Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install, Not Very Securely

[SecretCode]

There is no patch for stupidity.

[NickStone]

As I've said before, my grip is with Microsoft's ethics and business practices.

After reading your statement I was reminded of this.

[Snowhog]

That is funny beyond words!!

[woodsmoke]

My students saw this in real time, the very first day of class this semester.

MS is so desperate now that even if I have a file that is locked with no permissions to change it in any way on a USB stick and it has a .ppt extension Win7 at the college won't display it, saying it is corrupted and that it will provide a repair and a converter and then the external, MS, site doesn't provide one.

However, the same file, on a cd works fine because MS can't get at the file.

ADDITION: the next day the cd wouldn't play at all. I called tech support and he, along with the Dean, appeared with a program disk of some kind and put it in the tray and it appeared and he said that I had not "closed" the cd properly.

I averred that I had closed it properly, that it played on two computers at home and had played the pervious lecture and that probably the situation was that the DVD drive was old and out of alignment.

That night the guy replaced the DVD drive and my cd now plays fine.

All of these people have to buy into the myth or they go nuts.

woodsmoke

[Snowhog]

Used to be a time when 'tech' was just shorthand for 'technical', with all that the word meant.

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to an art, science, or the like: technical skill.
2. peculiar to or characteristic of a particular art, science, profession, trade, etc.: technical details.
3. using terminology or treating subject matter in a manner peculiar to a particular field, as a writer or a book: a technical report.
4. skilled in or familiar in a practical way with a particular art, trade, etc., as a person.

5. of, pertaining to, or showing technique.

Now, to often, 'tech' just means:

Take out and
exchange
customers
hardware

[woodsmoke]

rotfl!

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

That is funny beyond words!!

Indeed! I'd really like to know what happens if you press the "Cancel" button, though

[SecretCode]

It would be a user error to click the cancel button ...

[oshunluvr]

I think the cancel button should cause a system shutdown, and I know where we could use this little script - see the thread about Synergy!. LOL...