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Originally Posted by acropolite
I too got sucked in to the $49 win 8 upgrade, big mistake. Change for change sake by Microsoft is damaging their credibility and I suspect market share as well.
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If it threatens to send them to the wall that's OK with me.
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Originally Posted by acropolite
Win XP was arguably the best OS that MS have produced, unwarranted and unproductive change (or was it apple-ising) and "idiot" proofing by deliberately locking down functionality has been a retrograde step IMO.
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I think they overstepped the line between improving security - sadly lacking in XP - and the lockdown that is Win7. For instance I've had to make SWMBO an admin so she can update things like Java without doing a complete reinstall.