Weekly Off-Topic I would like to extend a hearty fuck you to Microsoft and Windows 10 this week. I had some updates to install recently and, as usual, I promised I would do it on the weekend when it's more convenient. A couple of days later I go to start my day and I have no internet. My computer tells me that the cable is not plugged-in. So I turn my modem off and on. Nope. I unplug and re-plug the cable. Nope. I try a different cable. Nope. I try a different port on my modem. Nope. I use my phone's internet to check my provider and see if there is an outage or other issues. Nope. Then I check WiFi ... and what do you know, I have WiFi. I start my XBox to see if that has internet ... and how about that, my XBox is getting wired internet just fine. So the provider is fine, the modem is fine, the WiFi is fine, the wired connection to my XBox is fine, and it's just the wired connection to my computer that is dead. The inevitable quickly dawns on me: "Wait a minute, do I need to install these updates to get internet?" I tell it to do it's thing and grumble about my coffee going cold while this happens. The computer restarts and, as if nothing had happened, I have perfect internet. So Microsoft essentially held my internet at ransom because I waited two days to install my latest spyware. This is on the back of another incident this week in which I tried to use the help function in Outlook. My work computer still uses Windows 7 and it turns out that the help tool has been completely disabled. All you get is a message saying they aren't providing service and updates to 7 anymore. But if you're not updating it, then all those topics, or most of them, will remain valid for at least a long time. Couldn't you just leave it? No, of course not, you have to get Windows 10 so they can arbitrarily cut your internet. Fuckers.