* Posts by mamikel

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'Windows 10 destroyed our data!' Microsoft hauled into US court

mamikel

It is interesting that no matter now much effort goes into warning people to always keep multiple current backups of their data in at least two separate locations, people still insist in living on the edge :)

If the data is important, why wouldn't you make sure you take copies of it? USB drives are cheap, cloud storage is also cheap and free up to 5-15 GB. Microsoft even offers one drive which will sync your data with the cloud.

In addition, at any point, a system component may fail resulting in a non-functioning machine. In particular, if the hard drive fails. Why would you not keep another copy of your data on another drive as well?

It takes very little time to organise these things.

Insofar as Windows 10 goes, it's a good operating system. It has it's faults, but it was largely given freely to people. It's relatively straight-forward to use and very flexible. Linux is also good as are the apple offerings.

Now, we go about suing people for our inability to follow instructions or take responsibility. We then complain when our freedoms are increasingly denied because the costs of litigation are so great.

We humans are a stupid bunch. No wonder. We're at 8 billion, facing the 6th mass extinction with billions starving and billions more yet to face starvation, and we're arguing over operating systems :)