I declared it as fact since, if it isn't, Microsoft has sharply reduced
income to support a very large development team. You can't produce 70
million lines of code and just give it away.
I did not understand your comment about the EULA being misrepresented.
Your first comment was: "He inserts a period, in the front of a very
specific set of circumstances that his quote applies to." You have now
changed that to: "With the insertion of the comma and deleting the rest
of it, he is completely misleading the reader." I will try to find a
copy of the EULA and compare it. But I'm not sure how I'll do that
without installing Win 10. But you apparently have one and have
compared it. Care to share it?
I will also look deeper for the comments and read them in their
entirety. But even if you are correct that Slate misrepresented the
EULA I still maintain that: "... for the computer users that I support
there is very little upside to a Windows 10 conversion. And we haven't
even mentioned bugs and incompatibilities yet or Microsoft's diddling
with your browser and antivirus apps."
BTW, as a former operating system development manager it is my humble
opinion that the Win 10 code probably has at least 7,000 new defects.
There is no need to subject my senior citizen friends to leading edge
windburn.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/10/2015 9:10 PM, Lawrence Plummer wrote:
On 8/10/2015 3:34 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
As far as I know there are no comments to the Slate article. I read Paul
Thurrott's
article 3 times and most of the comments more than once. Some of those
comments
support my position. Sorry, I think Thurrot's defense of Microsoft is very
weak and
mostly incomplete. Note that Thurrott's article is not a direct refutation of
the
Slate article.
The fundamental fact is that Microsoft has changed their business model to be
more
like Google or even more like Google than Google. It is their intention to
collect
vast amounts of personal data and don't tell you about it. There are opt outs
provided but most ordinary users won't know about them or be able to find
them. But
perhaps I'm just a privacy fanatic. I have a Google account but don't use it
or
gmail. I don't use Facebook or other social media.
I continue to maintain that for the computer users that I support there is very
little upside to a Windows 10 conversion. And we haven't even mentioned bugs
and
incompatibilities yet or Microsoft's diddling with your browser and antivirus
apps.
Color me unconvinced>> Chuck Norcutt
There are currently about 233 comments on the article. Revealing the
comments is notvery obvious. At either the end of the article or next to
the "NEXT" page jump,the fourth red icon, will bring up the comments.
I'd be interested in what/where you got the knowledge to say the above
as fact. The Slate article has essentially modified the actual EULA with
the manner in whichit is presented. With the insertion of the comma and
deleting the rest of it, he iscompletely misleading the reader. larry
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