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Alternatives to Microsoft

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Hello fellow Writers, I think some of you may be aware that I have had 'issues' with my computer over the past year or so.   I ended up having a new hard-drive installed; Windows 10 is gone as I went back to Windows 7. I can't say there is much improvement. When there are updates to install, it takes time, and then, it gives me a message saying: Installing Incomplete, Windows is Reversing the process - which then takes anything from 4 to 24 hours!!!! Really Microsoft?! I pay for this?!! So, I scoured the online FAQ's and Help Desks and Forums etc. I even did some of the stuff people said worked. One was a trial to see where the malfunction was occurring; it appeared to be in my Windows Word docs! Hm, so I decided to look around and see if there was anything else to use. I am fed up with the stranglehold that massive corporations have on products, what am I paying for if it keeps going wrong? I have discovered a plethora of alternatives - in no order o