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Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year(www.theverge.com)

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Agent641@lemmy.world
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Remember when Billiam Gates said nobody would ever need more than 640kb of RAM?

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spicehoarder@lemm.ee
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Yup, then Javascript was invented

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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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What we never needed was his billionaire ass.

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LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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Thank goodness the clouds parted and his holy billionaire visage emerged with the gift of [*angelic chorus] vaccines otherwise we would all be dead now (and he wouldn’t have made a 20 to 1 return on investment). Thank god for billionaires and their unquestionable wisdom.

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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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I mean, that was back when if you wanted a home computer, you were building it yourself from parts from Radio Shack. Not exactly the same thing. I’m not certain that even Apple had the Apple 1 out at that point. I know they hadn’t made the Mac 128k, and weren’t going to for several years.

I haven’t ever met anyone that thought Bill Gates was prescient, just a lucky businessman.

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Laser@feddit.org
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The joke being that he didn’t actually say it, same as Microsoft never stating 10 being the last version of Windows ever

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