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Multiple Sources Confirm Windows 10 has Reached RTM
Ammalgam writes: Multiple sources are reporting that Microsoft has finally hit the release to manufacturing (RTM) milestone with Windows 10. A new build of Windows 10, number 10240, is available to Windows Insiders on both the fast and slow track. Microsoft has made no official statement yet.
And soon you will realize how prophetic the air quotes around "free" really were. Good luck with that hot mess.
Windows 7 passes as Vista Service Pack 2. Hence the stability.
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
"So put your cards on the table, then, what do you think they're going to do exactly? They're going to offer it for free and then send the leg-breakers around to people's houses in a year asking for protection money? They're going to spring a monthly fee rental on people after they've installed it, and when people complain and threaten to sue they're going to laugh maniacally?"
I don't think that's going to happen right away. I think they're going to use the next few years of rolling updates to get the average consumer used to the Windows as a Service model. Then, at least for the Home version, they're going to come out with Windows 365 when "Windows 11" is ready. The Pro and Enterprise versions will probably still be available in perpetual license format (They already committed to a long term stable (LTS) branch of 10 for companies.) The carrot for going to Windows 365 will be the availability of features. Look at Mac Office 2016 -- available now only if you have an Office 365 subscription, otherwise you need to wait till September to buy a licensed copy. The next step might be no more perpetual licensing.
I actually like Windows, but I'm not a fan of the constant rental fees for software. Adobe went that way with Creative Cloud, and people basically have no choice but to keep paying forever. AutoCAD is now rent-only as well.
2015 and still burning ISOs to DVD? There's no real reason not to boot from a USB stick nowadays.
Every blasted device now comes with a USB cable, so all the USB ports are occupied, even with an additional multiport hub. The DVD and Blu-Ray drives in the computer still work and are freely available during booting because you can't watch a movie then. And disks fit into those nice little racks you can buy, and are big enough to label legibly, unlike usb sticks that constantly get lost, chewed by the dog and have to be checked to see what's on them because they are too tiny to properly label. And, you might not want a big-ass iso taking up space that could be used for music, video, code, or other data that's more interesting than an ISO. So why the hell not burn a disc, smartguy?
Is there some reason people gleefully condemn useful technology as obsolete just because it predates some recent new tech? I don't get it. I still ride a bicycle despite the fact that I have an automobile. I still have a landline to the house (damned cheap at $20/month) because when the power goes out, my phone still works (and it's worked even during post-hurricane outages when even the cell network was having trouble). But I have a cellphone too. I've got several flatscreen HD tvs, but also an old "big cathode ray tube" television in the spare room, because it still works and looks decent enough to watch some crap show on cable when the other tvs are in use. I grill with charcoal though I have a propane grill too, because it fscking tastes better.
Some technology is genuinely obsolete, others retain their usefullness for a long time and can co-exist alongside newer but differently flawed similar technologies.
Dear smug futurists, please stop acting like a visitor from the future just to make yourselves look superior. It just makes you look like an ass.
I would actually like the opposite for the Store. Rather than put it out of its misery, open it up to anyone and everyone without fee or lock-in.
I don't like Linux on the desktop. I find many things about it infuriating. But a centralized place to get software is one of my biggest likes about Linux. It just won't work with the vendor lock-in / closed ecosystem that Microsoft is trying to push.
Well, I am pretty sickened by the constant data connections between Windows 10 and Microsoft. Running in a VM, the network activity light and CPU load is constant. Granted some of this is the keylogger-level telemetry that they are gathering, but my OS should never start initiating network connections without my permission; this OS wants to automatically update itself and any apps you have installed (can't be turned off unless you just kill the services), comes with dozens of scheduled tasks to do so, and encourages you to store your data, contacts, emails, etc in their apps without clearly stating that it is all being duplicated on Microsoft servers.
Annoyance #2, actually dealbreaker, is how they've made the OS almost broken if you don't use a Microsoft account login. This means that your computer's login is the same password as your email address, and is out of your control. Microsoft or anyone pressuring them can get into your (their) computer since they control the password. It is way to easy for SOHO users looking for time-wasters in the Microsoft store to convert the local account into their own user login and lock out everybody including admin. The email address of the logon is proudly displayed on the logon screen to unauthenticated users, with no way to turn this off.