Microsoft Confirms Another 2017 Update After Windows 10 Creators Update (betanews.com) 74
Mark Wilson, writing for BetaNews: Windows 10 Creators Update is due to arrive in the spring, and at Microsoft Ignite in Australia, the company confirmed that a second major update is on the way later in the year. We don't know a great deal about this update, but it's likely to incorporate Project NEON design elements. While it is not a new revelation that a second big update is coming to Windows 10 in 2017, until now there has only been a passing reference to the second one from Microsoft.
Update already released. (Score:1)
You can download it here [debian.org]
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You mean here [distrowatch.com]
The usual 2 Windows10 questions: (Score:5, Insightful)
1) Can I disable it?
2) Does it remove the spyware?
Microsoft, please get it: NOTHING ELSE matters to us concerning your Windows 10 updates.
Re:The usual 2 Windows10 questions: (Score:5, Funny)
Dear potential user:
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Microsoft Windows 10 Grass Roots Marketing Team
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1) Can I disable it?
2) Does it remove the spyware?
Microsoft, please get it: NOTHING ELSE matters to us concerning your Windows 10 updates.
1) I don't want to disable it. I want updates, especially when they are free and provide security and usability enhancements.
2) Define spyware. Telemetry is not spyware.
Re:The usual 2 Windows10 questions: (Score:5, Interesting)
Telemetry is not spyware.
I beg to differ. In fact, places that deal with HIPAA and PCI compliance rules have to be crazy-OCD about this sort of stuff. On paper, it would seem that the mandatory telemetry could easily violate these regulations, and Microsoft refuses to give assurance or proof otherwise.
Windows is racing Apple to see which can become wholly unsuitable in an enterprise environment first.
Re:The usual 2 Windows10 questions: (Score:5, Insightful)
Win10 Ent is available as a volume license purchase only. I'm in an organization with less than 10 people but are required to be PCI Compliant. Microsoft literally offers 0 versions of Windows 10 that are both compliant and purchased in a small enough quantity for our business.
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Not true. It's like $8 a month and even individuals can use it starting with Windows 10. I am not defending. Just stating MS is making enterprise more readily available
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Not true. It's like $8 a month and even individuals can use it starting with Windows 10. I am not defending. Just stating MS is making enterprise more readily available
The price sounds right (but not cheap if you consider that if you stay 10 years with Win7 you'll pay like $10-20/year) but where can one actually buy a single license? They say it's per user but not in any place Microsoft makes easy to find at least. Also you have to hook yourself up to the Azure cloud to use the CSP version, if you don't want to be tethered to Microsoft you need the VL version. Also it's the E3 version which basically means you get an 8 month slack on your leash using CBB (current branch f
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That story did a poor job explaining what such a vGPU is, i.e. not explaining it at all.
I am fairly confident you need an expensive AMD Fire Pro or equivalent graphics card, and nvidia might lock the feature away in Geforce GRID products only - uncommon rackable hardware for the kind of companies that can get a Windows volume license anyway.
It's likely more cost efficient to have two computers, one for Windows and one for browsing and work, although I call that a waste of silicon and other materials.
One opt
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Speaking of which Nvidia crippled their own drivers on Linux to prevent KVM working properly with power management ... Unless you buy the expensive Quadro's of course
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Telemetry is not spyware.
I beg to differ. In fact, places that deal with HIPAA and PCI compliance rules have to be crazy-OCD about this sort of stuff. On paper, it would seem that the mandatory telemetry could easily violate these regulations, and Microsoft refuses to give assurance or proof otherwise.
Windows is racing Apple to see which can become wholly unsuitable in an enterprise environment first.
What a load of bullshit. I have hundreds of HIPAA and PCI systems in my enterprise and Windows 10 never even comes up in the discussions with the compliance people. Stop making shit up just to fucking hate on Windows 10.
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If you don't like it, install Linux. Or a BSD. Or whatever you like.
Don't you worry your astroturfing AC head over that, as an ever-increasing number of us HAVE dumped anything MS and enjoy our computers FAR more than we did when still using Windows.. I used/supported MS products for 20 years as a user and a sysadmin. When I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with all things MS, and one day deleted the Win7 partition on my systems, reinitialized grub and haven't looked back.. I'm supremely entertained by all the abuse MS heaps on those poor suckers who put up with said a
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I'm supremely entertained by all the abuse MS heaps on those poor suckers who put up with said abuse by continuing to use MS products..
I use Windows 10 for some workstation tasks at work (simply because capable applications are not available on other platforms) and at home for gaming. I turn off the one-line start menu suggestion and turn off the typing/voice feedback in privacy settings and I'm curious: What is the specific "abuse" you're referring to?
I hear a lot of hyperbole but not a lot of evidence.
Re: The usual 2 Windows10 questions: (Score:2)
That is true, if by "us" you mean a tiny minority of Windows 10 users.
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This is the part where I think there is a massive disconnect between technologists and the layman. The layman, even when it's explained to them the privacy implications of a system, they simply do not care.
"I know, but I want the service"
"I'm not that important"
"Well how else is service supposed to work?"
I could go on, but I think you get the point. My uncle had his identity stolen because facebook, he has some money, and it took 6 months to sort out. He's still on facebook... MS just wants to cash in on wh
Operation "boil the frogs" (Score:2)
Operation "boil the frogs" is continuing as planned I see!
Translation... (Score:4, Funny)
"We weren't able to jam all the spyware and bloat in for this release and still make the timeline, so we're giving you another release later this year to add all that and more!"
Agile! (Score:2)
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It is cheap, and in most software dev environments, if you can get features done and the thing shipped, you win, regardless of the technological debt obtained. Refactoring makes no ROI, so why bother. Same with security.
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Actually, agile software development improves quality by delivering on shorter development cycles. What's the point of spending 2 years developing a multi-million-dollar, fully-featured content management system when requirements change out from under you? Every piece that doesn't work as well in the real world as it does for QA will break all at once when you ship it out--welcome to beta software--and features will do what users wanted two years ago.
With agile development, you deliver in pieces. You
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This is how it should work in a perfect world.
Reality is different - in the real world 'agile' is too often synonymous to: Release often, regardless of QA, come hell or high water. Errors remain uncorrected or even become part of the feature set, knowledge is not gained nor applied.
Re:Agile! (Score:4, Interesting)
When agile is done correctly you are right. But agile, like socialism, is always "perfect world" scenario stuff. All too often management wants you to release early and often and miss the "fail quickly" component.
Where I am now we're expected to release often with the same standard of QA we had with a traditional waterfall project management style. It just doesn't work, leads to higher stress, turn over and ultimately failure. Then you have the shops that want to apply agile to fucking everything from janitorial services to sales. This is the cookie cutter approach, or like my old boss used to say "Give the fuckers a hammer and suddenly everything looks like a nail"
I'm just not impressed with agile. The quality of development the last 5 or so years from every shop I've seen use it has fallen sharply.
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When agile is done correctly you are right. But agile, like socialism, is always "perfect world" scenario stuff.
To be fair Capitalism is also a "perfect world" scenario. You can paint it red (communism) or blue (capitalism), but what we have in reality is the very same modernized Feudalism.
No, capitalism is self correcting. Capitalism acknowledges flaws but allows for markets to fix them. Socialism does not, can not and will not do so. What you're talking about is crony capitalism which is a mix of capitalism and socialism where government picks winners and losers.
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Statement of work: Build engine for Android architecture
Sales Order: Pay me money net-30
Where's the confusion? If the customer provides a Windows phone, too fucking bad they signed a goddamned contract that explicitly stated
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Sprints are SCRUM. You don't need to use SCRUM to perform agile project management.
User stories are an attempt to dress up requirements gathering and the requirements traceability matrix. In project management, a requirement has a business justification and a stakeholder. The Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) will tell you the requirement (what?), the stakeholder (who?), the business justification (why?), and the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements which implement the requirement (how?). User
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Yes well, some people hear the word "Agile" and don't bother to look up what that means. There are published standards on this stuff, you know. They're built on top of other published standards. I don't like the SCRUM terminology largely because I work better with direct information instead of social idealism--therapy for me involves a pencil and a clipboard while the psychiatrist tries to explain wtf is wrong inside my head, not group-hug sessions, supportive friends, and pep talks--but it's still actu
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If your engine is sooooo complicated that creating a simple scene to show progress is too hard, then you already failed at technology.
You could easily have small deliverables or demo to show that what you have works:
- Create a context, show a simple triangle
- Add texture, shaders support, maybe lighting with hardcoded data in the renderer
- Load textures and shaders as assets (probably requires changing the buildsystem and asset loader)
- Load geometry, levels...
- Controls working
- Sound effects working
That w
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I don't know, I don't have much experience and only worked on a few console games and emulators!
Re:Agile! (Score:4, Insightful)
Good job Ms!
Yay! (Score:2)
For the record... (Score:2)
I will upgrade my Win 7 and Win 8.1 machines to Win 10 on the day Margot Robbie bursts through the door of my apartment and begs to have sex with me.
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That would be terrible. I'd have to submit to Ms. Robbie, then commit suicide.
ugly? (Score:2)
I was given an old laptop that had Windows XP on it the other day. I had forgotten how beautiful it looked, easier on the eyes than Win7, and far better than Win10. I fear that this "Neon" is a further step in the wrong direction. The pictures I've seen are really uninformative--half are gray windows on black backgrounds, the rest are simply uninterpretable. One article says Neon will bring "motion and fluidity to Windows 10's desktop. Apps will be expected to use transitions and animations..." Sounds
Windows 11 (Score:1)