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The current situation is as I described

So, in your mind, what is .Net Core then? Scott Hanselmann is a Microsoft developer and evangelist, he works on the Microsoft Web platform. Here's an article he wrote when the Microsoft Team decided to change the name of the .Net Framework version 5 to .Net Core 1.0. So, yes, according to Microsoft, the .Net Core supersedes the .Net Framework, but Microsoft will, and must, maintain the Windows specific version of the .Net Framework.

.Net Core is the .Net Framework. It was created to do two main things, tidy up stuff and go cross platform. This was the main goals from the start. It supersedes the version 4 (the fact that it was originally named .Net Framework 5.0 should be a hint). Microsoft called .Net Core .Net Framework 5 until the first release candidate. Renaming it to .Net Core is one of those things that development organizations do every now and then. I am sorry that your religious hatred is so important to you that you are incapable of using Google.

Now, as I said, it is critically important for Microsoft to maintain the legacy .Net Framework since it is Windows specific and contains features that are not easily portable to a cross-platform framework. It is still a legacy framework however, and even though it will co-exist with the new release of the .Net Framework, called .Net Core, it is not meant to be used for new application development except where the Windows specific features are required.

Where's the link to Microsoft?

A couple above. Also, you can try this which will give you a wiki that, among other things says: "ASP.NET Core is a free and open-source web framework, and the next generation of ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.". Is there anything you are still wondering about? If you don't know how to use Google, please ask an adult.

It's web pages that are filled with useless javascript libraries that people think they still need to use for cross-browser support even though Internet Explorer is long dead.

True, IE 8 is dead, but IE 11 is still in use on millions of desktop and laptop PCs running Windows 7.

It's web pages that are filled with useless ads that run their own scripts, sometimes with their own libraries too, fetched from multiple servers.

How can a site operator work around that while still reassuring the site's sponsors that real human beings in the relevant demographic are seeing the sponsors' messages?

huge animated GIFs that should be in video form

How can a site operator work around that between now and when the last H.264 patent expires? Edge reportedly supports WebM since Windows 10 "Anniversary Update", but it's half broken. And Safari still doesn't. Though H.264 viewers may not require royalties under the AVC Patent Portfolio License, encoders still do.

Disable plug-ins.

This doesn't affect HTML5 video or animated GIFs. Which browsers offer an easy way to disable both of those?

Disable javascript. You'll see how fast browsers really are.

And you'll see how many features fall back to a full page reload for each click.

was

Still is.

and has been superseded by the .Net Core framework

Where has this been stated, explicitly, and not just in your own mind?

If I violate someone's patent, I am in violation of that patent, what framework and programming language I use to do so is irrelevant.

If you exercised your brain cells, you'd realize that you'd be much more likely to violate somebody patent by adopting their framework and programming language which is steeped in patents.

Get this, and keep it on your NAS.

https://support.microsoft.com/...

That's reasonable. It allows implementors to implement whatever they want of the spec.

And as soon as you fall off the spec, those patents aren't covered. Whether Google would have run afoul or not would depend on how they deviated, as in did they use any of the patents in non-conforming material.

Note that Android manufacturers are already paying Microsoft licensing fees for open source software that they are shipping

Showing that Microsoft is more than happy to use the patent hammer when it suits them, so you'd better be careful you don't step over the lines Microsoft has laid out.

Finally, any patents relevant to most of .NET are expired or soon expiring, so they don't matter anymore.

Is that so? Because .NET keeps evolving and new patents keep on being filed. Just take a look at the list of patents. I picked one of the later numbers, and it was filed in 2013.

Did anyone check the actual licensing of .NET . Maybe I am misreading things but:

Component=.NET Framework (redistributable package), License=Proprietary software
Component- Reference source code of .NET Framework 4.5 and earlier, License=Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RSL[a])

The rest is a mixture of MIT License and Apache License 2.0.

Of course, we could get the information from Microsoft .NET licence and I draw your attension to the following:

1. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.

a. Installation and Use. You may install and use any number of copies of the software to design, develop and test your programs.

b. Third Party Programs. The software may include third party programs that Microsoft, not the third party, licenses to you under this agreement. Notices, if any, for the third party program are included for your information only.

2. DATA. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to improve our products and services. You can learn more about data collection and use in the help documentation and the privacy statement at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink... . Your use of the software operates as your consent to these practices.

There is more and maybe I am not reading it right but to me it but it reads like a ticking time bomb.

Did anyone check the actual licensing of .NET . Maybe I am misreading things but:

Component=.NET Framework (redistributable package), License=Proprietary software
Component- Reference source code of .NET Framework 4.5 and earlier, License=Microsoft Reference License (Ms-RSL[a])

The rest is a mixture of MIT License and Apache License 2.0.

Of course, we could get the information from Microsoft .NET licence and I draw your attension to the following:

1. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS.

a. Installation and Use. You may install and use any number of copies of the software to design, develop and test your programs.

b. Third Party Programs. The software may include third party programs that Microsoft, not the third party, licenses to you under this agreement. Notices, if any, for the third party program are included for your information only.

2. DATA. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to improve our products and services. You can learn more about data collection and use in the help documentation and the privacy statement at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink... . Your use of the software operates as your consent to these practices.

There is more and maybe I am not reading it right but to me it but it reads like a ticking time bomb.

https://support.microsoft.com/...

10 hour battery life doing what? I have a brand new macbook pro and it is more around 6-7 hours. It is undoubtedly the best battery life of any laptop I've had so far but not 10 hours.

Actually, Apple is pretty specific (e.g. "Brightness set to 12 clicks from the bottom, or 75%" (see below)) (unlike, say, Microsoft for the Surface Book, who only stated "Auto Brightness Disabled" for the biggest current-hog in the system...Right...) on their Product Page.

Here are the "Tech Specs" for the 15" Touch Bar MacBook Pro. Scroll down to the "Battery and Power" section (and don't forget to read Footnote 8).

You can stamp your feet and accuse people of being retarded idiots as much as you want. But that doesn't change the reality of the situation, which is that a large portion of Apple customers feel like they were just slapped in the face. Customer devotion is Apple's primary currency, and that currency just took a dump so hard you'd think Tim Cook deep throated a dozen Taco Bell chalupas.

I love how you're accusing people of being "idiots" and "retarded" when you're the one who sees invisible ports that don't exist.

FireWire 800 - Not there Gigabit Ethernet - Not there mini DisplayPort - Where? SD Card reader - Nada 5 USB 3.1 gen 1 ports? - Nope

So I have to ask... what cracking are you smoking, because there most certainly isn't *anything* other than a bunch of external bus ports that are otherwise useless without having to spend hundreds of dollars on adapters.

And then... and then... Okay, I'm laughing now... you actually point out a $300 port replicator, just to regain the ports that Apple took away? A Three. Hundred. Dollar. Port Replicator. Because dropping $3000 on a grossly under-equipped laptop wasn't enough of an insult?

Apparently *you* don't get it, let this idiot spell it out for you: I don't give a flying fuck if a single I/O port can let me transfer all the data generated by the Large Hadron Collider in under a minute. I DO care that I'm at someone's house, and they give me something on a USB key but I can't access it without pulling out my Sports Billy bag of dongles. I DO care that I can't connect to a presentation TV or projector without pulling out my Sports Billy bag of dongles. Or transfer photos from my camera. Or connect to a LAN via hardwire because wifi is (for whatever reason) unavailable/unusable (because that does actually happen, irregardless of the dream world you seem to live in). And heaven forbid I forget said Sports Billy bag, cause now I'm using a $3000 chromebook.

Almost *every* *single* real-world use-case has suddenly because an unnecessary hassle when before there was no issue. This is the hardware equivalent of when they switched from PowerPC to Intel, but *without* including Rosetta.

If Apple had left the HDMI port and just one lousy USB 3.1 port, there wouldn't be this uproar. If they had thrown some dongles into the box so people could hit the ground running with their existing stuff, people would eyeroll but there wouldn't be this uproar. But no, they had to take away ALL previous ports with no alternative, forcing people to jump through hoops and spend even more money to regain the shortfall. And now a supposed "portable" computer requires you to carry around a small bundle of adapters, like a new mother carrying a backpack of sundries for her baby. I was more than a little pissed off when they removed

I mean, when they released the iPhone 7, they were at least considerate enough to throw in a lightning to headphone adapter.

Let me ask you: when you carry a laptop, do you carry an AC adapter? Of course you do. So you're already carrying at least ONE adapter. And if you have a laptop that has MiniDP (like most do now, including ALL of the Surface line that are the subject of this article), do you carry one or more adapters (VGA, DVI and/or HDMI) to hook up to external displays, projectors, etc? Of course you do. And if you want to hook up to terrestrial Ethernet with most newer laptops (including ALL of the Surface Line that are the subject of this article), in most cases you're in SERIOUS Dongle-World, so you'll be carrying adapters for that, too. So that leaves what? USB-A. So, all this uproar is because you can't be bothered to purchase a $7 USB-C to USB-A adapter, or a $15 32 GB USB-C/USB-A memory stick?!? Riiiight.

Oh, but wait! Since your beloved Surface Pro 4 only has ON

You can stamp your feet and accuse people of being retarded idiots as much as you want. But that doesn't change the reality of the situation, which is that a large portion of Apple customers feel like they were just slapped in the face. Customer devotion is Apple's primary currency, and that currency just took a dump so hard you'd think Tim Cook deep throated a dozen Taco Bell chalupas.

I love how you're accusing people of being "idiots" and "retarded" when you're the one who sees invisible ports that don't exist.

FireWire 800 - Not there Gigabit Ethernet - Not there mini DisplayPort - Where? SD Card reader - Nada 5 USB 3.1 gen 1 ports? - Nope

So I have to ask... what cracking are you smoking, because there most certainly isn't *anything* other than a bunch of external bus ports that are otherwise useless without having to spend hundreds of dollars on adapters.

And then... and then... Okay, I'm laughing now... you actually point out a $300 port replicator, just to regain the ports that Apple took away? A Three. Hundred. Dollar. Port Replicator. Because dropping $3000 on a grossly under-equipped laptop wasn't enough of an insult?

Apparently *you* don't get it, let this idiot spell it out for you: I don't give a flying fuck if a single I/O port can let me transfer all the data generated by the Large Hadron Collider in under a minute. I DO care that I'm at someone's house, and they give me something on a USB key but I can't access it without pulling out my Sports Billy bag of dongles. I DO care that I can't connect to a presentation TV or projector without pulling out my Sports Billy bag of dongles. Or transfer photos from my camera. Or connect to a LAN via hardwire because wifi is (for whatever reason) unavailable/unusable (because that does actually happen, irregardless of the dream world you seem to live in). And heaven forbid I forget said Sports Billy bag, cause now I'm using a $3000 chromebook.

Almost *every* *single* real-world use-case has suddenly because an unnecessary hassle when before there was no issue. This is the hardware equivalent of when they switched from PowerPC to Intel, but *without* including Rosetta.

If Apple had left the HDMI port and just one lousy USB 3.1 port, there wouldn't be this uproar. If they had thrown some dongles into the box so people could hit the ground running with their existing stuff, people would eyeroll but there wouldn't be this uproar. But no, they had to take away ALL previous ports with no alternative, forcing people to jump through hoops and spend even more money to regain the shortfall. And now a supposed "portable" computer requires you to carry around a small bundle of adapters, like a new mother carrying a backpack of sundries for her baby. I was more than a little pissed off when they removed

I mean, when they released the iPhone 7, they were at least considerate enough to throw in a lightning to headphone adapter.

Let me ask you: when you carry a laptop, do you carry an AC adapter? Of course you do. So you're already carrying at least ONE adapter. And if you have a laptop that has MiniDP (like most do now, including ALL of the Surface line that are the subject of this article), do you carry one or more adapters (VGA, DVI and/or HDMI) to hook up to external displays, projectors, etc? Of course you do. And if you want to hook up to terrestrial Ethernet with most newer laptops (including ALL of the Surface Line that are the subject of this article), in most cases you're in SERIOUS Dongle-World, so you'll be carrying adapters for that, too. So that leaves what? USB-A. So, all this uproar is because you can't be bothered to purchase a $7 USB-C to USB-A adapter, or a $15 32 GB USB-C/USB-A memory stick?!? Riiiight.

Oh, but wait! Since your beloved Surface Pro 4 only has ON

> but what purpose does having a filename beginning with a space serve?

Forced Sorting.

It is MY filenames, not the OS's filenames. That is why we have filenames in the first place -- to be human accessible.

This is why CP/M was designed by an idiot, which MS copied. You can't use colons (:), or double quote (") in a filename.

* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
< (less than)
> (greater than)
: (colon)
" (double quote)
/ (forward slash)
\ (backslash)
| (vertical bar or pipe)
? (question mark)
* (asterisk)

Hello,

This issue has been going on for more than two days. Reports of it date almost a month:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysad...

https://community.spiceworks.c...

Although reports of it in Microsoft's support forum are more recent:

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

The December 9th patch - https://support.microsoft.com/... - might contain some kind of fix or workaround, although I don't see anything mentioned on the page which maps to the issue.

Microsoft is keeping customers up to date with a page on its support forum. Here's Microsoft's short link to the page: https://aka.ms/netcom

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Hello,

This issue has been going on for more than two days. Reports of it date almost a month:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysad...

https://community.spiceworks.c...

Although reports of it in Microsoft's support forum are more recent:

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

The December 9th patch - https://support.microsoft.com/... - might contain some kind of fix or workaround, although I don't see anything mentioned on the page which maps to the issue.

Microsoft is keeping customers up to date with a page on its support forum. Here's Microsoft's short link to the page: https://aka.ms/netcom

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Hello,

This issue has been going on for more than two days. Reports of it date almost a month:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysad...

https://community.spiceworks.c...

Although reports of it in Microsoft's support forum are more recent:

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

The December 9th patch - https://support.microsoft.com/... - might contain some kind of fix or workaround, although I don't see anything mentioned on the page which maps to the issue.

Microsoft is keeping customers up to date with a page on its support forum. Here's Microsoft's short link to the page: https://aka.ms/netcom

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Hello,

This issue has been going on for more than two days. Reports of it date almost a month:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysad...

https://community.spiceworks.c...

Although reports of it in Microsoft's support forum are more recent:

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

https://answers.microsoft.com/...

The December 9th patch - https://support.microsoft.com/... - might contain some kind of fix or workaround, although I don't see anything mentioned on the page which maps to the issue.

Microsoft is keeping customers up to date with a page on its support forum. Here's Microsoft's short link to the page: https://aka.ms/netcom

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

The fact that they ask only women implies there is some reason to do that,
Yet we are left to guess at what that reason is.
The most obvious is that women have a better opinion.
How is that supportable? Why would they?

Why are we left to guess at the reason? It is explicitly discussed in the source article.

[Women] account for less than 20 percent of computer science graduates in 34 OECD countries
...
One issue sometimes cited for the dearth of women in computing fields is the lack of professional role models who could inspire girls to pursue their STEM dreams. We've attempted to counteract this by asking 17 women within Microsoft's global research organization their views on what's likely to occur in their fields in 2017.

No, it's not that they think that women's opinions are better than those of men. Nor is it some direct attack against men. Since that idea came from your imagination, there is no need to get hot under the collar about it and attribute bad motives for to the authors of the study.

So remember the next time you feel that the world is out to get you and that the media hides the "obvious conclusions", that it is all in your head. Your own feelings of persecution have coloured your view of the world.

Have you considered WSL?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

I'm finding it has possibilities but I mostly work on the command line and do web development so only need chrome other than that.

It's good that Windows ensures everything works and I just leave it alone and work in bash and chrome.

It's still beta but I find it already largely works.

It's been a publicised setup feature since at least Windows 2000, WIndows XP and Windows Server 2003!

Description of the Windows Setup Function Keys
https://support.microsoft.com/...

The sole reason I charge my mobile and pay my data plan is so that companies can use me to improve their business plans and profitability while providing me with zero compensation. Let me know if I can do something else to help!

Raymond Chen has a recurring theme on his Old New Thing blog of "What if applications other than yours did this?" What would battery life or capped data plans look like if every application felt a need to send location telemetry home all the time?

all of which are older than 6 years old, and running OS's that are more than 6 years old (Windows 7 for the workstations)

So, your bashing Apple customers while running an unsupported Windows OS!? baw haw haw...

Windows 7 is still supported until 2020

"Extended" support. Which means less support, not more, in case you are confused.

all of which are older than 6 years old, and running OS's that are more than 6 years old (Windows 7 for the workstations)

So, your bashing Apple customers while running an unsupported Windows OS!? baw haw haw...

Windows 7 is still supported until 2020

I was a software engineer in Windows Client, back in the good old Vista days. Microsoft's telemetry relies on Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), the lowest latency logging mechanism possible in the operating system, and the ETL files produced therein are usually post-processed by a performance analyst or software engineer to review timing, call stack, and memory utilization. Older OS tools like Dr. Watson were components of the Windows Customer Experience Program, and we would get crash dumps and other data from people who opted in.

Once, I wanted to look directly at a willing customer's machine remotely so I could gather some more information and do a debugging session. Remember, this was a willing customer who volunteered for this in his crash report. To do this, I had to go to a special training class on privacy and get permission from my management chain, just to look at the crash dump info.

This except is from Microsoft's current telemetry policy, found here: https://technet.microsoft.com/...

Ability to run a limited, pre-approved list of Microsoft certified diagnostic tools, such as msinfo32.exe, powercfg.exe, and dxdiag.exe.

Ability to get registry keys.

All crash dump types, including heap dumps and full dumps.

Nice try Microsoft Shill - DEFAULT "privacy" settings for Windows 10 grants MS this access. There is no OPT-IN or people explicitly granting anything there is only an IMPLICIT reliance on IGNORANCE.... You know those foolish enough to buy a computer and just use it as-is. They "deserve" what they get right?

There is no dialogue or prompt or message the user sees to control or approve of explicit data being EXFILTRATED from their systems WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE. You don't even obtain EXPLICIT CONSENT. What you rely on is legalese buried in a bunch of bullshit nobody reads or understands.

These are the same policies we had to follow then. We really had to follow them, or be fired. It's real.

I suspect you'll find people simply don't give a fuck what policies you have or how the data is or is not being used. They just don't want their data being sent anywhere for any reason. Simply NONE of Microsoft's or anyone else's business.

This is a good time to mention https://blogs.technet.microsof...
MS at least does have an attempt to protect privacy in crash dumps (dating long before Win10 BTW): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c...

This is a good time to mention https://blogs.technet.microsof...
MS at least does have an attempt to protect privacy in crash dumps (dating long before Win10 BTW): https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c...

Telemetry data recorded by Windows 10 is, in a nutshell, just technical information about the device the OS is on, and how Windows and any installed software is performing, but it can occasionally include personal information.

That bit "about any installed software," includes per Microsoft's own documentation on the mandatory Basic telemetry level:
App usage data. Includes how an app is used, including how long an app is used, when the app has focus, and when the app is started
So basically a record of every program you run, when you ran it, when you were looking it, and how long you ran it for.

Well sure, since it costs $500 per incident! https://support.microsoft.com/...

(in no particular order)

- Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/route53...
- Google Cloud DNS: https://cloud.google.com/dns/
- Microsoft Azure DNS: https://azure.microsoft.com/en...

No idea what kind of DNS functionality you need, but there are also plenty other smaller players.

there is no sram in amigas (except for 768 bytes of palette inside Lisa chip)
The difference between sram and dram is _not_ that one of them can keep the data over a reset, its that one of them keeps data without explicit _refresh cycles_ when rest of computer is powered down completely. Reboot is not doing ANYTHING to ANY type or ram. Resetting a running computer without stopping current program was standard on Intel 286 (dram simms) when switching from protected mode back to real addressing: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c... Windows 2 and XMS could do it multiple times per second, this was early nineties.

This is Amiga 3000 dram: http://www.ubbcentral.com/stor...

as seen on page 6 of schematic http://www.amigawiki.de/dnl/sc...
here is detailed specs: http://amiga.resource.cx/mod/a...
and here a definition of "static column mode" in case you would somehow think this means SRAM: https://www.jedec.org/standard...
even scan doubler FRAM is based on DRAM

so again, there never was any sram in amigas

ps: I fix computers on a component level since nineties :/

The four execution policies are no scripts (default), only scripts signed by trusted publishers, only scripts created locally or signed by trusted publishers, and all scripts. But in practice, most individual developers distributing scripts to the public through GitHub aren't going to be able to afford the CA racket. Nor will they be able to simultaneously satisfy CAs' private key nondisclosure requirements and GPLv3/LGPLv3 requirements for "Installation Information". Thus most scripts distributed through popular source code repository hosts will be unsigned, and effectively everybody will end up setting the policy to unrestricted to "just make it work, G.D. it".

So in practice, what protection does execution policy afford if most users of PCs not joined to a domain will end up setting it to unrestricted? Where if anywhere does Microsoft recommend which execution policy is appropriate for common situations?

First of all, given the choice between CMD.EXE which can only do file type activities and PowerShell which can perform those plus a massive number of other things, worrying about (default) script policy isn't worthwhile. With CMD.EXE you can do so much less that you might as well be running with a policy of "there are no scripts".

Secondly, most people - by far - will never have need to run a PowerShell script. If they do, they're the sort of people who can read "step 1: set your execution policy". Joe Average has no business running PowerShell scripts that they don't know what they are and how they work. Which is why a default policy preventing unsigned scripts from running is a good idea.

Third, the recommendation is "how we shipped it". You don't need to document that.

Nope. To get a list of all powershell commands you use 'get-command'. Mine shows 465 commands, but I have a few additional providers installed. Usually the real help is opening a browser and typing 'Powershell x' into your search engine of choice.

For your enjoyment here is the really horrible output of 'help'.

TOPIC
Windows PowerShell Help System

SHORT DESCRIPTION
Displays help about Windows PowerShell cmdlets and concepts.

LONG DESCRIPTION
Windows PowerShell Help describes Windows PowerShell cmdlets,
functions, scripts, and modules, and explains concepts, including
the elements of the Windows PowerShell language.

Windows PowerShell does not include help files, but you can read the
help topics online, or use the Update-Help cmdlet to download help files
to your computer and then use the Get-Help cmdlet to display the help
topics at the command line.

You can also use the Update-Help cmdlet to download updated help files
as they are released so that your local help content is never obsolete.

Without help files, Get-Help displays auto-generated help for cmdlets,
functions, and scripts.

ONLINE HELP
You can find help for Windows PowerShell online in the TechNet Library
beginning at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink....

To open online help for any cmdlet or function, type:

Get-Help -Online

UPDATE-HELP
To download and install help files on your computer:

1. Start Windows PowerShell with the "Run as administrator" option.
2. Type:

Update-Help

After the help files are installed, you can use the Get-Help cmdlet to
display the help topics. You can also use the Update-Help cmdlet to
download updated help files so that your local help files are always
up-to-date.

For more information about the Update-Help cmdlet, type:

Get-Help Update-Help -Online

or go to: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink...

GET-HELP
The Get-Help cmdlet displays help at the command line from content in
help files on your computer. Without help files, Get-Help displays basic
help about cmdlets and functions. You can also use Get-Help to display
online help for cmdlets and functions.

To get help for a cmdlet, type:

Get-Help

To get online help, type:

Get-Help -Online

The titles of conceptual topics begin with "About_".
To get help for a concept or language element, type:

Get-Help About_

To search for a word or phrase in all help files, type:

Nope. To get a list of all powershell commands you use 'get-command'. Mine shows 465 commands, but I have a few additional providers installed. Usually the real help is opening a browser and typing 'Powershell x' into your search engine of choice.

For your enjoyment here is the really horrible output of 'help'.

TOPIC
Windows PowerShell Help System

SHORT DESCRIPTION
Displays help about Windows PowerShell cmdlets and concepts.

LONG DESCRIPTION
Windows PowerShell Help describes Windows PowerShell cmdlets,
functions, scripts, and modules, and explains concepts, including
the elements of the Windows PowerShell language.

Windows PowerShell does not include help files, but you can read the
help topics online, or use the Update-Help cmdlet to download help files
to your computer and then use the Get-Help cmdlet to display the help
topics at the command line.

You can also use the Update-Help cmdlet to download updated help files
as they are released so that your local help content is never obsolete.

Without help files, Get-Help displays auto-generated help for cmdlets,
functions, and scripts.

ONLINE HELP
You can find help for Windows PowerShell online in the TechNet Library
beginning at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink....

To open online help for any cmdlet or function, type:

Get-Help -Online

UPDATE-HELP
To download and install help files on your computer:

1. Start Windows PowerShell with the "Run as administrator" option.
2. Type:

Update-Help

After the help files are installed, you can use the Get-Help cmdlet to
display the help topics. You can also use the Update-Help cmdlet to
download updated help files so that your local help files are always
up-to-date.

For more information about the Update-Help cmdlet, type:

Get-Help Update-Help -Online

or go to: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink...

GET-HELP
The Get-Help cmdlet displays help at the command line from content in
help files on your computer. Without help files, Get-Help displays basic
help about cmdlets and functions. You can also use Get-Help to display
online help for cmdlets and functions.

To get help for a cmdlet, type:

Get-Help

To get online help, type:

Get-Help -Online

The titles of conceptual topics begin with "About_".
To get help for a concept or language element, type:

Get-Help About_

To search for a word or phrase in all help files, type:

The four execution policies are no scripts (default), only scripts signed by trusted publishers, only scripts created locally or signed by trusted publishers, and all scripts. But in practice, most individual developers distributing scripts to the public through GitHub aren't going to be able to afford the CA racket. Nor will they be able to simultaneously satisfy CAs' private key nondisclosure requirements and GPLv3/LGPLv3 requirements for "Installation Information". Thus most scripts distributed through popular source code repository hosts will be unsigned, and effectively everybody will end up setting the policy to unrestricted to "just make it work, G.D. it".

So in practice, what protection does execution policy afford if most users of PCs not joined to a domain will end up setting it to unrestricted? Where if anywhere does Microsoft recommend which execution policy is appropriate for common situations?

That already exists, released a year ago:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

That feature is based on Xamarin technology, a company they wholly bought out about 6 months ago.

This does mean you have to use a .NET language to target iOS, but I'll take C# over Objective C any day, and F# vs Swift is pretty much a toss-up.

Yes, there really are. https://aws.amazon.com/iot/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

Just throwing some servers up doesn't scale to a billion devices. A secure connection is a very difficult process on a low-end "thing". There's lots of specialist problems still being solved.

Bingo - EVERY Exchange admin that has distribution lists should Read the F Manual, especially the section labelled "Message Approval."

That cuts the problem off -- emails to the distribution list are diverted instead to an administrator, who in turn approves or denies the emails. The reply-all cascade is then cut off.

Frankly, any exchange administrator who has this happen on their watch deserves to be fired for incompetence. The controls are RIGHT THERE.

If only there were a way to turn it off. Perhaps they could even post this method in a relevant KB article, like this one: https://support.microsoft.com/...

While I don't doubt that they were cagey on what telemetry is sending, it's also nonsense that you're "forced" to move to Oracle because you had no alternative. That alternative being to TURN IT OFF and be in full compliance. If she were looking for reasons to switch, this was a pretty stupid one.

The original announcement that was the source of the article in the OP has since been pulled; I've seen mention that it was just posted too early. Presumably it will be back at the regularly scheduled time or perhaps earlier when they realise that the genie is out of the bottle.

I survived Bedlam DL3

The story of when Microsoft themselves fell victim to the same issue, and how it was resolved.

Surface Pro 3 owner. I think it is the best computer on the market. Touch screen is phenomenal.

Then what are you doing TROLLING in an Apple-Thread?

- first, if you compare it by hybrid devices running Windows vs Hybrid devices running OS X, instead of comparing by each manufacturers separate hardware, the numbers show how minuscule Apple sales really are. It is great for their company, and quite profitable, but don't confuse that with a significant market share.

I didn't make the Comparison-List, that was the "slider.com" or whatever their name was that did the sales-study; nor did I compare the Surface Book to the new MacBook Pro. For that, you need look no farther than Microsoft. It is THEY that have decided to sell the Surface Book as a DIRECT COMPETITOR to the new MacBook Pro. So talk to them...

Moron.

Use fiddler and capture the traffic that is sent to vortex-win.data.microsoft.com and settings-win.data.microsoft.com.
Ref: https://support.microsoft.com/...

To see precisely what is collected and how to control that:

https://technet.microsoft.com/...

Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft as a platforms PFE supporting enterprise customers.

Use fiddler and capture the traffic that is sent to vortex-win.data.microsoft.com and settings-win.data.microsoft.com.
Ref: https://support.microsoft.com/...

To see precisely what is collected and how to control that:

https://technet.microsoft.com/...

Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft as a platforms PFE supporting enterprise customers.

Hmm... https://www.microsoft.com/micr... Sure, it's 3 grand, but people have it and are developing on it already: https://forums.hololens.com/

FYI, they are also releasing a security-only patch each month, but it's not being advertised or distributed via the usual Windows Update mechanism now. (This is probably a blessing anyway, given how hopelessly slow and unreliable Windows Update has been in recent months.)

Instead, you have to go to the Microsoft Update Catalog and look it up manually. Search for something like "October 2016" and look for the monthly update or rollup for your version of the OS under the "Security Updates" classification. Download the relevant update, and then install it using WUSA.

There's a stunning irony that it doesn't currently seem to be possible to verify the integrity of that download against any published checksums or the like, while the Update Catalog itself isn't served over HTTPS, so it's basically impossible to obtain the security-only updates securely. However, if you're willing to trust the path between your systems and Microsoft's server, this does at least get you the security patches without anything else you might not want on your systems running pre-10 Windows versions.

FYI, they are also releasing a security-only patch each month, but it's not being advertised or distributed via the usual Windows Update mechanism now. (This is probably a blessing anyway, given how hopelessly slow and unreliable Windows Update has been in recent months.)

Instead, you have to go to the Microsoft Update Catalog and look it up manually. Search for something like "October 2016" and look for the monthly update or rollup for your version of the OS under the "Security Updates" classification. Download the relevant update, and then install it using WUSA.

There's a stunning irony that it doesn't currently seem to be possible to verify the integrity of that download against any published checksums or the like, while the Update Catalog itself isn't served over HTTPS, so it's basically impossible to obtain the security-only updates securely. However, if you're willing to trust the path between your systems and Microsoft's server, this does at least get you the security patches without anything else you might not want on your systems running pre-10 Windows versions.

Well, I strongly prefer an UI like in Windows 7 and want to be in full control of updates.

I completely agree with you, but full control over updates is no longer a selling point of Windows 7. Microsoft has moved to a single monthly rollup package for Windows 7 which always includes all previous updates and is only all-or-nothing. So, for example, the November 2016 update that comes out next week will include all updates from the August 2016, September 2016, and October 2016 update packages.

It's a step backwards in every possible way and exists solely to make it easy for Microsoft to shove whatever updates they want down their users' throats. The Windows 10 GWX fiasco has taught them a valuable lesson about the dangers of consumer choice and giving users control over their computers.

I have no idea why this was modded up when it so obviously wrong.

If you understand how the product works (at a level that allows you to configure it properly), you know that it is doing exactly that. It prevents malware from exploiting existing vulnerabilities. This protection can be applied to Windows itself as well as 3rd-party applications.

As with any security hardening, there is a substantial risk of compatibility issues. Testing and policy exclusions will be necessary in any real production environment.

And lest there be an argument:

"The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited."

From the actual EMET support page at https://support.microsoft.com/... (which took half a second to google)

I thought Microsoft got rid of program manager 20 years ago.

MS doesn't get rid of anything*, they just call it something different. When people started bad-mouthing Window's DOS usage under the hood as obsolete, they started calling it something like the "powerful command shell interface manager" or "command explorer" instead of DOS.

It's a little more complicated than that. Windows originally ran on top of DOS up to the 3.1 versions. Windows 95 used DOS as a bootloader and for 16-bit driver compatibility, but took over many of its functions by interjecting itself into and replacing most of DOS's internals on startup. So, it wasn't exactly technically correct to say that Windows simply ran on top of DOS anymore, but it did appear that way to users. After the switch to NT, the DOS command prompt was just a shell with DOS-compatible commands and presented legacy software with a virtual DOS environment.

There you go. Waaay more than you ever wanted to know about DOS+Windows.

https://blogs.technet.microsof...

Total FUD, none of the telemetry includes stuff like that. Listening to you makes it sound like MS is sucking down the contents of every document on your computer.

Here is the list of what is sent, maybe you can point out what is covered by HIPAA?

https://technet.microsoft.com/...