If you are hiring a bricklayer to do the work of an architect, or vice versa, you probably have the wrong person for the job.
If you are hiring a script kiddie to doe the work of a software engineer, or vice versa, you probably have the wrong person for the job.

Just keep in mind that in many areas, using an unlicensed engineer on certain projects is illegal. When is software engineering going to finally step up to the plate?

This is true of all OSs, but the saying goes: "Intel giveth and Microsoft taketh away."

I have been using win7 and win8.1 on many windows systems for several years without noticing this kind of slowdown.
Something is either messed up or unkempt.
Uninstall stuff you don't use, make sure the registry is OK, and keep the PATH trimmed. Also, keep your non SSD drives defragmented.

Perhaps Lenovo reads their mail. I have sent many suggestions to them like this.

https://veracrypt.codeplex.com...

Apple usurps other's IP and copyrighted content all of the time. Nothing new here to see. Just move along...

Apple can do no wrong. Just get used to it---unless you have more lawyers than they do.

The UK government could learn a thing or two from Hillary Clinton.
Just keep everything on your personal server. Then pick and choose what you want to disclose.

With security like this, who needs Snowden?

Next they will be saying that the test only looks at the Virus' metadata. They will only be logging the numbers of those who infected you, but not look at the actual antibodies.

So what else is new? Most "Global Business Leaders" don't know much about anything else, yet some succeed due to blind luck and sheer force of money.

A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am." The woman below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude." "You must be an engineer," said the balloonist."I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?" "Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip."
The woman below responded, "You must be in Management." "I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?" "Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."

This is an ART exhibit? It may be art, and it definitely belongs in a museum, but not because it's art.

Apple has decreed that you are in the boondocks.
You must be outside of the walled garden. :-)

Run them over.
Knock them down.
Thin the herd.

I have seen videos of phone-toting idiots falling into fountains while looking at their phone. What's next?

Again, more ignorance...and you are neck deep in it.
I understand that you simply don't know any better.
Perhaps, when you grow up, there may be hope for you.