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Re:I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone by makeitdouble on Sunday December 21, 2025 @05:33PM (#46349278)
> I miss the days when personal computers were simply tools, akin to pencils and handheld calculators.

> System 7 and Windows 95

If Windows 95 was the complexity level of a pencil to you, Win 10/11 is merely a color pencil. You should be fine getting rid of the nagging and adapting it to your needs, it hasn't become 10x or 100x more complex, merely incrementally more.

> Microsoft [...] not exploiting their platforms.

That's a phrase I didn't expect. What part of Microsoft do you feel was leaving money on the table, as they were sued by basically the whole globefor their business practices ?

Re:I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone by whoknowsidont on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:18AM (#46352022)
Every decade MS never finds a shortage of acolytes.