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Microsoft uses techniques similar to aggressive malware to promote its “Get Windows 10” offer. As many readers have discovered, the persistent and constantly changing methods Microsoft uses to continually reintroduce its “Get Windows 10” tool, or GWX, onto computers means it’s extremely difficult to avoid. Windows users who …

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    1. Craig100
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      Re: No sale

      There's always these: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/desktop-computers-gnu-linux

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  2. crosshatchshirt

    I registered just to post this.

    The fact that MS supposedly referred to the notification area as the system tray makes me wonder who's been put in the font of the public. Who authorized that comment?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Satan?

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  3. mswin10

    I think if everyone goes Linux and or Mac computing will eventually cease to exist

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    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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      Headmaster

      You seem to have serious trouble with the proper use of logical connectives (not to mention punctuation), so your opinion is probably not worth much, sorry.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      @mswin10 - a view like that shows so much ignorance of the industry I don't know where to start. Any potential employee who turns up at our door thinking that any one platform the be-all of computing is quickly shown the door.

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      1. Charles 9
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        What about EXISTING employees? Especially those ABOVE you?

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          "What about EXISTING employees? Especially those ABOVE you?"

          Good point. Fortunately they share this view (this sort of thing usually works top down), hence my post above.

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