Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : DustCouncil
From : TALIADON
Date : Tue Jun 28 2022 12:26:17

 Du> I am sympathetic to Microsoft's reason for doing this, but my suggestion
 Du> to Microsoft is when people aren't installing updates and rebooting with
 Du> any regularity, change the theme to Hot Dog Stand and have an annoying
 Du> pulsing thing in the notification area or something until they do --
 Du> don't reboot their damned systems forcibly so they lose work.

Agreed. I've nothing against Windows/MacOS/Linux (I use them all), but this is draconian at best.

Instead of rebooting, perhaps they could disable the volume control and loop Justin Bieber tracks until the user relents?

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