![]() ![]() Microsoft and all the other subscription robber bastards only get away with it because they can and because the markets demand that they increase their profits year on year. I assume I'm not a special case and there aren't many people buying a new Rega set-up every couple of years, but somehow Rega is stil lin business, still making enough money to keep its owners happy by making products that keep its customers happy. Since then I've bought one replacement belt and based on the performance to-date I might buy one more belt before I pop my clogs and pass it on. It didn't used to be that way in some sectors it still isn't. The problem is the market model that says making a decent profit is no longer good enough and companies need to make ever increasing profits. They'll repeat this until the more weak-willed cave in and start believing (buying) it. In the meantime, they will try to make you buy things you neither need nor want, by repeating long enough that "that's how the cool kids do it", and that you desperately need their stuff, even (especially) if you didn't realize it yet. Nowadays it's "AI": AI will replace everything, do everything, you need AI, lots of AI! Cue forward a couple years and AI will have found its place (writing homework for the terminally clueless/lazy?). Remember a couple years ago when everything was "tablet"? (The new computing paradigm, it's the end of desk/laptops, they will go the way of the Dodo!) Couple years later tablets have found their real use, watching cat videos and reading stuff in your couch, and people still use desk/laptops to do serious work. I wholeheartedly agree, but actually they don't give a damn about their users customers: What is important to them is their bottom line, nothing else. > Microsoft needs to lose the attitude that they alone know what is best for their users. I could lose a lot of money by having a program go into a limited mode while on a job with no way to connect. ![]() I have to admit that some of the programs I use and have paid for exist on my laptop as hacked versions that don't require connection to the vendor. Murphy, the Net would be down when I'm trying to get my taxes done at the last minute (the same as many others) or to get paid I have to deliver an invoice and can't because of connection issues. I would never put my accounting online for all of the reasons. If the formula for Coke got leaked, that would be a big problem for them as any big box store could brew up the same stuff and sell it for 1/4 of the price as they already do with their house brands. Companies with important trade secrets should also be very wary of data slurping by OS companies. This creates a huge problem for industries that are legally required (ITAR, etc) to secure their data. No Internet means No Documents, No Presentations, No Spreadsheets, NO NOTHING." "You can see this with their push to make everyone use Office 365 in the cloud. ![]()
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