[SCCC] Uh-oh...

[Steve]

ushaft seems poised to command us to drop our drawers, bend over, and 
grab our ankles yet again...

<https://link.axios.com/click/24036189.74783/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tL21pY3Jvc29mdC10by1kZXRhaWwtbWFqb3Itd2luZG93cy11cGRhdGUtYXQtanVuZS0yNC1ldmVudC0xYjM4NmRkMS1lZjJmLTRlNTktYjNhNi05MzRkZGNlNDAwYjYuaHRtbD91dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249bmV3c2xldHRlcl9heGlvc3BtJnN0cmVhbT10b3A/58fa663372fbf261118b517bB25edfd4a> 
Axios chief tech correspondent Ina Fried."

We are all doomed... Does this give you a warm fuzzy feeling?
"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said "... Our promise to you is this: we 
will create more opportunity for every Windows developer today and 
welcome every creator who is looking for the most innovative, new, 
open platform to build and distribute and monetize applications. ..."

I haven't yet been able to figure out how to completely stop ushaft 
from performing updates on my "new" W10 laptop, although I did manage 
to get it to stop interrupting work-in-progress when it 
"automagically" downloads said updates. This means that while the 
laptop no longer directly interrupts N1MM running a contest with 
their cutesie-pie little "notices", it still performs downloads in 
the background then insists upon installing them when I shut down the 
machine. Anybody know how to completely stop this 
downloading-and-installation behavior? One of these so-called 
"updates" seems to have disrupted operation of a schematic-capture 
program I've been using since the very early 2000s that works better 
than anything else I've tried on W-XP, W7 and early W10, but not with 
a W10 "update" performed earlier this year. I now have to run that 
program (CIRCAD) on my old, clunky and SLOW W7 laptop.

SteveH K0XP