LOL. I certainly won't continue if you just imitate me with more inane bullshit in your reply.
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The Good Times video in Windows 95 also sold Edie a lot of CDs, but it would be equally stupid to criticize that. In both cases, Microsoft is providing something entertaining that demonstrates some benefit of the operating system.
Of course, there's also personal taste, and you are perfectly entitled to prefer whichever menu system you like. However, the Ribbon won a decade ago, so at this stage, it would probably be more useful to learn how to make better use of it. My Alt tip is just one example.
[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2008/03/13/table-of...
[2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jensenh/2008/03/12/the-stor...
What about the pernicious inclusion of Edie Brickell's Good Times in Windows 95? ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc
Candy Crush Saga was actually one of the benefits of Windows 10 that Microsoft promoted, for two reasons: (1) Candy Crush was enormously popular, and (2) it provides practice in touch operations, just as Solitaire got people used to using a mouse.
Windows also ships with WordPad, which is a simple word processor.
Most of these things take up a trivial amount of disk space -- some of them are just placeholders -- so they're not worth the time taken to worry about them.
Use the Alt key.
For example, open Word and press Alt to show the keyboard commands. If you want the keyboard commands for the Home tab, press H as shown.
Alternatively, to open the Ribbon and show the keyboard commands for the Home tab, press Alt-H.
So, if you want to center some selected text in Word, press Alt, H, then AC
If you want to insert an image, press Alt, N, P and so on.
The Ribbon makes Office programs much easier to use, so you probably won't want to learn many of these key sequences. However, the ones you already know will almost certainly work.
For the record, I much prefer Windows 10. However, the fact is that Apple doesn't sell any of the hardware I use. It doesn't make a proper tower desktop and it doesn't make a small rotating-screen laptop that doubles as a touch tablet.
Even if I was willing to compromise on hardware, less-functional Apple products would cost 2x to 4x more.
"In early 2003, Microsoft started paying SCO what eventually grew to $16.6 million for a Unix license, according to regulatory filings. Only longtime Unix fan Sun Microsystems previously paid close to that, with a $9.3 million license deal."
http://www.zdnet.com/article/fact-and-fiction-in-the-microso...
Microsoft statement: "Microsoft does have a deal with SCO that has been widely reported. We paid SCO for licensing rights to ensure IT interoperability for UNIX migration technology, currently in use in Microsoft Utilities for UNIX-based Applications."
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2006/10/09/a-new-microso...
Microsoft SCO conspiracy theory quashed (again) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/11/sco_microsoft_black_...
The real problem is that the world burns whether there's a conspiracy or not....
However, Trump says climate change is a Chinese hoax and bullshit. Trump's advisor Myron Ebell says the environmental movement is "the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world". Trump's head of the Environmental Protection Agency is Scott Pruitt, who believes the EPA shouldn't even exist.
Trump's Secretary of State is Rex Tillerson, former boss of Exxon. Exxon is being investigated for spending decades ignoring its own scientists’ research, which tied fossil fuels to climate change. It also has a $500 billion oil deal with Putin, for which Trump will have to remove sanctions.
Trump also says he's going to bring back "beautiful clean coal".
So, under Trump, there's a green light to destroy the US environment and the whole planet for the pursuit of profit.
Trump is using the presidency as a marketing platform to promote himself, his properties (including Trump Tower and Mar a lago), his daughter and in-laws. The GOP is using it to give very rich people $600bn in tax cuts while ensuring that (if its AHCA goes through), tens of thousands of ordinary Americans die because of a lack of health insurance.
What's going on in broad daylight is bad enough. The behind-the-scenes corruption is probably worse.
They all have trained journalists, sub-editors, and fact checkers. They all correct errors when they make them.
Interests that are now controlling the US government....
History says you're right.
There were many similar sites before Facebook existed, including Friendster and Google's Orkut. You might also count MySpace.
There have been a few attempts to replace Facebook, the most obvious one being Google Plus.
Typically, due to power law effects, technologies end up with a dominant supplier: there's only one Amazon, one Google, one Wikipedia, etc.
Given that Google is already dominant in search, email, online video (YouTube) and mobile phones, there's a case for defending Facebook as the lesser evil...
I assume there's a gaping flaw in this idea that I can't quite see at the moment ;-)
On Statcounter numbers, Windows 10 has more usage than Windows 7 in the USA and the UK. That's unheard of for a new Microsoft OS, where most people don't update until they buy a new PC.
> I note that the citations you gave earlier were invariably future predictions by analysts rather than actual adoption numbers.
Some are already doing roll-outs and pilots are at an all-time high. It normally takes corporates much longer to get to this stage.
> by having a very different upgrade regime for Windows 10 Enterprise
Really? How is it "very different".
There's a reasonably good account in "Donald Trump breaks the conservative media" http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudg...
In the health field, we've seen systematic lying by the tobacco industry and the sugar industry, and quite a lot of deception (some no doubt sincere) in the food industry. The "gluten free" craze is one example.
There's a (possibly apocryphal) quote attributed to GK Chesterton that says "When men cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing but in anything."
When people cease to believe their governments, their doctors, their honest fact-checked newspapers and so on, they are easily exploited by snake-oil salesmen.
The obvious examples are US news sources such as Fox News, Breitbart and Infowars [1]. However, it could also apply to fast food eating habits.
[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudg...
Clearly, it is...
> and whether giving up control over the update process is acceptable to everyone
Clearly, it's not. But the adoption rates for Windows 10 show that it's acceptable to the vast majority of people.
> by having a very different upgrade regime for Windows 10 Enterprise
Really? How is it "very different".
Sorry, my mistake. Many thanks for the correction!
They are among the organizations moving to Windows 10. In fact, most organizations are moving to Windows 10.
DoD-Wide Windows 10 Rapid Deployment to Boost Cybersecurity https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/688721/dod-wide...
RAM use varies from about 1GB to 2.5GB. It slows down above that, which you can only solve by restarting the browser.
I bought another 8GB so I reckon my 2011 machine will be good for another few years. It should last a decade, really.