Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) 581
Mark Wilson writes: Microsoft has been accused of pushing Windows 10 rather aggressively, and the company's latest move is going to do nothing to silence these accusations. For Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, Windows 10 just became a 'recommended update' in Windows Update.
This is a change from the previous categorization of the upgrade as an 'optional update' and it means that there is renewed potential for unwanted installations. After the launch of Windows 10, there were numerous reports of not only the automatic download of OS installation files, but also unrequested upgrades. The changed status of the update means that, on some machines, the installation of Windows 10 could start automatically.
This is a change from the previous categorization of the upgrade as an 'optional update' and it means that there is renewed potential for unwanted installations. After the launch of Windows 10, there were numerous reports of not only the automatic download of OS installation files, but also unrequested upgrades. The changed status of the update means that, on some machines, the installation of Windows 10 could start automatically.
And when are they going to allow 7 Enterprise... (Score:2, Interesting)
to upgrade? Our MSP says never. They say we have to buy all new licenses since there is no upgrade available.
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You say that like it (not being made to downgrade to 10) is a bad thing.
Man am I glad I scraped every vestige of the Win10 malware droppers out of both my system and the machines of assorted family and neighbours I support some months ago, and switched Windows Update to manual. Now I can control what does (security fixes) and doesn't (the Win10 droppers) get installed.
Re:And when are they going to allow 7 Enterprise.. (Score:4, Interesting)
I predict new pc sales will go through the roof. My dad asked me to upgrade his laptop to windows 10. Three hours later, he had a new OS, but without wifi and lan. That's the time I realized his laptop is too old. Tried a quick search for drivers, put them on a usb stick etc, but couldn't get it to work within half an hour. To put an end to the frustration I bought him a new laptop. Yeah, maybe I shouldn't have given up so soon, but it's better for everyone this way.
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Why not to use this situation to make him use Ubuntu or something of the linux world
Re: And when are they going to allow 7 Enterprise. (Score:5, Funny)
It's very confusing how Mucrosoft says they want everyone to upgrade, but they block Vista and all Enterprise versions.
Well, that does make Enterprise worth the money...
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It makes it worthwhile to install a pirate Enterprise version over a legit Home or Pro one.
Heck, in the bad old days it was a good idea to do that to get rid of Norton etc. crapware and claim back gigabytes lost in a recovery partition.
Re: And when are they going to allow 7 Enterprise (Score:5, Funny)
Re: And when are they going to allow 7 Enterprise (Score:4, Informative)
Spoken like someone who's never written a public facing website
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what specific features of a public facing website can't be implemented in standard HTML and CSS?
Those features whose implementation in standard HTML and CSS requires parts of the standard that widely deployed browsers implement either A. incompletely, B. incorrectly, or C. (for parts marked as implementation-defined) in a manner whose behavior matches neither of the major free browsers (Firefox and Chromium).
Re: And when are they going to allow 7 Enterprise. (Score:4, Insightful)
Jeebus, look at how complicated those instructions are just to disable it. If they had wanted to they could have made it a simple checkbox in the install pop-up.
I don't know why MS is pushing this update so crazy hard. But it's made me NOT want to install it...not ever. I actually was interested in upgrading to Win10 at first. But seeing how aggressively they're pushing it has made me suspicious that something skeevy is going on here behind the scenes. No way am I going to install it now.
Re: And when are they going to allow 7 Enterprise. (Score:5, Insightful)
Jeebus, look at how complicated those instructions are just to disable it. If they had wanted to they could have made it a simple checkbox in the install pop-up.
Yes, but then people would have used it.
MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:4, Interesting)
All the more reason to turn off automatic updates if you have Windows 7 or 8. The good thing of that is that when Microsoft stops releasing new updates for these versions, nobody will care.
Re:MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:4, Insightful)
I just turned off windows updates on my win8.1 netbook. Sure, it might get rooted by random internet script-kiddies, but that's still better than a 100% chance of immediately getting rooted by Microsoft's own script-kiddies.
Windows Update is simply no longer trustworthy.
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I just turned off windows updates on my win8.1 netbook. Sure, it might get rooted by random internet script-kiddies, but that's still better than a 100% chance of immediately getting rooted by Microsoft's own script-kiddies.
Windows Update is simply no longer trustworthy.
Dude. GWX control panel. Go google it or just put in security updates only? That way you won't get 0wned.
Turning off Windows Update is a terrible practice
Re:MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:4, Informative)
Re: MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:3, Funny)
Why complain? Its THEIR OS!
Re: MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:5, Insightful)
Because it's MY MACHINE, perhaps?
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The right to complain stands until a suitable alternative for all Windows software is available on other platforms. Then your complaint becomes valid.
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when I buy a copy of said software, that copy is MINE to do with as I please. Not theirs, not the retailers, MINE.
Re: MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:5, Informative)
The first-sale doctrine creates a basic exception to the copyright holder's distribution right. Once the work is lawfully sold or even transferred gratuitously, the copyright owner's interest in the material object in which the copyrighted work is embodied is exhausted. The owner of the material object can then dispose of it as he sees fit. Thus, one who buys a copy of a book is entitled to resell it, rent it, give it away, or destroy it. However, the owner of the copy of the book will not be able to make new copies of the book because the first-sale doctrine does not limit copyright owner's reproduction right. The rationale of the doctrine is to prevent the copyright owner from restraining the free alienability of goods. Without the doctrine, a possessor of a copy of a copyrighted work would have to negotiate with the copyright owner every time he wished to dispose of his copy. After the initial transfer of ownership of a legal copy of a copyrighted work, the first-sale doctrine exhausts copyright holder's right to control how ownership of that copy can be disposed of. For this reason, this doctrine is also referred to as the "exhaustion rule."
See: 17 USC section 109, and Bobbs-Merrill -v- Strauss (1908).
Obligatory car analogy: I buy a Ford F150 flatbed. Who are Ford to say I can't install an aftermarket roof over the deck of MY VEHICLE THAT I PAID FOR rather than pay over the odds for the stock one?
Re:MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:5, Funny)
stupid loosers
Literacy isn't your strong point, is it?
It is if he's talking about incompetent archers.
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If the current Windows 10 updates are this evil, imagine what they'll be like when users have no alternative.
You mean like the growing user base of Mac, Linux and *BSD? And Android... They are going to push a lot of people away. And even if it is only 15% that will change the landscape in ways they can not imagine.
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You mean like the growing user base of Mac
Have you actually tried using a Mac productively?
Unfortunately, it is the standard company computer where I work. The user experience is horrible if you are used to a responsive system and one that does not get in your way every fucking time.
I installed Windows 10 on the retina Mac Book Pro and things have been better but the keyboard is garbage since the Fn key is on the very outside. Great trackpad, though!
Had a meeting with my boss recently and told him that I will start looking for a new job unless I ge
Re:MS Wants to Own Your Machine for Good (Score:5, Interesting)
If the current Windows 10 updates are this evil, imagine what they'll be like when users have no alternative.
No need to imagine, just look at iOS. Updates are pushed quite forcefully on users, and within a few months more than 90% will upgrade. New "features" include more ways to give Apple money, extra DRM, closing any holes that let you take control of your device. And after a few years, the updates slow your system down so much you are either forced to run an old, unsupported and insecure version or buy new hardware.
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Which is why Apple sales are slowing ... people are finally getting the message
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If you buy a computer with a given OS, and it upgrades to a later OS before the warranty expires, take it back to the store and tell them to fix it :)
Number, please? (Score:2, Insightful)
What's the KB code number so I can hide it?
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For W7, I'm trying unchecking "give me recommended updates the same way I recieve important updates" in the Windows Update settings.
If I get W10 next week we'll know that that didn't work.
Re:Number, please? (Score:5, Insightful)
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.c... [ultimateoutsider.com]
Works a treat :p
Farewell to the soulskill and samzenpus (Score:4, Informative)
Whipslash arrived and fired you immediately. Farewell and thanks for all the stories and dupes over the years.
Re: Farewell to the soulskill and samzenpus (Score:5, Funny)
And now poor Timmy is working his fingers bloody posting stories day and night! But at least we now have Unicode support...
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But at least we now have Unicode support...
Thanks, Frosty, that's the funniest thing I've read so far this week.
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Serious question, but how many full time editors does it really take to run Slashdot? You have to manage the Firehose and prepare stories, but since those are largely editing and posting works submitted by others, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of day-to-day writing as a Slashdot editor.
The only real hardship here is that Slashdot has tended to post news over an 18 hour window or so
Re:Farewell to the soulskill and samzenpus (Score:5, Interesting)
soulskill's profile says "former editor" when before it had some info on it. The foss article was updated with this:
All this goodwill towards the user community might be coming at a cost, however. I’ve heard reports from credible sources of layoffs at Slashdot, with many longtime employees being shown the door, with their jobs either eliminated or handed over to less costly and relatively inexperienced staff. Goodwill or no, this can’t have a positive effect on the site’s users’ experience. We can expect that the same cost cutting is probably happening at SourceForge, which is already struggling.
Re:Farewell to the soulskill and samzenpus (Score:5, Insightful)
" Iâ(TM)ve heard reports from credible sources of layoffs at Slashdot, with many longtime employees being shown the door, with their jobs either eliminated or handed over to less costly and relatively inexperienced staff. Goodwill or no, this canâ(TM)t have a positive effect on the siteâ(TM)s usersâ(TM) experience."
It can hardly get any worse, can it? The longtime employees weren't doing their jobs. The editors didn't edit, we still can't copy and paste without stupid characters appearing in the copy, they would post at least one dupe a week...
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AFAICT, the editors spent 90% of their time posting dupes of 2-week old stories and "Why Aren't There More Women in Tech?!?" articles.
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Responding to your sig: "The SJW cancer on the left is starting to worry me more than the corporate oligarchy on the right."
Which is exactly what the corporate oligarchy on the right wants. Mission accomplished! That has been the strategy for 40 years now: distract, distract, distract. The perils of gay marriage burned out quite some time ago. Now reviving the Terrible Peril of Political Correctness yet again, with a new label. You are putty in their hands.
Family member's WIN computer got locked out (Score:5, Interesting)
Rather than fiddling with keys and password recoveries, we have just installed Linux Mint.
No complains or further questions. People use computer for browsing mostly.
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Rather than fiddling with keys and password recoveries, we have just installed Linux Mint.
No complains or further questions. People use computer for browsing mostly.
I'm finding Mint with Cinnamon to be quite good! I'm re-discovering Linux only because Microsoft has chosen to be a complete asshole to me. This story is just another middle finger from them.
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Guess your family member doesn't play games. Gaming is the only reason I HAVE a windows computer.
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IGN's games of the year, 2015:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Bloodborne
Fallout 4
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Ori and the Blind Forest
Pillars of Eternity
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Super Mario Maker
Tales From the Borderlands
Number of them available on Linux: 1 (Pillars of Eternity)
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Among your list, Bloodborne and Super Mario Maker are not available for Windows either. To play all games on the list requires a PlayStation 4 console, a Wii U console, and a Windows PC.
Re:Family member's WIN computer got locked out (Score:4, Informative)
Unfortunately I'm still in this boat as well. Linux Mint is my primary OS but I still keep a dual boot of windows for games. As it stands about 1/3 of my steam library is linux compatible.
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Witcher 3 is the best game I've played in recent memory and probably the best RPG I've *ever* played (as a gamer of 30+ years) and it's not on the support list ;/ Waiting for Blood and Wine with my season pass.
I'll stay on Windows 7 as long as I can as a gamer but I will under no circumstances "upgrade" to 10 and I actively steer people away from it. The sad thing is there are really no commercial alternatives that they can just go buy something. No one wants to learn how to install Linux - even something "
Why WOULDN'T It Be Recommended? (Score:5, Funny)
As someone who "upgraded" to Win10 (Score:5, Interesting)
Never mind the spyware. I had Win8.1 for 18 months before I "upgraded" to Win10. Since the upgrade I've had:
1) ctl + left mouse to move a window. Release the wrong button first and the window goes full screen instead.
2) Random mouse locations when clicking left button. Ex: in a web browser hit the back button, it goes full screen. In a web browser click a bookmark group, it minimizes. etc etc etc
3) Close laptop, go to bed. Get up in the morning, laptop has installed updates and rebooted, wants your permission to continue.
4) Default app behaviours change suddenly. Just this morning I opened a pdf on my hard drive and Edge opened it,, not the pdf file viewer I've used for the last few years.
5) Uptime seems to be a week. If it's not updating then when you open your laptop it just doesn't respond.
I bought this laptop November 2013, it came with Win 8.0 and I immediately upgraded to 8.1. Had no issues. Mistakenly "upgraded" to Win10 last summer, all the above issues have plagued me since. If I had to do it all over again I would, in order, stay 8.1 (I'm a gamer, need Windows), go Linux, go Mac, go Win10.
"Close laptop..." OMG!!! (Score:3)
This freaks me out
"Close laptop, go to bed. Get up in the morning, laptop has installed updates and rebooted, wants your permission to continue"
Re:"Close laptop..." OMG!!! (Score:5, Informative)
I had one worse than that. Playing Fallout 4, not triggered an autosave in a while, hit esc so its paused while I have dinner, come back to my linux log in screen. Windows had decided to reboot my machine for updates WHILE a full screen program was running. Brilliant.
Re:"Close laptop..." OMG!!! (Score:4, Informative)
Games usually close without prompting when you press ALT+F4. They can handle the WM_CLOSE & WM_QUERYENDSESSION events; open a "Do you really want to quit" dialog and prevent a logoff. But I haven't seen many games that do this properly.
Re:"Close laptop..." OMG!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
I had one worse than that. Playing Fallout 4, not triggered an autosave in a while, hit esc so its paused while I have dinner, come back to my linux log in screen. Windows had decided to reboot my machine for updates WHILE a full screen program was running. Brilliant.
This technology was pioneered by Microsoft waaayyyyyy
back in Windows 95. LAN game, midnight hits, all the Windows PCs drop to the desktop and show a dialog saying that Windows is about to be rebooted for daylight savings time. All the windows users scream, all the DOS users laugh and laugh, and those of us familiar with Unix as well point and laugh, because a system that needs to reboot because the clock needs to change is beyond hilarious.
Microsoft is the retard in the room. They are completely beyond incompetence, technically. If it weren't for their illegal anticompetitive behavior under Bill Gates, Career Criminal, today it would be "Microsoft who?"
Re:"Close laptop..." OMG!!! (Score:5, Funny)
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Ha! I don't have a wife!
Foiled again, Microsoft!
Re:"Close laptop..." OMG!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Windows 10 is terribly unpredictable. It'll sleep with your wife if you leave the room.
That happened to me the other day. My wife said the laptop went to sleep on her after ten minutes, just like me.
Re:"Close laptop..." OMG!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Ten minutes? What do you do for the other eight?
Critical (Score:3, Insightful)
Next it will be a critical update.
I recommend ... (Score:4, Informative)
Here's my recommendation to Microsoft, go fuck yourself.
You want to fuck up my Windows 7 machine? You want to fuck me with your ads and spying on me? See my recommendation above.
Microsoft Recommendations (Score:5, Insightful)
I've made it my business to never do what Microsoft recommends. That has served me well over the years.
Hands up everyone (Score:2)
who misread the title saying Windows 7 and 8.1 were recommended updates for Windows 10.
Re:Hands up everyone (Score:5, Informative)
What do you mean by "misread"? That's basically the recommendation of every security researcher.
This is what happens when monopoly revenue falls.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Windows Revenue is down 50% because of the mobile revolution. Then there are technologies like Citrix that are challenging Microsoft's dominance in corporate America.
The new business model is obvious; monetize non-business customers by trapping them in a windows through a walled garden while selling their personal information to the highest bidder while protecting the corporate deployment base.
Microsoft thinks all their customers are mom and dad surfing e-mail on their home pc's when in reality they just killed tens of thousands of small businesses, small pc shops, SOHO offices and so forth running windows PC's with legacy code. This is the knucklehead moment where they behead themselves and the market realizes just how dangerous Microsoft really is. They are going to tick off a lot of people and impress nobody if they pull this off successfully; given the state of the market and computers in general I doubt they are going to get out of this unscathed.
Re:This is what happens when monopoly revenue fall (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:This is what happens when monopoly revenue fall (Score:4, Insightful)
So what? The value of a Windows 7/8/8.1 user is $0 to Microsoft. The value of a Windows 10 user is $x per year. The only thing that matters is converting as many people as possible to Windows 10. If in the process they break a PC that cannot possibly run Window 10, then it's not a loss.
Another FU for M$ (Score:5, Informative)
They don't consider how this crap works in a slow internet environment. I'm on boat in Mexico. Internet is slow when you can get it at all. I don't have the bandwidth for your ads and your spyware. I need weather data! Ever try and use outlook on slow internet? it spends most of it's time [not responding]!
I had a situation where my long range wifi usb port pulled out. So I figured I'd just change my mac address on my notebook to the one that died so I can keep using the internet service I paid for... but NOOOOO they block me from doing that.
What happened to when a computer used to be a tool? Now it's a spyware machine I'm supposed to pay for?!
Re:Another FU for M$ (Score:5, Informative)
What happened to when a computer used to be a tool? Now it's a spyware machine I'm supposed to pay for?!
It's still a tool, just one for the other team.
Re:Another FU for M$ (Score:4, Funny)
They don't consider how this crap works in a slow internet environment. I'm on boat in Mexico.
El Chapo Guzman?
Make sure Windows 10 does what you need it to do.. (Score:5, Interesting)
Just in case you're looking for another reason not to switch.
I put this conversation up as a discussion topic here on /. - http://answers.microsoft.com/e... [microsoft.com]
Com port management has never been great in Windows and in Win 10, if you are doing device development work or working with different devices which allocate com ports, you may find yourself running out of them and/or applications no longer working because the allocated port number is higher than the range the application handles.
Very disappointing non-response by Microsoft and their employees.
Re:Make sure Windows 10 does what you need it to d (Score:4, Insightful)
At least I wasn't told to reimage the PC...
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Re:If you're still mucking about with com ports... (Score:4, Insightful)
That's .... ugly. I had no idea.
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It is like this because not all MCUs support USB device mode netively and also because it is easier to program the MCU to communicate in RS232 and then stick the converter chip between it and USB and then use the driver provided by the manufacturer of the chip instead of writing your own. This is suitable if the device does not need high speeds, the FTDI chips can do about 1mbps IIRC.
This is great for things like device programmers, 3d printers, diagnostic and/or control of industrial machines and other low
I am wondering what would happen after 1 year (Score:4, Interesting)
During the leadup to the release of Windows 10 at the end of July of last year, I remember that they were repeatedly stating that it would only be free to current Windows users for the first year after its initial public release (July 29, 2015).
Given MS's actions since with regards to Windows 10 and how they are pushing the upgrade that people have to explicitly opt out of, I believe it is quite apparent that they were only saying that to try and encourage people to adopt it early, and never had any intent to charge for it at all.
Re:I am wondering what would happen after 1 year (Score:5, Insightful)
At this point I expect that the supposed cutoff date will roll around, and then one of two things will happen:
1) They start charging whatever they're charging for it. But it won't stop being a "Recommended" update for 7 and 8.1. Meaning of course that some loser will turn updates back on or boot up a laptop that spent seven months without a battery, get updated, and suddenly find their copy of Windows 10 isn't licensed and they have a thirty day countdown. Pay up, sucker.
2) Nothing happens. It remains free. Eventually Microsoft will get around to yanking the updates, but probably not before something like option one happens. Credits to carrots the nagware will stick around though, just different. And no way are the telemetry updates getting removed.
Look deep into your heart. Which one do you think is gonna happen?
Reading between the lines (Score:5, Insightful)
In other words they're making it as difficult as possible to avoid upgrading.
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2. Don't open hawtsexyclinton.mov.exe when it arrives in your inbox.
Ffft. It didn't work anyway.
Just follow these simple instructions (Score:5, Informative)
"Free from Microsoft" is an oxymoron (Score:5, Interesting)
I've been posing (and pondering) this question ever since I was convinced that Microsoft was not charging money for the upgrade to Windows 10:
Why?
One of the major business model innovations underlying Microsoft's "success" is ignoring the end user. Microsoft has increasingly focused on selling to the makers and the end users are basically forced to go along. Yeah, Apple survived (after a near death experience), but I'm still doubtful that the most creative accountants can show profits from the OS side of their business model. Linux remains a niche player for lack of any good business models, but MS got fat from the manufacturers.
Now Microsoft suddenly bites the hands that have been feeding it? Actually, more like gnawing off the arms at the elbows. The makers are in a commodity business of the nastiest, lowest-profits sort, and many of them can't afford to skip the new-box sales for a year or so, just because so many older machines suddenly become like-new again.
MS has plenty of cash in the bank. "Honey badger don't care" which makers survive. There will be at least a couple of makers around to sell new computers, and Microsoft will just pick up where it left off. However, it has also become pretty clear they are trying to muscle in on part of Apple's business model, and maybe the google's, as well.
Evidently all the makers can say is "That hurts."
Shouldn't Push the Update (Score:3)
I was just dealing with the fallout from Microsoft's upgrade push today. My mother upgraded from 7 to 10 and 10 would no longer support the 1600 x 900 her shitty HP monitor wanted to do. If I hadnt come along she would have been stuck on an extremely low rez setting (which is all Wondows 10 would support on her monitor) for god only knows how long because there was no driver update for her crappy on board video card to solve the problem.
Was that specifically Miscrosofts fault? No.
Should they have been pushing an OS upgrade like they were on people with old crappy hardware? the answer is also no.
I put her back on system 7 and everything works fine now.
Windows server 2016 on desktop (Score:3)
I'm going to get a new gaming PC sometime next year, and probably I'd "have to" run Windows 10 on it.
Luckily, I can still get Windows Server 2016 from Dreamspark.
Looks like it will have all the features of Windows 10 with bits that allow you to turn OFF all the nastinesses.You can just install Audio and DirectX support and play. I know of friends who have done this with Windows Server 2012, so it should be ok.
As a bonus, I can have a domain controller in my home, so that if wife ever needs to have Windows 10 in her computer, we can just have it join the domain and remain in our control, not Microsoft's.
Drivers are a massive issue for older computers (Score:3)
I've had a couple of family members bring me their laptops with Windows 10 issues. While I'm for people learning about their own computers and taking decisive actions, but the current Windows 10 upgrade push is irresponsible. From Microsoft's perspective things are looking great if this works. More people will be on the later versions of Windows. Great for them.
But this push is advertised to EVERYONE, regardless of hardware age. So that older Toshiba laptop gets an upgrade courtesy of grandma pushing yes to the Windows 10 prompt. Everything installs correctly until a week down the track when there's obviously something wrong with the NVidia drivers, or the bluetooth stack. Head off to the Toshiba support site to grab drivers and only 8.1 is supported with NO intention of providing anything later. And they aggressively version check in the setup, so a very manual installation is required. Same goes for HP.
While I think it's great getting everyone on a level playing field. I think they really should make sure that the hardware is supported by the vendors before recommending the upgrade.
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But this push is advertised to EVERYONE, regardless of hardware age.
Yes. That means that this upcoming garage sale season there will be assloads of PCs which have been auto-upgraded to Win10 and which no longer work correctly available for sale, cheap! Because most Windows users just buy a new PC when theirs goes tits up. It's so expensive to have them maintained that a new box is cheaper, if you buy budget.
It's malware. Sue them. (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, the Win10 upgrade crap has reached the point where it's effectively malware.
AV/Anti-Malware providers need to start killing it on an automated basis.
And a lawsuit needs to be brought against Microsoft for infecting their users computers with it.
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I need Azure powershell for work. Too bad ps will not run in linux...
Really? http://superuser.com/questions... [superuser.com]
Re:fuck you microsoft! (Score:5, Funny)
I know, right? That's pretty sad that they can't even give it away for free. They have to force it.
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I've got a laptop that we use to support a robotics team; it came with Windows 10. Its a real pain in the neck that there is no way to block updates; the last thing we need is a misfortunate update that alters some critical aspect of behavior just before a competition. I guess Microsoft is very confident that they will never hash things up since they have removed all control from we who own the computers.
I'm *not* thinking of replacing any of my current home computers with Windows 10.
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Find Windows Update
Change start type to "Disabled"
Fixed!
Most people don't defend against creeping abuse. (Score:3)
Most people don't defend themselves against slowly increasing abuse.
Re:Most people don't defend against creeping abuse (Score:5, Insightful)
When a business no longer provides a worthwhile product or service which it can sell, it switches to lock-in/rent-seeking mode.
Re:But why? (Score:5, Interesting)
Why does MS feel its so important for us to upgrade?
I don't understand why MS feels they have to force Win 10 on us when many are perfectly happy with the Win we have.
Because Microsoft wants to spy on you for financial gain.
People running 7 and 8.1 can avoid the updates that add the spying to them, but since it's baked into Win10 you can't avoid it so easily then, so the obvious course for Microsoft is to trick people into upgrading to 10.
Given the overwhelming majority of people are on Windows -- I kinda wonder if Microsoft is really the only one doing the collection of data off of it.
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Aside from Spyware they want to sell Apps to you.
Apps that may do the same thing as you have for free in Win 7.
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And don't you think that Microsoft will find a way to disable the GWX control panel and push Win 10 anyway?
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Are there Linux replacements for SolidWorks, Altium Designer, or Adobe Premiere?
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LibreCAD, Altium runs through WiNE (I use it), OpenShot or KDEnLive. You're welcome.
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Why does DirectX have such a hold on gamers?
Because 3dfx made their own API (GLIDE) instead of implementing MiniGL from the outset. That opened the door for Microsoft to do the same thing, even though they already had a software OpenGL implementation in-house. (An old, crap one, to be fair, but at least it was something.) You can thank 3dfx for their non-standards-based driver for Direct3D even being a thing.
Is there nothing out there strong enough to compete and let people get off of windows?
That's not what this is about. People didn't use Direct3D because it was the best thing. They used it because they were windows developers and i