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Prenj
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Yes. 
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sikpuppy
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| Well, not so free but cheaper than Windows 7 is the new Windows 8.1 full install which is AU$100. Still overpriced, but it's a start. |
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pjp
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| sikpuppy wrote: | | Well, not so free but cheaper than Windows 7 is the new Windows 8.1 full install which is AU$100. Still overpriced, but it's a start. |
The cost bothers me a little less than having to call someone to activate it, or not liking if I put it on different hardware. However, getting rid of Technet, that was just stupid.
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sikpuppy
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| pjp wrote: | | sikpuppy wrote: | | Well, not so free but cheaper than Windows 7 is the new Windows 8.1 full install which is AU$100. Still overpriced, but it's a start. |
The cost bothers me a little less than having to call someone to activate it, or not liking if I put it on different hardware. However, getting rid of Technet, that was just stupid. |
Do you have to call? I think you can do it via the internets. You have 90 days or something anyway, it's probably the least painful aspect of Windows...the non-transferable nature of the licence, as you mentioned, no central driver database, limited control of interface, no real command line mode... |
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Prenj
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Aaaaah the hell days of having to deal with windows and dual-boot. It's like having an abusive parent, it all seems so normal at the time. 
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Bones McCracker
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| A lot of it is just as half-baked as open source, too. Take smartcards and biometrics, for example. Very weak. |
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Prenj
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | A lot of it is just as half-baked as open source, too. Take smartcards and biometrics, for example. Very weak. |
True. That would be the retard cousins 
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| sikpuppy wrote: | | Do you have to call? I think you can do it via the internets. You have 90 days or something anyway, it's probably the least painful aspect of Windows...the non-transferable nature of the licence, as you mentioned, no central driver database, limited control of interface, no real command line mode... |
I'm still using Vista (never had the problem with it others claimed) and an XP install. The problems with having to call in were widely reported. I don't know if they still operate that way. I've not had an issue with interface control, its never been something I spent a lot of time tweaking in Linux (in fact, its usually an irritation in Linux). Since PowerShell, the CLI argument is pretty much eliminated.
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