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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.'"
Windows 8.1 is no longer supported, so users must update to Windows 8.1?
A friend of mine is coming by this arvo for help with his Windows 8.1 laptop which Windows Update apparently broke.
Looks like I have some bad news for him... but at least I know *what* to tell him now. Cheers.
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"a wide range of errors, from 800F0092 to 80070003, for which there are no solutions from Microsoft."
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Apple doesn't support more than one version of iOS. If you want to fix a problem with 6.1.2, you get to go to whatever version is current (7.1). You don't get to go to 6.1.3, you don't get to go to 7.0.5 or 7.0.6, you go to 7.1. Your choice is "upgrade or don't."
John
Just patch windows 8.1 with the update. It makes the OS unequivocally better. Whining about it is just silly.
You should be able to upgrade/downgrade/sidegrade to any version that suits your needs
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They make things so confusing, whoever makes these decisions are the ones that should be fired from Microsoft! Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Update 1. Just name the damn thing 8.2 or Service Pack 1 that everyone is familiar with. Then to top it off Windows 8.1 isn't getting any more updates!!!
Then you have a pro version, this version and that version!
Sorry but life is much more simpler in the Mac world! 10.9.0.....10.9.1....10.9.2.......etc. Then you have Delta Updates that are the point releases and Combo updates that will update you from the 10.9.0 to the latest version say 10.9.9 in one download and one install. Then you don't have 200 updates to download and install.
I think the Microsoft way is superior as you can install/uninstall individual updates incase of problems, but its too complicated!
if you have wsus without ssl, it works fine after importing the update from the catalog.
i don't see the need of ssl on an internal small server, anyway even with ssl you can enable tls 1.2 manually and it will work.
this article is also misleading, since the update itself is a regular update and not labeled "update 1" or even a service pack, but on every windows version out there there are updates that depend on other updates, especially service packs, so nothing new here.
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Microsoft only support the current service pack level and all those less than 24 months old for Windows Client and Server.
That's the agreement they've given to their customers.
They will drop support for 8.1 in 24 months time.
http://support.microsoft.com/l... .... wait a minute. They should at least update their support policy before cutting support.
Why not upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 7?
Most Debian-based distro users would rather use the UI though.
The latest generation of Microsoft products goes against all reasoning with naming convention. I agree, why isn't this called Windows 8.1 SP1? Or probably should have been 8.0 SP2 (8.1 should have probably been 8.0 SP1) Why is it called Xbox One? Why not Xbox 3? I know it's a different department but they need to stop trying to be different and creative with their naming scheme and just make god damn sense.
I thought this was a joke.
MS is just so sad
it hurts
Life is also simpler in the Mac world because there isn't a triple .NET update every couple of weeks. And the .NET updaters seem to take a lot more time than regular patches. How badly do you have to fuck up a language runtime library to make it need monthly updates? And I'm not talking about just adding new features to the latest one, like with Java. This is .NET 1.x 2.x and 4.x all getting constantly patched.
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How is this any different than MS stating in the past that updates required a certain Service Pack in order to be installed. It's worded very poorly, since everyone is going to assume the worst when you say 'Windows 8.1'. Mainly because they're not calling them service packs anymore or incrementing the updates. Windows 8.1 Update 1 would make more sense to people if they simply called it Windows 8.2.
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Why not go back to the old SP system and stop this mess of a new update system where some stuff is in the windows store and others is in the windows update system.
As for this not working for all does it have any thing to do with 8.0 to 8.1 being more like a full os upgrade then an SP? and why did make the 8.1 iso not take Windows 8 product keys?
MS needs to go back to how it used to be with XP, vista, 7. Where it's not lot's of separate updates it is rolled up on to big install that has it all or least offer that as a choice not only for people who say have 2-4+ pc's and don't want to have re download the same updates on each pc but in some cases that combo updates work better.
Uh, where did you get your MSc again...? Reinstall to fix..?
apt-get may leave you with a broken (but chrooteable and fixable) system on Debian only if you have Unstable/Experimental repos enabled, and I hear updates on stables/testings are pretty seamless on Ubuntu/Mint as well.
We f*xked it up this time, but make sure to stay tuned, we will hit a homerun with Windows 9! Be sure to buy that as soon as possible, it'll fix all your Windows 8.x.update.woes! We promise. Witnessing the slow internal bleeding death of a behemoth, folks.
slow down there Sheldon!
As bad as this situation is for any user, this REALLY hoses up corporate. First you're saying that for critical patches you need to install a major update, which NOBODY in that world likes to do, might as well ask them to install a new version of the OS entirely. And THEN, 'oops it's actually broken....' with no idea of how it will be fixed. Another Win8 misstep for corporate they really can't afford.
Seriously. I spend most days programming against .Net and haven't noticed all of these .Net updates you are complaining about.
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.
Having things break daily is so much better than having them break every year or so.
I've used linux a lot. Sometimes everything goes smoothly, sometimes not. The thing is, if everything goes well it goes really really well. Well enough to sell linux on the spot to anyone watching. If, on the other hand, something breaks, it usually mean a complete reinstall, or several hours of finding out what broke, and how to fix it so it stays fixed. Now you have a GUI, now you don't. Yes, that program did work before the upgrade, now it doesn't. Does not give you any errors either, just doesn't run. It's a riddle, have fun!
After four tries, the update finally worked. What does it do? I now have an App Store icon in the task bar. Only took some 880 Mbytes to do that.
Hmmm?
I get an nice window saying there are updates available.
Then I click "Yes" on the button for updates and "No" if i want to do this at an later time.
Oh - and I do not have to update-reboot-next-update-reboot like Windows 95 (or wait endlessly while the 2637352-th update of .net does it lengthly update - and reboot again after that).
Maybe time for you to update to a modern version of Windows?
-A windows user
I installed the update at work - it worked. I installed the update on my old PC - it worked. Tried to install it on my current PC - failed, after taking something like 20 minutes. It then took another half-hour to revert the changes. (On those machines where it worked, it took only 5 minutes or so to install).
Digging around online showed that fiddling around on the command line with dism might help. The online image is corrupted but it's repairable... that is, until you try and use /restorehealth, at which point it moans that there are no sources. Of course there aren't, it was upgraded to 8.1 from 8.0 via the online store.
So, after faffing around and grabbing an install.wim from an old 8.1 iso I had saved at work (not the 8.1 update 1 iso currently on the MS website) I find that dism won't use the image, even after mounting it.
I couldn't then even attempt to reinstall the update, as it failed immediately. Dism was called upon again to remove the update package, then at least it would let me try again... only to fail. Another 45 minutes wasted.
It looks as though the only way to "fix" it is to nuke Windows entirely, then go through the painful 8.0 > 8.1 > 8.1 with Media Center route. Except, of course, to get Media Center reinstalled you have to buy it again - there's no option I can see to re-enter your Meda Center key again because, guess what, when you upgrade to Media Center your Windows product key is changed. And a Windows 8.1 with Media Center key isn't accepted by the 8.1 iso (or at least wasn't when I tried earlier)...
Looks like a long and boring Easter weekend coming up.
On the other hand, I might just reinstall Windows 7 instead.
'cause then people wouldn't upgrade on principle, knowing that every other version number of an MS OS is crap.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Because that would make too much sense.
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!).
A timely reminder why users should stick with a stable, proven OS such as Win7 (and to a lesser extent, WinXP).
Less fancy unnecessary features like Metro also means less chances for cock-ups to happen.
If MS' intention is to migrate users of older OSes to Win8.1, it is not doing itself any favors here.
Yes, apple want you to upgrade to iOS 7, but if you don't want to (or can't because your hardware is too old) they still provide security patches for iOS 6.
The last update was iOS 6.1.6 in Feb:
6.1.6 was only released for devices that cannot run iOS 7. If you have a device that can run iOS 7, you had to upgrade to iOS 7 in order to get the important security fix, even if the device had iOS 6.x at the time. There was never an iOS 6.1.6 released for iPad 2 or 3, for example.
If they had released an iOS 6.1.6 for iPad 2/3, it would've allowed downgrading from iOS 7.x to iOS 6.x then jailbreaking, something Apple hates with a passion.
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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.
They should have gone with something more meaningful, like 8.6.31-11, and perhaps 8.4.x for the old version of the OS.
8.1 has received a substantial service release that fixes bugs and enhances the UI (slightly). Why should they support the older version any more? That doesn't excuse them from ensuring the upgrade process is smooth and trouble free but I understand why they are doing this.
This whole thread is absurd, as are all the people jumping on the "bash MS" bandwagon.
* Microsoft will continue to support 8.1, and everyone here KNOWS that.
* Everyone knows that because Microsoft has a bigger problem with having to support old platforms than any other vendor out there. Many posters here generally know this, too, but are being obtuse so that they can harp about Microsoft ending support for a new platform (which isnt even remotely believable).
* The author of the blog even knows that! The Microsoft technet entry says almost the opposite of what the blogger does-- that 8.1 WILL recieve updates. All he got right is that you do need to install a prereq to get them, like we've seen with countless other OSes. The venerable XP does this, too.
* Half the people gloating over the "bugginess of Windows" are fans of an OS that is experiencing one of the biggest internet vulnerabilties in about a decade in its SSL stack, but thats OK in their eyes somehow because its not packaged with the OS and therefore theyre allowed to be buggy.
* Some people are taking the time to smirk about the confusing version numbering of Win8-- which is doubly hillarious given how ridiculous Linux's versioning was until about a year ago.
* And if I had to guess, the aforementioned problems could possibly be related to the aforementioned heartbleed bug, as we dont know what all was leaked and Microsoft is almost certainly not going to want to go into it.
But yea, dont let that stop the fun.
... that MS is hemorrhaging all its decent technical staff and now the idiots are taking over the asylum at the technical level just like they've already done at the design and management level? One thing MS was usually pretty good at was testing its service packs/updates/[insert name of the week here] but this just seems like they really didn't bother doing it properly , or , they didn't have the technical know-how to do it.
Let's generate some outrage! We want to be angry about Microsoft!
Yes, how dare they refuse to support older patch levels of the same OS. Outrageous.
throw new NoSignatureException();
You don't get security updates for 6.1.5, you have to upgrade to 6.1.6, and Apple only provides this because their own hardware won't run 7.x.
MS saying that they won't provide patches for 8.1.0 now that 8.1.1 is out is trivial. The only PR fuck up is giving a date instead of "after reinstatement of 8.1 Update (8.1.1) availability).
And don't get me started on Apple. You know the first thing that happens when you call Apple with a problem? They have you wipe the device clean and reinstall the OS from scratch. Which, I suspect, would work fine on nearly any windows machine except for the annoyance of the reinstall. (I don't bother calling Apple anymore for iOS help - I don't have a couple of hours to reinstall the whole goddamned phone and set everything in it back up)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
So instead of nameing version after a year (2000, 2003, 2008.....), they finally lost track of good version number. Some users barely are aware they are running an OS. And now it has gone so bad that even /. editors fail to keep track of version numbers of the most used OS in the world.
With actions like this, maybe this will really be the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
FTFY
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If this was the unix world, they'd be talking about no longer updating 8.1.0 and requiring customers update to 8.1.1.
That would have goaded the popular tech media into making unflattering comparisons to Windows 3.11.
I tried this on my work laptop and it's almost working! Thank goodness I kept a USB floppy drive around in my PC parts junk box. I don't know how you got the patch on one floppy though. It took 122 floppies for the patch I downloaded. Was I supposed to compress the patch somehow? I'm currently loading floppy # 83, wish me luck.
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First they drop xp support, now 8.1, at this rate they're going to run out of things to stop supporting
but would it kill them to stick a "details" button on the dumbed-down error popup to make it trivial for a techie to ask the user to click it and read out a more useful message?
Microsoft would probably do it the way it does crash reporting, where the user is given the option to automatically send error reports to Microsoft. The developer can retrieve these crash reports by 1. forming a corporation or LLC, 2. buying a certificate from VeriSign or DigiCert in this company's name, and 3. registering with Windows Dev Center Hardware and Desktop Dashboard (formerly Winqual).
I think the point is that criticizing behavior takes time that could better be spent to engineer a workaround to said behavior.
And the .NET updaters seem to take a lot more time than regular patches.
That's because the .NET Framework is rebuilding the "assembly cache" (recompiling the runtime library into the processor's assembly language) after an update. In a comment to a Slashdot story a few days ago, I suggested doing this rebuilding in the background, letting the user use native applications in the meantime, and marking managed applications that aren't yet ready to start with an hourglass icon. But another Slashdot user objected that letting the user run anything before the assembly cache finishes would break native applications that start a managed subprocess without user interaction.
How badly do you have to fuck up a language runtime library to make it need monthly updates?
The JavaScript runtime (Firefox or Chrome) needs updates as well. And on Ubuntu, I get plenty of updates to various libraries.
Yea we should never get new features, as they introduce risk. Of course we cannot have any risk in our lives, especially in software.
Or maybe Microsoft should just provide support for their OS.
Maybe if the new features were worth a shit, the risks would be worth it.
NEWSFLASH
Microsoft ends support for Windows 8.1 because Windows 8.1 Update 1 is available!
More at Ten!
Seriously, i've never heard so much FUD in my life. Sure, i'll admit it might be a tad premature to end support for 8.1, even though they've released the latest "service pack" for it, but it seems pretty straightforward to end support for what is essentially "8.1 RTM" in favour of "8.1 SP1", especially since that "service pack" is freely available online.
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Microsoft figures they can get people to buy windows 8.1 by dropping support, because
after all XP is popular after they dropped support! GENIUS!
My Blu-ray playing software doesn't work anymore. An update to make it work with Windows 8.1 has come out, but that doesn't work because somewhere from "upgrading" from Windows 7 -> 8 -> 8.1 (Now on 8.1. Update 1) it did not install one of the core system files. My only option to try to fix this, install Windows 8 from scratch.
I also bought The Sims Medieval, which doesn't work in Windows 8. I think there are a few other games that worked fine in Windows 7, but no longer run.
There is also a whole bunch of hardware that was deprecated in Windows 8. I have it installed on my netbook which the screen resolution and Intel graphics are not supported. Mind you it runs a lot better, even though the battery doesn't last quite as long due to the screen brightness always being at 100%. On the other hand, it takes 20 seconds to start up now instead of 1 minute 30 seconds.
Talking about start up time, my main machine went from 50 seconds to 1 minute 20 seconds to start up.
Then there is the Microsoft Tax developers need to pay to sell their programs if they make a Metro Application.
While there are some good things like less memory usage, maybe faster start up, less CPU overhead, there are also many things inherently wrong! Enough that I plan to upgrade to Windows 7 when I have the time.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
I couldn't upgrade to 8.1, let alone 8.1 update 1. 8.0 installed fine, but got massive acpi errors with 8.1 that neither Microsoft nor the hardware manufacturer could fix. (Which, I'd like to say, was a bit annoying after waiting for hours for it to download and install.) For that and other reasons, finally gave up and reinstalled Win7. My copy of Win8 gathers dust on the bookshelf.
It looks like at least some early adopters may be stuck. I don't know of a solution, except perhaps waiting for Microsoft to issue build disks that already contain some future update that sets things right. If such a beast ever materializes.
What a mess. I'd like to submit, this seems to prove that Ballmer wasn't all that's wrong with Microsoft.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
and people wonder why XP lasted so long
Because this is not intended for people like you, who know how it used to be. This is for tablet and phone users, who may not understand that the tablet and desktop even run the same os, and think they cannot possibly use the same patch.
This is not a business friendly decision. Making touch work is not a business friendly decision. But it is the direction they decided to go.
That's why not. Business is already in the subscription model, so they don't have to care. Users are not yet, so they have to at least try. Not saying it will work, just answering your question.
Some places can't be risk tolerant due to various laws...like hospitals.
For maximum screwage, they should continue releasing badly-named X-Boxen until it's impossible to refer to the original one at all using English :D
X-Box
X-Box 360
X-Box One
X-Box Classic
X-Box Original
X-Box First
X-Box Old (I'd love to see that ad campaign)
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even in an subscription model the old SP system works good for deploying OS / updates.
It wasn't broke, so they fixed it.
These days, ALL consumer software is in eternal beta.
Basically the new trend in computer business is to remove your ability to locally store files, and keep everything in the cloud, for free now, later blackmailed. This is done by forcing everyone onto smartphones, away from traditional PC's with local file storage. When they hold all your data, all your data is in the cloud, how much is access to your own resume worth to you? $59.99 per access instance? That's cheap! When you need to get a job they will all require electronic submission of your resume, and the only way to create that is on the cloud, because locally stored files are a threat to national security, terrorists might compile an AI (artificial intelligence) that hunts all humans down and eats them alive (by being smarter than any human, hacking into any factory and composing satellite and cellular controlled robots to download itself into, ending up with millions of mobile robots smarter than humans). So when you can only "safely" create any computer related bits and bytes only in the cloud, and there is a team of 12 people paid to watch what you create, then once you create such an electronic resume, and gets approval from all 12 to be safe, it will cost you $59.99 per per job submission instance, to cover the cost of security, inspection of what you created. How many jobs can you afford to apply to then per day? And they will only accept electronically submitted resumes, like medical records are mandatory to be electronic anymore. The jobs are the future are increasingly guilt based, such as prison labor, because noncommuting, local workers, with communal lunches, communal bathroom facilities are the only "slaves" able to compete in the global jobmarket and being able to save 55 cents from the $1 per day that they get paid, because 45 cents is what their housing/food/utilities costs add up to. The other job is "telecommuting" without gasoline cost, where you sit at home and get paid to watch traffic cameras and report suspicious activity, or, as mentioned above, be an observer in the cloud and be one of the 12 inspectors who vote and "agree" to release a resume somebody typed into the "wild," to a job submission database. It's all just a matter of security. Old school "secure", nonchipped mechanical typewriters are gonna be really highly prized in the future, as long as you can figure out a way to type on toilet paper, because all other information storage paper will be banned, to save trees. In fact, the french have bidets, where you don't get to use any paper whatsoever, instead a water jet rinses your privates - I never done it, but from my college french who used to live in France, heard it's strange at first, but you can get use it and like it. Must be kinda like anal sex, strange at first, but people can get to like it. And it might become a necessity, because the Obamacare contraceptive requirement is nonsense, Mr. Obama is not aware that in the US we're not able to follow 5 simple instructions to the letter - in fact where I work there is a job that requires writing numbers in sequence on sheets of paper to label parts, and I don't think there was a single time we hit 10000 on the mark, it's always off by 3, or 14, etc. - so we can't even follow one simple instruction, let alone the 1500 steps necessary in organic synthesis to make a contraceptive drug, there is always something messed up, and then you end up with a "mystery" drug that you sell as a contraceptive, but you don't actually know what it is. Unless it's made by Koreans, Japanese, or Taiwanese, because they are the only ones (except maybe some Swiss, Brits, Germans, and UAE folks) who can letter to 10000 on the mark, but not ones born in the US(they are like the rest of us) but raised in those countries. In US drug factories one way to fix problems is to import a critical mass of people from the proper places, say 80% of the workforce that is actually executing the organic synthesis steps. You need insane people who will lose 20 lbs during graduation from high school, like in Korea, where they get so stressed from studying trying to pass t
There is some weird javascript now on Slashdot that keeps jumping the cursor to random places in your text in middle of typing a word, and sometimes overwrites a word remotely, kind of like typing into google search instantly gets autocomplete results, only possible if every single letter is submitted as you type. Back in the old days you could fill out the google search box, then click search, before any network traffic, same with these slashdot submissiion boxes. It might be the browser though, not slashdot, but I'm ashamed of all the grammatical errors in my postings. Btw there is no psychotherapy that relaxes your mind better than coming on Slashdot and bitching. For mental health purposes.
Zontar needs to stop criticizing APK as truly he's one of the world's greatest programmers. His Hosts file generator spends 4 million processor cycles per entry...
OMG, how did I manage to miss this? Thank you for making my day. :D
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A: None. They just change the standard to darkness.
This is the Great App that you actually BRAG about? OMFG you sure do, don't ya:
For deduplication/normalization over its usual intake of fresh/new records. Doing it now, so might as well give you the breakdown of its process run:
Here is the screenshot of each tab noted below so you know where each stage occurs -> http://start64.com/images/win6... [start64.com]
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IMPORT = 1 min. 15 seconds
NORMALIZATION/DEDUPLICATION = 15 seconds
CONVERT & FILTER (longest part, touches every record) = 9 minutes
SPEED UP FAVORITE SITES = 20 seconds (I do 20 of them)
SAVE = 10 seconds
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Over 145,000 new records... around 11 minutes total runtime!
I had to stop reading at this point, I was laughing so hard that I was about to hyperventilate.
APK, not only are you a troll, a bully, and a liar... You are also INCREDIBLY FUCKING STUPID if you think this is something you should be boasting about--this is like bragging about running a 3-month mile.
ROFLMAO here. UN-fucking-believable. This is the most fun I've had yet this week.
Even better---This looks like a strong candidate for the link I'll use in my next sig. I'll bet you can't wait.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
No, I was just pointing out how sad it is that you think posting nonsense 150 times will make it anything other than nonsense, or that you think there's so much as a snowball's chance in Hell that you are going to be able to intimidate me that way.
And what's this about a GUI? Why do I need one of those, when I can work with real software instead? (You've heard of the LAMP stack, right? Well, to put what I do for a living into terms that you might hope to understand: I work for a company that provides one of the "letters" in "LAMP", and I'm a contributor to a project that provides one of the others.)
Let's see... You're a troll, a stalker, a liar, a bully, and... not only does it appear that you can't really code, you are so foolish as to *brag about how horribly your code performs*.
But you're the perfect Slashdotter in that you really do live in your mother's basement, eh? Aw man, this just gets better and better.
So how does it feel to be known as the Uwe Boll of Visual Basic, Sparky?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
wow, it's 2014, and we're still hatin' on gentoo ricers?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Speaking of my work as a writer... I was going to ask you whether maybe you used the VB6 book I co-wrote back in 1999, but apparently you never made it quite that far... So... I guess that question's been answered.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Andy, perhaps you've forgotten about this, so here's a little reminder. You're pulling exactly the same shit here now as you did on Ars 13 years ago...
Alexander, ... I see you using yet another persona (for at least the 4th time) and bringing total mayhem to the forum.
You lost your creds a long time ago and made quite a name for yourself, I don't see how you can get it back here.
I think it's clear you have to go.
Looks like you were banned for the 4th time a couple days afterwards.
When you get caught in a lie, you make up a bigger one to try to distract from it. Your pattern never changes in any appreciable way.
And I'm pretty sure you don't have a degree in anything.
BTW, you never answered my question about whether or not I've really been trolling Slashdot for the last 10,000 years.
Was that a few too many zeroes for you to deal with?
That Ars convo with GOD and MWHN wraps up the first page of results for you on Google. I'm ready to move on to the second page any time now, just let me know when you'd like to take another stroll down Memory Lane.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
You've merely demonstrated there (and countless other times elsewhere) that you are chronically incapable of understanding humour even when it is explained to you in exquisite detail.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Are you getting this? Are you? He's effectively turning off the Windows process scheduler to make his process run faster.
OMG. And he wonders why his stuff gets flagged as malware?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
APK can't write real software so he/she/it just adds some crap to a text file and claims to be a 'developer'. What a useless wanker.
So, as long as I continue to write code against my current version of .Net, the automated update ecosystem will notice that and not ask me to update but the day I cease writing code against it, then I'll be inundated with updates on a daily basis?
oobayly, do you live in Colorado?
dumb bosses made me use a win 7 machine.
Saying "Vista was ok" is like saying "Ok, one of my testicles was torn from my body, but otherwise it was a good experience"...
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
p.s. the current win 8 experience has both testicles being torn from your body, or so my father said when he received a win 8 machine as an x-mas gift..
BTW
Slow Down Cowboy!
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
Seriously?
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
I said typing diploma, fool.
But while we're on the subject:
How those qualifications stack up. This is a comparison of the known qualifications of each of the individuals APK is stalking with APK:
Has written software generally considered Malware?
Clone: No
Squiggleslash: No
Tom Hudson: No
Red Flayer: No
GMHowell: No
Zontar The Mindless: No
Alexander Peter Kowalski: YES
Failed English language courses at school? (Or should have done, given inability to spell or use standard English grammar)
Clone: No
Squiggleslash: No
Tom Hudson: No
Red Flayer: No
GMHowell: No
Zontar The Mindless: No
Alexander Peter Kowalski: YES
Harasses critics?
Clone: No
Squiggleslash: No
Tom Hudson: No
Red Flayer: No
GMHowell: No
Zontar The Mindless: No
Alexander Peter Kowalski: YES
Promotes bogus "anti-virus" scheme that by own admission doesn't work and lulls users into false sense of security?
Clone: No
Squiggleslash: No
Tom Hudson: No
Red Flayer: No
GMHowell: No
Zontar The Mindless: No
Alexander Peter Kowalski: YES
Is unable to make friends in real life and uses sock-puppets instead?
Clone: No
Squiggleslash: No
Tom Hudson: No
Red Flayer: No
GMHowell: No
Zontar The Mindless: No
Alexander Peter Kowalski: YES
Unable to get a real, paying, job and forced to sell self-written crapware instead?
Clone: No
Squiggleslash: No
Tom Hudson: No
Red Flayer: No
GMHowell: No
Zontar The Mindless: No
Alexander Peter Kowalski: YES
Lifelong open misogyny leading to lifelong virginity?
Clone: No
Squiggleslash: No
Tom Hudson: No
Red Flayer: No
GMHowell: No
Zontar The Mindless: No
Alexander Peter Kowalski: YES
Of course most of the driver problems, i.e. Nvidia, have to do with the binary being closed source and with the vendor being coerced to provide a driver against their business plan to remain closed source while operating in an open sourced environment, I hear you Richard Stalman. Most of the Linux install problems have to do with closed hardware designed for Windows systems.
Every once in a while I would get the notices asking me to update to 8.1 and I just ignored them, fearing my precious data would be at risk (I write music, and yes I backup, but not very incrementally.) It's like experience has taught me a thing or two, and for that, I'm grateful.