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Well thanks a lot Microsoft! Forcing us poor folks who have old-ish (but fully usable) PCs with certain AMD processors to throw away our hardware and be obliged to spend large sums of money to replace them - or else be stuck with an ever-increasingly out of date OS.
This is the sort of high-handed behavior that has made Microsoft so widely hated around the world.
Twice, without any warning I was inflicted with the problem - the immediate symptom being the remapping of my keyboard that defied the usual simple solution that has been available for the decades that I've been using MS OSs . The support... well, I can't be ****ed to recount the entire farce that ensued. But at one point I narrowly avoided having the remote support re-install the older OS, trampling over the entire installation of all my applications! But this entailed huge waste of time. Some of the support was faultless, some actually WORSE than useless.
In my limited social circle I know of two other people who have been similarly vandalised by MS. This causes immense headaches - and, for impecunious people like myself seriously large financial damage.
Just appalling,
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This is the sort of high-handed behavior that has made Microsoft so widely hated around the world.
Twice, without any warning I was inflicted with the problem - the immediate symptom being the remapping of my keyboard that defied the usual simple solution that has been available for the decades that I've been using MS OSs . The support... well, I can't be ****ed to recount the entire farce that ensued. But at one point I narrowly avoided having the remote support re-install the older OS, trampling over the entire installation of all my applications! But this entailed huge waste of time. Some of the support was faultless, some actually WORSE than useless.
In my limited social circle I know of two other people who have been similarly vandalised by MS. This causes immense headaches - and, for impecunious people like myself seriously large financial damage.
Just appalling,
Continue reading...