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posted by n1 on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.

Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.

Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?


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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday October 22 2015, @10:55AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Thursday October 22 2015, @10:55AM (#253159) Homepage
    > Office, Photoshop, etc. None of those work.

    That's weird. How come my g/f's been using MS Office in Wine (Crossover Office's version) for nearly a decade. Every day. As $DAYJOB, in fact. OK, she's running an old version of Office, but she works in fields where the documents *are* the product (academia, legislative, media/press, etc.), and in those fields *noone* likes the modern gimicky versions of Office, and they're actively avoided. (Not true about all academia, as of course the youngsters come in and all they know is the latest lamest version of the suite. However, the journals themselves actively favour the continuity of using the older versions.)
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