From: Johnny B Good    
   Subject: Re: Imigrating to a Windows 10 Machine   
       
   On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 13:01:17 -0600, Mark Lloyd wrote:   
       
   > On 12/28/2016 12:16 PM, Paul wrote:   
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   > [snip]   
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   >> In the same way, that right now, across North America, wuauserv is   
   >> consuming the entire output of a gigawatt power plant - *for nothing*.   
   >    
   > I once heard that the real purpose of Windows upgrades, is to sell   
   > hardware (you need more RAM to run it, etc...).   
   >    
   >   
    I'm just going 'off the top of my head' here, but, afaicr, Microsoft    
   formed a nice cosy cartel with 13 OEMs back in 1983 in order to drive the    
   business of selling PC hardware and software licences. The cartel    
   becoming known by the informal name, "Wintel" from the OS "upgrades"    
   responsible for driving the need for ever more powerful Intel CPUs and    
   chipsets. The rest, as "they" say, is history.   
       
    Once you realise that the 'utility' of Microsoft's OSes peaked with    
   windows 2000, thereafter relentlessly fading away to the point it's now    
   reached with win10, you'd never inflict anything more annoying than    
   win2k's brain dead idiot cousin, winXP on a poor defenceless PC which    
   means the more savvy computer *user* has probably upgraded from win2k/   
   winXP sometime during the last decade whilst they still could (before    
   becoming even more tightly locked into a death embrace with windows only    
   compatible software).   
       
   --    
   Johnny B Good   
      
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