I haven't used Windows for personal computing for 7 or 8 years now.

I just see no need for it.

Setanta wrote on Oct 28^th, 2021 at 8:05pm:


No. I don't like Apple.

And I hardly drink coffee.

I use Chromebooks.

Have half a dozen of them (two at home, one at Mum's, one at Dad's nursing home, one in the office, and a spare in the car).

Apple, Window, Linux; arguments about which is best remind me of arguments about which football team is the best.
I fled to Apple after being driven insane working with Australia’s largest Windows network in a security setting.
Haven’t regretted it for a minute. A brief experience with a friends latest windows system didn’t impress. Nothing in particular went wong but the look of the thing ? ERK!

Frank wrote on Oct 29^th, 2021 at 3:22pm:

Trust you to dump that odious amateur on us. Not many musicians (and I use the term very loosely) give me the absolute horrors. This one does.

Ayn Marx wrote on Oct 29^th, 2021 at 4:17pm:


Amateur? George was the highest paid English entertainer during WW2...

New Survey Confirms Over Half Of Business PCs Can't Install Windows 11

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I'm betting it won't be long now before Microsoft relents and allows most or all of these older PC's to run Windows 11.

So, let's see. Windows 11 has only been widely available for a couple of months and we're already seeing a pile of monthly security updates for it just like Windows 10 (and all other previous Windows releases).

https://www.windowscentral.com/november-2021-patch-tuesday-here-windows-11-and-1...

My question now is: what is the point of the strict hardware requirements plus TPM2 when it looks like Windows 11 users are going to have to jump through the same 'Patch Tuesday' hoops as Windows 10 users have to every month?

As I said earlier: I strongly suspect this whole Windows 11 hardware requirements BS is just a ploy to sell more new PC's. And, of course, to also sell Windows 11 licences for these new PC's seeing as most people (myself included) got Windows 10 for 'free' by using our Windows 7/8.1 keys.

Most of these older PC's that had the 'free' upgrade to Windows 10 are probably now locked out of the 'free' upgrade to Windows 11 because of 11's hardware requirements.

I also read somewhere that some believe the '8th generation and above' CPU requirement is because these later processors are not susceptible to Meltdown and Spectre and don't need software patches for protection (which slows the processors down) like the 7th generation and earlier processors do.

However, nearly 4 years after the entire PC world got its panties in a wad about Meltdown and Spectre I still haven't heard about ANYONE being affected by these vulnerabilities... which is also the case for the majority of these alleged security vulnerabilities we hear about every month.

But, I guess it keeps all of these 'security companies' gainfully employed and also allows Microsoft to keep a 'leash' on customers' PC's with the never ending updates.

I would prefer Microsoft to drop the stupid 'artificially created' hardware restrictions for Windows 11.

They pulled the same 'unsupported hardware' BS for Windows Update with Windows 7 for 7th generation and above CPU's about 4 or 5 years back when they were pushing Windows 10 hard (although there were/still are ways to get around it).

Speaking of which, I am seriously thinking about giving Windows 10 the boot and setting up a dual boot system I was using a few years back with a 'never connected to the Internet' Windows 7 and Linux Mint or Ubuntu for everything I need to do online - and I know how to get all of the 'extended support' updates for Windows 7 which have been released since January 2020 when 'official' support ended.