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Microsoft said "Linux is a cancer" because the license it used (GNU GPL).

I believed that when Microsoft contributed to git (or build something related to it, it would use git's license. But no. GVFS is MIT licensed, not GNU GPL + A really bad EULA: https://github.com/Microsoft/G...

Some interesting points from the EULA:

DATA COLLECTION. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve Microsoft’s products and services. Your opt-out rights, if any, are described in the product documentation. Some features in the software may enable collection of data from users of your applications that access or use the software. If you use these features to enable data collection in your applications, you must comply with applicable law, including getting any required user consent, and maintain a prominent privacy policy that accurately informs users about how you use, collect, and share their data. You can learn more about Microsoft’s data collection and use in the product documentation and the Microsoft Privacy Statement at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlin.... You agree to comply with all applicable provisions of the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

UPDATES. The software may periodically check for updates, and download and install them for you. You may obtain updates only from Microsoft or authorized sources. Microsoft may need to update your system to provide you with updates. You agree to receive these automatic updates without any additional notice. Updates may not include or support all existing software features, services, or peripheral devices.

Also they avoid the word "GNU" if ever possible. They fear GNU. And make people fear it. (I doubt if Microsoft had something to do with "Code 2 Complete" book which said that some coding style is really bad (which was the GNU style, but didn't name it so). At least, the book was published by Microsoft press)

> migration of GitHub's hosting to Azure

Interesting tactic. If I remember correctly from what my friend said that's a director at Mindtree that does support for Azure, they have over 700 services of which many basically see no usage. The list:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/

I guess if you can't get people to use your products, buying customers is your only choice. I just wish they would reduce prices instead. In our trial, we found that Azure was about 25% more expensive than AWS for our use case.

"Cloud Solution Provider channel"

OK, if what you say is true then I may be able to do this, great.

Let's see, search for "Cloud Solution Provider channel" and get this from Microsoft. The website is all about becoming a Microsoft reseller....that's not what I want. I want to buy Enterprise, making me a customer.

So what do I do?

I found a method that's worked every time on >250 servers since I found it a couple of months ago. Before that, I used to have interns just hit retry over and over and over again for days. That was dangerous since we have to give them admin access.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/2d191bcd-3308-4edd-9de2-88dff796b0bc

Install the PowerShell module then run:

Get-WUInstall -AcceptAll -KBArticleID KB

Updates like KB4088889 that would usually fail dozens of times, always work using that method. It's just too bad that Microsoft can't have Windows Update do what that PowerShell module does so well.

Okay, I'm curious. Could you explain why you think you need Enterprise? This is the differences.

So, what are you developing that you think will be different behaviour between Home and Enterprise? (And seriously unless you're talking about some of the credential guard or app-v integration, I'm really wondering.) Almost all development is identical between Home and Enterprise.

Obviously "S" is a different kettle of fish.

PowerShell has similar functionality, and I can speak a little on why they did it.

"Normal" AV looks at files. You read a file and it's scanned. You write a file and it's scanned. File-less attacks nullify this approach by never dropping anything to the disk. They call PowerShell (or Python, apparently) by passing in a script block, the equivalent of a one-liner that is Eval()'d. To help close this hole and expose scriptblocks to AV PowerShell added features to decode incoming scriptblocks, log them, and explicitly expose to AV before executing them.

It looks like Python is doing the same. Good for them.

Ref: https://blogs.technet.microsof...
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft as a Windows Platforms PFE, therefore my opinion is invalid. This post is my own work and understanding, and is probably wrong.

"The number of open source components in the codebase of proprietary applications keeps rising and with it the risk of those apps being compromised by attackers leveraging vulnerabilities in them"

Black Duck, set up by an ex-microsoftie specifically to FUD Open Source software. See more open source fud from Black Duck partner Microsoft. It's sad seeing slashdot reduced to spouting Microsoft propaganda, I'm glad CmdrTaco isn't around to see it.

Newer versions of Microsoft's RDP protocols are very advanced and performant. On my iPhone 6S running Microsoft's RDP client and connecting to my Windows 10 Pro computer over LTE, I get almost completely smooth video experience watching YouTube on Chrome.

See below for more insight into their more recent improvements:
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/01/11/remote-desktop-protocol-rdp-10-avch-264-improvements-in-windows-10-and-windows-server-2016-technical-preview/

ok, but even those old names weren't all needed. We could have put everything on the .us domain. The fact is all those old TLDs were abused to host things they weren't inteded for. Personal homepage on .com? Misuse. News site on .org? Misuse. E-commerce site on .net? Misuse.

Having new TLDs makes it easier to find a reasonably good domain under a relevant TLD.

Even before TLD proliferation, a reasonably sized corporation would need to register all the 100+ country TLDs (or at least public ones). Adding a few more TLDs doesn't matter much.

The issue is more on the browser side. Why does your browser present https://microsoft.com/ the same as it does https://microsoft.com.hack.you... ? Because the browser designers haven't updated their address bar design in over a decade, corporations are forced to buy all possible domain permutations in order to protect their visitors.

Flat earth belief has become the latest gullibility test, it is no different from the badly spelt 419 emails. The ideas are deliberately bad to attract only the most gullible and easily fooled people. The scammers don't want to waste their time on people that figure out the scam late in the game.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c...

MS's handling of Skype is "good" example of how to run a product right into the ground:

* Shitty redesigned UI remake that no one asked for, and
* Forced updates that removes features

Q. How could MS screw it up even more?
A. Delete old threads

* https://community.skype.com/t5...

I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't deleted this thread yet:

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

That's worse than nothing in my opinion. A typical Microsoft "solution".

This typical Microsoft "solution": "New files created within Notepad will use Windows line ending (CRLF) by default, but it will now be possible to view, edit, and print existing files, correctly maintaining the file’s current line ending format."

It actually is funny to see prejudice just blow up in people's faces.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c...

You've listed nothing relevant at all and also demonstrated that you don't know much about Excel.

Excel uses floating point too, just like JavaScript. The same basic type of floating point too, IEEE 754
https://support.microsoft.com/...

Excel doesn't have type safety in its cells either. Or in its current VBA language.

Microsoft isn't embedding a package manager in Excel

Again, Microsoft isn't embedding a package manager in Excel.

Excel used VBA because it's easy to pick up and use. You've listed a pro, not a con.

Do you ever tire of making stupid statements that can be disproven with 2 seconds of internet searching? If your claim was true why do all the modern-day app stores sell Leisure Suit Larry?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/...
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
Windows Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

And this version is more graphic than the original.

Your example using LIKE kinda, sorta works, sometimes. It rather slow as well.

Full text search works better and faster.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refm...

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

So... what was wrong with the Windows Sniping Tool?

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

In MS world, Windows 10 is somewhat unique. They released anniversary update, creators update, etc (Windows 10 version history). And somewhere in between they released some OS component (let say .net framework 4.7) that doesn't work with previous update. You might say, well some OS component doesn't work on previous update is normal. Well.. the interesting part is the said component works fine on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 (.net framework 4.7.1 offline installer).

TL;DR: Windows 10 stability is a joke, even compared to Windows 8.1, that should say something.

Of course Microsoft is slime, but that doesn't change the fact that they have the right to decide how they want their software to be distributed. In their Terms of service for downloading a Windows ISO it says:

Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services.

If we don't allow them to limit how their OS is distributed then surely we can't insist that the source code needs to be made available when distributing GPL software.

And it seems dangerous to turn a blind eye to making indistinguishable knock-offs of operating system DVDs that could easily be modified to pre-install malware. Microsoft and Dell would not want their logos put on something that wasn't made by them.

Yes and along with jail time, the miscreant should be flogged and thrashed for his transgressions.
I am sure the positive PR Microsoft will enjoy means they won't strenuously put a spin on their side of things. Err but they did anyway because - because because, the Wizard of Oz. Oops maybe I have copyright infringed The Wizard of Oz - but would it be the book or the movie? Better go thrash myself.

The evidence presented in court suggests that claim was a lie. Microsoft's blog post has PDF versions of the emails submitted as evidence here: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on...

Note how we talks about it providing a steady source of income, and how the sale of 8,000 discs netted him $28,000. That suggests he was wholesaling them for $3.50 to his friend.

The most damning email is the one where he tells his friend about how hard it is to spot that his discs are fake, so good is the forgery.

He clearly was not doing the community a favour here, he was profiting off discs he passed off as genuine.

Of course Microsoft is slime, but that doesn't change the fact that they have the right to decide how they want their software to be distributed. In their Terms of service for downloading a Windows ISO it says:

Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services.

If we don't allow them to limit how their OS is distributed then surely we can't insist that the source code needs to be made available when distributing GPL software.

And it seems dangerous to turn a blind eye to making indistinguishable knock-offs of operating system DVDs that could easily be modified to pre-install malware. Microsoft and Dell would not want their logos put on something that wasn't made by them.

You can download and install Windows 10 for free (as in free beer):

ISO

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

Media Creation Tool

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

You don't have to use a product key to use it. 'And you can use it indefinitely. If you want to activate it, you will need a product key. And just like any Linux distro, its use is bound by a license.

You're welcome.

You can download and install Windows 10 for free (as in free beer):

ISO

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

Media Creation Tool

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

You don't have to use a product key to use it. 'And you can use it indefinitely. If you want to activate it, you will need a product key. And just like any Linux distro, its use is bound by a license.

You're welcome.

Someone please provide the "Free for download" link to get this software.

Sure!

Windows 7: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

Windows 10: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

Presumably I can download the version of Windows that 'Auto-magically' detects that the computer has a valid license/via and will'just work' with my Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. desktop - right?

Nope. For Windows 7 you just enter a valid activation key. For Windows 10 you just need to tell it what version you are after (although it currently only provides one valid option) and what language you would like it in. Then you have a choice between using the 32-bit or 64-bit link. It is a great way to get an ISO and install windows in a VM on Linux or Mac. Not that I find that necessary anymore.

Someone please provide the "Free for download" link to get this software.

Sure!

Windows 7: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

Windows 10: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

Presumably I can download the version of Windows that 'Auto-magically' detects that the computer has a valid license/via and will'just work' with my Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. desktop - right?

Nope. For Windows 7 you just enter a valid activation key. For Windows 10 you just need to tell it what version you are after (although it currently only provides one valid option) and what language you would like it in. Then you have a choice between using the 32-bit or 64-bit link. It is a great way to get an ISO and install windows in a VM on Linux or Mac. Not that I find that necessary anymore.

Personal and Non-Commercial Use Limitation
Unless otherwise specified, the Services are for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Services.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

That's the terms of use for everything downloaded from the Microsoft website. Sounds like pretty cut and dry copyright infringement.

Why shouldn't Microsoft pursue him to the limits of the law? Sending him to prison sends a message: you pay Microsoft their licensing fees and adhere to the licensing terms, or you go to jail.

Microsoft has a program where refurbishers pay for legit OS licenses/media. Lundgren wasn't breaking new ground, and he wasn't saving the planet. He was just selling an illegal solution for less.

If he didn't ask for money, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt for being an idealist. But he chose to profit from it. I have very little sympathy.

Found it! Q216641
On the wayback machine:
http://support.microsoft.com/s...

It's from May 1999, but I think the bug was found in February.
That does indeed count as being in the 1990's. I suppose it didn't get into popular press until after y2k because, well y2k.
I used to do back-end Win95 support for Microsoft (among other things), but had quit before 1999, so that's my excuse for thinking it came out after y2k.

While I generally agree with your premises, and that consumer "trust" in MS is low, I think you are giving the general populace FAR too much credit.

Litmus Test / Proof: Look at the number of people who have actually stopped using FecesBook after the scandal. Only 10%?

People are generally apathetic towards computers. They have become complacent. They don't know, and don't care, about software, hardware, privacy, security. e.g. Even in 2018 you STILL read about some dumb-asses that stores their passwords in plain text!

The problem is that Office and Exchange have their tentacles in the corporate world. While LibreOffice is good, people STILL need to exchange documents. PHB (Pointed-Haired-Bosses) "need" shared Calendars. There is just too much momentum and inertia in the entire MS ecosystem.

If people were smart they would:

* Set a date, say 5 years in the future,
* Make a game plan towards transitioning to free alternatives, and
* Ditch the proprietary MicroShift once and for all.

Unfortunately, that requires work, time, money, knowledge, commitment, and coordination. There are far too many other higher priority problems that need to handled. People generally aren't interested in the long term -- especially when the short term of switching provides almost no benefit, and doing nothing doesn't make things worse.

People don't know how to look at the bigger picture, and agree about what action to take. It is partially why we have Government regulations -- because people, for the most part, aren't self-disciplined.

In other news: MicroShaft has become IBM. Boring but Safe.

Ironically, 33% of Azure runs on Linux. Heck, you can even get Azure Linux certification

Even MS uses open source when it helps their bottom line. LOL.

While I generally agree with your premises, and that consumer "trust" in MS is low, I think you are giving the general populace FAR too much credit.

Litmus Test / Proof: Look at the number of people who have actually stopped using FecesBook after the scandal. Only 10%?

People are generally apathetic towards computers. They have become complacent. They don't know, and don't care, about software, hardware, privacy, security. e.g. Even in 2018 you STILL read about some dumb-asses that stores their passwords in plain text!

The problem is that Office and Exchange have their tentacles in the corporate world. While LibreOffice is good, people STILL need to exchange documents. PHB (Pointed-Haired-Bosses) "need" shared Calendars. There is just too much momentum and inertia in the entire MS ecosystem.

If people were smart they would:

* Set a date, say 5 years in the future,
* Make a game plan towards transitioning to free alternatives, and
* Ditch the proprietary MicroShift once and for all.

Unfortunately, that requires work, time, money, knowledge, commitment, and coordination. There are far too many other higher priority problems that need to handled. People generally aren't interested in the long term -- especially when the short term of switching provides almost no benefit, and doing nothing doesn't make things worse.

People don't know how to look at the bigger picture, and agree about what action to take. It is partially why we have Government regulations -- because people, for the most part, aren't self-disciplined.

In other news: MicroShaft has become IBM. Boring but Safe.

Ironically, 33% of Azure runs on Linux. Heck, you can even get Azure Linux certification

Even MS uses open source when it helps their bottom line. LOL.

Look, I'm a Linux user, but if you've got a Windows 10 resulting from a Windows 7 or Windows 8(.1) upgrade (or the Windows Store), you have a digital entitlement. In any other case, you should have a product key. A digital entitlement is (relatively) cool in the sense that you simply boot with the Windows 10 ISO, which you can download directly from Microsoft, when a product key is asked, you say "skip" and after installation, your copy auto-activates the digital entitlement. This is even relatively flexible: hardware changes like hard disks/ssds/optical drives do not seem to be included in the digital entitlement hash. So, upgrading from HDD to SSD is no problem with a digital entitlement.

As said, any other way of acquiring Windows 10 gives you a product key which you can use on the hardware it's coupled to. If you do not have a product key, well, perhaps you should do some introspection. It's not as if getting Windows 10 keys is very expensive, especially if you live in Europe

Look, I'm a Linux user, but if you've got a Windows 10 resulting from a Windows 7 or Windows 8(.1) upgrade (or the Windows Store), you have a digital entitlement. In any other case, you should have a product key. A digital entitlement is (relatively) cool in the sense that you simply boot with the Windows 10 ISO, which you can download directly from Microsoft, when a product key is asked, you say "skip" and after installation, your copy auto-activates the digital entitlement. This is even relatively flexible: hardware changes like hard disks/ssds/optical drives do not seem to be included in the digital entitlement hash. So, upgrading from HDD to SSD is no problem with a digital entitlement.

As said, any other way of acquiring Windows 10 gives you a product key which you can use on the hardware it's coupled to. If you do not have a product key, well, perhaps you should do some introspection. It's not as if getting Windows 10 keys is very expensive, especially if you live in Europe

You mean like web standards? Where Edge continues to make strides and already ranks better than Safari?

So if Edge is standards-compliant, and they use Edge, why can't you use any other browser?

For Windows Admin Center? You can

Wrong. From the WAC FAQ (that's fun to say out loud!): It's tested and supported on both Edge and Chrome. It should therefore work on any browser that supports whatever standards those two browsers commonly support, it's just not tested on them.

Instead of rebooting, open Process Explorer (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer)
hit ctrl+f and type in the file name or folder name
click a result, it'll highlight a file handle in the main window
right-click on it and select close handle

I moved from Cygwin to WSL when the latter came out. Not sure what the permission quirks are in Cygwin, but the bad news is there are permission quirks in WSL (everything looks like 777). The good news is those will be fixed in the next regular update (and are currently fixed, I'm told, in the Insider Build). Read more here:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c....

I believe another advantage over Cygwin is that you can install Linux apps directly from the distro's app install, rather than waiting for the Cygwin-specific exe's to be built. I also installed the Linux version of TeXLive direct from tug.

You do realize that even from the very first release of Windows 10, you could configure it to prompt you to reboot instead of doing it automatically right?

No, I don't realize that because it's patently incorrect. First, the very first release of Windows 10 did not have this feature, as documented here. Second, the "feature", as described online, doesn't actually work, nor does the group policy method either.

You can nurse your various irrational reasons for disliking Microsoft, Windows, and whatever else all you want, no one here will really give two craps. Just don't crap all over threads with pointless posts that serve only to boost your own ego.

With the time you wasted trying to insult me you could have done a little research first and saved yourself some embarrassment.

NIC settings are replaced or static IP address settings are lost after you install KB4088875 or KB4088878

There's actually only one 32-bit application that I do care about: WINE. There's no reason that WINE couldn't be made to launch 32-bit Windows apps as a 64-bit binary though: it already includes its own program launcher and thunks for calling from Windows libraries into host-system ones.

Having a 64 bit Wine handle 32 bit Windows applications means converting pointer sizes on the way in and again on the way out. For instance take the CreateProcess() API. It takes no fewer than 7 pointers as parameters. Not only that but 3 of those point to structures that themselves contain at least one pointer to another structure. Also every time an API returns a pointer to some data, Wine would have to ensure that pointer fits into the 4 GB address space of the 32 bit Windows process. And then you have callbacks.

For a lot of these issues you cannot just automatically generate the thunking code either. And with over 80 000 APIs, not counting COM APIs, and not counting Windows messages (e.g. WM_CREATE comes with a pointer to a structure which itself contains 3 other pointers) you have literally tens of thousands of reasons why WINE can't be made to launch 32-bit Windows apps as a 64-bit binary without a huge undertaking.

Oh. And on OSX Apple also decided to overwrites a CPU register that Win64 applications expect to remain untouched. If I remember correctly, as a result support for 64 bit Windows applications assumes they will only use TEB slots that happen to not be used by OSX and Apple neither confirmed nor denied that this would remain that way, meaning Wine's 64 bit support is already hanging by a thread on OSX.

Despite these obstacles there's already pretty clever exploratory work towards running 32 bit Windows applications in 64 bit processes. But those are still a long way off and it's not yet clear if they will be viable yet.

Really, not only has Wine a huge task ahead of it reimplementing the Win32 API, but it also has to deal with all sorts of crap from Microsoft competitors: Apple not lifting one finger to help with 64 bit support, Apple dropping 32 bit support, Apple letting OpenGL just die, Debian having shitty multiarch support, Linux distributions talking about dropping 32 bit support, Nvidia and AMD producing crappy Linux and OSX GPU drivers. With all these obstacles it's a miracle Wine has gone as far as it has. And in the meantime everyone, governments included, depends on a single supplier, Microsoft, to run all their in-house (Windows) applications.

There's actually only one 32-bit application that I do care about: WINE. There's no reason that WINE couldn't be made to launch 32-bit Windows apps as a 64-bit binary though: it already includes its own program launcher and thunks for calling from Windows libraries into host-system ones.

Having a 64 bit Wine handle 32 bit Windows applications means converting pointer sizes on the way in and again on the way out. For instance take the CreateProcess() API. It takes no fewer than 7 pointers as parameters. Not only that but 3 of those point to structures that themselves contain at least one pointer to another structure. Also every time an API returns a pointer to some data, Wine would have to ensure that pointer fits into the 4 GB address space of the 32 bit Windows process. And then you have callbacks.

For a lot of these issues you cannot just automatically generate the thunking code either. And with over 80 000 APIs, not counting COM APIs, and not counting Windows messages (e.g. WM_CREATE comes with a pointer to a structure which itself contains 3 other pointers) you have literally tens of thousands of reasons why WINE can't be made to launch 32-bit Windows apps as a 64-bit binary without a huge undertaking.

Oh. And on OSX Apple also decided to overwrites a CPU register that Win64 applications expect to remain untouched. If I remember correctly, as a result support for 64 bit Windows applications assumes they will only use TEB slots that happen to not be used by OSX and Apple neither confirmed nor denied that this would remain that way, meaning Wine's 64 bit support is already hanging by a thread on OSX.

Despite these obstacles there's already pretty clever exploratory work towards running 32 bit Windows applications in 64 bit processes. But those are still a long way off and it's not yet clear if they will be viable yet.

Really, not only has Wine a huge task ahead of it reimplementing the Win32 API, but it also has to deal with all sorts of crap from Microsoft competitors: Apple not lifting one finger to help with 64 bit support, Apple dropping 32 bit support, Apple letting OpenGL just die, Debian having shitty multiarch support, Linux distributions talking about dropping 32 bit support, Nvidia and AMD producing crappy Linux and OSX GPU drivers. With all these obstacles it's a miracle Wine has gone as far as it has. And in the meantime everyone, governments included, depends on a single supplier, Microsoft, to run all their in-house (Windows) applications.

A better* way to prevent the performance hit is to use the "To Disable the Fix" registry keys in KB 4073119

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

This lets you install updates to protect against the other security vulnerabilities besides S&M.

Right? About the only thing worse would be a kernel vulnerability in something silly like fonts...

The beep vulnerability makes a lot of sense, actually. Related to this update, I recently learned that the ubiquitous beep used to be driven by reprogramming the system clock. Naturally, that kind of hardware access is something that should be a system administrator function, restricted to root on *nix systems. It would make sense, then, that any vulnerability there would likely be a privilege escalation.

Actually Microsoft mostly fixed kernel latency with Vista, when they introduced WASAPI. The system was further improved with every iteration, and Windows 10 is actually pretty good.

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

0ms latency for all applications, even using the mixer.

Is this what you're looking for? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

Microsoft 'partners' sit and masturbate to this like this: https://partner.microsoft.com/...

I worked for a company that was an 'action pack partner' for over 5 years. I continually warned them we needed to switch away from the Microsoft garbage and use Linux. They ignored me. After *relying* on it for over 5 years, Microsoft suddenly announced the terms would change and we would no longer get free licenses for on-premise Exchange, Office, and more. Our CEO sat down with our CTO and they calculated out the license changes. In our first year the action pack would become useless (except for our one 'developer' who could totally use the community edition of Visual Studio if he weren't a primadonna. Hell--he could easily use vim because he was doing a bunch of NodeJS shit that deployed to Linux anyways), and we would have to buy licenses for everything. So we'd save ~$450/year on the action pack license, but we would then have to spend nearly $45,000 in the first year to buy new Microsoft software and permission slips to use them. Each year after that would be ~$10k. Microsoft *loves* fucking over their partners.

Anyways, I had a mail solution up and running within a few hours of the meeting. We migrated all the mail, nuked the Exchange server from orbit and have been running Linux ever since. Dropped our maintenance/admin costs too. We also ditched Windows and Office on quite a few workstations and our total Microsoft bill was about $3k for the idiots who simply can't handle the slightly different look of OpenOffice verses Microsoft Office. (God only knows how they survived the change to the ribbon bar without an aneurysm...)

Lol. If you weren't a Microsoft shill, you might not have posted as an anonymous coward. Even Microsoft partners know exchange is a piece of shit.

Microsoft 'partners' sit and masturbate to this like this: https://partner.microsoft.com/...

"Action Pack" partner?

In the Linux world, we didn't come up with anything quite so gay. We don't have the "Penguin Power Pack" for example.

The number was disclosed during China's 2014 anti-trust investigation of the Nokia purchase. It was 310, and you can view the list here: http://images.mofcom.gov.cn/pe...

Microsoft talks about it here:
https://blogs.technet.microsof...

You're wrong.

I think he is looking for something like this...

https://www.amazon.com/Microso...?

https://www.microsoft.com/acce...

I couldn't get the Creator's Update to install until I chased my tail around for a long time and eventually came up on this post.
https://answers.microsoft.com/...
What it basically states is that the checker for the update scans the whole hard drive and will block the update just because you have a backup of a driver file that is incompatible even if that driver is not installed nor in use. This is ridiculous but it looks like Microsoft still hasn't fixed it.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c...

Why doesn't Explorer show recursive directory size as an optional column?

"Why start up another program to see folder sizes, when they should just be right there, in Explorer, all the time?"

The same reason \\ does not autocomplete to all the computers on the network: Because it would destroy corporate networks.

Showing folder sizes "all the time" means that when you open, say, the root of a large server, Explorer would start running around recursively enumerating every single directory on the server in order to compute the folder sizes. One person doing this to a server is bad enough. Imagine if hundreds of people did it simultaneously: The server would be hammered continously.

Even worse: imagine doing this across a limited-bandwidth link like a VPN or an overseas link. The link would be saturated with file enumerations and wouldn't have any bandwidth remaining for "real work". Even the change-notifications that Explorer registers are cause for much hair-pulling on corporate networks. (And these are change-notifications, which are passive.)

Even on a home computer, computing folder sizes automatically is is still not a good idea. How would you like it if opening a folder caused Explorer to start churning your disk computing all the folder sizes recursively? (Then again, maybe you don't mind, in which case, go nuts.)

(Of course, the question sidesteps the question the linked article tries to address, namely, "What do you mean by the size of a directory anyway?")