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Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
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New #71
For me, the automatic updates would be a showstopper. I would never use such a system as my workhorse. We know how often they have bricked Windows with an update and there is no reason to believe that this will not happen in the future. People make mistakes - that is quite normal. Imposing automatic updates is one of them.
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New #73
alphanumeric
Do you know how often windows 10 consumer build release will be? If it is once a month there could be issues with people that have slow high speed and bandwidth limits. A build release should be released every year not every month with the option to roll back if there is issues. Otherwise, I can see sites popping up on how to block windows update using the host file or third party software.
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New #74
I don't know anymore than you do. I haven't been privy to any secrete Microsoft insider info, if that's what your wondering. Even if I was, as an MVP, I'm bound by my NDA, non disclosure agreement, so I can't comment on it until somebody else leaks it. At the moment though, I don't know anything that falls under "I wish I could tell" anyway.
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New #75
I'm no Guru (D'oh) like others here but I did sleep at Holiday Inn Express last night
As an average user I wonder if MS & Google (other tech giants) realize what the average user community wants? Have been following some threads related to Outlook & Skype on MS Answers forum & there are some very angry users out there. For years this has been an issue, MS apparently not listening to the community. We don't all use Skype.
Hotmail was a fantastic product, one of MS's best. We were forced onto Outlook.
It appears Outlook.com on my Android is going away in favor of Microsoft Outlook. Most reviews I have read for Microsoft Outlook are bad. MS bought Acompli & now must make use of it. Check out the comments on the App Store, many people complaining of loss of functionality.
Windows 10 has very little appeal for me, feel like I just became comfortable with Win 7 in the past couple years. Did not install Win 7 until it had been out for a while. Win Vista wasn't that bad, of course not nearly as good as Win 7. I am always behind the in-crowd. Many of my relatives still run XP & are in no hurry to upgrade. They don't like change.
Just read another post here that the US Navy is paying to extend the life of XP. My dentist still runs XP
Even Google is now screwing with my Google+ page & it's annoying. Not to mention they are also trying to force us onto Hangouts, Google Chat worked great. Better than Hangouts for my purposes.
My point, thru all the whining, is how tedious. Not all of us have time to keep up with this constant barrage of change. Life gets in the way.
I have been installing Linux/Ubuntu systems on older (XP) PC's for some time now. It works great for email, surfing & online shopping. Of course there are still things I need Windows to run but for a second PC it's great. Bit too much "Aw, Snap!" but hey for an OS they only ask a $16 donation to download
While watching Mr. Robot last night found it somewhat amusing that I actually could keep up the discussion = Gnome desktop, root directory, DNS references, et al. that I suspect was supposed to wow the audience. Perhaps I too can be a Guru one day
Last edited by newpgm; 24 Jun 2015 at 20:52. Reason: more info
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New #76
I was on Hotmail for several years before MS bought it. They spiffed up the interface a bit and increased the storage. Otherwise it is basically the same except for the demand for a mobile phone number to maintain access to the account you have had for years.
Since many free WiFi providers block ftp OneDrive lets me back up when it would otherwise not be possible. But for the email part all that was really needed was to increase the storage allotment as everything online gets bigger over time including attachments.
If you keep Linuxin' on down you will be a guru. Read up on the scripts that the control applets use to really do the work and you are most of the way there. (Stuff like the start up scripts and settings in /etc folder. One example: /etc/fstab ) 
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New #77
@MilesAhead
You can actually change that to another non-Microsoft email and you don't need to provide a mobile phone. That how I had been using window 10 preview and our outlook emails.
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New #78
Yay! :)
Do feel like my computer knowledge has taken a leap forward since I began to play with Linux.Last edited by newpgm; 24 Jun 2015 at 13:12.
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New #79
Heh heh. With these new easy Linux installs the young whippersnappers think all you do is pick what you want, reboot, and up comes XWindows when you log in. But it wasn't always that way. The first time I got X going I had a book how to configure it, downloaded the libraries, modified the example lisp configuration file until the thing would load without crashing, and just did a lot of trial and error. I ripped my hair out quite a bit. But that's how I learned. The install got you to 6 virtual terminals in console mode. Plus back then not everything was PCI buss. Once PCI won the bus wars it simplified things.Yay! :)
Do feel like my computer knowledge has taken a leap forward since I began to play with Linux. Had some Unix experience (very little) back in the day when I worked for a large Telecom Co, should have stuck with it
Just installing a browser and getting it to work with online media was a big deal. :)
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To no control over added features or GUI changes. I have a feeling I'm not going to like some of the changes. Time will tell. I can easily just go back to 8.1 if it happens that they change something and I really don't like it.
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