Microsoft is being sued by a bunch of frustrated Windows 10 users for it's attempt to force people to upgrade perfectly good computers to Windows 11 effectively turning 240 million PCs into door stops. BUT THAT'S ONLY IF YOU SURRENDER TO MICROSOFT'S BULLYING, SELL YOUR PERFECTLY GOOD COMPUTER AND BUY A NEW ONE AND INSTALL WINDOWS 11. Once you've done that, a little chip in that shiny new expensive computer will start taking a screenshot of what you are doing every 15 seconds or so and storing it offline ostensibly to protect your data. Now Microsoft and Windows 11 defenders disagree but they keep changing the narrative about that and the revised story doesn't sound any better and often sounds quite a bit worse.
Okay but isn't Microsoft offering to help you with the transition to Windows 11 and "help" you get the new computer equipment you need to set up Windows 11. Unless they are giving out free computers and ripping out the spy chip, I'm not buying. Really? Does Microsoft's marketing department think I'm going to just pitch the computer I've been customizing and upgrading for the past 4 years for one that costs way more than this old guy on a fixed income can afford that watches my every move and (who knows) sends all that information to Redmond.
Yeah, right!
From what I read, Microsoft thinks it's a dandy idea to collect and store all that data from their shiny new spy chip that you have to have to run W11. And all this data about me sits snug online in some server farm, where it can be hacked or retrieved by someone (not necessarily me) who will be able to thoroughly check me out. Even worse, I probably will never know it's been done. Such information is prized by our dear leaders so they can make all those pesky decisions on behalf of us ordinary ignorant schlubs with our little computers that they firmly believe we are stupid to make for ourselves.
I don't know about you guys, but I haven't been building computer systems or managing an IT department all these years. So it's taken me months with fear and trembling to even work up the nerve to sideline my old Windows 10 operating system and install a dual boot that lets me use Linux as mine main operating system. And I'm a pretty smart guy. It's just that I'm not interested in becoming a computer geek at my time of life. If I can figure out how to install a reliable operating system that's stable and reliable, I will happily hang up my Nerd Herd ID and go back to streaming movies where they don't say some ugly words that I am tempted to use right now.
But I ain't gonna do it. I've got grandkids and a very religious wife.
Just sayin'
Tom King
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