Re: Laptop replacement

On 28/03/2025 in message <vs5oru$2bpoa$1@dont-email.me> John Rumm wrote:

Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to obsolete,
unsupported software?

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I use Windows 8.1 on all my machines that will run it because it allows  me to download updates and install them when convenient to me. Why this  facility doesn't exit on Win 10 goodness knows.

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You do have some level of control on pro versions, and full control on enterprise ones.

I treat my computer as a tool so compare it with, say, a room I am decorating. At the end of the work day the brushes get cleaned or put in soak, the lids go back on the various containers and that's it.
My main desktop is the same. Currently I have 5 documents open in UltraEdit, 4 instances of Visual Studio running, my own notepad app and my own programming toolbox all running. When I call it a day I turn the screen off. Along comes MSFT in the middle of the night and reboots. Most things will be saved, I have learnt my lesson from MSFT, but there is no way in the world I will remember everything I had open.
I did consider Enterprise so I had control but the cost is prohibitive. I do have my "JGRunningProcesses" app running. It write a log every 30 minutes of everything that is running and doesn't auto start after shutdown. That means I can go through the last log if MSFT has done the dirty and set my workspace up again.

I see you've been suckered by MSFT marketing bullshit :-)

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Says the man running an OS that has not had any security patches since January 10, 2023. :-)

It still gets some sort of updates which it installs when I tell it to. As long as apps I wrote for Win98 continue to run I can be pretty sure the Windows code base hasn't change much!
Don't forget Windows for warships is actually Windows 3.1 :-)
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Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
(Jeremy Thorpe, 1962)