Re: The definitive Windows 10 Fall Creators Update review
Let me add to that by recollecting how Microsoft went about releasing Windows at the time when Broadband was just energing.
Most of us had been using the old 54k dial up modems to get on the internet. We were used to those slow speeds.
The idea that we would subscribe to some kind of service for £20 to £30 a month for internet was just an outlandish notion to most. It was bad enough for some, paying for Sky every month !
So how was that prospective $billion industry going to get ordinary people to move over to braodband packages in a short swift timescale?
Well what actually happened?
Microsoft launched their latest Windows O/S. I guess it was XP back then, not sure.
The world quickly moved onto Windows XP
Then, shock horror, it turned out to be riddled with holes, bugs, exploitations and there were horror stories about viruses and worms and trojans the like of which we hadn't seen.
So Microsoft constructed their "Service Pack" which had loads of fixes.
Unfortunately it was so huge in size, that it just wasn't possible for people to download it over their internet using those dial up modems. It would have taken literally days to down load files of such gargantuan size.
The only options were to buy a PC with the Service Pack already installed, or to somehow get hold of a CD copy of that Service Pack or else . . . . .
Go to Broadband and then download it themselves.
Of course the take up for Broadband was then quite swift as people flocked to pay their monthly subscriptions. Then suddenly everything was quicker, pictures loaded instantly instead of line by line and the world changed.
You may review that history of events and see nothing but coincidence.
For myself, it seems to me that the release of a Windows O/S that was so riddled with bugs, hackable holes and exploitations and the subsequent release of a Service Pack "fix" that could only be downloded using Broadband, served to act as the blue touch paper that would ignite the Broadband industry.
Just a coinicidence of course !