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I read this the other day, when it was originally published. Wasn't that impressed by the arguments then either.
This space for rent
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Pssst! Windows is a proprietary system, Microsoft can do as they please.
veni bibi saltavi
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Pssst! Only if they want to get the same sales they did for Vista and Win8...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Like I ever paid for an OS!
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Even giving it away for free, they can't get everybody to take win 10!
Operating system market share[^]
Win10 12%, Win7 52% - nearly 8 months after release...says a lot, really.
And with XP at 11%, Win 10 has only just overtaken that! 
I was surprised to see 1.66% still using Vista - I assume that's kiosks and such like.
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I notice that you neglected to note from the same site that two full years after W7 was launched 50% of users were still using XP. There has always been a major lag in transfers to a new version of Windows. The current one is no different or worse than any previous one. To match W7 the target figure would be around 33% in 18 months time. Let's take a look then.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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There is one big difference: this time it's free. More than that even: it's being "pushed" at people, so to not upgrade is harder than to upgrade in many cases. That skews the figures quite a bit, I'd have thought.
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OriginalGriff wrote: this time it's free.
Only to home users.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Aren't you paid for something similar? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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SteamOS 
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UWP does need some adjustments for PC gaming, and MS has admitted as much (the universalness resulted in PC mode inheriting settings that're too consolish from the xbone), but overall it is the right way to go for most software.
Tim Sweeney is missing the point; the PC platform needs fixing | Ars Technica[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sometime soon | CommitStrip[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 10-Mar-16 8:53am.
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I have a very low level of pedantry, but even though, please fix that thread title of yours...
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Because a loaded gun casually tossed onto the back seat is so much better protection than a seatbelt when it comes to looking after your kid!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Watch out for the American coders to come and complain at your political post! 
All joking aside, a gun tossed on the back is definitely the way to go! The belt won't protect you against (outer space) alien invasion, won't it now?!
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Yes it will. Cause as the car is being sucked into the spaceship you wont get bounced around in side the car. Safety First
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Too bad she's already reproduced. Where's Darwin when you need him?
/ravi
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As shooting moms go, that's a fairly dumb one. Carrying a gun carries with it a responsibility to keep it away from hands not trained to use it responsibly. She failed in several respects the common sense test; tossing a gun in the back seat is not the best way to carry it. I keep mine close, on my hip, and if I have to leave my vehicle in a place where firearms are (illegally) forbidden, it's locked in a secure compartment within the locked vehicle.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'm afraid the thought or even the need to carry a firearm is very alien to me, not to mention illegal. Seem sad society got that way
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The problem is that both the anti-gun lobby AND the pro-gun lobby have bastardized the true reason we have the 2nd Amendment in the first place. It's NOT about hunting, and it's NOT about defense against criminals. It's about having a final recourse when the government becomes tyrannical, or when the country is invaded.
To be honest, I'm surprised the shooting hasn't started yet, since both of those criteria have been met - in spades...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Easy fix. Don't vote for Donald.
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The alternatives are just as bad. The problem is that the government is too big and corrupt, and there is NOTHING the electorate/citizen can do about it. Elections don't change the fact that the American people will be getting screwed. It merely changes who's layin' pipe on us while we're bent over.
We are in severe need of a Constitutional re-alignment, and I don't see a viable solution that could in any way be referred to as "non-violent".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Urrm, why do you feel the need to carry a loaded firearm? I can think of situations I have been in where if some one had pulled a gun (or a knife) it would have ended badly as it was everybody backed down and no face was lost. Guns in that kinda situation would have led to blood shed.
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