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Re:Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 by varispeed on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:43PM (#24922548)
Why someone should install a new version of system that introduces all kind of spying and data harvesting just to use it as they used to? It's like saying oh you need to change the oil, why don't you buy a new car while at it?
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Re:Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Win7 and Win8 by StillBored on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:32PM (#24923132)
And a UI that threw away a decade+ of desktop user experience metrics for a half baked not quite tablet UI on the desktop that still to this day is sub-optimal to the UI they had in win95.
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