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Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate
jones_supa writes: Microsoft announced that a Windows 10 upgrade will be free for users running Windows 7 and 8.1, but there will be a number of features that will no longer work after that upgrade. The features that will no longer work are listed on the official specifications page on Microsoft's website. Some of the deprecated features include: Media Center, out-of-the-box DVD playback and USB floppy support, desktop gadgets, deferring updates (Home edition), old versions of Windows games, and Windows Live Essentials version of OneDrive.
You mean someone uses Windows built-in DVD playback? The first thing I've done on a new computer for the last five or six years is install VLC.
First thing is install a new browser, second thing is install adblock plus, the third is to install VLC.
I have a win7 home machine. Suddenly this icon "free upgrade to Win 10" has popped up next to the clock in the notification area. It pops open a window that says, " it is not a trial version. It is the real deal. Click now and we will download and upgrade you to win 10 when it is released". There is no way to dismiss the icon and stop it. I am not going to upgrade, not with the subscription model they seem to be moving to. How do you get rid of this icon? Worried my better half might click ok by mistake thinking it is a good deal.
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There is already a perfectly fine Floppy driver. It isn't a car. It doesn't rust with age. Any floppy drive that acheives standards conformance will work, and there is no need to "maintain" the driver. Yes they have to port it to Win 10, however porting and maintenance are two separate and distinct processes. Furthermore, if they can't port it easily then they are doing something seriously fucking incompetent, even by M$ "standards". Also, in case you were unaware of this, Microsoft doesn't maintain the drivers for hardware you bought unless you bought a Microsoft product. Surely you don't think NVidia, Broadcom, Realtek, etc. produce hardware for which Microsoft then creates drivers? The hardware vendors provide their own in most all (if not all) cases where the hardware isn't already standards compliant enough to work with a "standard" driver.
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Upgrade? Sounds like a downgrade to me.
Seriously, what's the benefit to upgrade to a downgraded OS? Sounds like XP to Vista all over again.
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That one kinda sucks. As it is it's a bit of a pisser when I'm in the middle of something, have deferred an update, and the next deferral times out causing it to reboot my PC on me....
I really don't get their stance on WMC. I have two media PCs running Win7 essentially only for WMC (more specifically the Live TV + free scheduling it has, vs Kodi/XBMC). Lacking WMC there is really no reason I wouldn't run Linux and kick them out. If they are trying to increase their presence on HTPCs in the living room it makes no sense. I would consider Roku and such but I need web browser capability.
There was some bizarre comment about people only using it for DVD playback. I don't know where they got that feedback from. I know several people who have WMC setups only for it's added Live TV PVR capability.
You mean someone uses Windows built-in DVD playback?
Yes. The codec in Windows 7 (ultimate) and its integration with Media Player produces smoother playback with less system load than VLC. The difference grows (up to a point) when other activity competes for resources while playing DVD or Blu-ray video.
You may not realize that, and it may not even occur for your particular collection of hardware. I didn't pick up on it for a long time, but at some point I noticed the difference and since then I've used Media Player. And I'm not some crazy 'phile that obsesses over imaginary minutia; I spend less than average on media gear and I'm not particularly sensitive to minor phenomena. But I can tell the difference between VLC and Media Player, and I can measure the difference in system load.
So yeah, it kinda sucks that the DVD codec Microsoft provides is going away. Will I care enough to not just use VLC? We'll see. I also use VLC frequently; it's better when coping with with random media and does a lot of tricks WMP won't. I have no problem with VLC at all. But if I can get better results with something else then I just might do that instead.
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What does someone upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 get out of the deal? A different UX and minor performance improvements only noticeable on low memory systems? Is there a list of substantive reasons for users to care other than 7 10?
I go through Microsoft's website and google.. all I see is BS about a new browser, Cortana and Xbox. Is there a list of useful changes somewhere?
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If the geek wants to "talk tech" on Slashdot, that is a fine with me. But the stained glass icon isn't an invitation to talk sensibly about Windows --- it is an invitation to rant and rave, and that wastes time.
^ that's complete bullshit.
Surround is tuned for theatres, and you don't care that it's loud when the music/explosions are going off and quiet for dialogue because you don't have a child sleeping in the next room in the theatre. It's not that the music/explosions are painfully loud at home, it's that they're still too damn loud for night viewing with children/neighbours/etc.
This is what I warned about before: major OS upgrades that turn your PC/mobile device into a slow, fat pig. For example, Google Android forces you to upgrade your OS (say from KitKat to Lollipop with nag screens every 5-10 minutes if you refuse to upgrade). New OSes are designed for new, faster hardware. If you install a new OS update on an older machine, it becomes very slow and unusable.
This is the same (forced obsolescence) strategy used by OSX, iOS, Android and now Win10. You don't have much choice against this strategy:
a) You install a major OS update: your machine becomes very slow and unusable although you can still install the latest apps.
b) You refuse to install the OS update: On OS X/iOS you can't install new apps because they are compiled for the latest OS update. On Android you get a nag screen every few minutes to "upgrade" your OS.
c) You give up and sell/throw away your perfectly working machine to purchase a new one so you can run the latest OS and therefore the latest apps.
As you can see, we need to protest against deprecating deferred updates. Non-deferred updates = forced obsolescence. We need to separate bug fix upgrades from major OS (feature) upgrades.
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