Windows 8 Will No Longer Get App Updates After This Summer (neowin.net) 52
An anonymous reader shares a report: Last year, Microsoft announced when it would be killing app updates and distribution in the Windows Store for Windows Phone 8.x and Windows 8.x. At the time, the blog post stated that Windows Phone 8.x devices would stop receiving app updates after July 1, 2019, while Windows 8.x devices would get app updates through July 1, 2023. However, it seems as though plans have changed a little bit, as the blog post has quietly been updated earlier this month. Microsoft has changed the wording in the post to state that Windows 8 devices will stop getting updates for their apps at the same time as Windows Phone 8.x, that is, July 1 of this year. Windows 8.1 devices will continue to receive updates through the previously announced date in 2023.
But OP compared to $PERSONAL_OS (Score:1)
That's a straw man argument. The OP didn't compare $version of Windows to ALL of Linux; rather, the OP compared $PERSONAL_OS to $CORPORATE_OS.
Dummy.
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What's the market share compared to Win7 & Win (Score:2)
Title should be: "and Win10?"
What's the market share compared to Win7 & Win (Score:2)
You DO realize that subject allows for 50 character,s right?
And that the original title would have fit if I hadn't accidentally chopped off the "10?" part, right?
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> too bad your computer doesn't support Internet search
Some of the problems with statistics are:
* Are they accurate?
* Are they out-of-date?
* Are they trust-worthy
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/. chops text following & such as "& Win 10"
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It is kinda funny.
On Slashdot there is normally pure Hate towards all versions of Windows. However when Microsoft Kills off a version no matter how old it is, there is a group of people up an arms, that they have killed off their favorite OS, and all the future version of the OS pail in comparison.
Windows 8 wasn't great, but it wasn't that bad either. Its biggest problem was it was trying to be something that most people didn't want or have the hardware for.
Windows 8 was a tablet OS, while Windows Users a
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It is kinda funny. On Slashdot there is normally pure Hate towards all versions of Windows. However when Microsoft Kills off a version no matter how old it is, there is a group of people up an arms, that they have killed off their favorite OS, and all the future version of the OS pail in comparison.
Windows 8 wasn't great, but it wasn't that bad either. Its biggest problem was it was trying to be something that most people didn't want or have the hardware for.
Windows 8 was a tablet OS, while Windows Users are a PC/Laptop Users. A lot of the design decisions were rolled back in Windows 10.
But what really bugs me is the User Interface in Windows 2012 Server. WHY SHOULD MY SERVER HAVE A TABLET UI!!!
it's because the hate goes to Microsoft, regardless of their action.
Slashdot will bitch when Microsoft does $X, complaining they should do $Y instead, and then later Slashdot will still bitch when Microsoft does in fact do $Y.
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Since Windows 8, I have seen a lot of posts here that praised the quality of the core components but strongly cursed the UI. Even after Microsoft did some backtracking in Windows 10, its UI is not popular. I don't like it much myself.
So I guarantee the nostalgic group will be a lot larger when Windows 7 runs out of support.
Apps (Score:5, Informative)
This does not mean no updates. Just the "metro" style apps won't be updated. I don't use any of those and they're pretty pointless unless you like the full screen touch enabled phone-style (ie, you have a Surface).
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This does not mean no updates. Just the "metro" style apps won't be updated.
It's not necessary to make that distinction since Windows 8 hasn't received actual updates since it was EOL'd January 2018.
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By Windows 8 I mean Windows 8.1. It's still good until 2023. I don't think many are on plain Windows 8 anymore unless they never heard that there was an update.
And good riddance. (Score:4, Interesting)
I paid money for 8, ended up rolling back to 7 and waiting for 10. The sooner Windows 8 disappears, the better.
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I'm running 10, and I don't *dis*like it any more than I dislike any other version of Windows. I only endure Windows because that's what Adobe runs on, and I can't afford Apple's boutique pricing. (...there's more things I don't like about Apple, but pricing is the main reason.) But there's a *lot* less to dislike about 10 than there was about 8. (Shudder.)
The moment Adobe has a native port on Linux, I'll drop Windows and never look back.
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All we need is a version of 3.11 that runs 64 bit applications.
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I guess it depends on what you're doing. If your configuration isn't too complicated and you are primarily doing content consumption, and you don't have to manage a bunch of endpoints, Windows 8.1, probably on a tablet, would be ok for you.
If you're a content creator, as am I, and spend most of your time in Adobe CC, and don't really have a use for a touch display, or if you're trying to manage a couple hundred endpoints, Windows 8 becomes problematic.
As someone else said, turn off a few things, and 10 is
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Look into 8.1 embedded. All the goodness of 7 and 10, with none of the shit from 10. All telemetry ripped out, only security updates, native support for nVME drives, etc.
A very nice win7-looking OS supported through 2024.
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Have you tried Linux? It's free.
I'm running Mint on a laptop, and it's my go-to machine for anything not to do with photographs. But Adobe CC doesn't run on Mint. And I KNOW, already, there's gimp and darktable and a bunch of other stuff, and I appreciate that they exist and people are doing development on them, but Adobe has the market cornered for now.
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You could have gotten Linux for free.
I *do* have Linux -- currently running Mint on a laptop and Centos on two other machines. But Adobe CC doesn't run on Linux. Even with Wine. There are a bunch of pages on the internet of people who have gotten Photoshop or Lightroom working on Linux, but they're usually either (a) really old versions, or (b) lying.
I look forward to the day when my life can be Windows and/or Apple free. But today is not that day.
Instead of cancelling (Score:3)
They think that it cost them too much trying to launch the Windows Phone mobile platform? Wait until they have to do it anyway to remain in the public view when Android and iPhone have 2-3 decades running and they have to start from scratch 5-10 years from now. It will take trillions to enter and compete then. Once these web based platforms really kick in and compete with Office and everything goes web/stream based Windows days are numbered. The only money generator will be their cloud business and that has good Amazon and Google competition also.
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You forget business is up to their eyeballs in windows only software. Move it to the cloud or wherever you please, there's no getting rid of that trash.
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They could've done what they did with Edge and basically ran an Amazon Fire phone like edition of Android to cut costs and benefit from Google.
That is pretty much exactly what they are doing without actually selling hardware. Want Bing search? Got it. Want Edge on Android? Got it. Want a custom Microsoft Launcher? Got it. All the Office Apps? Got those. Integration with OneDrive, Azure clients, integration with corporate systems? It's all there.
You just get to experience it on decent hardware with a well made underlying OS.
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Mobile will be 75% of Enterprise money in the future.
I disagree. Mobiles are disposable gadgets. The money is in the data management, and in that regard they are the single best placed vendor and likely to cash in on a large portion of that 75%. Between their Azure / Office 365 combination, breaking into Mobile Device Management, MFA for Windows enterprise accounts through mobile, etc.
They are just focusing on leveraging their existing enterprise platforms. There is no money in hardware providing your software works, and in that regard they have complete inte
Quiet changes (Score:2)
Don't you just hate it when important information as this is (at least to the people it'll affect) get announced by just quietly changing the text in posts people have already read?
Oh! Shucks.. Just when ... (Score:2)
So, just upgrade to Windows 8.1 (Score:3)
It's always been a free update to go from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, so I'm not sure that this is a big problem, except for those who for some really odd reason don't want to receive a better experience. This isn't the same as going from 8 to 10, this is 8 to 8.1 and it eliminates concerns over app updates.