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Bill Gates leaves MS board
Electro Detective:
Billy G got Win10Doh'D on his home PC, like MANY others :horse: and decided to get out while the getting was good
i.e. he knows it's a dud and isn't hanging around for any blow to his rep, or fingers crossed on Win 12 :-[
Smart guys know when to do a runner :clap:
ggchab:
Today, Windows is simply an OS like any other OS and I don't think Microsoft is still making a lot of money with it. Many people moved for free to Windows 10 and its maintenance is probably very expensive. I would not even be surprised if one day, the kernel of Windows moved to a Linux kernel.
As for many other companies, the future of Microsoft is probably in services: Office 365, Sharepoint, ...
beanflying:
--- Quote from: Karel on March 20, 2020, 09:05:43 am ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on March 19, 2020, 08:03:38 pm ---Quickly Googling shows Linux is just under 1.9% which is tiny, compared to Windows.
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Because that number includes houesewives and gamers.
In engineering, that number is at least a ten times higher.
Even higher in software development.
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Show your evidence for this assertion or I call :bullshit: And yet again Linux over Windoze is way off topic and has been thrashed to death so many times :horse:
all_repair:
--- Quote from: blueskull on March 20, 2020, 09:06:07 am ---
--- Quote from: all_repair on March 20, 2020, 08:49:37 am ---What I know is Each time when someone need to reinstall his machine, the chance he pays for another copy of his paid uSoft office is more than 50%. For many I know, is 100% each time.
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Just happened to me. So I gave LO a try. To my surprise, LO has finally sorted out the Win10 sluggish issue and Win10 HiDPI issue.
So, no more MS Office for me.
BTW, each retail MS Office license can be activated 4 times on different machines, and no more than once per month.
For people like me who have a really bad luck with computers (bad pixels, bad memory, etc., all sorts of returns), the activation limit runs out pretty quickly.
Also just FYI, Office 365 can be roamed, so if you move form computer to computer frequently, 365 is not a bad choice.
As for me, I pay it, I need to own it. I ideologically repel the idea of subscription-based software.
But considering the activation mechanism essentially makes me not owning a perpetual license either, I'm saying goodbye to MS Office at all.
As for Windows, every computer from a big brand comes with a copy of it, and there are sorta illegal but working $15 Pro upgrade keys on the Internet, so $15 per computer change is acceptable for me.
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For the average Joe, when they need to reinstall, they likely have lost the activation code, or didn't know they have to keep them at all .
Karel:
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