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GuestDecember 1, 2016 at 5:07 pm #20396I follow your site no matter what, whether I like your new site or not! LOL!
If and when I buy Windows 10 I will buy your Dummies’ book, but it will probably be the next version as I have Windows 7 Pro and will just wait for it to play itself out.
My next PC will be a big-ass tower PC for combat flight simulator gaming. And I always get Ed Bott’s latest and greatest, too; if you guys are still alive.
I just turned age 65—I might not be here, then…
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Bob?(Maybe?err…ok)
GuestDecember 8, 2016 at 3:33 pm #20401If you are doing a “microsoft style unpaid beta testers” wouldn’t that mean that all the users are beta testers except for who have purchased a large contract of services?
On the other hand this means you can fire all your paid testers and the most skilled half of your programmers. (savings of course get re-directed to the marketing department so they can explain how this is all a “good” thing somehow)
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