M! S! D! N! Fuck you, commoners.Leisher wrote:Microsoft backing down on W10...for big customers.
Windows 10
That makes sense.Leisher wrote:Microsoft backing down on W10...for big customers.
Don't back down on auto-updates for the plebes. Those people are fucking idiots.
Not sarcasm.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Honestly? You're 100% right.TheCatt wrote:That makes sense.Leisher wrote:Microsoft backing down on W10...for big customers.
Don't back down on auto-updates for the plebes. Those people are fucking idiots.
Not sarcasm.
Most people are too stupid/lazy to download updates, and it makes fighting viruses and malware a bitch. Just about every privately owned PC someone hands me to work on hasn't been updated since it was purchased or I worked on it previously. Most people don't do backups, but we trust them to update their PCs?
It makes sense for Microsoft to try and maintain the same version of an OS throughout the world.
But...they're going to get complaints from the majority of the business world who aren't running Enterprise versions of their software. They need to be able to stop these updates as well.
I think they need to just bite the bullet and allow Pro versions and up be able to do updates as normal. Continue to force them to Home users.
They also need to release update notes. If fucking game developers can do it, Microsoft can and should.
Oh, and for all you "I'm sticking with 7 folks", the anti-privacy features from 10 are either already there on your OS or on their way.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Oh, and for all you "I'm sticking with 7 folks", the anti-privacy features from 10 are either already there on your OS or on their way.
It's looking more and more like a linux VM kind of future.
If I wanted a computer that would obfuscate what it is doing and not let me work with it the way I want to, I'd get a fucking Mac.
That's a bit of a stretch. I wouldn't call a Mac a computer.
Edited By Malcolm on 1441290009
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Saying they purposely fucked their past OS isn't really a good way to sell the new OS.Leisher wrote:Oh, and for all you "I'm sticking with 7 folks", the anti-privacy features from 10 are either already there on your OS or on their way.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Win 7 and 8 is downloading Win10 even if you don't tell it to, because it is tied to Windows update settings.
Microsoft is calling this a feature, not a bug.
http://www.pcgamer.com/windows....mission
Microsoft is calling this a feature, not a bug.
http://www.pcgamer.com/windows....mission
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Until recently I had Windows update automatically applying patches to my Win7 machines (other than mine, I like exercising more control on my personal machine), because I thought when something was labelled "Critical Update" it was a security patch or a bug fix. Now I find out it is for data mining and installing Windows 10 nag alerts.
Microsoft has managed to hit a new low, in my perception of them.
Microsoft has managed to hit a new low, in my perception of them.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
How about lower?GORDON wrote:Until recently I had Windows update automatically applying patches to my Win7 machines (other than mine, I like exercising more control on my personal machine), because I thought when something was labelled "Critical Update" it was a security patch or a bug fix. Now I find out it is for data mining and installing Windows 10 nag alerts.
Microsoft has managed to hit a new low, in my perception of them.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Scooped.TheCatt wrote:How about lower?GORDON wrote:Until recently I had Windows update automatically applying patches to my Win7 machines (other than mine, I like exercising more control on my personal machine), because I thought when something was labelled "Critical Update" it was a security patch or a bug fix. Now I find out it is for data mining and installing Windows 10 nag alerts.
Microsoft has managed to hit a new low, in my perception of them.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
This guy says the Win10 upgrade is being forced on some users.
https://thestack.com/world....e-users
Edited By GORDON on 1444950425
https://thestack.com/world....e-users
Edited By GORDON on 1444950425
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Windows 10 Start Menu "now being used to display ads."
http://tech.slashdot.org/story....lay-ads
http://tech.slashdot.org/story....lay-ads
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Some linux flavours should take out ad space. Swear to god, how hard is it for open source hippies to make a not shitty OS a normal person can use?GORDON wrote:Windows 10 Start Menu "now being used to display ads."
http://tech.slashdot.org/story....lay-ads
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
GORDON wrote:I'd drop Microsoft in a second if I, you know, didn't want to run popular programs a lot on my computer.
Steam hit 3.7K games last year. Let's figure they're hitting 5K this year because that'll about match growth from last year. There are about 1.3K games with Linux support, but among them are DotA 2 and CS:GO. Those two games comprise a huge majority of users on steam right now as I type this. As in "almost 500K." Even if linux is only getting 20% of the total titles, as long as they hit the big ones, they've got a selling point for gamers -- a demographic that is only growing.
On the flip side, every windows manager I've seen for *nix fucking sucks, blows, and swallows. An marketable OS isn't a thing that's getting tossed together by the open source community any time soon. The UI looks clunky, alien, bulky, unwieldy, and a host of other adjectives that aren't positive.
Edited By Malcolm on 1444964791
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."