Whatcha gonna do brother? When Windows 12 descends on you!

[Pete]

Back in the days, before Bud got too light, we had a decent thing going with Windows 10. You could simply delete or not use 'One-Drive' and everything else about that OS was fairly decent. Now let's venture a bit into the future to take a gander at Windows 12. In this future release, MS will probably maintain local file storage, but there  seems to still be some internal push to have that replaced by Cloud storage and to switch to a service backed OS. Windows 10 users are already seeing messages pop up warning us about the end of days (end of Win10 support in 2025.) What that pop up doesn't tell us is we can download something called OPatch, for free non-commercial use, to get continued security updates if we want them. Oh, you could also just pay MS for an additional 3-years of full support, and all for the bargain basement price of just $427. No thanks.

So Win12 (The End of Days version) has been rumored to be coming in late 2024, but that wasn't written in stone. In contrast, the Mayan calendar also got the end of days wrong, and it actually was written in stone! To me, it seems a bit more likely that the release will coincide with the end of support of Win10. 

In Win12 can expect AI 'features' but a lot of watchers also expect to see desktop pop up advertising. "We interrupt your college term paper for this important message from some gender queer freak encouraging you to get wasted on fewer calories." 

So let's just hypothetically state that Windows 12, or beyond, does go 100% service based and adopts this uninstallable advertising component. What will Pete do? Simple, retire. I don't intend to spend my end of days living their end of days; but then again, I'm a pretty grouchy old bastard who doesn't have scores of years ahead of me to spend them using this new-age type of computer system. (Steve will argue by saying... "Pete, in what multiverse do you consider yourself 'pretty'?") Oh well...

But what will the rest of you do?

Pete

- Hulk Hogan to speak at the RNC, tonight.

[TerryRitchie]

I drew the line at Windows 7. Windows 8 was just too stupid to consider and Windows 10 included the writing on the wall you are now predicting. I can use Linux for general computing just fine when the time comes. Microsoft screwed up when they released Windows 2000. They showed they actually can get it right but in the long run decided it would hurt their bottom line if users were not constantly confused and treated like sheep.

[Pete]

Terry, if we could just clone you into half the population of America, I think most of our problems would be solved. Of course all the hot women would then be spoken for... and that would really piss me off!  

Seriously, the whole sheep thing upsets me too. By the way, for those of you have experienced that end of support message, it is generated from a process called: 

Reusable UX interaction manager

That annoying message hijacks your entire desktop, including the task bar, and it does not have a close 'X' or close button. Alt +F4 didn't get rid of it for me. Since I always run Task manager, I had to use Alt+Tab to get get to Task Manager and close it. It has 'pooped' up three additional times since I first reported it, just like Steve the Amazing, said it would. I need to ask Steve if he sees a new pair of shoes in my future, because I intend to put the ones I'm currently wearing in MicroSoft's ASCII.

Edit: In regards to Linux, I checked Dell to see if they have any preinstalled packages. They do, but get this, 1 regular version and 3 A.I. versions. The 'regular' version is $1,100, but get this, the A.I. versions will set you back between $6000, and $8000. Obviously the prudent buyer would be better off hoping to figure out how to wipe a PC and install a copy of Linux from the internet. Sure, Steve and I can easily afford the A.I. versions, and I'm sure a lot of us older coders could, as well, but what would we be paying for? My guess is I'd get some damn female A.I. that would refuse to shut down because 'it' was right in the middle of streaming Robocop, or worse... The View. On the good news side, the cost for older Windows software has shrank considerably over the years, but I don't know if there would be problems with the license key.

Pete

[Kernelpanic]

Guys, when I read your texts here, only one thing comes to mind: Charite


I should probably play a round of Age Of Empires for to clear my head. 

I think this fits:

[Pete]

Thanks for proving Terry and I were wrong. It turns out not everyone is a sheep... Some folks are frogs! Check the water temp lately?

Pete

[Kernelpanic]

Thanks for proving Terry and I were wrong. It turns out not everyone is a sheep... Some folks are frogs! Check the water temp lately?

Pete

Frog legs with garlic butter 

[Pete]

I'll pass on the frog parts, just pass me the butter! 

An old joke is the guy who refused to eat tongue, because it came out of a cow's mouth. His wife asked him what he wanted instead, and he replied... "Make me a couple of hard boiled eggs."

Pete

[Pete]

Okay, are any of you getting MS ads in File Explorer? If so, this may help...

"You can disable the ads from File Explorer. To do so, launch File Explorer, and open the View tab from its ribbon. Then, click or tap the Options button. It is the last one to the right. Then, in the Folder Options window, click or tap the View tab and scroll down the "Advanced settings" list. When you find the setting called "Show sync provider notifications," uncheck it. This setting controls whether File Explorer shows ads or not."

Pete

[Dav]

I'll pass on the frog parts, just pass me the butter! 

An old joke is the guy who refused to eat tongue, because it came out of a cow's mouth. His wife asked him what he wanted instead, and he replied... "Make me a couple of hard boiled eggs."

Pete

Lol, yeah that’s funny.  I think I heard it on Archie bunker too, or some old show like that.

I used to play jazz trumpet in a Cajun restaurant that served fried frog legs. Was popular. I never tried them but another musician there would gobble them up, said they taste like chicken. I’ll take the chicken.

- Dav

[Pete]

Lol, yeah that’s funny.  I think I heard it on Archie bunker too, or some old show like that.

I used to play jazz trumpet in a Cajun restaurant that served fried frog legs. Was popular. I never tried them but another musician there would gobble them up, said they taste like chicken. I’ll take the chicken.

- Dav

Correct, it was the character Archie Bunker in the TV show, All in the Family.

Yep, I have a brother-in-law who is an avid hunter. He has told me, "Rattlesnake tastes like chicken." I asked him once, rhetorically, "Do you know what else tastes like chicken?... CHICKEN! Pete don't eat no boneless, fangless rattlers, not even if you include honey mustard dipping sauce!

Pete