Well, when your business is (largely, albeit not exclusively) operating systems, planned obsolesence kinda makes sense, you know?
This is hyperbole on the part of The Verge, as Microsoft has made no such threat. They simply issued a statement which explained that functionality can not be guaranteed on unsupported configurations.
Actually it doesn't, because aside from a per-unit licensing fee added to the price of our PCs (probably negligible) it's not at all clear to me where Microsoft makes money from non-corporate users like you and I, but I hope it's not in user data mining. Apple, on the other hand ... good god, the revenues from the App Store alone must be stunning.
Each new PC has either a OEM by maker, OEM disc/USB drive or a retail version. That must add up to something.
Well -- I suspect they make a buck or two annually in the OS space from their corporate users, don't you?
You oughta see what I run Win 10 on...
And I don't know what % of the market it comprises, but PC builders have to buy a license as well. $100.
I don't mind the new start menu too much. Only thing I would revamp is the "recommended" part of it. Its sad & not sad how the new start menu has no folders.
I'm sure you'll be fine. If they cut updates, you can install them manually. The only thing I'm worried about is that games and applications that require that damn TPM chip. I could just buy one from ebay when the prices go down.
For me: same as since Windows 7 basically. Using it as a keyboard-based launcher, i.e. hit Start key then start typing. Doesn't always work without flaws but still faster than point-click, and gets around whatever way it looks. Things I use most I pin to the taskbar.
Yeah I do. My i7 6700 does support Intel PTT but my motherboard does not, so I can't enable but it does support physical TPM chips. I would get one for my motherboard but the prices rocketed to between $50 usd to $100 usd. At that price point, I could just get another motherboard that actually supports Intel PTT. For anybody else reading this in the future, I would recommend not cheaping out on your motherboard and look through every single feature because it'll bite you in the ass in the future.
I was employed by a large organization with tens of thousands of employees. Most had a desktop PC using Windows, and Office. Everything was licensed on a per user basis, as I recall. God knows what the total payout to MS was, even with a large discount from 'retail'.
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I've used Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook pretty extensively, so more of the Office suite perhaps than you. But I always regarded the lack of an Acrobat pdf creation and editing component to be exasperating. Creating and manipulating pdfs is a critical part of office administration nowadays for any business that creates written work product, and the continued omission of this capability from the Office suite remains frustrating to me. Acrobat full version is quite expensive (and now it's available only via the subscription route, which I hate), so I've been relegated to using PDF-XChange, which is nearly as good and a lot cheaper.
Good point. But I always had to collect and sort individual pdfs into a complete document to transmit to my clients, which required Acrobat or something with the same feature set.
