FUCK microsoft.....they gobbling up all the information they can get their grubby hands on. their words dont mean shit or their POS privacy statement!!! they probably sending every bit of info they snarf up to our WONDERFUL(NOT) friends the jihadi terrorists (ISIS)! so <----------- microsoft! (thats "piss on you", for those that dont understand what the arrow signifies) thanks Noel, awesome pic
Last Edit: Nov 17, 2015 17:48:16 GMT -6 by dozerguy
Looks like Microsoft has released the November update to the Media Creation Tool again. Rumor has it that the update was pulled because it was reverting the privacy settings for "an extremely small number of people". Yeah right.
Over on Microsoft Answers, srfreeman and I were arguing over the last few days about the update reverting many settings. The gist of his drivel basically was that it is a feature of the future and that expecting anything else without using the advanced image deployment tools was foolish. And then Microsoft pulled the update. Very interesting. I wonder how many settings are restored now in the new update.
In an interview with U.K.’s The Telegraph, Dell chief executive, Michael Dell explains how inaccurate the phrase has become. “The post-PC era has been great for the PC,” he jokes. “When the post-PC era started there were about 180m PCs being sold a year and now it’s up to over 300m, so I like the post-PC era. For the last 11 quarters in a row, we’ve been gaining share in PCs. Last year we outgrew HP and Lenovo. It’s a business with an installed base of 1.8bn PCs, 600m of them are more than four years old, and as we create new beautiful, thin, powerful PCs that are better than the thing you bought five years ago, people will replace the old ones. And we are getting more and more share of that opportunity each quarter that goes by.” www.winbeta.org/news/dell-chief-executive-not-worried-about-the-post-pc-era
Recently we learned of an issue that could have impacted an extremely small number of people who had already installed Windows 10 and applied the November update. Once these customers installed the November update, a few of their settings preferences may have inadvertently not been retained. For these customers, we will restore their settings over the coming days and we apologize for the inconvenience. We worked to resolve the issue as quickly as possible - it will not impact future installs of the November update, which is available today.
Bott, in the linked article, quotes "people who were aware of the details" as saying,
"a 'very, very, very small number of Windows 10 users' who ran the upgrade hit a seemingly minor bug in build 10586.
And he goes on to say that only these settings were reverted:
• Let apps use my advertising ID • Turn on SmartScreen Filter for web content • Let apps run in the background • Sync with devices
Everyone I know who's been through the "upgrade" has reported that many settings were reverted.
Everyone I know who's uninstalled Apps has had them restored by the "upgrade".
Beyond that, I have personally verified that Disabled services become enabled again, Disabled scheduled tasks become enabled again, and System Restore gets turned off after having been enabled. What about THOSE settings?
Do only settings made in Modern Apps matter?
What the hell? Is this just another test to find out how far people can be pushed?
Post by Locutus deBorg on Nov 26, 2015 15:32:39 GMT -6
XP service pack 2 and 3 did that as well with certain services I have the Dell SP2 CD, could not get the SP3 disk so must install SP3 after OOBE if I configure to my specific configuration before installing SP3 some of it is reverted when SP3 is installed I have OEM System Builder SP3 for all other uses but for Dell systems I'd rather use the Dell SLP disc because it's SLP no activation required
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
Microsoft Windows: The Next 30 Years But what will the next 30 years look like? Is the last 30 years of Windows a reliable guide to the future? Is Windows, as many believe, now a legacy platform, a dying franchise that's destined to suffer a slow death of maintenance releases, while more nimble mobile platforms scamper past it?
I've been as critical as anyone of Microsoft's decision to release Windows 10 on PCs and (imminent) mobile before it's ready, with a compromised design that makes life harder for users. But from Microsoft's perspective it's undertaking a gigantic exercise that might just keep the Windows code base relevant for the future.
Here is an item I thought worthy of reposting from the MS forums:
The Chinese government has been planning to move from Windows to its own OS for a while now. China Standard Software recently built an OS, dubbed as NeoKylin to replace Windows in China. And unsurprisingly enough, it looks exactly like Windows XP.
Just for fun I watched a short (and old) documentary on the Mercury Redstone project, from a time when engineering mattered. Listen to how they describe, repeatedly, "testing" and the "pyramid of testing".
It's assumed a given that a product needs to be fully engineered and tested before people can be allowed to get anywhere near it.
And even after all that, the failure of the Mercury-Redstone 1 launch illustrated how unexpected things CAN and DO happen.
Contrast it with big companies' approaches with today's far more complex technology. It's beyond arrogant - it's STUPID to think any human could engineer something that's perfect, let alone not outright dangerous, without testing.
And yet, here we have Windows 10 - the tech that literally drives today's world - being delivered straight from junior programmer's desks directly to us.
Despite its continued insistence that Windows 10 isn’t spying on anyone, Microsoft has done little to convince the majority of concerned users that its latest operating system isn’t taking more data than it needs.
But in order to illustrate just how popular Windows 10 has become, Microsoft felt the need to share some milestones:
People have spent over 11 billion hours on Windows 10 in December alone.
Over 44.5 billion minutes spent in Microsoft Edge across Windows 10 devices in just the last month.
Over 2.5 billion questions asked of Cortana since launch.
Around 30% more Bing search queries per Windows 10 device vs. prior versions of Windows.
Over 82 billion photos viewed within the Windows 10 Photo app.
Gaming continues to grow on Windows 10 – in 2015, gamers spent over 4 billion hours playing PC games on Windows 10.
Gamers have streamed more than 6.6 million hours of Xbox One games to Windows 10 PCs.
“The statistics indicate that Microsoft may be collecting more data than initially thought,” writes Brinkmann. “While it is unclear what data is exactly collected, it is clear that the company is collecting information about the use of individual applications and programs on Windows at the very least.”
Nothing surprising, right? I mean, we already knew this was happening, it's just now that we have more than just suspicions and guesses. I'll probably be leaving Windows 10 soon. The whole Insider thing has been a disappointing waste of time for me. I just got my first mod PM on Microsoft Answers—for nothing!
Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
<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