 25 12:12 AM | 19 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 05767 of 06137
(This msg. is a reply to 05752 by De_Composed)
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Decomposed > There are small businessmen who will lose their businesses if Microsoft does this to them before they're ready. I know of one. He spent fifteen years developing automation that he CAN'T lose.


Do you remember Windoze 2000?
Where I used to work we used to have an 'industrial' system on Windoze 2000. Five 'industrial' working computers, two office computers, and a Server. Plus a backup Server.

My employers didn't want to upgrade the system . . . We did upgrade the two office computers to Win-10 (and it worked just fine). We upgraded the hardware but kept it running Win-2000 on the 'machine running' computers. The Servers were upgraded once. Then they were 'virtualized' - STILL running Win-2000 and a very old version of Sequel Server. I think it was 2022 or 2023 when I retired and everything finally got shut down.

But it is possible to continue running the 'Old Stuff' . . . It helps if one can upgrade the hardware while still running the old software. And keeping 'Spares' ought to be mandatory.

Out of curiosity, De, did you install SSD drives in the computers for your books database?

And, have you tried using AOMEI to copy and back up the entire hard drive - then install it onto a newer computer?

Zim.




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Re: Windows 10
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Thu, 20 Mar 25 6:07 PM 		Msg. 05752 of 06137

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Re: “and everybody likes capitalism until they have to pay for something.”You aren't thinking too deeply. Some of us risk devastating loss if our software breaks - which it almost certainly will if a new OS is forced on us. In some cases, money won't fix things. Only an enormous amount of time and effort will.

There are small businessmen who will lose their businesses if Microsoft does this to them before they're ready. I know of one. He spent fifteen years developing automation that he CAN'T lose. Microsoft's forced upgrades are more than inconveniences. They're more like torching parts of people's lives.

BTW, you asked micro if the Microsoft Police are coming to our houses and forcing us to upgrade. Actually, that's very much what they do. I'm constantly dealing with unwanted updates that force me to spend an hour every week or so getting my system back. I've never figured out how to stop them. My sister has it even worse. She put Microsoft OneDrive on her system many years ago and can't remove it. Because of OneDrive, she's constantly finding that her files are gone... relocated to weird places where she didn't put them. You've heard ribit complaining about the same thing - though, in his case, it might not be OneDrive that's doing it.

While it's true that we agreed to use Microsoft's software many years ago, its monopolistic control of so many things make the option to leave it unrealistic. At this point, we're all addicted to things that require something else that requires something else that requires something else that Microsoft controls and takes advantage of. I hate Microsoft but can't give it up without sacrificing years worth of work. I'd as soon be a crack addict as be dependent on this dirtbag company.

Ah well. End of rant.
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