Re: Laptop replacement

On 02/04/2025 20:42, Sam Plusnet wrote:

On 02/04/2025 19:31, Andrew wrote:

On 28/03/2025 12:23, Jeff Gaines wrote:

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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. :-)

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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!
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Don't forget Windows for warships is actually Windows 3.1 :-)
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Err, no.
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At the "Meet your navy" open day at Portsmouth in 2008 the
type 45 destroyer was running a more recent version of
Windows in the command and control centre (that was open
to the public).
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I remember lots of comments (even before 2008) when one of HM's latest ships was said to be running Win 3.1.
On inspection, it was evident that the software in question was actually   test software used as part of the "Setting to Work" process to get the systems talking to each other.  Nothing at all to do with the software used when operational.
 (At that time, I was using test software - on quite different hardware - which was DOS based.  If test software does the job, you don't bother to change it.)
 

Dos was an easy platform to code simple jobs for - direct access to hardware, simple interrupt  system, and no nasty background tasks going on
Nothing wrong with it,
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