Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'
by kuschku on Friday May 27, 2016 @12:32PM
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My dentist – after having issues with this, and also hearing about the Snowden papers in the news in the past years – told me she was discussing with her IT guy to move to a Linux based system, as she’d just want it to work.
I’m not sure how far Wine has come, or if dentist software for Linux already is a thing, but I’ve heard more and more people discuss these things recently.
Windows 10 might finally be the time for Linux on the Desktop.
Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'
by eps on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:32AM
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They weren't running the Windows Server on their server then, which is a pretty reckless thing to do even without going into T&C aspects of it.
Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'
by somabc on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:51AM
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Why would you run Windows Server on the receptionists machine?
Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick'
by goda90 on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:35AM
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I think he's trying to say that they didn't have a Windows update server to prevent that kind of thing. The only people dodging this are using a utility, manually deleting updates, or are running Enterprise.
Recently I sat in the waiting room of a general practitioner (in Germany), where all patients had to wait because their main computer was unusable. That computer started an upgrade to Windows 10 against their will and almost all patients had to wait.