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Re: Windows 10 Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tqr2813d376cjozqap1l@tutanota.com)
Sat Aug 1 10:44:18 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 14:44:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: <tqr2813d376cjozqap1l@tutanota.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <55BC99DF.4020208@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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1. Aug 2015 10:05 by nick@foobar.org:
> 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.
>
It's been a while but I'm near certain that they did not require a microsoft
account to download the 8.1 update - you just had to use their sucky
application to start the process
