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- Dec 19, 2000
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About a year ago a friend said something that at the time thought was ridiculous, but after seeing many slowdowns, I'm beginning to believe it....He said that Microsoft will put put a patch that slows down your PC to make you either buy another computer with MS's latest OS or buy the latest os.
Sure you can blame it on bloatware, but I'm thinking that it is in MS's best interest to let you think that. I know that my OS drive is still PATA, but with a quadcore and 4 gigs of ram, it should not take five minutes to get a :usable" desktop in XP home edition.
Here lately, if I have to restart, I will just go make a cup of coffee, or a sandwich, because it will be that long b4 I can do anything computer related anyhow, and I hate waiting on anything.
So I am thinking that I should turn off auto updating, and just risk whatever security flaw they "discovered" in the meantime.
What do you all think, IS MS purposely slowing the old OS to get you to buy the new?
And if so, how would we know?
I would like to hear your thoughts and opinions on this.
Thank you all for looking at my rant
Sure you can blame it on bloatware, but I'm thinking that it is in MS's best interest to let you think that. I know that my OS drive is still PATA, but with a quadcore and 4 gigs of ram, it should not take five minutes to get a :usable" desktop in XP home edition.
Here lately, if I have to restart, I will just go make a cup of coffee, or a sandwich, because it will be that long b4 I can do anything computer related anyhow, and I hate waiting on anything.
So I am thinking that I should turn off auto updating, and just risk whatever security flaw they "discovered" in the meantime.
What do you all think, IS MS purposely slowing the old OS to get you to buy the new?
And if so, how would we know?
I would like to hear your thoughts and opinions on this.
Thank you all for looking at my rant