On 16/08/2015 09:53, xmetman wrote:


I have to know what is a 'weather diddie'?

As far as Windows 10 is concerned my advice would be to backup and install as others have said. The latest version is what Windows 8 should have been. My Vantage pro works even being plugged into a serial port/USB convertor. Delphi development works for XE6 but not Delphi 2006 so now all my mapping is from Openstreet map. The old Media player was left behind so I still have music but I'm reworking my old Jukebox app to get round the long-term hole that will leave. I may have to write my own photo web album application for my images if Google abandon Picasa.

I did read an article somewhere online that said Microsoft were planning to charge by the month or year for the use of the Windows operating system like they do for Office 365, if you unsubscribe I imagine the OS would keep working but you wouldn't get updates or security patches.

What I dont like about the way things are going in computing is that you are being forced to use the cloud when local storage has never been so cheap. I don't mind being given a choice, but now its being forced so that they can turn storage of music and images and creation and editing of documents into a web service that they can monetise.


Bruce.


Bruce, the monthly charge was invented by journalists with nothing
better to do than invent stories - the horrider the better. Of course,
it may be that MS will go down that path - if they do expect Apple to
follow suit.

You're not 'forced' to use the cloud, it's easy to use local storage.

As for the data going back to MS, this can be changed. However, the
targeted ads should be an improvement on having any old stuff sent down
to you. Graham D - I believe you can 'train' Amazon to give you ads that
are better than what you're getting. Whether MS's ads are better
targeted remains to be seen - I hardly get any ads anyway....