Those terms are acceptable to me.
Fine by me except I have to do maintenance on a doctor’s system. The practice management software can only run on Windows and it’s far too difficult to switch. And the Microsoft accounts fuck up the practice management software. It’s incredibly stupid.
Yeah it’d be nice if big companies would develop for Linux instead of being in Microsoft’s pocket. Unfortunately until windows stops being developed they won’t care…
Wine?
I’m going to give it a try this year on my own time, but I can’t really bill a client for time dicking around with getting obscure medical software to work in Wine. Also you get zero support from the software company if you have a nonstandard install.
I think the best option would be to take the most minimum windows version that can run the software, and run that inside of an emulator. Once you get everything installed and working I would back that image up so you can restore it later if anything goes wrong.
I just did this using IOT LTSC 10 in so my friend could run Quickbooks2016 (he didn’t want Win11). He’s been really happy with it (Mint and VirtualBox). I’m a Linux newb and found it pretty painless to set up.
Mint is great!
Heheh that’s not far away from what I’m doing
“We need to be able to track you”
Given MSFT’s growing problems with copilot’s failure, I feel like they should be really trying to make their products seem more appealing not less…I get that their largest market share comes from the commercial/enterprise space but even so. Apple gets to eat their lunch in the consumer market because they sell a billion little devices and accessories per person. MSFT is fighting for pennies on the subscription model. Weren’t these companies world leading innovators? Don’t they have money to hire people with real ideas instead of recycling 2010’s VC playbook BS?
Microsoft is long finished attracting new customers. They’ve had a monopoly for a long ass time, and they’re not going back to loss leading and innovation, ever. We’re well into the last enshittification phase where the trapped customers are bled as hard as possible without killing them (too quickly). In this case, Microsoft only cares about large corporate customers with enough money to pay for the extortionary enterprise subscription licenses and Azure costs, and too much tech debt to feasibly switch to other platforms.
In other words, Microsoft doesn’t give a shit about you, the individual consumer. You don’t matter to them anymore. Even small businesses are dropping off Microsoft’s circle of concern, in the fashion of VMware over the last couple of years post acquisition by Broadcom.
Yeah, I dont disagree, but it still feels like a wasted opportunity even if you are a ruthless capitalist.
The only thing that would make Microsoft care about their Windows customers is if they started loosing 10+% of business and 365 users in a short amount of time, and as and IT guy, that won’t happen any time soon.
Sounds like an excellent arrangement.
