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Bad Windows update... Caused total lock up of the system at 100% CPU usage on all cores... Even power button didn't work. Had to unplug the power cord and after that there was no activity whatsoever.
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I've never even heard of that happening before... unreal.
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In normal case BIOS should power down the computer if it locks up, but in some computers it does that by sending suspend request to the operating system. Because Windows shows reboot requests as modal requests that block any other processing except mouse and keyboard events, it never powers down the system. So essentially it is waiting for user to confirm previous request before allowing more important event to be processed. Because CPU usage is already at 100%, it is next to impossible for user to confirm the request that should have already timed out.
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Interesting, did not know that.
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Microsoft has pretty much killed the sales of normal consumer desktop PCs with all the aggressive measures in Windows to get people test their code that is far from production ready.
When I look at the inventory of several retail stores, they only sell very expensive gaming PCs and low-end laptops.
I know there is a lot of Linux and *BSD users, but there really isn't so many programs left that are available only on non-Windows operating systems and are better quality. A lot of cross-platform software are resource hungry because they include isolation and compatibility layers, passive memory management and garbage collectors, analytics and debugging code and are essentially self-modifying.
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Perhaps, though I think people's tastes and preferences have also changed. Not many millennials need/want a desktop pc. A laptop, tablet, or phone has basically taken their place.
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There is still a lot of things you can't or should not do with a tablet or a laptop... I'm talking about people who were born in 1950s, 1960s or 1970s...
Microsoft did try to kill regular desktop applications already with Windows 8 when they started switching focus to Metro applications which have simplified user interface that works better with touch-screen displays. Keyboard and mouse still have more precision when it comes to things like drawing and photo manipulation. Not to mention open-source developers who need CPU power for compiling their software or people who like to build open-source software from sources because binaries keep breaking due to constant changes in Windows or Unix-based operating systems...
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Oh yes I agree there are still use cases, but they are smaller than they once were. Typing is also a big one, it is difficult to type on a tablet or phone. However, there are some decent voice writers out there where you talk and it types, but still not quite as accurate as typing on the ol keyboard, at least not yet.
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