Unfortunately we don't have that kind of money at this place. There's no I.T. budget, believe it or not. We do have Office 365, however, and that's working out for us.

I can't say that I love...

Personally, I just change the partition size and then set things up to dual boot to either the original OS and Ubuntu, for example. I will say that the VM environments are getting to the point where...

I read it, at least.

Of the Apple/Microsoft/Google juggernaut, Apple has the best vision, Google has the most momentum and Microsoft has the most control right now of the market. Google is...

If you're an I.T. professional and have 50 workstations and only a year to upgrade them then you feel the pressure to "get on with it" rather than having the luxury to wait it out and see. Only...

It just feels to me that we're being lulled into this one-year-of-free-Windows-10-for-life promise without engaging the logical side of our brains to ask how all this might possibly play out in the...

I agree. I've recently invested a fair amount of research into Ubuntu (both server and desktop versions). It's probably a viable solution for a lot of people.

The point that annoys me the most...

Have you ever bought an airline ticket and arrived at check-in only then to find out that they're going to charge you $25 for your suitcase? ...

I think the problem becomes one of program-to-app conversions that are taking place up in Redmond. Right now, many programs (and hardware drivers) are delivered as a program (unsigned). When...

So... what happens with respect to Windows 10 licensing the day after? Someone high up in Microsoft indicated that the O/S won't go to subscription pricing but that's not the same as Microsoft...

Yeah but you have to logout/login to find that they come back. You have to kill them also at the package repository level.

So far, it appears to be working for a user. Thanks.

I would also mention that there's a registry area worth looking into:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local...