Mark: I spend a surprising amount of time researching various topics, not the least of which involve stories for WinBeta. Two of my favorite Windows 10 apps for doing this are Tweetium (the excellent third-party Twitter app that provides an easy-to-scan horizontal view of my Twitter feed) and Nextgen Reader (the best RSS reader app on any platform, bar none). Between those two I can keep up with fast-breaking news that I might otherwise miss.
we have become a society of half-assed efforts and gestures. this article doesnt surprise me in the least bit. Windblows10 was designed for those under 35 who only know how to finger-fuck a telephone to an orgasmic facbook, twitter, utube, and freemium games designed for a 3yr old intellect, AND there is No end in sight for anything in this newest offering from MSFT to be completely finished. applications are such bullshit on a REAL computer!! hell, most of society cant even talk in full sentences anymore......acronyms galore!
Last Edit: Jan 20, 2016 8:39:31 GMT -6 by dozerguy
Sorry, but half-assed was us, the baby boomer generation (and I know I don't speak for everyone here).
We're down to "participation trophy" with the current generation.
The tech companies we baby boomers admired and could never quite match the ideals of (e.g., Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM) were run by folks who lived through the Great Depression.
No doubt, we did half-assed moderately well, but we DID end up with Microsoft, Apple, and Google, after all.
NONE of those is anything to be impressed by, though Apple at least seems to hold the ideal that the hardware needs to be decently well designed. Their software is, well, way too dumbed down for my tastes. And it's based on Unix, which has never been anything to write home about. Google (again with the Unix) are the originators of "fuzzy, inexact results are good enough", and of course we're here because of Microsoft, whose success is almost entirely based on plagiarizing Digital's designs.
If anyone doubts that we're solidly in "participation trophy" mode, just watch HLN or CNN on the boob tube for a little while. That's the flat screen home theater system set to set-top PVR mode without time delay for you young'uns.
A Microsoft partner and company started by a former Microsoft employee so the cheerleading is to be expected without any factually data or personal interviews or testimonials.
"Windows 10 Secure Host Baseline" - sounds like a special, bare bones version of Windows 10. Wish we could get something like that. We wouldn't need to be looking for ways to tame the junk that Microsoft is handing out to the rest of us.
I imagine the DoD doesn't care that Aero Glass has been removed, and if all Microsoft did was build a minimal desktop system for those folks, on top of vetted code, yes indeed - THAT variant of Win 10 could be very nice indeed. I don't think the DoD would stand for one moment for ANY of the Metro/Modern/Universal/XAML BS.
With the DoD planing to move to Windows 10, it certainly has a lot of people on many forums asking how can that be. The following comes from the TechNet forum that does gives a bit of insight on how it needs to be done.
The original question posed was:
Is there a version of Windows 10 that does not have all the added "Features" and that is Secure? Or is there a way to remove (not disable but remove) the added "features" permanently and provide a secure version of windows 10 to end users.
I read that the "Department of Defense" will be standardizing on Windows 10, I do not see how this could be unless the DoD has a very different version of Windows 10 that is sold to business and has a different EULA than the rest of us.
All these "Features" in Windows 10 are not buiseness friendly, and very difficult to totally remove from a system. This makes Windows 10 not very secure. So how is the DoD going to do it? If someone in the DoD reads this please reply.
LOL! Some people STILL don't get that "remove permanently" no longer applies!
And that's really key. It's not OUR system, even though it runs on OUR hardware. It's THEIR system and they're going to do with it whatever the hell they want. OUR only choice is to get used to it!
Or...
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
"Windows 10 Secure Host Baseline" - sounds like a special, bare bones version of Windows 10. Wish we could get something like that. We wouldn't need to be looking for ways to tame the junk that Microsoft is handing out to the rest of us.
Reminds me of SELinux. As i recall U.S airforce intel had a hand in that. Or Tiger. Or Bastille security audit software. I used Bastille quite a bit in years past to disable/uninstall borderline vulnerable features in my linux machines. Clear text protocols like telnet or any internet service daemons for file transfer were the first to go or replaced with better secure shell stuff.
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6