Why don't users just ditch Windows 7 and get Windows 8.1 instead? Microsoft should phase out Windows 7 as quickly as possible, to get everyone onto the more secure, and superior system.
Posts by RonaldRaygun
4 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Oct 2013
REJOICE! Windows 7 users can get IE11 ... soon they'll have NO choice
GIMP flees SourceForge over dodgy ads and installer
Friday 8th November 2013 16:49 GMT
Re: I don't see the problem
The apps paradigm will find itself firmly on all devices sooner or later. Windows 8 is the future for PCs regardless of whether power users like it or not, and eventually the desktop will be phased out, and with those apps will come adverts.
Business should have the option to pay for them to be removed, but consumers will be far more free with this model. Who says everyone hate adverts anyway, the number of Facebook fan groups set up for various things such as T-Mobile dances or whatever, shows that the public actually relate to them. Good news for everyone, other than a few purists. I am sure the open source purists will jump on this and claim that it isn't true freedom, but hand the average person a free Facebook app with adverts, or the source to the Linux kernel, and see which is more useful to them...
Friday 8th November 2013 12:54 GMT
I don't see the problem
The Ask toolbar / paltalk or whatever is more useful than Linux anyway. Personally the sooner Microsoft has the balls to drop the desktop altogether and Metro becomes the default interface for 90% of users, then they can display adverts throughout software, and thus cut the cost of it all.
Websites have to pay charges, the add free alternative would be no free software, and having to pay big money just for simple utilities.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
