They get boatloads of money for licensing O365 and Azure. I can’t recall exactly how many millions of dollars my employer pays them annually for our G5 and O365 instances, but it’s a lot. And even after this they’re still digging for more, like charging for log transmission and retention, for example.
I see O365 and Azure as a Swiss Army knife. Sure, they can do a lot of different things, but they don’t do any of them in an exemplary manner. -D > On Sep 18, 2023, at 3:04 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Microsoft doesn't try too hard anymore about copy-protecting Windows. They > are stuffing more and more adware and tracking into it so the more people > they can get using it the more money they make. > > As a company, however, Windows is not their future. They are selling cloud > services now. Office365 and Azure. They are milking Windows for money but > it's not their flagship product anymore. > > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023, at 13:53, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> Win 10 allows the original OS to be reinstalled. I installed it >> straight up on some Z440s I had at work. Just download the ISO from >> Microsoft and make a USB drive, easy peasy. >> >> -Curt >> >> >> >> >> On Monday, September 18, 2023 at 12:55:09 PM EDT, Kaleb Striplin via >> Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Where do you get the OS? Back in the day I had installations that could >> be installed on any number of machines like an enterprise copy. That >> was windows 7 though. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Sep 18, 2023, at 11:37 AM, MB list etc via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> I've quit building my own and now buy used previous generation HP >>> workstations with the OS from eBay. Kurt suggested this a while back. I >>> installed a new SSD as the boot drive and use the HD it came with for data. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------- Original Message ------- >>>> On Monday, September 18th, 2023 at 10:25 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> My PC appears to have crashed. This is a system I built probably 10 or >>>> more years ago, maybe much longer. And over the years IIRC have upgraded >>>> the MB. It had a 1.5tb HDD as well as a 1tb SSD. Over the last couple of >>>> months I have noticed a high pitched whining sound. Seemed to start and >>>> stop. This was coming from the SSD. It then got to where when booting the >>>> cmos wouldn’t even see the SSD. System seemed to boot fine otherwise. At >>>> one point in the last week system seems extremely slow to boot. I also >>>> ordered a deal where you can plug in drive to a device that connects to >>>> PC. With SSD connected I finally got it to recognize the drive but when >>>> trying to access, sits there and then gives I/O error drive not accessible. >>>> >>>> Installed SSD back in machine, same thing. Also, I have noticed that even >>>> without the SSD installed the main HDD is started and stopping all the >>>> time and takes forever to load windows. At the moment machine won’t even >>>> load windows, just goes into a repair then says not able to repair. Only >>>> option is to try to have to reinstall windows. >>>> >>>> Back to SSD, tried connecting it to a laptop and it shows the drive which >>>> appears to have 2 partitions but clicking on either one, it spins/loads >>>> for a few minutes. Strange thing is when viewing these drives in windows >>>> it doesn’t show capacity and free space. Eventually it basically says >>>> drive inaccessible. I need to recover this drive. Any ideas or software >>>> that might work? >>>> >>>> Point of the post. Thinking it’s time for a new system. Should I just >>>> order new MB, memory, hard drive etc, build a completely new system, or >>>> just buy a commercially prebuilt one such as HP etc? The prices of these >>>> seem so cheap these days and will already have OS installed maybe that >>>> makes the most sense? If I go this route I will then attempt to connect >>>> these drives externally to recover data. >>>> >>>> Anyone have any thoughts on this? >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
