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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14361 Released (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via BetaNews: Windows Insider chief Dona Sarkar announced in a blog post that they are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14361 for both PC and Mobile to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. This new release includes new features, some improvements to existing features, and various bug fixes that the company hopes to iron out before the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. A LastPass extension for the Microsoft Edge browser, and Hyper-V Container, which will let you use Docker natively on Windows 10, has been added. A series of improvements have been made to Windows Ink, and the Settings app, which includes changes to the colors so it's more obvious where you are. The Blu-ray icon and Network Quick Action icon have also been updated. You can read the full list of improvements and fixes for PC here.
Wake me up when Windows 10 Ultimate Final Gold Infinity comes out
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
A bunch of new icons and some changes to the settings dialogs. I guess that's called innovation nowadays.
I'm glad I'm still using Windows 7 for gaming and Linux for everything else.
Still enslaved?
NEVER10!
The escape hatch to freedom is here!
Windows is spyware so is XBox.
Google tracks you.
Facebook profiles you.
Twitter profiles you and tracks you.
Did I mention Facebook tracks you?
* Infects your PC faster than any version previously released!
* Sprays your desktop and start menu with THE BIGGEST ADVERTS EVER!
* Bricks your system and disables most of your devices whilst blaming the vendor (..of course!)
If they really want to pay for all that bandwidth and storage just to find out what porn everyone is watching, I say more power to them. Let them collect as much noise as possible; they'll never be able to find anything useful in all of it. Not that there's nothing useful to be found, just that there's so much noise and next to no signal.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
finally i a reson to update my win7.
"releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14361 for both PC and Mobile to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring"
When will it be released to the "Against Your Will ring"?
Was the biggest feature of this release that the OS was automatically upgraded from windows 7 by trickery?
I'd love it if Microsoft brought their new Edge web browser to Linux and OS X.
While I don't like Windows at all, and rarely use it, I have found Edge to be a fast, responsive, standards-compliant web browser.
It's more usable than Chrome is, and it's nowhere near as slow and bloated as Firefox is.
I think that it would easily supplant Firefox on Linux and possibly on OS X. While OS X users can also use Safari, Linux users are forced to choose between Chrome/Chromium and Firefox if they want a modern browsing experience. Opera used to be another choice, but the newer versions are essentially Chromium. Those who don't want to use Chrome are condemned to using Firefox. But Edge would give these Firefox users another viable choice that isn't Chrome or Chromium-based.
In the end, the only people using Firefox would be those who use it for ideological reasons. Everyone else would use Chrome/Chromium or Edge instead, because they provide a superior browsing experience compared to Firefox.
You seem to think a human being is doing the looking.
Windows 10 is just another way to say 'Herpes'.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
Have they made the favorites menu in Edge not suck? Because that would be, like, less of an embarrassment.
Er...thanks for posting the release notes? (What a lot of boring cruft.)
One has to eventually or it doesn't matter. Do you really care is a machine sees your porn collection? If so, perhaps don't store it on one to begin with.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
#never10
I gave up beta testing for Microsoft years ago.
Does this docker image allow for micro instances of both linux and windows or strictly windows?
This matters to me as I have a ridiculously overpowered workstation (Thank you MS/FB for selling all your 2011 v2s for pennies) that would be able to run Docker machines without breaking a sweat. I wouldn't bother with Windows Images, but Linux images would be awesome.
Wheel of Time: Book by Book and Sumview (summary review) Bigdady92 style: http://bigdady92.blogspot.com/
Updated icons! Ooo, sign me me up, that's a must have!
No ad blocker for edge yet, then? The web experience without one is fucking terrible.
According to the quickstart guide the Windows "nanoserver" docker image is 817MB. The Alpine Linux image is 5MB. Which is more "nano"?
"One has to eventually or it doesn't matter."
This shows a STUNNING lack of imagination. I dont think you understand how quickly we are racing to an AI controlled world where bots will make decisions based on things like your porn collection.
Good-bye
I haven't been particularly attentive to my computer lately and I 've been running these builds, and Slashdot got me this info before I got it from the Feedback Hub just because I happened to check Slashdot on my Android phone. Steam hasn't been displaying web pages on recent builds, but I haven't seen much noise about it so that might be a misconfiguration unique to me. Microsoft's determined to make Windows even more of a black box they don't want people to see inside, which will be just fantastic for malware makers and may help them get their foot in the door for making console malware.
"The Blu-ray icon and Network Quick Action icon have also been updated"
Updated icons? Good lord, will this astounding innovation ever stop?
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I've been on the preview since the beginning (on my personal laptop) and the last insider build (haven't gotten this one yet) is a vast improvement over over TH2 which was the big update they had in November. I feel like I've taken a trip back in time whenever I have to use a TH2 computer.
Wait... I WANT them to find something useful... to me. In fact, while I don't assign them the noblest of motives, at least I'm aware of what all of this is supposed to be about which is companies providing services and things to people that they actually want.
Have they made it so i can change the color of the taskbar to any color i want? (Without installing Classic Shell.) More importantly, have they made it so i can change the text color in the taskbar, and more importantly the systray? Really it would be nice if they just enabled all of the settings that you _used_ to be able to set via the .theme files.
I was able to change the color of my taskbar to a nice light grey with Classic Shell and by switching to the AeroLite theme i was able to get black text in the actual taskbar. But the text in the systray is still white on light grey, making it practically unusable.
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The steady work on Hyper-V seems impressive with each release... M$ seems to be giving this product a lot of love, but does M$ permit you to run another M$ OS in it, or am I right they expect you to buy another license?
It kinda feels like a rip to pay full-price for a license for an OS that's only gonna run in a virtual machine. Running as a guest, you'll never realize the full benefits of many of the OS' features (e.g., Direct X). So, why pay full price?
Windows 7 Pro gave you a free licensed copy of XP, back when XP was still a supported OS. Apple let's you run as many instances of virtualized OS X as you like (so long as your host is Apple hardware, if you're reading the fine print). Linux, of course, is free. But having a virtualized M$ OS is just convenient to have, for testing, rolling back an undo drive, true virtual workspaces, all sorts of stuff. If M$ packaged a canned version of 10 with Hyper-V, that could get interesting.
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
See subject: I used documented facts to bust you flat & I was upmodded for it https://ask.slashdot.org/comme... ... lol, for shooting your do-nothing blabbermouth ass off no less, & I shut it (letting documented FACTS do the job on you, stupid).
* You're a BIG talking, do nothing CHUMP & nothing more... which I absolutely LOVE crushing "ne'er-do-well" talkers like you into the dirt for, with facts...
APK
P.S.=> Like most of "your kind" on this planet? Above ALL else, a scumbag loser like YOU knows it - how can I say that?? Hell - your use of a FAKE NAME ONLINE proves you have nothing to be proud of, so you act the weasel punk online instead... apk
Yep, I am sure there were some that started to bail water when the Titanic hit 10%... How did that work out???
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Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity. Compliments firewalls (w/ layered drivers vs less used IP addys vs. hosts block more used domains) & DNS (lighten dns load). Gets data via 10 security sites.
Ads rob bandwidth/speed, security (malvertising), privacy (tracking) + anonymity.
Hosts add speed (hardcodes/adblocks), security (bad sites/poisoned dns), reliability (dns down), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) natively. Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)
Works vs. caps & HTTP PUSH ads w/ firewalls.
Avg. webpage = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of the size.
APK
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And this pig installs itself in your life whether you want it or not, and then spies on you. So who gives a crap about the damned lipstick on this oinker?
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Wake me up when you've removed the telemetry COUGH COUGH SPYWARE from Windows 10, and sacked the turd-sucking asshole whose idea it was.
So which color have they chosen to represent Windows 10 Update, also known as "up shit creek without a paddle"? I thought brown was for Ubuntu.
I certainly do care if a machine under the control and access of someone else sees data I haven't chosen to share, porn or otherwise.
That data can be used to track me, identify me, identify my habits, waste my attention and money with better targeted ads, and spot the dozens of things I (and everyone else) do on a daily basis that violate one of the hundreds of thousands of obscure lines of law on the books.
That last one is huge. Almost everything is illegal by the strict letter of the law. The reason we aren't all in prison (including the law enforcement) is that humans are enforcing and judging the law and even a supreme court justice will only be aware of a tiny fraction of the law. An AI won't have that problem. I don't care who you are, you DO have something to hide even if you don't know it.
Forget your porn. Are you good with Microsoft and anyone they choose to sell the processed and evaluated data to knowing about your finances and your tax data? That time you engaged in unauthorized systems access by taking a look at HBO go with your brothers credentials to decide if you wanted to subscribe? Keep in mind, we are talking about an AI world with no common sense or reasonable exceptions and the courts have decided they can lie and instruct juries that they are only allowed to judge the facts for strict technical violation of the law and not the justice in applying the law to a particular case.
and spot the dozens of things I (and everyone else) do on a daily basis that violate one of the hundreds of thousands of obscure lines of law on the books.
That last one is huge.
It's also an extremely stupid (thus unlikely) move for MS to make. Think about it, when your OS starts calling the cops on you, you move to another OS. Only a company hell-bent on putting themselves out of business would do that. Since the rest of your post is based on that premise, well, the rest of your post is going to be ignored.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Yes, it isn't that a machine saw your data. The issue is that a machine controlled by someone else and with a purpose potentially in conflict with your interests saw your data. Windows 10 turns your personal computer into such a machine. Facebook, google, and your phone all do much the same. More and more your devices are no longer machines that you control, they are machines you pay for but are still controlled by third parties that don't share your interests.
Once they've got your data they can mine it with smart algorithms including more and more sophisticated AI.
"It's also an extremely stupid (thus unlikely) move for MS to make. Think about it, when your OS starts calling the cops on you, you move to another OS."
We are talking about windows 10... where they are already doing this.
So someone's been arrested because an AI turned them into police after reviewing their Windows 10 telemetry? Wow, I must have missed that story, that's truly frightening!
Oh, wait, no, that didn't happen at all. I'll point to the text you quoted for why it never will.
Now, I wouldn't keep any trade secrets or documents relating to un-filed or pending patent applications on a Windows machine at this point. But fear of your OS calling the cops on you? That's just retarded.
Mind you, I really wouldn't much mind if Microsoft did take steps to put themselves out of business in short order. It might get Adobe to release their stuff on Linux (so as not to be beholden to Apple) so I can finally run my platform of choice for every purpose other than testing. I just don't think that's how they're gonna do it; it would take only a single prosecution based on a false report and everyone from the project manager who greenlighted it on up to Ballmer himself would be up to their balls in charges. The company might pay for Ballmer's defense, but the rest of the lot would fry for it.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
"So someone's been arrested because an AI turned them into police after reviewing their Windows 10 telemetry?"
Straw man.
You didn't say it would be an extremely stupid move for MS to have an AI turn someone in to the police resulting in an arrest. You said it would be stupid for MS to have your OS call the cops on you. The NSA/FBI are executive enforcement branches and therefore count as "the cops" and since windows 10 sends data to the cops your criteria is already met. Whether it's MS mining the data or the NSA is it undoubtedly being mined and the algorithms and AI doing that data mining is only going to get more sophisticated from here.
That last one is huge. Almost everything is illegal by the strict letter of the law. The reason we aren't all in prison (including the law enforcement) is that humans are enforcing and judging the law and even a supreme court justice will only be aware of a tiny fraction of the law. An AI won't have that problem.
That's what I was replying to so, no, my argument was not a straw man, it was what was, in fact, actually being discussed.
In fact, those were your words.
since windows 10 sends data to the cops
Oh? Evidence?
your criteria is already met
A) The AI reviewing and reporting was your criteria.
B) No, it has not.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
I was merely attempting to point out that the sheer volume of data being collected means they'll likely be unable to find anything they deem useful about a specific individual, even if some very targeted algorithms are able to pick out some key information useful to the advertised services (e.g.the ones the users is using and, thus, useful to the user himself).
One complaint is that you can't turn off all telemetry in Win10 and that what you can turn off gets turned back on again by updates. Personally, while I do see the former problem, I've yet to experience the latter. Perhaps it's an issue with the beta release tracks, which should not be used on production systems to begin with and, thus, should not pose any privacy threat beyond that which was agreed to when joining the "inside track" program.
Another complaint is that a lot of the data that is (supposedly) being collected has nothing at all to do with providing you anything you may want. I also think it's a way overblown concern, as all the particularly nasty shit that could be done with this data would essentially put Microsoft out of business overnight and land everyone from the manager who greenlighted it, on up to Ballmer himself, in prison. The data we're talking about here is fingerprints of executables being run on a system, along with path and filename information, stack traces, and various other bits of performance and stability related data, in snapshots taken when certain events occur. For example, when an application crashes or an installer reports that it did not complete its installation task correctly.
The approach they're taking is a bit heavy handed and I don't particularly like it myself, but reality keeps me from screaming of rapidly descending atmospheric components and such. I have a sneaking suspicion you and I are on the same side of this.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
"A) The AI reviewing and reporting was your criteria."
The strawman was adding the requirements that they be conclusively caught doing so and that someone be publicly arrested.
You are right, I can't prove they are shipping this data to the NSA at this point. It's new, give it time. But given that we are talking about the company that bought Skype for it's perception of security and then re-engineered Skype for the sole purpose of making it possible to wiretap, a set of actions that serves no purpose but to dismantle a secure communications platform for the benefit of authorities, my assumption they are doing so is in perfect keeping with MS past behavior. They've put their money contrary to where their mouth to the tune of millions before.
Suggesting otherwise is akin to suggesting your local PD doesn't share any data with the FBI.
The strawman was adding the requirements that they be conclusively caught doing so and that someone be publicly arrested
If it never leads to an arrest or any other consequence, who gives a fuck? I should say the real strwaman is that it matters at all if nothing ever comes of it. If not that, then that law enforcement agencies, most of which operate on tight budgets, would take this data, which brings with it a very real cost for acquisition, storage, analysis, and verification, and do nothing with it. In short, if this was happening, we'd know by now.
But given that we are talking about the company that bought Skype for it's perception of security and then re-engineered Skype for the sole purpose of making it possible to wiretap, a set of actions that serves no purpose but to dismantle a secure communications platform for the benefit of authorities
Two words: targeted advertising. There's your other purpose.
Suggesting otherwise is akin to suggesting your local PD doesn't share any data with the FBI
Logical fallacy. And, unlike you, I'm going to support my claim as I'm making it. You see, it is expected that law enforcement agencies share data, so one would be silly to suggest that they don't. That said, I have friends and family in law enforcement, at every level from small town cops and county Sheriffs, up to some of the TLAs you really seem to be worried about and the biggest complaint I hear is how difficult it is to not only get information from other agencies, but also to share information with other agencies. It's a common problem, across the board, and for damn good reason. Unless an investigation is already underway between two agencies and those agencies join forces to complete a joint investigation (after agreeing on who gets credit for it, of course), no agency is willing to trust another agency's data; a botched conviction looks bad even if it's based on someone else's bad data. But hey, how would I possibly know any of this? I'm sure my friends and family are just lying to me so I don't catch on that they all know what I did last summer.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
"If it never leads to an arrest or any other consequence, who gives a fuck?"
Who said anything about never leading to an arrest or other consequence. You seem to be living in an ancient world where people aren't snatched, convicted in a secret automatic conviction court, and then stashed in an undisclosed location all under gag orders as easily as breathing the word "terror."
You seem to be living in a world where people have no friends or relatives who might report their disappearance. While this might describe you, I can assure you it does not describe the majority; though, having no ties to anyone who might report you missing is cause for investigation. Again, though, how would I know this? Think.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.