Dave Plummer

Yeah, I would much rather pay $199 for Windows Pro per year or $20 a month or whatever the fee schedule would be and not be upsold any further and not have my data monetized and those kinds of things.

Yeah, I mean, I'm way more self-aware now.

There's things I would do much differently, particularly in terms of the advertising.

I always figured there's a guy named David Ogilvie, and he did this ad long ago for the Volkswagen Beetle where it had a picture of a beetle, black and white, and it just said, lemon, beetles.

And there was a block of text below it.

So it's clickbaity and then informational.

And I always tried to follow that pattern.

But there's three ways to sell something, I think.

And you can use sex, fear, or greed.

And sex doesn't work really well for software.

Fear works well for antivirus and stuff, but not so much for optimization and make your computer faster utilities.

And so I always tried to cater to the greed aspect.

You know, make your computer faster, get more RAM available, whatever the value proposition is.

But I realize now that I'm looking at that with my knowledge.

And as an autistic person, I now have an appreciation that other people are going to look at it with their background knowledge and may conclude something different.

So I might be scaring people where I was just trying to incentivize or get their greed instinct going.

So I'd be more sensitive with that kind of thing today.

the top three windows operating systems the different versions i'm a fan of windows 2000 server that's wait what really yeah okay that's what i ran my business on i ran my brother's business we set up multiple salons all vpn to one another and using the sql server and

Yeah, I liked it.

I mean, it doesn't have the visual flash that came with XP, but as a system, and especially as a server operating system, it was great for the day.