Cheers! Microsoft is now trying to peddle "extended service" for computers with internal storage drives. I think we should just say no. Keep up the pressure. When we've bought a thing, we've bought a thing, and the company must not be allowed to imagine that we're renting it. However, the corporations are recognizing that "the cloud" isn't going to fly.
You did this good thing, Gentle Readers. We need to keep it going. Don't let anyone think "oh, this is just a 'setback,' we can have what we want next year," the way Verizon did when it destroyed the formerly useful cell phone network. NO. The corporations cannot have a "cloud-based" Internet as an excuse to build "data centers" in Ohio, or Georgia or North Carolina or any other place where people live. If the Internet can survive, it MUST be on cloud-free computers with internal AND external data storage. Our data belongs to us, not to Microsoft...and Microsoft must be put and kept on a very short leash, not allowed to snoop around our data, much less feed it into plagiarism-ware.
I really think Microsoft needs to be broken up--allowed to exist, if at all, under all new management with a mission statement that includes things like "When people pay for computers, places to operate them, electrical and electronic connections for them, then those computers belong to those people and we must keep our hands and eyes to ourselves," and "The service must always wait on the customer's convenience; the service must never keep the customer waiting. If Microsoft slows down any computer's obedience to any keyboard command, this must be reported to the FCC and Microsoft must pay," and "One computer per person per lifetime," and "Individuals must be 'gatekeepers' for what corporations are allowed to do, NOT the other way round," and "The Internet must connect only people who want to connect with each other and transfer only the data people want to transfer. Privacy is a fundamental pre-constitutional human right, for which the Internet must maintain absolute respect OR BE SHUT DOWN."
We should tell Microsoft that if their "extended service plan" isn't FREE and AUTOMATIC, we can still go with Linux. The gold rush is over, Microsoft. You're not being paid to keep downgrading our computers. A second of wait time means you're a bad service and your corporate existence is in danger. All computers must obey all keyboard commands BEFORE THE FINGER LEAVES THE KEY. All third-party input, e.g. Microsoft's spyware and "updates," must WAIT. No third-party input should ever be receivable while a computer is in use. Microsoft should be paying us for the option of allowing Microsoft to protect its "security" by running "updates" when the computer is turned off or in "sleep mode."
And by the way, even a functional computer from before 2015 is only a machine, capable of "working," "running," or "reacting," but not a living creature that can ever "respond" to anything. If a computer displays any kind of "wait" message, it may report on what is malfunctioning, but it should never whine that the computer or a program or a page "is not responding." Of course it's not responding. It's not capable of responding. It will never respond to anything. It's not a living creature! It can never love us back! Computer owners can deal with this, Microsoft. If you can't, get help somewhere else and don't depend on us.
Actually, I think "wait" messages should consist of things like "[MICROSOFT] is probably the guilty party interfering with your computer. [MICROSOFT] owes you..." and a clock adding up $100 for the first second or fraction of a second and every second thereafter. Wait time is not acceptable. People who use computers every day may find themselves typing faster than the computer can process data and getting an occasional flash of a "wait" graphic after inputting more than 1000 characters in a minute, but even I didn't get that on an everyday basis...before Windows 10.
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Everyone remembers (or should remember) General Lee's brave horse Traveller. Many remember Colonel Sheridan's horse Rienzi. War horses that survived wars deserve to be remembered--horses were the primary targets, so the surviving horses were smarter, tougher, and much luckier than most. But have we forgotten George Washington's horse Nelson?
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