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It's not games. Valve went as far as to create their own flavor of Linux.

That didn't bring games, it only brought a platform where games might run. What's more relevant is Proton, Steam's WINE for games. I haven't tried it yet, though.

You should both see someone about your faulty memories: https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

That screenshot is from Windows 7. It's also the default on XP as well.

CompuServe DID charge that much. Either you're remembering wrong or you came in after they adjusted their fees downwards. As a gamer (Island of Kesmai and MegaWars III) I would rack up very large bills. I know very well that it was $6/hr, plus I had to pay an $0.80 surcharge/connection fee because I called from Canada.

The links above, live:

Many Windows 10 Users Unable To Connect To Windows Update Service.

Windows 7 Users Who Installed January Update Report Network Issues; Some Say the Update Has Also Incorrectly Flagged Their OS License as 'Not Genuine'.

Windows 10 Will Reserve 7GB of Your Computer's Storage in its Next Major Release So That Big Updates Don't Fail.

Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General

Microsoft Resumes Rollout of Windows 10 Version 1809, Promises Quality Changes.

Microsoft's Problem Isn't How Often it Updates Windows -- It's How It Develops It.

More links to stories showing that Microsoft is VERY poorly managed:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)

Windows 10 shows you ads while you are trying to work. But, at least at present, you may be able to stop at least some of the advertising: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you, and how to stop them.

Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)

Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)

Bill Gates still manages Microsoft: Two years ago, during a Jan. 17, 2017 discussion with Charlie Rose, Bill Gates said he spends "15 percent" of his time managing Microsoft. I interpreted that to mean that Gates is still extremely involved and very influential. Did Gates want the mess that is Windows 10?

From the transcript at that Charlie Rose web page:

08:42
"Bill Gates: I'm there about 15 percent of the time. And I get to work just on the R and D part, brainstorming with people, thinking, OK, how are we going to take this artificial intelligence and make it understand, help you use your time better. It's a very exciting time in software. There's five companies that are, you know, in a really strong position. Microsoft is leading in some really cool stuff so --"

It seems obvious that Bill Gates still has a huge amount of overall influence on the management of Microsoft, even if he mostly focuses on other subjects.

Wouldn't it be better to just get a foldable bluetooth keyboard for you phone for most people, the screen is the same size as most modern mobiles, and the keyboard would be bigger if foldable. Seems to me, this is pretty redundant now. https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

Literally the first result when you google "windows timeline":

If you've ever checked your browser history, you'll have a good idea of how Timeline works. But instead of just tracking which websites you visit, Timeline tracks most of the applications you use, and the documents that you opened and edited.

" If you want to maximize profit based on customer lock-in to a complex integrated monolithic system, it is good practice."

That is long-term abuse. Eventually markets find ways to navigate around abuse. Maybe ReactOS?

Run Windows programs under Linux? How to run Windows software in Linux: Everything you need to know. (March 23, 2015)

A later story: How to Run Windows Programs on Linux? (August 10, 2018)

I'm running an XP box with a registry hack* that makes it think it's an ATM or other embedded OS. I still get security updates.

The only goddam browser that will work on it is IE.

Not that any web sites understands what the fuck it is ...

*Windows XP registry hack keeps security updates rolling for the dead operating system

I don't know about using Optane a a reliable way to reduce loading times. The use cases for it are extremely narrow and specific. Plus it takes away from a M.2 slot. The new consoles would benefit much more from using a regular NVMe M.2 SSD in that slot. I could see MS implementing it and hyping the benefits when the benefits are small.

It's DEC VAXen

Nah, it's DEC VAX's

You can get rid of those toolbars without purchasing anything. Just Google "How to remove toolbars" and find instructions for your browser. For example, here are some instructions if you are still using Internet Explorer. https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

You mean like the cumulative monthly roll-ups that Microsoft switched to for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 all the way back in 2016: https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

why do you find it so hard to accept that the surface line is actually very successful?

Probably because of things like this. And this. And this. And this.

I'm running a Windows XP machine (security camera duty only) with a registry hack that makes it think it's a goddam ATM and I receive security updates pretty regularly.

I'm betting that, by now, hackers at large don't consider it low hanging fruit.

Windows XP registry hack keeps security updates rolling for the dead operating system

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3246087/apps/dell-mobile-connect-app-mirrors-your-smartphone-on-your-pc.html

AMDs own admittance they they are not actual VEGA GPUs.

Also, you made that up, lol. Making shit up always does your argument good. No, really.

• The first phone with an on-screen keyboard was the LG Prada (introduced a few months before the iPhone). In fact it was the first capacitive touchscreen phone, not the iPhone as widely believed.
• Here's pinch to zoom in 1988.
• Android had whole device search before Apple. But Apple was first to file for, and got the patent (Google apparently didn't think the idea was patentable). Google removed it from Android when Apple began using the patent to sue.
• Digital cameras had an orientation sensor to detect if a photo was taken in portrait or landscape mode, and would display the photo as such (which creates the annoying problem where you take a photo in portrait mode, but want to view it in landscape mode - the device won't let you do it because it keeps flipping the photo's playback orientation).
• While Apple pushed screens past 300 PPI, Android was actually the one which started the high-res craze. The original iPhone was only 163 PPI. The first Galaxy S was 233 PPI. And things began climbing from there. So picking 300 PPI as a threshold is extremely arbitrary. Apple was constrained to doubling the screen resolution (163 PPI to 326 PPI) due to limitations in iOS' design. Android's design allows variable screen size to resolution ratios, so its PPI climbed gradually as manufacturers pushed out higher and higher res screens.
• Spell checkers are far, far older than phones. I remember seeing the squiggly line underneath spelling errors in the late 1990s.
• Not sure why Apple is credited with multitasking cards. iOS multitasking initially wasn't true multitasking - only certain functions (like music playback) were allowed to continue running when an app was in the foreground. Outside of those functions, iOS would basically task-switch, not multi-task (continue to run the program in the background). Android had true multitasking from the get-go, killing tasks in FIFO order as the device ran out of RAM.
• Cut, copy, paste is credited to Android in the list. But Apple introduced those concepts with the original Macintosh in the 1980s (though they probably lifted the idea from Xerox PARC).
• The dock was introduced with NextSTEP way back in 19888. Though to be fair, Jobs was a co-founder of the company (probably some low-rank grunt developer came up with the idea).
• Portrait photos (using two lenses to determine distance and blurring the background) was something I predicted way back in the 1990s when digital point and shoot cameras first began coming out. I'm sure I wasn't the first one to think of it either. It's an obvious idea if you understand how an interferometer works. You realize you don't need an entire circular lens to create the blur, you can simulate it with just two physical points on opposite sides of a virtual lens.
• Pay-by-phone was available in Korea (primarily with Samsung's phones since they had NFC first) way back in 2011. Apple was just the first to introduce the function in the U.S.
• You could do WiFi calls on both devices using a SIP app long before they began adding the capability to your phone's dailer. In particular, Sprint partnered with Google Voice in 2011 - your Sprint number became your Google Voice number, allowing you to make and receive calls from your phone number over cellular, WiFi, or cellular data. This was years before the 2014 "innovation" date listed in the spreadsheet.
• Voicemail

OK, so, lemme get this straight.

Microsoft has tried to manipulate people using malware tactics to twist your arm into wiping out Windows 7 for a Windows 10 install they can control, has uninstalled applications without asking during their updates, has had to be forced by the EU to reveal the data they're sucking from your computer, and this was just the stuff I could find with five minutes on Google. If I bothered to spend a half hour on this I'm sure I could come up with dozens more things, all consistent with Microsoft's long history of generally pulling every dirty trick in the book that they could, which only abated as long as the DoJ watched them like a hawk.

And you're going to try to sell us that they're doing this for our own good?

You REALLY believe that?

SERIOUSLY?

Did you, like the FCC, also believe it when the Internet companies PROMISED (cross-their-heart-and-hope-to-die) they wouldn't abuse the lack of net neutrality, because they wanted net neutrality too, or whatever crap they were peddling at the time?

Microsoft and all the other large tech companies have only their own pocketbook and access to power in mind, and your data is how they intend to expand both. Specifically, CONTROLLING your data, whether you like it or not, by slowly converting your computing devices into a dumb terminal under their control. The whole PC platform has slowly but surely moved in this direction for a while now, whether the users like it or not, because they're doing their best to crush or assimilate all choice. Ultimately what Microsoft wants is for you to have a dumb terminal where it is illegal for you to do anything they do not allow on it. If they could get away with it, for "computing safety" they would probably MANDATE that you can't have any kind of computer other than a dumb terminal, because it's "too dangerous" to let the filthy peasantry have access to general purpose computers and unfiltered, uncensored, uncontrolled network access.

Windows 10 is a nice, big part of that, as is slowly dragging their applications (and your work) into their cloud infrastructure, and making sure that you don't own program licenses, you RENT your software from them.

The magical improvements don't need half these changes, and most, if not ALL, of them could easily be made to existing OS's, but their business model is switching to controlling the computing infrastructure, so they can't allow that. As such, they plan to lock you, and your data, into paying them forever, and obeying their dictates as to what you can and can't do with your data, software, and computer. They also get to change around your computer in whatever manner they like for whatever purposes they deem fit. Plus as a bonus the government can use them to enforce whatever crackpot laws they want to. Whether you love or hate Trump, Hillary, or anyone else, this should give you very serious pause.

These approaches are both subtle and gross. A rather gross one is changing your OS because they twisted around a dialog box or asked a naive user, swapped things around overnight, and gave them the "choice," right when they needed their data, whether to keep what they did to things (not even knowing what those things were in most cases), or to spend hours uninstalling their "upgrade" and leave you with the mangled remains of your previously perfectly functional Windows 7 installation (uninstalling an OS is not a nic

AMD: we will try to make upcoming Zen 2 architecture more spectre-proof (not that there that many of the various spectre vulnerabilities that affect us, but still)

Intel: with 8th Gen Core architecture, we will make your Wifi a tiny bit faster, and make the various "voice assistant" devices even more efficient at spying on you.
(Forget about the ~20 and still growing list of spectre vulnerabilities affecting our chips, look at the shiny trendy instead !)

huh... what ?

We know that people have been jailed/fined excessively for copyright infringement of audio/video. To be fair, there was a jail sentence for computer program infringement but there's a few things to be noted there - he was selling copies, and he was doing so on a massive scale. Exactly what copyright law is designed to prevent. It was not a case of sharing something with 10 of your friends, online.

Google is moving radidly into the full PC desktop space with ChromeOS aka Linux (check out Crostini [chromeunboxed.com]) and they already have a lock on the cloud productivity space.

Are you high? ChomeOS is a blip in a rounding error of the market share.

Are you drunk? Chromebook shipments surge by 38 percent, cutting into Windows 10 PCs. Chromebooks are perennial Amazon bestsellers. Chromebooks hold a majority of the US K-12 market. Chromebooks can do everything Android can. Time to sober up. Or don't, nobody cares about your Slashdot upchuck.

Did I mention, Chromebooks are pretty damn secure.

It's ChromeOS.
What about the OS?

https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Internet_Tax_Freedom_Act

The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act is a United States law authored by Representative Christopher Cox and Senator Ron Wyden, and signed into law as title XI of Pub.L. 105–277 on October 21, 1998 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to promote and preserve the commercial, educational, and informational potential of the Internet.[1][2] The law bars federal, state and local governments from taxing Internet access and from imposing discriminatory Internet-only taxes such as bit taxes, bandwidth taxes, and email taxes. It also bars multiple taxes on electronic commerce

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2045750/senators-want-permanent-ban-on-internet-access-taxes.html
In 2013, it was made permanent due to lobbying by "teh Internet Tax Freedom Act Coalition to lobby for a permanent moratorium.

Coalition members include Amazon.com, AT&T, Comcast, CTIA, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, Time Warner Cable, T-Mobile, U.S. Telecom, and Verizon Communications. "

Really anon, put a little more effort into it

"All of Windows 10 program is done by India."

Prakesh, that is interesting. Windows 10 has made Microsoft's bad reputation far, far worse, in my opinion.

You also said, "That is why Microsoft has gone to India, because we know that privacy is a problems."

In 2 of your sentences, there are 2 mistakes in your English. That's what we are seeing in Windows 10. There are many, many sloppy bugs.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015)

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.... (March 3, 2016)

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

"... Microsoft fired all of their testers a few years ago?"

Op-Ed: Microsoft layoff e-mail typifies inhuman corporate insensitivity (July 17, 2014)

Microsoft job cuts far worse than rumored, could reach 18,000 (July 17, 2014)

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015)

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.... (March 3, 2016)

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

Those 5 articles are part of a longer history of abuse and other extremely poor management by Microsoft:

Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

As long as windows 10 is spyware, changing to it is not "upgrading" or "modernizing". It's acceptance of abuse.

Many, many people agree with what you said. Microsoft is shockingly self-destructive. A few of the many, many negative articles:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

Ugly problem: Billionaires must spend time deciding what to do with their money.

Who has a better life? A surfer who pays his parents $500 per month to live in their basement, or a billionaire? A serious investigation of all the associated details may sometimes indicate that the surfer has a better life.

Maybe the surfer is not doing anything that is destructive to other people.

Bill Gates said he still manages Microsoft: "I'm there about 15 percent of the time." Even though he is rich, Bill Gates spends his time managing a company that took advantage of technical limits (People can't change operating systems easily.) to abuse people.

Examples of abuse by Microsoft and Bill Gates:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

Abusing people is a really, really ugly life.

"... Windows 10 is useless as an operating system, it's just a toy made by monkeys."

Joke: Yes, Windows 10 is useless. However, the World Huge Association of Monkeys, WHAM!, says you are not sufficiently respectful of monkeys. Monkeys act in their own self-interest.

With Windows 10, Microsoft has been extremely self-destructive. If Microsoft had spent a billion dollars running ads trying to get negative responses from professionals who are knowledgeable about computers, those ads would not have been as effective as Windows 10 at destroying whatever positive thoughts people had about Microsoft.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

This is not correct: You said, "The open source community often would talk about the Bill Gates/Ballmer era tactic of embrace, extend, extinguish, and that's all well and good but neither of those people work at the company now."

Bill Gates said he still manages Microsoft: "I'm there about 15 percent of the time."

Microsoft has become EVEN MORE extremely abusive, in my opinion, and the opinion of many others. Two of many, many examples:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you.

Microsoft again forced upgrades on Win10 machines specifically set to block updates (March 12, 2018)

I see some sense in what you said. However, when Steve Jobs was alive and healthy, he was good at making sure Apple was presented in a way that communicated well and efficiently. Part of the problem I see with Intel is sloppy communicating.

Here is a discussion of the problems with the vulnerability called Meltdown, which you didn't mention in your comment: Meltdown and Spectre FAQ: How the critical CPU flaws affect PCs and Macs.

Quote: Meltdown "breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system", according to Google. This flaw most strongly affects Intel processors because of the aggressive way they handle speculative execution, though a few ARM cores are also susceptible."

"If my trust in Microsoft could be quantified it would be a large negative number."

  Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

  7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you

so are they doing x86 emulation? If so what's the performance going to be like? I run VMs on an i5 7400 and it's a bit laggy.

Also instant on isn't a big deal to me. I've got a decent SSD and I'm at a desk top in 5 seconds. That leaves battery life. I'll confess I run a desktop. Battery life isn't an issue for me. OTOH this article says no x64 apps and weak performance in x86 apps. And the laptops aren't cheap. They're $500-$700 a pop

I'm just questioning who these are for. OTOH this might be the OEMs & Microsoft sending Intel a message.

Yes, on Windows 7. Most of our computers aren't running Windows 10.

Many articles say Microsoft and Windows cannot be trusted. Two of those articles: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

And: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

So, it seems to me that Google and Microsoft are, more and more, poorly managed. They are in the abuse business, not in any real business.

Several years ago, I talked with a mid-level Google manager who said that Google had more money than it knew how to manage. Also, that it was difficult for Google employees to know what was happening inside the company.

And Linux: We have 2 computers running Linux. Mostly they don't get used. It is too difficult to deal with all the poorly-documented variations. This story about Linux makes me laugh: Why is the Number of Linux Distros Declining? Linux had 285 variations when that article was published!

That said, isn't it strange how 10G USB is already shipping on mid-priced desktops, but consumer Ethernet is still stuck at turn-of-the-century. What is the path forward, 10 Gige USB dongles?

Not really. People don't need 10GbE because they don't need to transfer anything locally at those speeds in most cases and their broadband isn't anywhere near that. Not to mention 10GbE switching is still very expensive compared to 1GbE. So 10GbE locally isn't of much use in the vast majority of uses cases. USB offers an option for transferring files universally inside your network, outside, etc. The average consumer is far more likely to need to copy to their external USB hard drive than to their NAS.

Of course high end consumer motherboards are already starting to ship with 10GbE LoM. It just hasn't trickled down into the mid-range and lower consumer products due to lack of demand.

Please provide a link. I want to try the Raspberry Pi you recommend.

Only Raspberry Pi computers should connect to the internet? Why Raspberry Pi isn't vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown

Intel CPUs are not safe: Intel reportedly gears up to patch 8 Spectre Next Generation CPU flaws. (May 3, 2018)

Computers running Windows 10 with internet access are not safe. Some of the huge number of shockingly ugly problems with Windows 10:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads.

Years of bugginess: Windows 10 bugs

Problems this year: Windows 10 problems 2018

Update problems this year: Windows 10 update problems 2018

I agree: "Just stop messing with the EXISTING stuff. STOP!" That is one more crazy issue with Windows 10.

Microsoft has become AMAZINGLY wacky. It seems that no one is in control, or even doing any coordinating. Apparently Microsoft wants Windows 10 to copy the abuse of Google's Android. The result is that Microsoft abuses customers and users.

Some of the huge number of stories:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads

Years of bugginess: Windows 10 bugs

Problems, limited to this year: Windows 10 problems 2018

Update problems, limited to this year: Windows 10 update problems 2018

My opinion: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is not capable of managing Microsoft.

Microsoft is apparently competing with other companies, Google and Facebook, to see which can be most abusive. Is Microsoft winning? These articles say yes:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

Sometimes it seems that companies are more involved with abuse than doing healthy business.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

It could have to do with changed rules under the "USA freedom act" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , June 2, 2015.
and in particular, possibly the panel of advisers appointed: https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

What he points out is that people click "yes" to usage agreements and terms of service without reading them, and as an example, links to a test where the terms of service explicitly state giving up your first-born child... and people still agreed to them.

People don't read terms of service, they just click yes.

Have you ever read terms of service? The damn things are pages and pages of boring small print.

Part of it is we know that contracts don't work that way.

No judge would, obviously, enforce the click through give up firstborn child thing. So even if someone did read it, they click, knowing it's not enforceable.

What he points out is that people click "yes" to usage agreements and terms of service without reading them, and as an example, links to a test where the terms of service explicitly state giving up your first-born child... and people still agreed to them.

People don't read terms of service, they just click yes.

Have you ever read terms of service? The damn things are pages and pages of boring small print.

"As part of the reorganization, Rajesh Jha, the executive VP of Microsoft Office products, will be expanding his responsibilities to encompass Myerson's role..."

Apparently Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wants people who are as lacking in social, managerial, and technical ability as he is. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is NOT competent. The entire board of directors and top management of Microsoft should be replaced, in my opinion.

One area of extreme incompetence: Somehow, shockingly, managers at Microsoft decided that it is okay to spy on Windows OS computer users in the same way that Google spies on cell phone users using the Android operating system. (One of the many stories about Google spying: Google collects Android users' locations even when location services are disabled.)

Microsoft and Windows cannot be trusted. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Desktop computers users often have a HUGE need for COMPLETE privacy. Microsoft has damaged its already very poor reputation.

One of the MANY articles about Microsoft's EXTREME ABUSE: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you... (You may be able to stop the ads until Microsoft finds other ways to control your computers.) The effect: Microsoft wants companies to pay for Microsoft distracting employees with ads.

LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in.

The wise thing to do is to not install Flash in the first place. Time's running out for Flash anyhow. Might as well uninstall now.

I think it's much too soon to start calling it vaporware. It just sounds like the efforts to make this new codec have run into the same problem most codecs do: it's a lot of complicated work adding all the intended features, specifying a fixed encoding format so future hardware can utilize it, and then optimize the encoder so it doesn't run 2000% slower than the last generation. Compare this to long-term vaporware. If we don't hear anything for 6 months, then I might start to worry. Hopefully if that happens Google--who has probably the most invested into this with Youtube--will step in and complete it. Then again, Google has turned rather evil lately which is part of the reason people haven't adopted webp/webm. So, that could readily backfire.

I mean something like this. Scroll down to the screenshot "NetworkManager’s Connection Information". A commenter below says something like that exists in Fedora Core. it doesn't in Ubuntu 18.04.

Solved 30 years ago? try 2017...

I think this is what you're talking about: https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

I had one myself around the same time. The "red switches" were actually a slider that moved a number of contacts up and down. Depending on how you wired the contacts, they would act is AND, OR, XOR gates and you could put together simple logic functions like decoders, half adders, etc. The output was a number of light bulbs.

Is was as finicky as all hell and not all that well documented. I suspect the poor documentation was due to the fact there wasn't a lot of education depth in the tool - once you figured out how to wire the different gates, that was really all there was to it.

Why is this modded down?

I'm running XP at the house and still get security updates because, via registry hack, the computers think they are ATMs or POS.

The hack, as reported by ZDNet, fools Microsoft into thinking the system is running Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, a variant of XP that's used by ATMs and cash registers. Those systems will keep getting security updates until 2019.

Lots of ATMs still run XP.

95% of bank ATMs face end of security support (2014).

Exactly. We need complete transparency. Corporate lying destroys credibility, and degrades the quality of the lives of those who engage in it.

The overall story: Microsoft and Windows cannot be trusted. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. And: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you...

Intel CPUs cannot be trusted: We translated Intel's attempt to spin its way out of the CPU security bug PR nightmare.

Articles about spyware in CPUs

I would be very interested to know the sociology behind Microsoft's adoption of the abusive methods of Google's Android operating system.