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No 32-bit support? Microsoft is going full dystopian now. I guess requiring UEFI means legacy BIOS is going away? Yikes. And it looks like Windows 11 will *require* a Microsoft account (at least for the (useless IMO) Home edition of Windows) whereas Windows 10 (manipulative and deceptive as it is) does not (currently use local/domain accounts when using the sucky Windows 10). Windows 11 is so far out of league with anything resembling "normal" that I barely even recognize it as Windows anymore. It looks more like an Apple product than a Microsoft one (and that is NOT a compliment...). I predict come 2025, Windows 7 will see another resurgence in popularity. Calling it now.

Lots of absolute hell in the changelog. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications A lot of it i never used, but some in there really p**s me off. Alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only location allowed Apps can no longer customize areas of the taskbar News and Interests has evolved Basically this means goodbye to taskbar on any other side of the screen (SOMETHING THAT HAS EXISTED SINCE 95) and possibly taskbar customization like Open Shell, StartIsBack and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker if we cannot customize the taskbar anymore with 3rd party apps. As well as that, News and Interests was ruined in just a month. It was somewhat decent on the taskbar but now you need a touchscreen to get somewhere to it, unless you keep Widgets. PLUS, the taskbar now default center is going to cause so many headaches with friends and family. It really should default to the left because the majority of Windows users prefer it that way and have used it that way for 24 years. Centered taskbar is a very, very, very isolated feature that I believe should be something you set, not something that IS set.

Right, And "stuck with it" is a false dichotomy, one can continue using the good versions of Windows e.g. 7 or pick your favorite (Vista, 2000, etc.) I think we will just need to accept that Windows is only going to continue to get worse, and the best thing possible is freezing the frame and sticking with the good stuff. In the span of about 10 years, I have gone from being Microsoft fan #1 to hating the guts of their (recent) products. I saw enough today that I could write a Windows 11 version of this: https://blog.interlinked.us/44/an-open-letter-to-microsoft-why-windows-10-sucks

The stream keeps stopping and buffering. I lolled when they showed how good Skyrim can look. Skyrim, a 10 year old game. Not even using any mods. Who plays Skyrim on PC without mods? At least just Sky UI. They seem really out of touch with the PC Gaming community and they should be embarrassed.

No problem, the fact that your post was hostile and offensive doesn't mean that I was actually offended. Statistics is fine, if compared with statistics, the moment you use averages and medians of (extremely large and "miscellaneous") datasets against specific datapoints what you obtain is at the most a median or average of a mishmash. You compared an average wage (which is usually, but has to be checked, NOT net) against a (surely) net data for a very specific kind of income: first job, minimal legal pay for full time that I provided. Surely there is similar data for the US, but you have some 50+ states, and each one is different, minimum wage is between 7.25 US$/hour and 15 US$/hour: https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/state-minimum-wage https://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-tracker/ For around 2,000 hours/year, that means a fork between 15,000 and 30,000 US$/year which is between 1,250 and 2,500 US $/month. And that is - I believe - gross or "before income and other taxes", anyway both extremes are very different from the $87,864 you used in the comparison. Then the house, you provided median data for a single family house, that is at least a couple levels higher than the kind of flat I used in my post, which is a very basic one, near to the minimum size that a single or a young couple, without children, can live in with a minimum of space, i.e. 55 sq m or 600 sq ft (legally, in Italy, no house can be smaller than 28 sqm, and the minimum - again legally - for a couple, is 38 sqm, roughly, respectively, 300 and 400 sq ft) US houses (and again it depends on states and even on cities) tend to be much larger and a "single family house" is usually a 2 or 3 bedroom one some 1500 to 2500 sq ft: https://www.statista.com/statistics/529371/floor-area-size-new-single-family-homes-usa/ Then the location, even as we have some rather wide differences by region or city, it is rare to find the same wide differences you have among different states and cities in the US, my single datapoint is about a city which is more expensive than many but not among the most expensive ones, to "port" it to the US, that would possibly be (say) Phoenix, Az or Baltimore, Md: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-house-price-state/ and probably the "bottom tier" prices are more comparable. In these two states, minimal pay is around US $ 12, which makes 24,000$/year, which I believe are gross and that become for a single (very roughly) around 12,000 (exempt)+85%*12,000=22,200 which, divided by 12 mean around 1,850 US $/month net . So, in my calculation the ratio is 190,000/1,850=÷100, the same as my old italian 1984 one, but very different from your calculated 3.43*12=41,16 one. If you have the time and will, try finding the corresponding 1984 US data to be able to make a comparison. jaclaz

Looks like I didn't take notes beyond what I posted in this thread -- https://msfn.org/board/topic/182370-extreme-explorer-360-a-how-to-guide-converting-remaining-chinese-to-english/ Hope that helps.

Naah , I believe that the good MS guys think in dec but write in hex , they have a single nibble available for version but reserved B,C,D,E,F for future use, of course NOT documenting it, but rather half-@§§edly marking those values as "RESERVED, DO NOT USE", the project manager quickly realized that he couldn't go further than A, so in order to keep compatibility with older versions added a field for subversion and the good marketing guys came out with clear, logical, consistent version naming, like, you know: Version 1507 Version 1511 (November Update) Version 1607 (Anniversary Update) Version 1703 (Creators Update) Version 1709 (Fall Creators Update) Version 1803 (April 2018 Update) Version 1809 (October 2018 Update) Version 1903 (May 2019 Update) Version 1909 (November 2019 Update) Version 2004 (May 2020 Update) Version 20H2 (October 2020 Update) (you remember the good ol' times when we had SP1, SP2, etc.?) and since they (the marketing guys) have no idea of what a version is, nor what names are for, or more generally no ideas at all, they promoted the "fixed" Windows 10 is and will be the last one. Recently they put a couple interns in a disused lavatory (with a sign on the door "beware of the leopard") where they had archived some old documents, and the yutes[1] found a post-it with scribbled on it "values B,C,D,E,F can be used for Windows versions 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, need to add this to the official documentation", and the Windows project started a new life. Mind you, not that this is what has happened, but it is what may have happened (and still is much more logical than Windows 10 versioning ). jaclaz [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/quotes/qt0404568

I am technically doing that on administrator job. Paid well to use Windows 10

No!!! I'm not paying for Windows 10! I have to be paid to use it. A lot of money to be honest. Else Linux for new computers.

myself, i stopped caring about any win release ever since win 8 betas came out IMO win7 was last "shiny knight", everything after crappozolla

Both working now. I'm curious what caused this since it worked okay on the other 64-bit systems.