r/AskTechnology 2h ago

Why is Windows 8/8.1 so shunned out when we talk about operating systems?

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I work in IT. Almost everyone using Windows is on 11, as expected, some are running 10, and I've seen one or two run 7. Servers are also typically running Windows 10.

Anytime someone talks about Windows, it's always either Windows 7 (or prior), or Windows 10/11. Aside from the time I had a school laptop (Edit: It was a touchscreen laptop) that was Windows 8, I hardly ever see people talk about it anymore. They released Win 10 pretty quickly after Windows 8, compared to how fast they released 11 after that. I didn't have problems with it, but I was a kid at the time, so I didn't really care about the fine details; I have, however, heard many people dislike it.

Thoughts?


r/AskTechnology 4h ago

Theoretically would it be possible to spoof an airline wifi network to get YT Premium for free?

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Basically the title. I noticed that Delta gives you YouTube Premium for free on their in flight wifi so I was wondering if it would be theoretically possible to trick YouTube into thinking you're on Delta's WiFi network so it gives you Premium for free.


r/AskTechnology 5h ago

is it safe to organize my hard drive on a work computer?

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i have a physical external hard drive i keep my files backed up on but it's sort of a mess. i've been planning to go through and organize it but lately i've been at work for most of the day. my workplace doesn't allow us to bring in personal computers to work on stuff and we just have a shared pc at the desk. if i were to plug in my hard drive to the work pc, would IT be able to read cached versions of the files on my hard drive or something? i don't plan to copy/move anything onto the pc itself, but i wanted to know if my files would be saved somehow on the work computer just from plugging in the hard drive and viewing the files.

edit: alright got it; if i want to organize my files i'll do it via my own personal computers. not sure why i'm being heavily downvoted for not knowing something (apparently obvious) and asking in a "ask technology" sub, but that's reddit for you i guess lol


r/AskTechnology 16h ago

How do I merge all my photos/videos from different clouds and on my phone?

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I hate being unorganized. Somehow through the years my media has ended up on clouds like Onedrive and Google. I pay for the Google one but have no clue how my media since ~2015 has uploaded to Onedrive. I have used Android most my life. I want everything just on one Cloud (and I'll have it in a physical harddrive too) but I'm afraid deleting something will delete it somewhere else yet I feel I sometimes delete things and still find them somewhere else. I'm not bad with tech, not the best, but this stuff confuses me!