Previous release would not close using every End Program trick or tool I could find under Windows 7.1 still one of the best of the series (I’d tell the Softees where they could place 8-11, but I’m trying to be polite, and an quite annoyed supersystem coming together on my desk, w/a water-cooled open Core-9 and a quarter Ter of ram, 4-disk RAID-5 6 Terr stack and 4 x 6 Ter JBODs blu-ray and hs normal DVD reader/writers and sufficient scanners & printers & security to make any power-mad fotog furious will have to run on-line almost constantly to let MS check up how much power I’m wasting because people code better than machines, along with what I’m up to - I wish the old DEC team was still here writing efficient reliable OS’s - imagine what the team who gave us O/S-8 - capable of making a fairly unlimited machine do Everything and Anything in 32 Kwords of core at 20 times the speed imaginable for 1969 were around, given all the Windows tech and h/s parallel graphics cards and 55+ years of toys even if 1 core had to be tied to a web connection spitting garbage to MS so the Watchers thought the system was just a fast but empty-minded terminal pad with better speed and graphics but less long-tern memory than a Teletype ASR-33.
Clouds and the poorly evolved web has made most non-gamers just low-security timesharing system users, paying both to play and read “magazines” and “newspapers” using equipment that steals all the information they can steal and sell (another reason I’m glad for the Ducks squared.)
Call me an old Boomer grouch, but I remember just last millennium, when we could record anything standard and creative Cable TV had for us, without having to do the impossible, like breaking HDMI encryption that still leaves the successors of the 3 Rocks, PBS and the TV and music studios able to buy art, maybe hand a couple of copies to friends, humans wrote damned good code and few were in the business of trading, buying and selling our life stories and selling is lies and destroy everything the US stood for. - “We programmed in 1s and in 0s, and sometimes we ran out of 1s!”