The point was the "should" wasn't backed with data on why it would be an improvement over the current system, in quantifiable terms.

Re: The Backpack.

Again, you just made ideological based arguments rather than ones grounded in reality. we are discussing what works, not how you wish it was.

My point is we are now 15 years out of date. That clock does not reset every time you purchase a product.

All of these complaints are for the manufacturers of said devices, not Microsoft. I say again, for how many years is a company required to task software engineers to work on products that create no net income for the company?

No. The only thing being said is that there will be no support. Your device isn't magically vanishing into a smoldering pile. They just aren't going to task paid people to hang around all day fixing it for free. You can run it all you want. As long as it doesn't connect to the internet, I say run it until every chip…

For a price. Not free.

I just emptied a savings account to kill an 8.75% one.

That's the thing: It works perfectly well as long as a third party keeps pouring work into a product they haven't sold in years.

I thought you did want to know, but were just vocally lazy about it.

That sounds like a poor business investment, as we clearly surpassed what people thought the supported range for this operating system was GOING TO BE by several years. Lack of foresight in the expected lifespan of you equipment, hardware and software, is a really easy thing to place blame on. It's like buying a bunch…

Because all parties involved are terrible people deserving of scorn. They are a living, breathing, soap opera consisting entirely of shitty people.

The actual quote everyone misattributes is "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb".

I saw them, I just wanted to join the chorus.

...and missed what the speech was even for. Pass.

So deal with it. Or stop being a terrible person. It's really simple.

I have no suitable verbal reaction to this post. Just......... what?

It means one of the four horsemen has ridden forth. Soon.... Brawndo.

You must not work in the corporate world.

We are seriously arguing about kangaroo courts and an Australian?