XPost: uk.d-i-y   
   From: Andrew97d@btinternet.com   
      
   On 28/03/2025 12:23, Jeff Gaines wrote:   
   > On 28/03/2025 in message  John Rumm wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> Would you entrust mission-critical business operations to obsolete,   
   >>>> unsupported software?   
   >>>   
   >>> I use Windows 8.1 on all my machines that will run it because it   
   >>> allows me to download updates and install them when convenient to me.   
   >>> Why this facility doesn't exit on Win 10 goodness knows.   
   >>   
   >> You do have some level of control on pro versions, and full control on   
   >> enterprise ones.   
   >   
   > I treat my computer as a tool so compare it with, say, a room I am   
   > decorating. At the end of the work day the brushes get cleaned or put in   
   > soak, the lids go back on the various containers and that's it.   
   >   
   > My main desktop is the same. Currently I have 5 documents open in   
   > UltraEdit, 4 instances of Visual Studio running, my own notepad app and   
   > my own programming toolbox all running. When I call it a day I turn the   
   > screen off. Along comes MSFT in the middle of the night and reboots.   
   > Most things will be saved, I have learnt my lesson from MSFT, but there   
   > is no way in the world I will remember everything I had open.   
   >   
   > I did consider Enterprise so I had control but the cost is prohibitive.   
   > I do have my "JGRunningProcesses" app running. It write a log every 30   
   > minutes of everything that is running and doesn't auto start after   
   > shutdown. That means I can go through the last log if MSFT has done the   
   > dirty and set my workspace up again.   
   >   
   >>> I see you've been suckered by MSFT marketing bullshit :-)   
   >>   
   >> Says the man running an OS that has not had any security patches since   
   >> January 10, 2023. :-)   
   >   
   > It still gets some sort of updates which it installs when I tell it to.   
   > As long as apps I wrote for Win98 continue to run I can be pretty sure   
   > the Windows code base hasn't change much!   
   >   
   > Don't forget Windows for warships is actually Windows 3.1 :-)   
   >   
      
   Err, no.   
      
   At the "Meet your navy" open day at Portsmouth in 2008 the   
   type 45 destroyer was running a more recent version of   
   Windows in the command and control centre (that was open   
   to the public).   
      
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