15-08-2019, 07:33 PM
(14-08-2019, 01:43 PM)Mike Watterson Wrote: You do not need an MS account to register windows or even create users. They HAVE gratuitously removed the GUI to create users on some versions of Windows without a Microsoft account. However the cmd console "net" command will create any type user account and password.
There is now no point to Visual Studio since VB6, and now only useful for 64bit Win10, which is broken. And no point to windows shortly as Win7 support is about to expire. Win 10 Telemetry and GUI are dreadful and an MS account is nearly as bad as Facebook now.
I am not sure what you meant here but my Visual Studio 2017 recently a message was displayed which indicated that the interface would fail randomly on unlicensed versions. My current experience, although minor, with Linux has been that some commonly used consumer applications are not kept up with (eg on demand TV). I have an old Windows Vista machine (which actually I didn't have any particular issue with) which I have tried with Linux but came across these issues. These things are not so much an issue with me but for the rest of the family things have to work spot on.
I will agree though Mike that Microsoft have lost the plot. I have just had to update a difficult low memory computer as they stated that the Windows 10 software would cease to receive security updates later this year. It used to be a couple of versions or so down the line after several years, but this computer (Windows 10) was only updated with a major update last year. I also notice from Microsoft that new computers will now have to have a certain minimum memory such that Microsoft software can reserve some for update use (good or bad? :/ ). There is also some indications that they may be trying to go Apple's way with only allowing applications provided from their store. At that point Windows would definatlely cease to be a good working tool!
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