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They will go out of business in a few years because they failed to adapt, and we won't really miss them. If they 'can't afford' $164 once a decade what are they

They will go out of business in a few years because they failed to adapt, and we won't really miss them. If they 'can't afford' $164 once a decade what are they paying their employees? Certainly not a living wage. So they have high churn and nobody working there really cares about the business, its just another low paying job and unemployment is falling. These companies are mismanaged, they didn't budget when times were good for when things go south. I feel no pity when someone has to adjust their standard of living to a level that the majority of the planet would die for. Don't fall for the sob stories, its there so they take home more of the profits that you generated. Instead build a start up and blow their antiquated business model out of the water. Related Protip: If you go to a bank/doctors office or anywhere else that wants a large amount of personal data from you, don't give it to them if they are still running XP. (If enough people did this all of the sudden it would become affordable)

orionblastar 11y ago
Sometimes the hardware won't support it. I always had a plan of staying behind one current version on everything and buying it used. A Windows 7 Pro PC used would cost $150 and an Office 2010 Pro license disk would cost $100 used. If they went with that plan, they'd get the free Windows 10 upgrade. A used Windows 8 PC costs $300 and there are cheap Windows 8 tablets for $100 but limited to 32 bits. I'm trying to convince people on XP to switch to Linux and use WINE to run their old legacy Windows apps on it. But nobody wants to do that for some reason.
- cmdrfred 11y ago
  They find WINE inconvenient/difficult to use, so basically they want the convenience of being a paid in full customer of Microsoft without paying for it. Again, no pity from me.
  - orionblastar 11y ago
    I used to run a PC Repair shop. Most people want something for nothing. Will write bad checks and do chargebacks on their credit card to get free PCs and free repairs. Then we get forced to cash only, and then they go to the Big Box stores that are open Sundays and take in store credit cards. I got a lot of friends and family members running an old Pentium 4 with XP and some upgraded to Windows 7 somehow. From time to time I fix their systems for free or a low cost. PC Repair Shop had a deal, we'd install Linux for free but tech support was extra. A few took us up on the offer and had a good time using FOSS alternatives. We even set up Linux with SAMBA on Windows PC networks to share files and printers. But there was no money in it because 99% of the people and businesses wanted Windows. Geeksquad refuses to support old Windows versions, so I get people with Windows 98 etc from time to time. You'd be amazed at the number of people out there still running old Windows and Office versions. Some even use old versions of Wordperfect. My wife volunteers and sometimes someone emails her a Wordperfect file and I use Libreoffice to open them. I found in doing charity work, that a lot of charities still use old hardware and software that is no longer supported. Some of the old stuff is donated to third world nations where they still use it instead of recycling the materials for scrap.

orionblastar 11y ago

Sometimes the hardware won't support it. I always had a plan of staying behind one current version on everything and buying it used. A Windows 7 Pro PC used would cost $150 and an Office 2010 Pro license disk would cost $100 used. If they went with that plan, they'd get the free Windows 10 upgrade. A used Windows 8 PC costs $300 and there are cheap Windows 8 tablets for $100 but limited to 32 bits. I'm trying to convince people on XP to switch to Linux and use WINE to run their old legacy Windows apps on it. But nobody wants to do that for some reason.

cmdrfred 11y ago
They find WINE inconvenient/difficult to use, so basically they want the convenience of being a paid in full customer of Microsoft without paying for it. Again, no pity from me.
- orionblastar 11y ago
  I used to run a PC Repair shop. Most people want something for nothing. Will write bad checks and do chargebacks on their credit card to get free PCs and free repairs. Then we get forced to cash only, and then they go to the Big Box stores that are open Sundays and take in store credit cards. I got a lot of friends and family members running an old Pentium 4 with XP and some upgraded to Windows 7 somehow. From time to time I fix their systems for free or a low cost. PC Repair Shop had a deal, we'd install Linux for free but tech support was extra. A few took us up on the offer and had a good time using FOSS alternatives. We even set up Linux with SAMBA on Windows PC networks to share files and printers. But there was no money in it because 99% of the people and businesses wanted Windows. Geeksquad refuses to support old Windows versions, so I get people with Windows 98 etc from time to time. You'd be amazed at the number of people out there still running old Windows and Office versions. Some even use old versions of Wordperfect. My wife volunteers and sometimes someone emails her a Wordperfect file and I use Libreoffice to open them. I found in doing charity work, that a lot of charities still use old hardware and software that is no longer supported. Some of the old stuff is donated to third world nations where they still use it instead of recycling the materials for scrap.