Re: Sounds like a winner
Windows Update is a deeply, deeply, crap piece of software that is slowly killing off all of Microsoft's OSes.
I allowed WU to automatically update a Windows 7 install to the point of no return. At that point, the machine was running far more slowly than before the GWX affair began and the slowdown was happening before GWX. MS have clearly done something to degrade W7 as a method of forcing users to upgrade.
As for the bizarre belief that the ordinary user wouldn't be comfortable with Linux, my experience so far is that users upgraded to Mint are greatly relieved at the enhanced performance and similarity to what they are used to. The local computer repairer is upgrading several machines a week to Mint and also reports no complaints. He doesn't even need to suggest it as in a rural community, news, good or bad, travels pretty fast. Rex now has clients coming and asking to be upgraded to Mint on the advice of their friends who have already done so.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
