On 17/01/2016 7:33 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 9:36:25 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
>> On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 6:08:05 PM UTC-6, The New Other Guy wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:40:13 -0500, Nancy Young
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 1/15/2016 2:04 PM, graham wrote:
>>>>> On 15/01/2016 11:52 AM, notbob wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Please, do not fall for this ruse. You computer will NOT send
>>>>>> security alerts to a third party, no matter which operating system
>>>>>> (OS) you use.
>>>>
>>>> I hope no one here would fall for that.
>>>
>>> Not ONLY will your computer never sent any security alert to anyone
>>> without your help, Microsoft is ABSOLUTELY the last place that
>>> would get such a notice, IF such notices even existed.
>>
>> Yeah, me too! Especially because they don't even support Win XP anymore!!
>>
>> John Kuthe...
>
> Microsoft's plan is to not support Win 7 or 8.X. They want to make the previous versions of Windows incompatible with the latest Intel processors. Their vision is their latest OS driving the newest hardware. Just like the old days! I say bully for them!
>
Their vision is to monetise Windows in a way that they have never been
able to do in the past - the way Apple has monetised OSX.




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