* Posts by William 3

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Zuck loses $3bn in a day

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Stop confusing Altruism with Tax Relief.

Seriously.

User danger declines as two thirds of Chromistas now use HTTPS

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Written by a Bot?

Was it?

No spin zone: Samsung recalls 3M EXPLODING washing machines

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At least they're recalling them, unlike Whirlpool.

Who are still dragging their feet, whilst our toothless authorities shit themselves at dragging them to court to force them to confrom to the laws THEY created.

Computer forensics defuses FBI's Clinton email 'bombshell'

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I didn't realise the crime was about quantity.

I thought what matters is the CONTENT of said emails.

You can't use the argument criminality doesn't matter because it only occured in a few emails out of hundreds of thousands.

Logically any criminal could use this nonsense argument.

Well, I don't think I should be sent down for robbing those 3 houses and molesting those 5 people your honour.

Oh, and why is that?

Because there was a thousand houses and 2,300 people living on that street. So I didn't rob 99.95% of houses, and I didn't molest 99.995% of the people on it.

Oh well, if you put it like that.

What a stupid article.

Leaks password, check. Leaks Wi-Fi password, check. Can be spoofed, check. Ding! We have an Internet of S**t winner

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Internet Enabled Mop

With Bluetooth.

Uber, Lyft drivers shamed for 'racial bias' by uni eggheads

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Re: Dis Crimi-nation

Apparently the left wing academics think people should be punished for not risking their lives by refusing to do pickups in the wrong area of town, all in the name of diversity and tolerance, of course.

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Re: Unregulated service behaves in an unregulated manner

Indeed. But it's the double standards when it gets to court that is galling and is causing more and more people to move to the far right.

Ask a Christian Bakery to bake you a gay cake and the Christian baker gets sued if they say no.

Ask a Muslim Baery to bake you a cake with Muhammed on, and you get sued for "hate crimes" for asking.

See the issue.

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Academics and left wing agenda.

Could it be that despite the protests of a certain sector of academics, that the people on the ground know they are more likely to be attacked by African Americans than any other ethnic group. The crime statistics bear this out. But then, academics would claim those are the result of racism. But then you ask them about black on black crime, and they still claim this is the result of racism. WTF?!

It's all very well left wing academics screaming "racist" at people, but who cares about someone sat in an ivory tower when it's your hide on the line.

If you have a choice of not picking up African Americans from a certain neighbourhood because of the reputation they have and living to be called a racist, or saying "OMG, I can't be seen to be a racist to the left wing snowflakes" and getting robbed.

Guess what normal people are going to choose.

You can downvote, have a tantrum, whatever you like, my little precious snowflake darlings. It's just demonstrating you don't live in the real world if you expect people to endanger their lives just to appease you sense of self righteousness.

Besides, the left have destroyed the meaning of the word "racist", they have used it that much to describe "racist" events that only occur in their imagination.

It's not "racist" to not increase your chances of getting robbed. It's self preservation.

What next, ordering single women to walk through the wrong neighbour at night, or scream "racist" at them if they don't?

Idiots.

EU announces common corporate tax plan

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Re: I guess this explains why we are leaving.

Ah. the "anyone who doesn't think like me is a fool" argument so often used by left wing morons.

Samsung's free-falling financial flameout

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Remember that story about Samsung paying shills to big up their company and to bad mouth the competition.

I do.

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Re: Internal Fire Extinguishers

Actually I would go on to say that if both batteries from different manufacturers were doing this then the blame is purely Samsungs for not testing their devices properly.

Waving away your responsibilities by saying "it could happen to anyone" isn't jusfitication for happening to your devices.

Nice speech though. You should go into politics.

Uber drivers entitled to UK minimum wage, London tribunal rules

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Re: Don't like the terms?

What a commendable attitude you have. I take it that if I loitered outside your house throwing pebbles at your window and when you come out to complain I can simply say "don't like me doing this, move home" and you won't have a problem.

What am I thinking, of course, you'll just move home won't you. Don't forget, I have a contract I forced you into signing, that says I can throw pebbles at your window. And we all know how much you love contracts, ain't that right.

Ransomware scum infect Comic Relief server: Internal systems taken down

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Nothing funny about comic relief.

A charity that invests in weapons and tobacco companies instead of using that money to actually help people.

Charities these days are a sham.

Lindsay Lohan's Grand Theft Auto V cartoon case kicked out of court

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The never ending hypocracy of the progressive liberal never ceases to amaze.

Isn't it humorous the amount of hatred for this Woman simply because she had the tenacity to file a court case.

The hypocracy stems from the hive mind mentality where the progressive left selectively excuse their own hatred towards a group or individual so long as all the other hive members are engaging in said activity.

No doubt tomorrow it will be standard practise of screaming "hate crimes", "sexist pig", and the usual PC crap that they themselves are guilty of when the progressive hive mind says it's acceptable.

Such as today.

Sorry Linds. The Hive Mind has spoken, so it's not a hate crime, or sexist, or any other label why the progressives are attacking you en masse, it's because they have collectively decided your fair game, it's them who also decide what is and isn't sexist.

Sorry about that hun. Yes, they're a bunch of pious hypocrites, we know, that's why the majority of the population have nothing but contempt for these loud mouthed opinionated hypocritical pricks.

That Public Health study? No, it didn't say 'don't do chemo'

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So your confirming your bias against the media after reading an article in the media that suits your narrative.

The use of emotive language such as "cancer victim" whilst glossing over the "chemo victims".

Tragic.

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Re: Chemotherapy

Entirely depends.

Chemo isn't the panacea it's made out to be by almost every person commenting.

Some cancers are very resistant to chemo. And the recurrence rate is quite high in all cases.

And in those cases where it doesn't recur, you're often left with crippling illnesses and a higher chance of getting cancer down the line due to the chemo itself.

Glossing over the very real issues associated with chemo is equally as bad as demanding people are fools for not giving it a shot.

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Depends on the success rate of chemo in curing cancer doesn't it really.

If chemo only has a 20% chanced of curing your particular cancer (as some cancers are inherently more resistant to chemo than others) . It has just as much chance as killing you as cure you.

Not so cut and dried as you're implying it is.

BBC vans are coming for you

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Re: I'd still like to know...

Implied right of access does not grant people the right to peer through my curtains spying on what I'm doing, intercept my snail mail, route through my bins, or trying to hack my wifi.

As well you know.

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If they couldn't spot a peado...

If they couldn't spot a paedophile molesting girls for decades despite him doing so on stage with cameras pointing at him, I highly doubt they'll be able to catch you watching the documentary on iPlayer about how everyone knew at the BBC apart from those able to stop it.

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Picture this.

Imagine having to pay Microsoft a license fee before you can use a search engine, even Googles, even if you never use Bing, simply because Microsoft doesn't show adverts on it's search results.

Notting Hill Carnival spycams: Met Police rolls out real-time live face-spotting tech

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Re: My favorute quotation from this

Those pesky police, arresting those who stab others at this shitfest.

How racist they are.

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Re: V

Fuckoff with your anti white racism Adam.

If you haven't changed your Dropbox password for 4 years, do so now

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Hopeful.

I have three very secure passwords.

The rest, I couldn't care less about.

They're all the same.

I keep living in hope that someone will hack into them & lock me out.

Incentive to actually get a life rather than delude myself my opinion on forums means jack shit.

Alas, as much to your chagrin as it is to mine.

It has yet to pass.

Intel douses Wildfire ransomware as-a-service Euro menace

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Randsomeware, plausible deniability if the police demand your data under indefinite imprisonment?

Might have to have some abandoned randsomware ready to activate as a fallback solution to prevent the state from demanding I decrypt my data or they will be throwing me in jail indefinitely.

"Seriously Mr Policestate, I'd LOVE to be able to decrypt my data so you can mine it for information, however it seems that file I downloaded months ago was loaded with randsomeware from a criminal organisation that's long gone. There's no-one to pay to retrieve the key required to decrypt my data and I don't know what the password is either. I'm as gutted as you are about it Mr Policestate, honest I am Sir

But if you've got a spare 12 million years to try and crack it, could you provide a copy of the un-encrypted data once you have, I've foolishly not made any backups, and that would be fantastic of you.

Criminal scum eh. Pfft"

Password strength meters promote piss-poor paswords

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Re: Passweird Generator

"Dream on."

"Oh? How do they get to it if it never goes online?"

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Your machine is compromised by visiting a website with an exploit.

Or is your machine free & your holy Keepass free from all past, present and future vulnerabilities.

Security is about being paranoid all the time, you sound smug and complacent, an accident waiting to happen.

Microsoft can't tell North from South on Bing Maps

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Acceptable to ridicule an entire nation

Can you please explain why it's acceptable to ridicule an entire nation of Americans & use Yanks in a derogatory fashion.

I couldn't imagine you doing the same about Islam and "Pakis".

Paper mountain, hidden Brexit: How'd you say immigration control would work?

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Propaganda by CEO's

Translates into "How can we pay our workers fuck all now that restrictions may be placed upon us from outside workers and the threats of closure didn't entice enough of our workers to do our bidding"

Microsoft’s Continuum: Game changer or novelty?

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"Samuel Johnson had for women preachers"

Just out of curiosity why didn't you use Muslims have for Women Imams instead of "Samuel Johnson had for women preachers", given there are Women Preachers and there's zero Female Muslim Imams.

Just curious why you'd use one, but never in a month of Sundays use the other.

Myself, I'm athiest, I'd have no qualms using whichever idiotic ideology best suited my point. In this instance, given the facts, I'd have gone with the latter, but I understand certain politically correct shitbags wouldn't.

You shrunk the database into a .gz and the app won't work? Sigh

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Re: Replace tape

With regards to the Susanna comments, surely only doing work because of how that woman looked was nothing more than everyday sexism, and given how left leaning and all SJW all the comments and articles are in the register these days I can only wonder why it was voted up so highly.

Perhaps because all the people in this section of the register are actually skilled workers rather than snot nosed left wing SJW humanities degrees tossers that go looking for offence as justification for their existence that populate the other areas of the register.

UK IT consultant subject to insane sex ban order mounts legal challenge

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Re: "He was found not guilty, therefore he is innocent"

"No that's not what "not guilty" means. It means what it says - there isn't sufficient evidence to find someone guilty."

If it "means what it says" then "not guilty" means EXACTLY what it says "NOT FUCKING GUILTY"

What it doesn't mean is what you're imagining it means in your fascist little world which is apparently,

"OF COURSE THEY'RE FUCKING GUILTY, WE JUST HAVEN'T TURNED THE THUMBSCREWS ENOUGH SO THEY CONFESS"

There was plenty of twats like you during the Spanish Inquisition, I have nothing but contempt for wankers like you. I can so picture you shouting Burn the witch because some poor old lady was found with unholy herbs in her pocket.

New UK trade deals would not compensate for loss of single market membership

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Good grief.

Who'd have believed being a dyed in the wool hard left marxist was a pre-requisite for being in the IT sector.

Never in all my time have I met a bunch of intolerant bigots than those on the Left, made worse with their sanctimonious self righteousness about how "tolerant" they are, and how they love diversity.

Yet faced with a result they dislike in a fair and free democractic election, all you hear from them are insults, negativity, moaning, finger pointer, and general all round tantrums they didn't get their own way, and that anyone who dared to have a different opinion than them are all racist, nazis, xenophobes, little Englanders, blah blah, fucking blah.

Bunch of hypocritical wankers.

You know who you are.

Now fuckoff and hold yourself to the same standards you demand from others. The country decided to leave the POLITICAL body that was the EU.

Either accept this, get on with your life, do the best for the country, or the shut the fuck up being intolerant about it.

Understand.

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Re: Really ....

"Sheesh, couch potato economists."

Riiight, so we should listen to some fucking joker on a tech website because he's right and everyone else is wrong.

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Re: Really ....

So are terrorists attacks by Islamic Fundamentalists. Is that the fault of Brexit also?

Is that why they're driving trucks into people?

Because Brexit.

Away with your Guardian Bullshit.

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Re: Really ....

Given that the stock market is purely based on the "perceived" value of companies, wouldn't you agree that negative perception of a country by a bunch of moaning fuckers who can't stand a fair and legitimate democratic outcome is likely to have a material effect on said country.

Or are you going to pretend otherwise as it doesn't suit your argument.

Ad-blocking ‘plateaus’, claims hopeful ad industry

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Re: Capitalism - pah. Foresight - pah.

Whilst on the subject of time travel, pity it doesn't exist, otherwise we could have gone back and told your parents what a twat you'd end up.

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How much do you think the register gets per person per ad view. Having worked in this industry, it's practically nothing, less than 0.01p. The money comes from a CONVERSION from that ad. As in PAY PER CLICK.

Never click any ads, the register gets fuck all.

Someone who uses an ad blocker isn't suddenly going to start clicking on ads if they stop using one.

More gums than Jaws: Greenland super-sharks live past 400 years old

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Re: Typical specimen is older than America

If you were truly a pedant you would have used the Land Mass Named America.

As it stands your just as guilty of taking shit as the people you're being critical about.

ISPs face piracy sue-balls

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Then the US government.

Is responsible for drivebys on public highways.

Same logic, right?

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook block of Adblock Plus block of Facebook block of Adblock Plus block of Facebook ads

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A lonely voice pissing in the wind.

But hey, my Facebook account is scheduled for deletion in less than 14 days. I know I'm just one solitary guy saying Fuck You Zuckerberg, but even the mightiest of dams can be brought down from a thousand tiny cracks. If Facebook believes themselves immune to this by saying "fuck you little cracks, were bigger than you", good for them, it will be hubris if they do. And that's what will bring them down. The little cracks become bigger cracks, and then rocks start falling out, and then whole weight of inertia of people leaving just brings the whole fucking damn down around them and they get to feel what's it's like to be powerless for a change.

Well, that, and because my news feed contained more spam than my e-mail spam folder, and it was just a really shit waste of my time from people that I really didn't care about in any way whatsoever.

Thieves can wirelessly unlock up to 100 million Volkswagens, each at the press of a button

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Re: So long and thanks for all the fish

Why would the German Government protect a German Manufacturer when they can't even be bothered to protect the German Culture or Country?

Adblock Plus blocks Facebook's ad-blocker buster: It's a block party!

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Re: Simple, innit?

More like;

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127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com

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127.0.0.1 apps.facebook.com

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#fe80::1%lo0 localhost

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::1 www.facebook.com

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::1 fbcdn.net

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::1 edge-star6-shv-02-ams2.facebook.com

Intel's latest diversity report shows numbers at a standstill

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Stop with this bloody nonsense.

Asians are doing well for themselves in tech, despite being a minority.

Because they themselves want to succeed.

So can we cut the crap about "minorities" being prejudiced against when certain minorities would rather be out protesting or smashing up their town complaining about perceived "injustices", demanding special treatment, whilst bleating on with their racist bullshit that "black" lives matter.

Stop treating them like victims, and they will stop acting like victims. If they don't want to go into tech because they are lazy fuckers, so be it, but stop pointing the finger at everyone else who worked hard to better themselves and expect them to feel guilty some fucker with a chip on their shoulder believes the world owes them everything because of the colour of their skin.

Seriously.

Facebook to forcefeed you web ads, whether you like it or not: Ad blocker? Get the Zuck out!

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Re: Simple solution...

I only post on the register using triple VPNs, on triple level VM's, on triple level encrypted drives, each with their own browser filled to the gubbins with other peoples cookies, thus masquerading as those poor schmucks.

I usually do this whilst sat outside your house, using your wifi.

Ouch.

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Re: Just one

You can still allow your wife to use Facebook, whilst blocking all their other tracking on your network.

Just whitelist m.facebook.com whilst blocking everything else.

To to best of my knowledge 99.9% of third party websites do not use m.facebook.com as a domain for their facebook tracking crap.

Using m.facebook.com also stops the autoplay videos as well. (Even on a desktop PC).

Which is nice.

The only adverts you see, is where one of your "friends" has "liked" a particular business or some other crap.

I recommend it.

Brexit Britain: HP Sauce vs BBC.co.uk – choices that defined voters

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Re: Class divide

Fuckoff Jzl you snobby twat.

BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it

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Impressive work by the BBC.

I'm impressed that when it comes to financial matters effecting their income they can immediately recognise what houeholds are using their services illegally and deliver swift and fitting punishment, yet when it came to recognising perverts molesting kiddies, despite numerous complaints, and even when they abused them on stage, with cameras pointing at them recording it, they were fucking clueless about it for decades.

Priorities.

WikiLeaks fights The Man by, er, publishing ordinary people's personal information

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If the shoe was on the other foot.

And this was the RNC database you just KNOW the left leaning prick of an author wouldn't be fucked one bit.

ASUS first Asian PC maker to warn of price hikes... in 2.5 months

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Puerile Attitude

Sanctimoniously calling people "morons" because they chose an alternative you disagreed with reflects badly on yourself.

If you believe that everyone is an "idiot" who doesn't think like you, you're nothing but a prize A prick.

Truth be told, a good number of the comments regarding Brexit would be deleted if for being "Trolls" if the roles were reversed if it was Brexit people calling the Remainers "Morons" because they lost.

But then, there's no ethics in Journalism these days, just a bunch of left wing PC halfwits from thje snow flake generation.

Now of course, that should be Modded as a personal attack, but given I can point to numerous comments where the same kind of attacks have been dished out towards people who voted to exit the EU, you'd be accused of hypocracy if you modded this.

But then, that's the PC snowflakes forte isn't it, hypocracy.

Go choke on your fucking lattes. Wankers.

Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric – it won't hit one billion devices by mid-2018

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Sure pal.

Windows 10 isn't better than Windows 8.1 unless you're counting the unreasonable restrictions like the inability to choose your own desktop colour, inability to decline certain updates (that say, break your machine), advertisements on the start menu, the inability to switch of telemetry, forced updates of your drivers despite you having better drivers from the OEM, all the data mining of every keypress back to Microsoft that your average user doesn't know how to switch off as positives.

What actual benefits, other than your claims of it being "faster", does it bring over Windows 8.1 exactly?

And as for the claim it's "faster", I can't say I've noticed on my i7 running at 4ghz. What CPU would you need to be running for it's increased speed to be noticeable. Bearing in mind that Windows 10 will be dropping a lot of support going forward for older CPUs.

Please, enlighten us, I could do with a laugh today.

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The missed sales targets don't paint the full picture.

Just as Windows 10 came out, I was actually growing to like Windows 8.1. It's an acquired taste for sure, but the fuss over the start menu was really crazy given most people spend less than 1% of their time using the start menu. Once you get past that the under the hood improvements are quite good over Windows 7.

Having used Windows 10 since it came out, I find myself missing Windows 8.1 as Windows 10 brings nothing but hassle to the table, with it's crazy restrictions enforced upon it's users for hardly any benefits. You can't even choose your own background colour. Even my Amiga allowed me to do this. Even my Amstrad allowed me to chose any of the colours it could display. Not so Windows 10, I have Microsofts Colours, and that's it.

And then you have all the tracking, telemetry and privacy that are the true cost of this so called "free" upgrade. Something I use third party tools to circumvent and still I'm not sure if those are actually effective or not, or could break in the next forced update.

Having used Windows since I migrated away from the Amiga, this is the first time I find myself not just saying I'm looking for alternatives, but actually using those alternatives. It's a painful process after decades of using Windows to learn how Linux does things. Yet here I am using Linux Mint 18 and a VM machine running Windows 8.1

Linux could be mainstream, it just really needs to tidy up some of the rough edges. For example I had an issue installing Steam, where it would install, but never open. It took 45 minutes of searching to find a solution that worked for me, this included reading pages of forum posts that simply didn't work for me.

Your average user just isn't going to put up with that. If Linux could sort out how programs are installed then more people would use it, I have absolutely no doubt.

Regardless, Microsoft's biggest threat is that more and more people are using their phones, and their phones are becoming the main replacement of the desktop, which is being relegated to doing the family accounts, or playing games. Microsoft has already conceded this domain as the users have no interest in Microsofts attitude of making promises then leaving them in the lurch with the promise that the new "Windows on Phones" is going to the be the greatest ever and we promise this time that we won't leave you and high and dry this time, pinky swear.

They can only burn so many bridges before they find themselves on an island.

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