Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Ireland's HSE still uses 30,000 outdated computers, months after devastating cyberattack" video.

  1. Microsoft supports engineered in equipment obsolescence, making fully functional computer hardware obsolete in a marketing department bid to increase profits. Microsoft has consistently failed to address the fundamental security flaws in their operating systems. Why fix the bugs in the old software, when it is so easy to simply issue a new version with a completely new set of bugs.. Microsoft boasts about its intention to reach net zero carbon emissions, while failing to acknowledge the mountain of electronics waste generated by the release of each new version of its operating system. It has the unique ability to render its old software, and the computers on which it runs, obsolete, with new software that has functionality that is essentially the same as that which the customer has already purchased. Not only are personally computers rendered obsolete by this marketing strategy, but so is much of the peripheral computer hardware, which suddenly lacks the necessary software driver compatible support. Is it any wonder that users have become so reluctant to follow the upgrade path Microsoft would like them to follow. Forced into expensive hardware upgrades, simply to maintain access to the computer functionality afforded by the last iteration of the OS. One might conclude that real hardware security improvements are hampered by the requirement of Microsoft to maintain unfettered access to the customers data, software applications. The Microsoft marketing model has evolved from selling products to providing services, in an attempt to create a permanent revenue stream. In general the price users pay for keeping up with the latest software iterations, is accepting the increasing erosion of their privacy and providing access to invasive advertising. No days, when it comes to software upgrades, it can be said "the improvement is no better". What can be guaranteed is ever more bloat ware, demanding ever faster processors, more volatile memory and huge increases in storage memory.
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