On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 11:23:46AM +0200, ac via talk wrote:

Is Microsoft Windows now completely "free" as in GPL/Opensource?

Can anyone download it, install it and then pay no money and get free support on Linux lists?

Or are there free Microsoft Support Users Lists?

I feel so left out of this entire conversation as I know almost nothing about Microsoft or Windows 10. It feels like this conversation has nothing to do with me. To make things worse, for me, I do daily battle with Outlook.com and all the rubbish, cyber crime and attacks from them as they succeed in mixing ham and spam and cyber crime and malware with legit email. My clients are ignorant as to who is relaying spam, cyber crime and rubbish and Microsoft seems to sometimes directly attack me. Between Microsoft and Google (Google does the same thing) they are effective at dominating, dividing and destroying.

I actually do HATE @microsoft and @google behavior, strategy and lack of ethics and common decency.

Now, I have to read about Microsoft and in a support and "helping" way...

When their other products are plain evil. So I guess the strategy is no longer make money from operating systems but generate forever payments from Office and by dominating business email relay and "subscriptions"

I assumed someone was trying to create a linux install USB and only had windows available to do it. Not an uncommon starting point. -- Len Sorensen