I love how you're speaking on behalf of just "companies". This is seriously hilarious. You do realize how many critical medical systems still depend on IE6 for any level of compatibility at all, right?chk071 wrote:Again, if companies feel ike Windows 7 is deprecated, they won't support it anymore. "Feel like" meaning that they'll just wait for a OS not being widely used anymore, or supported with updates. Multi OS support means multi work, something you'd surely want to avoid as a company. New Cubase only supports MacOS 10.11, for example,and no support for Win Vista EVEN THOUGH it's still officially supported by Microsoft.
Anyway, everyone's gotta know. Just pointing out why it is in my eyes definitely a good "investment" to go with a modern OS the sooner the better.
You are simply patently wrong in your assumption of how the business world works. Beyond an entity that has yet to achieve any kind of critical-mass (i.e. not a startup/unicorn/bullshit-$2B-valuation-lala-land) businesses are in fact to an very extraordinary degree as reactive as they can possibly be while still supplying shareholders with money.
Related reading:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/24 ... pport.html
For chrissakes this is silly.chk071 wrote:BTW, i don't consider the internet, or services in it "free for all". Why would a company give you an email adress for free, let's you use their web search for free, or use their messenger for free? It all comes at a price, and that is using your "personal" (where? in a public place like the internet?) data to personalize your ads in this case. And some, less serious companies, even will sell it to others, to make money with it. I doubt Microsoft will do that though, if they state in their EULA's that they will not. Yes, i know, "blue-eyed", and sheep trust, but, i don't believe things before i see, and face them. I'm neither into conspiracy theories, nor am i into spotting the enemy behind every corner.
You may have heard of open-source software before, no? GPLv3? Ring a bell?
And do you mean this EULA?
https://edri.org/microsofts-new-small-p ... ta-abused/
To clarify, 3rd party means... well not Microsoft obviously. Look I don't know why you're taking the piss so very hard here but you should realize you're missing a pretty massive part of the picture.
I almost missed this but wow there is so much wrong here. First (by definition) EULA's don't contain business directives or market strategies. Second, Google made a fortune with Adwords and Adsense (read - 89% of their revenue) which are search dependent. Not personalized. Even further Microsoft's ad revenue in 2016 was absolutely minuscule. If you look at Microsoft's own very easily viewable public financial statements, it wasn't even large enough for FY16 to define as its own segment (it's lumped into "More Personal Computing" shared with Microsoft's gaming division which you can bet took in more money than adrev).chk071 wrote:In most cases, "think for a while" means "speculate about things you don't know". As i am a rational thinking person (at least i consider myself one), that kind of "thinking" isn't for me really. What i do know is that Google made a fortune with personalized ads, and Microsoft does the same, they even state that in their EULA's.
http://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view ... 5138ddcac5
Look at Segment Revenue and OI
You have a lot of strong thoughts here, fine. That's great, really... but none of it is passing the litmus test of proper research (to any degree) or industry knowledge. You're drawing wild interpolations on assumptions that are either flat-out incorrect or at the least very misguided. This is pretty basic stuff and you're whiffing completely on some pretty easy throws here. You're bandying around the term EULA like it was an acronym for some kind of catch-all businessey-stuff ex facto master document when in reality it's just where a company tells you in carefully constructed legalese how it's going to leverage every single possible legal angle to prevent you from using what they are providing in a way they don't like. That's it. It's not even a Privacy Policy which is (at least in the US) a legally governed completely separate thing required when you collect personally identifiable information:
https://termsfeed.com/blog/privacy-poli ... onditions/