Re: I installed openSUSE Leap

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:43:42 -0400, DFS wrote:

Were you ever a member of MS BizSpark?  Free to join with a business
email, and you got good deals on software.  I belonged for a couple
years at least, until they changed the rules with no warning and kicked
a lot of people out.  I remember the way they handled it was rude.

Not a member of the Communist Party either :) I did the Insiders thing
until the OS failed to update and IT did a clean install.

Other than buying machines with the OS installed I can't remember if I
ever bought a MS product. When I first started doing Windows stuff I
bought the Borland C++ IDE with OWL. I'm pretty sure I segued into the
company's VS 6.0.  I installed the Express edition which was good enough
and then the Community, which was more full-featured.

Checking my personal Windows 11 I do have VS Community but I don't even
have SQL Express only Postgres. I was surprised to see Microsoft 365 on
the start menu. It took forever to load and I didn't do anything with it.
Is that some sort of free trial come-on?