Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 9 Aug 2025 00:29:37 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <1071hb2$3qqje$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1071ime$3qrld$2@dont-email.me> <20250807085908.000006a3@gmail.com> <107522e$oqfg$1@dont-email.me> <1075pro$ukab$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hvLF1JK7xQghbG5vKogS/Qs+BNGJO2pwG/B6OZZD46nXjfolcM Cancel-Lock: sha1:3Y5ZklD21jMLrX0XBvM1bu38Lhg= sha256:p+kabwlAJBtPGSgGqURvl2PC1cUDAP65SAle4jjTiEQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70640 alt.comp.os.windows-11:21817 On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 21:23:05 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 15:37:02 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> Internet was a niche thing back then > > Microsoft may have considered it so, but anybody connected to it (e.g. > Universities, research institutions, certain forward-looking companies, > my employer) knew it was the best thing since sliced bread. > > Remember Bill Gates brought out that book “The Way Ahead”, for which he > got some obscene advance before he’d even written a word? That came out > in 1995, and didn’t even talk about the Internet -- except in a hastily- > tacked-on afterword, inserted at just about the last minute before > publication. The irony is in the early days of MSDN while you got a bunch of CDs with various Windows versions, SDKs, the CompuServe forum was where the real action was, sort of an early Experts-Exchage. We had an IT moron that tried to implement a policy to prevent questionable URLS from being accessed. One casualty of his sophisticated filter was 'expert S-EX change'.