A non-techs assessment of Windows 10 (after 4 days):
Once you strip all of the crap Microsoft bloatware and hypeware away (Edge, One Note, Pictures, Videos, OneDrive, Mail, Bing, Phone, Weather, News, etc in etc), it's just another operating system. It's no faster or more enabling that 7 or 8.1. However it is definitely more invasive -- I now have to login to everything using my Microsoft login, as one example.
Nothing is given away. Even Microsoft Windows traditions for generations of users like Freecell, Solitaire and Minesweeper are gone, relegated to that bizarre Windows XBox games world. Yes, they're "free" but hard and slow to access, and lesser versions of what they once were. I am presuming that the standalone XBoxes are functional devices, because if they are anything like the Windows bloatware version they would never sell. The Windows XBox games are generally shit and many of the apps just don't work (e.g. Skype and Acrobat, which you need to download the desktop versions for if you want full features and performance). If I wanted to play free shitter socially connected games, I'd do that on Facebook. Even Candy Crush Saga (or whatever its name is) is part of the Windows 10 bundle.
As soon as Google Docs becomes a proper word processor, I will be out of Mr Microsoft's world.
And no, Apple four-percenters, I won't be coming to your overpriced desktop operating system and hardware precinct.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
i do.
completely
...by not running it.
check out apache open office, or, some people can tolerate libreoffice.As soon as Google Docs becomes a proper word processor, I will be out of Mr Microsoft's world.
both are much more use than M$ and have (more or less) full support for .docx and otherwise bum-fuck M$.
and they're free. even on windows.
you really should, it's not half shit software....And no, Apple four-percenters, I won't be coming to your overpriced desktop operating system and hardware precinct.
I tried both a few years ago, and became increasingly frustrated trying to find out how to do things (one was removing a watermark from a client's document and I can't remember the others) that I know Word can do. So I swallowed hard and signed up for Office 365 or 360 or whatever it's called. Their online help was also ratshit -- Kiwi Biker is a great example of the pros and cons of getting help from an unmoderated forum, and that's how Open and Libre used to do the help stuff. Since then MS has followed suit. Gahh! Thud.
The best ever version of Word was the 2002 model. It's been downhill since. I have no idea what Microsoft's rationale for change has been other than difference.
It's just Word. I don't need Excel or PowerPoint as there are way better options elsewhere.
Anyway, thanks for the memory jog. I shall now go and download Open or Libre or both and see how they have improved over the past while.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
You could also checkout Kingsoft Office, AKA WPS. Chinese office suite in both free (was when I got it anyway) and paid versions, very good MS Office 2010 compatibility at a fraction of the price. its probably got a whole heap of security holes / backdoors that the Chinese Government could use if they wanted to - not much different to MS Office in that respect. Im running it on windows 7 but there are Linux and other platforms as well http://www.kingsoftstore.com/
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
I'm being spammed by Microsoft now everytime my computer starts, a pop up from the bottom menu bar. Right where they force installed that icon to trick many people into accidently upgrading.
Anyway the pop up box says upgrade to windows 10 now, free for a limited time. Lost count how many times I've closed the box. No thanks, bugger of microcrap....
To top it off the mega spyware that it is will hog our net connections too, just look at how much data its sending over the net connection you are paying for:
All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
This will allow Microsoft and the greater ******************** to have a way to steal every joke, every poem, every intellectual endeavor you ever create and have it copyrighted before you even stop typing.
Telemetry is sent once per 5 minutes, to:
vortex.data.microsoft.com
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
This allows them to track you very accurately.
Typing the name of any popular movie into your local file search starts a telemetry process that indexes all media files on your computer and transmits them to:
df.telemetry.microsoft.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
pre.footprintpredict.com
This allows them to index any "unauthorized" content...
When a webcam is first enabled, ~35mb of data gets immediately transmitted to:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
This allows them to get a good layout of your home and surroundings, and a good look at YOU PERSONALLY so they know exactly who to go get and how to stage the attack when something you typed pissed them off.
Everything that is said into an enabled microphone is immediately transmitted to:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
pre.footprintpredict.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
telemetry.appex.bing.net
telemetry.urs.microsoft.com
cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net
statsfe1.ws.microsoft.com
So even if you do not type anything, just talking in the room...
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
bit of a long bow, but:
http://bgr.com/2015/05/26/ios-androi...s-mac-malware/
i installed something the other day, it added itself to my repository without asking. I removed it. Cuntfaces.
There is the hosts file here: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
You can open with Notepad and add entries. Whether Microsoft has done something to circumvent that I'm unsure, but I'd certainly give that a shot. The file is used to lookup host names prior to DNS, so the likes of Spybot add a massive number of malware entries to stop your computer from going to the bad websites.
Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
Wow.
I'd happily block those URL's from my router (already do that for some advertising sites, to "protect" all PC's in the house at once).
If someone can confirm that wouldn't bork Windows ...
Edit: after a brief random google (is that ironic?) : http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r302...s-to-host-file
... it would seem router blocking might sometimes be "best" anyway, as MS apparently bypass the hosts file for some stuff, no telling what more they might start doing that for.
Measure once, cut twice. Practice makes perfect.
Farken hell, all those users that quickly upgraded from 8 to 10... frying pan to fire anyone?
Only issue with higher level blocking is that if the computer moves to another network or travels, it's vulnerable.
Yay... new headache to figure out
Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
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