Windows humor

[Ssnake]

Microsoft BOB and Clippy are joining the conversation.

[DB]

For all that the world likes to rag on British food, the criticism pales into insignificance in comparison to the contempt that the world has for spray can cheese, and rightly so.

[Leo Niehorster]

I like it. I haven't had any for the last 50 odd years, so maybe my taste has changed since then.

Not as cheese, as such, but as a tasty condiment for snacks and stuff.

OK. So let's call it the "non-dairy yellow mellow spray flavoring" in the spirit of "non-dairy creamer".

[Ivanhoe]

Any time you hear/read the phrase "American cheese" immediately think "petroleum-based cheese-flavored industrial product."

Which is ridiculous, given the fairly vast American dairy industry and long history of making real cheese from real cow's milk from actual cows. 

 

[Ssnake]

Yeah, but mandatory pasteurization kills all potential to come up with decent cheese.

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[Murph]

ROTFL  Those are all good.  Especially since I had the first BSOD in two years last week.

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[Ivanhoe]

I had one or more HW failures on my personal desktop, so ended up swapping in a new PSU and CPU/MOBO/RAM. Unfortunately, Windows did not like the HW change, and refused to activate. 

I checked my notes and found that the Win10Pro licensing for my personal desktop is actually an upgraded copy of a free academic license of Win7Pro. I squeezed a bit more than 10 years out of that product key, but no life left to squeeze. 

So I grudgingly used a retail Win10Pro key I had in inventory. I am now compliant again with Microsoft. 

This crazy new world where one must pay actual money for COTS licenses is upsetting, but I am dealing with it as best I can. The 21st century has its challenges. 

[Ssnake]

You'll find no sympathy with me. There can't be a software industry without adequate revenue, and the sad reality is that people will skip paying whenever given the chance even if it undermines the very foundation of their freeriding, and the consequence isn't "no more freeriding" but no commercial software & operating system at all. C64 and Amiga as platforms died because of rampant software piracy.

I heard from an Adobe manager around 2010 that they had sold a total of seven (!!!) Photoshop licenses in all of China. That's completely bonkers. The only consequence is that you abandon such a non-market.

[Ivanhoe]

I don't feel particularly guilty about MS. My current workplace has over 40,000 Win10 Enterprise and Office 365 licenses managed by SCCM. In my previous job, a much smaller organization, I was responsible for adding two 100-license packs to the mix, due to program growth. 

Windows and Office are now essentially subsidized by revenue from Azure.  

 

[Murph]

 

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[Murph]

I had a desk much like this:

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[Tim Sielbeck]