Windows 8 & 8.1
If you think that installing Windows 8.1 will resolve the issues you may have had with 8, think again. I'm not asking for advice here--I know that there are fixes for some of the devious features of ...
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Gdetrailer wrote:burlmart wrote:
Gdetrailer
I often wonder if the IBM mainframe computer/minicomputer with dozens of dum terminals for enterprise didn;t make more sense than PC upgrades to 'personalized' OSs every 5 years.
The 'personalized' desire could have remained in the court of Atari and Commodore.
Actually there are many businesses today running what we used to call Dumb Terminals.
They call them "Win Terminals" or "Win Terms", aka "diskless boot workstations".
These are nothing more than a PC terminal (no internal HD, optical drive and many do not have USB running a virtual Windows PC disk image from a server farm (sort of like a "main frame" but running Windows Network server environments instead). The IT group manages all aspects of the Win Term environment down to screen resolutions and such.
Interesting.
Does MS charge sa,e for a win term as for a complete PC?
