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Microsoft Confirms It Is Dropping Windows 8.1 Support
snydeq (1272828) writes "Microsoft TechNet blog makes clear that Windows 8.1 will not be patched, and that users must get Windows 8.1 Update if they want security patches, InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard reports. 'In what is surely the most customer-antagonistic move of the new Windows regime, Steve Thomas at Microsoft posted a TechNet article on Saturday stating categorically that Microsoft will no longer issue security patches for Windows 8.1, starting in May,' Leonhard writes. 'Never mind that Windows 8.1 customers are still having multiple problems with errors when trying to install the Update. At this point, there are 300 posts on the Microsoft Answers forum thread 'Windows 8.1 Update 1 Failing to Install with errors 0x80070020, 80073712 and 800F081F.' The Answers forum is peppered with similar complaints and a wide range of errors, from 800F0092 to 80070003, for which there are no solutions from Microsoft. Never mind that Microsoft itself yanked Windows 8.1 Update from the corporate WSUS update server chute almost a week ago and still hasn't offered a replacement.'"
Just thank your lucky stars that you're not in Linux-land, or some other godawful free software environment, 'cause you would have to type
>apt-get upgrade
in a terminal. This is obviously way too difficult for any human being, so bless Gates and Ballmer and whoever came after him for letting us not have to type that
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
Just thank your lucky stars that you're not in Linux-land, or some other godawful free software environment, 'cause you would have to type
>apt-get upgrade
in a terminal. This is obviously way too difficult for any human being, ...
Don't kid yourself, it would be: apt-get dist-upgrade
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
But when will we finally get an update for the update of the update to the update?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Windows 8.0 was installed on this machine, and it sucked immensely. Then a couple of months ago I got an upgrade to Windows 8.1 courtesy of Windows update, and it hardly sucked at all. Then, a couple of days ago I got my old Windows 8.1 upgraded to new Windows 8.1, and I know it is different because now apps have the big red "X" back in the right hand corner of the window and you can terminate them while they are running. Awesome! At this rate Windows 8.1 will turn into Windows XP around Labor Day. Maybe the boys will rediscover POP3 email at some point.
You can upgrade by installing Windows Me, then Vista Ultimate, then enable start menu, disable start menu, 8.0 SP1, Windows ME again but holding ALT-F5 until BSOD appears, then quickly insert the 3.5 floppy with 8.1 patch on it (if you didn't keep a floppy drive.. oh you're so screwed!).
$ apt-get upgrade
bash: apt-get: command not found...
Hmm, I think that would be :-)
$ sudo yum -y update
if rocket science was so easy as a "sudo apt-get install -f" and a "sudo dpkg --configure -a" , I would probably be building a moon base :)
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OSX9? Remember: X goes to 11!
That's because you're programming against it. If you go easy on .Net and only program alongside it, then it'll start throwing it weight around like an unruly child.
I feel that you were supposed to write 'Yo Dawg' somewhere in there.
I use Slackware, you insensitive clod.
Go not unto/. for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (but have nothing to do with the question)
it's not rocket science that prevents that, it's the cost of building the rockets.
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It's turtles all the way down until you hit a tortoise and a SVN repository.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
With actions like this, maybe this will really be the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
Yo Dawg! I hear you like updates ... so I got you an update so you can update while you're updating.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.