But it is a solution if you don't want to give up Windows 7 for now and have no intention of sending another penny to Microsoft. It buys probably five years to find an alternative.
If you're running Windows 7, you spent the money awhile ago. Whether you continue to use it or not, it doesn't make Microsloth another pfennig.
My strategy is neither shortsighted, nor blindly hoping for the best. It is a measured response, mitigating a formerly good company's moves to coerce my behavior. The sky is not falling. Others will rise up to eat Microsoft's lunch and we'll never miss a beat, nor will we miss Microsoft.
In the meantime, Windows 7 is the refuge of choice, buying time for events to pan out. Microsoft is already shut off. No Microsoft Cloud. No Access. No Microsoft devices of any kind. No Microsoft software, ever again. How is that "taking the shortsighted easy solution and ignoring the longterm consequences?" It isn't.
You don't drop hydrogen bombs on cockroaches. You don't cut off your arm to fix a hangnail. This is a mere nuisance, not a catastrophe.
Last edited by Rockin Robbins; 05-25-16 at 08:43 AM.
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