Thank you Ted
On 8/17/2015 11:23 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
Just in case you are just joining this thread, already in progress, I
want to point out that "Windows 10 Sucks" was an article title, and
not the personal nor professional opinion of the humble original
poster, moi.
Windows 10 is "where you want to go today" if you're on the MS
bandwagon, or being dragged along, kicking and screaming, by your
clients. I have no doubt we'll be receiving support calls soon from
clients who are running brand-new machines who may or may not be aware
they're running Windows 10. "Yeah, but that doesn't make any
difference to you, does it?" I'm just hoping for a heads-up if there's
a new font technology, screen enhancement (Aero, for example),
directory changes (abandoning Program Files, for example, or finding
things moved to User/xxxx/LocalSettings), ODBC changes, etc. that
might break the many apps we have out in the field.
Any help would be appreciated.
Before we slip off into OT-land with privacy and such, getting back on
the "Windows 10 Issues" track, ZDNet was busy over the weekend,
Woody Leonhard (the owner of the "Hacker's Guide" trademark, and a
mentor on our first HackFox book) looks into his crystal ball and
prognosticates: "The first six changes Microsoft will make to Windows
10" (Prognosticate is latin for "make stuff up in the slow two weeks
before Labor Day," I think, though I am no scholar):
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2957313/microsoft-windows/the-first-6-changes-microsoft-will-make-to-windows-10.html
"Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10"
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-quietly-rewrites-its-activation-rules-for-windows-10/
(This would be nice if done the right way, which I doubt MS would do.
I needed to rebuild two machines over the weekend that were originally
Action Pack OSes. The old activation keys would no longer work,
leaving me in a tough spot, with OSes no longer the current supported
ones, nor were keys for sale from MS. Complete Freemanize (tm) and
reinstall from scratch, restore from backups. I miss the old MSDN at a
reasonable price and with far more reasonable restrictions. Activation
screws over the unlucky, while pirateers no doubt can work around it.)
"Windows 10 makes diagnostic data collection compulsory"
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2968288/microsoft-windows/windows-10-makes-diagnostic-data-collection-compulsory.html
Because, you know, what you're doing on your machine, when you're
doing it, and how long you worked on any particular document, as well
as random bits of documents, data, bookmarks, shortcuts, clipboard
contents, etc. are helpful to Microsoft, and whichever "partners" they
choose to share it with.
This sounds like it should automatically disqualify Windows for any
confidential work: HIPAA, stock trading, banking, government work,
etc.
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