Many many years ago there was Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System: TRS-DOS.
It was clunky and slow. You could add four (four!) 360K single-sided, single density 5 1/4 inch floppy disc drives! It had a monochrome screen so I used a small amber monitor. It could only type in all-upper-case letters. My first book came out in all-upper-case. It was awful but it sold like crazy.
Then I learned of a bent pin piggyback IC chip modification that would allow the TRS-80 to type in upper and lower case. I had to go through my entire book searching for every “A” and turning it into an “a.” Then B, C, all the way through the alphabet.
After I got through the all-upper to upper-and-lower operation, LazyWriter software came out that had an automatic case change feature. Rats!
The first hard drive was a 1 MB that was priced at $5,000! Can you imagine? A whole megabyte? Who could use that much storage? :)
Then came CP/M (Control Program/Monitor).
I acquired an LNW computer that would run TRS-DOS or CP/M that could handle two 8 inch, double-sided, 1.2 MB drives. I was in heaven! I could put an entire book project on one disc! I learned WordStar (CP/M) and produced another book.
Then came MS-DOS (MicroSoft Disk Operating System) and OS9 from Apple.
With MS-DOS, only the odd versions worked properly; the even numbered DOS versions were a disaster.
3.2 was a disaster
3.3 worked
3.4 was a disaster
3.5 worked
Microsoft was desperate to make MS-DOS look more like a Mac so they finally came out with a cheap look-alike called “Windows.” Rather than do the right thing and make Windows stand-alone, Microsoft took (one of many) dirty shortcuts and built Windows on top of MS-DOS.
Apple sued Windows for stealing the look and feel of the Mac operating system but a corrupt and crooked judge decided that Apple’s patent did not protect their look and feel even though it did. The crooked judge got a handsome pay-off and Apple got a catastrophe.
Microsoft was given a wide-open door to steal Apple’s ideas and look.
The most severe problem with Windows is that every time you installed an application, the Registry file was “infected” by the new application’s installer software. If the installer was poorly-written it could fail and destroy the Registry file which destroyed Windows. Then, you had to rebuild Windows and re-install everything else again. This made it MANDATORY to completely back up Windows before you installed any new application. If you skipped making the backup and the installer wiped out your registry, you lost everything . . . again.
People began to create a Restore Point which sometimes could save a Windows installation when a new app installer corrupted the registry file. Sometimes it would save the day; sometimes it would not. If it would not, you lost everything . . . again.
After a long time, we have Windows 10 and 10 Pro. Starting with this Windows, spyware was discovered built into the core operating system. The spyware could not be removed. Now, anyone with know-how is able to spy on anyone using Windows 10. Each unsuspecting victim’s webcam, microphone, key-strokes, emails, texts and passwords were constantly sent back to Microsoft.
Microsoft could and did steal
With their impossible-to-remove spyware at the heart of Windows 10 (and beyond) Microsoft spies on everything you view, write and say. Reading books is still safe, but that’s about it.
It’s the new “American” Way
All Spying–All The Time
Meanwhile the NSA removed the safety features from ThinThread and began spying on every American 24 hours every day.
Prism enabled the NSA to record the entire Internet feed from an AT&T data closet in San Francisco.
For a short while, Microsoft maintained the Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro installers as separate. Then, due to laziness, Microsoft combined the Windows 10 Pro and Home installers into one system.
Now you can purchase an expensive ($175) Windows 10 Pro installer and try to install Pro on your computer but it won’t work. The installer notices that you already have Windows 10 Home version, so, even though the DVD and package is labeled “Pro,” you get a Home version installer. The installer takes about 20 hours of your time, puts your computer at risk, and then utterly fails to install Pro. It’s an outrage.
Even more annoying, when you open the Microsoft package and open the Microsoft DVD jacket (with the Microsoft Registration Number “scratcher,” and use the Microsoft DVD to try to advance your computer from 10 Home to 10 Pro you discover that the Registration Number Microsoft sold you for $175 is junk—it just doesn’t work.
It’s fraud. It’s theft. You buy something that you believe is valuable only to find out that it is worthless junk or that it is so complicated that a person of reasonable intelligence cannot comprehend it.
Microsoft must be stopped from producing products that don’t work and the cannot be understood.
Apple’s Dirty Secrets
Meanwhile, after the Yosemite and High Sierra operating systems appeared, Apple took steps to throw their angry customers overboard AGAIN by ruining their equipment by
Summary
It seems like both Microsoft and Apple have determined that your computer is NOT yours but theirs. These rogue companies feel they can do whatever they want with the equipment YOU paid for and own. Without notice, warning or permission they feel free to change or disable your computer and the software you use, any way they want to and any time they want to. It’s Big Brother on steroids. That’s what it is.
It’s just PART of The New “Normal.” Get used to it.
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