Subj : negate the new Win11
To   : August Abolins
From : Barry Martin
Date : Mon Dec 29 2025 07:57:00


-=> AUGUST ABOLINS wrote to ALL and Ky.Moffet
    

 > -- now that we have near-universal broadband,
 > Microsoft's old wet dream of Windows by Subscription is
 > becoming practical. Enterprise business welcomes this,
 > because it offloads a huge amount of liability and expense.
 > They are Microsoft's real customers. Home users are not
 > customers, we are a support cost..

I half-figure us individual end-users are the experimental group: we
have the most variety and mish-mash of hardware + software, so if the OS
portion works for us should work for business.  


 AA> Businesses should consider linux, imho. The costs could then be
 AA> less!  :D
 
AFAIK not required to upgrade the hardware constantly!  That's a huge 
savings right there! 

The store I worked for did switch to Linux for the point of sale 
systems.  After the conversion I was part of the group to open the 
registers and make sure everything looked OK.  All we were told is 
there's a new system installed.  ....Why does this look familiar?? 
....Oh!!!! :)   The registers did have a major boost in response!


 > The problem with embedded AI is that it has to consult the
 > cloud to generate its responses. Naturally that also
 > generates data, similar to that from using Google (which
 > tracks you like nothing else).
 AA> Yep.  It's a sad commentary.

So I have a question: what happens when one can't connect for whatever 
reason?  ...Oh yeah: nothing! Just like when AWS goes down, MS 365, 
someone does an upgrade at the ISPs and crashes the system.


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