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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
I think the difference here is that the Windows 10 update has been upgraded in importance (perhaps to the same level as security patches?), so that people who had previously just turned off "recommended" updates are now seeing it. I suspect it's going to get a lot harder to avoid Windows 10 now...
as I sit here watching an entire corporate landscape subsumed by Win10,
during our current brief industrial hiatus,
I await the discovery of just how many dated software applications we use will no longer function.
Fortunately our core mission-critical stuff is a linux cluster,
but our corporate overlords have for years pounded the desk
with threats and frothing at the mouth about how
Microsoft Office makes anyone qualified to drive a desktop,
and that using anything but windows was a waste of time
and possibly even indicated loyalty issues.
(our linux stuff is far too technically demanding for
anything Windows does or can even possibly do.
It performs real-time terabyte-scale 64bit data acquisition
on a monstrous scaling.
Our overlords still think it is a black box I keep a genie in)

Not too many days from now I expect shrieks of despair
and an endless project where we upgrade -everything-
just to satisfy the new Win10 feeding requirements.

...or not - the nice thing about being a pessimist is that
being mistaken can be a quite pleasant alternative to being correct.
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