[182788] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Windows 10 Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Sat Aug 1 08:23:25 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 08:23:21 -0400
In-Reply-To: <55BC99DF.4020208@foobar.org>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "Nick Hilliard" <nick@foobar.org>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Just like the phone needs a google account, the computer might end up needi=
ng a microsoft account. That does not make it *my* account nor require tha=
t *I* use it. Like the phone, it will simply be to keep the computer in mi=
nimal happiness.
You are right though, and it would be nice it stayed a stand-alone OS. It =
might end up being the stray that drives more people to an alternate OS. O=
r maybe not. i Things have required apple accounts for decades -- but then=
again -- I would not expect anything different from the iThing crowd.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick@foobar.org]
> Sent: Saturday, 1 August, 2015 06:05
> To: Keith Medcalf; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Windows 10 Release
>
> On 01/08/2015 03:27, Keith Medcalf wrote:
> > It just means that you cannot use the crappy apps or the crappy app
> store.
>
> which is fine until Microsoft ties in future software upgrades to the app
> store and you find that you can't upgrade without tying yourself into a
> Microsoft account.
>
> E.g. just like they did with the Windows 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade.
>
> Nick
