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Elsewhere in paranoia, it was Internet of Things. The growing market for “things” went hand-in-hand with concern that routers, web cams, PoS
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Elsewhere in paranoia, it was Internet of Things. The growing market for “things” went hand-in-hand with concern that routers, web cams ARE PoS
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>It was hard, and I'd like to celebrate.
Past tense ? it only just begun .... in 2020 you will be able to celebrate, until then, good luck and keep up the good faith. Their tactics have somewhat shifted to Windows Update, making it as painful an experience as could possibly be - after all, you really pissed them off when you refused to upgrade and they are making you pay for it ... every month.
Feel sad for you, good luck!
Thankfully, I managed to ensure our 3 house PC's here were spared this nasty and unwanted 'upgrade' from 7, so I still have domestic harmony on the IT front.
Disregarding the telemetry, unreasonable update policy and crap drivers MS has put into Windows 10, MS would probably have had an easier ride if they'd have reinstated the user interface from Windows 7 instead of the broken abortion which 10 employs. It's far, far too late now though.
Windows 10 told us it had updated itself. When we shut it down to restart it didn't, just sat there with a nice blue screen. Tried rebooting it a number of times but no luck. Reinstalled 7 from the manufacturers recovery partition, left it to do updates, and then it would take 10 minutes to run any programme because Windows update was consuming all the memory. Found some information on patches which cured that then of course, now update was working, more updates, finally after 147 more updates it seems to be working the way it used to. What a palaver, surely Microsoft have lost the plot now?
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