Was Windows 8 the final straw for you?
Posted: December 16th, 2014, 8:40 amThis poll is dedicated to Windows 8 and its much-maligned Metro interface.
Having had the misfortune to briefly use a new (ASUS — I know, I know…) notebook PC with it installed, I've decided that Windows 7 will be the last Microsoft product that I continue using. Having ruled out everything made by Apple (who have become even fiercer than Microsoft), this leaves GNU/Linux as the only future OS line with appreciable (if small) market share.
In the end, all that Crapple and M$ care about anymore is money, money, money, and I'll make whatever sacrifices are necessary to avoid their products. (I will probably still run Windows 7 on my main PC for a while yet, but I'm determined to be free from these and other mega-corporate strangleholds. $ON¥ is the other corporate goliath on my blacklist — with special emphasis on the black.)
I also dread the whole "Trusted Computing Group". While they are responsible for a few useful developments (such as self-encrypting drives), their attempts to lock down the PC platform would have disastrous consequences if they succeed. "Treacherous Computing" as it's sometimes referred to is, in my opinion, a very real possibility, not a scare campaign — although there are naysayers as always. But it's been proven time and again that mega-corporations do not (and never did) operate in their customers' best interests (remember what the tobacco industry did?), and improving education will be the only solution.
EDIT 2018-03-08: Observing what the free software advocates have to say, even self-encrypting drives are a bit dubious, given their proprietary firmware.
Having had the misfortune to briefly use a new (ASUS — I know, I know…) notebook PC with it installed, I've decided that Windows 7 will be the last Microsoft product that I continue using. Having ruled out everything made by Apple (who have become even fiercer than Microsoft), this leaves GNU/Linux as the only future OS line with appreciable (if small) market share.
In the end, all that Crapple and M$ care about anymore is money, money, money, and I'll make whatever sacrifices are necessary to avoid their products. (I will probably still run Windows 7 on my main PC for a while yet, but I'm determined to be free from these and other mega-corporate strangleholds. $ON¥ is the other corporate goliath on my blacklist — with special emphasis on the black.)
I also dread the whole "Trusted Computing Group". While they are responsible for a few useful developments (such as self-encrypting drives), their attempts to lock down the PC platform would have disastrous consequences if they succeed. "Treacherous Computing" as it's sometimes referred to is, in my opinion, a very real possibility, not a scare campaign — although there are naysayers as always. But it's been proven time and again that mega-corporations do not (and never did) operate in their customers' best interests (remember what the tobacco industry did?), and improving education will be the only solution.
EDIT 2018-03-08: Observing what the free software advocates have to say, even self-encrypting drives are a bit dubious, given their proprietary firmware.