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New (or old) computer scam
sf wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 21:31:47 -0800 (PST), dsi1 >
> wrote:
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>> On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 7:18:23 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
>>> On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 10:07:07 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 10:50:22 PM UTC-10, Xeno wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Xeno
>>>>
>>>> The difference being that MS does not control or manufacture all the hardware that Windows 10 will run on. This is a good thing. My guess is Microsoft plan for world domination will fail.
>>>
>>> Which was MicroSucks' initial way of dominating the PC market and making billion$!
>>>
>>> John Kuthe...
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>> You probably mean IBM's initial way of dominating the PC market.
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> They don't know what they're talking about, but hot damn - they're mad
> as hell anyway.
>
IBM = SCO Linux + MS doze.
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