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You're no longer the customer. You don't pay for the operating system, so you're the product.
by retrocryptid 4y ago
You're no longer the customer. You don't pay for the operating system, so you're the product.
- esafak 4y agoAs if Windows or MS-DOS were ever good!
- 72deluxe 4y agoThey did help the entire world get work done for 30+ years so they can't have been too bad.
- 2b3a51 4y agoSigh I watched a colleague once spend half an hour to get a classroom PC booted, mirrored to the projector, calibrated to the interactive whiteboard and a presentation converted to the whiteboard software. Endless reboots, popups about out of date software, error messages, popups from the system tray that had to be clicked on, popups from Powerpoint.... So over that 30 years we are talking how many lifetimes wasted?
- retrocryptid 4y agoHow long did it take to get the Mac working with the interactive whiteboard?
- retrocryptid 4y agoI liked DOS because it was an executable loader. You told it what program you wanted to run and it got out of your way. (That being said, I use a real OS these days and don't want to go back.)
- npteljes 4y ago>You don't pay for the operating system What do you mean? Windows 11 costs money. The cheapest version is around $100 in Hungary. It's not even free when bundled to stuff - backchannel business deals take care of that. So we both pay, and also we are the product. Always have been, I believe.
- retrocryptid 4y agoHmm. We got it for free here in the states.
- shmde 4y agoEvery laptop that you buy has the cost of windows included in it. So yeah you are paying for a premium + being shown ads. Pathetic from windows.
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