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Windows 10 Anniversary Update To Roll Out On August 2
Windows 10's first major update -- dubbed Anniversary Update -- will be released to users on August 2, according to a blog post published by Microsoft (Archive link). The company presumably posted the blog post ahead of the original publication plans, and as a result, quickly pulled the story. Windows 10 Anniversary Update will bring with it a number of major changes including extensions to Edge, and improvements to Cortana and Hello biometric feature. It will also mark the end of the one-year free Windows 10 update offer for Windows 7 and Windows 8.x users.
This is a service pack.
When ISIL detonated bombs in the Brussels airport, Slashdot posted a story within a few hours. The same thing happened in Istanbul and Slashdot still hasn't posted a story. If a white country in western or central Europe gets attacked, Slashdot is all over it. When it happens to Muslims and people of color, Slashdot doesn't care. It's damn bigoted, for sure. And to those of you who have replied to this comment on a prior story to say that Muslims committing acts of violence against other Muslims is normal, that is also bigoted. Muslims have as much right to live in peace and safety as anyone else in the world.
And then I have to re-turnoff Cortana, reset the switches to block MS-bound data, and in general, try
to discover the new ways MS has made sure to F-up things so they can anal-probe my machine...
Is it worth doing the free upgrade and then downgrading? Will I be able to upgrade to W10 indefinitely on the off chance that they (or the community) fix up all the problems and snooping? How does the licensing work?
It's great that those of us normal people who have already updated to Windows 10 will receive this update. Meanwhile, the neckbeards and tinfoil hat Lunix zealots will be stuck without a secure and up to date system. Seems like a good deal to me.
Obviously you don't have much experience at trolling - that attempt was about as subtle a sledgehammer, and reeked of incompetence. Go away, and don't come back 'til you have some skillz.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
1- where the apps on the taskbar are incorrect
2- where explorer.exe crashes every couple days
Secure, if you don't count M$ having the ability to execute malicious code (forced updates) whenever they decide to.
I've learned that it's not necessary to be subtle around here. People will bite on anything and not being subtle actually increases the amount of bites, generally speaking.
> will be stuck without a secure and up to date system
Ho ho ho. You think Windows will ever be secure and "up to date" ? How naive of you.
Feel free to shill on though. No one's listening.
Does truth become untrue if it's repeated too often?
Statistically, a "normal" Window user is on Windows 7, for which Microsoft has pledged to provide security updates until 2020.
And, of course, while LUnix hasn't received an update since 2004, Linux users can keep their machines up-to-date without being forced to use an immature system like Windows 10 or have to rely on an update channel so openly adversarial that they categorise adware installs as "critical security updates".
With the end of the "Free update", does this mean the end of the festering nag screen of "Don't you want to update to Windows 10?" as well as any chance of it "accidentally" updating to Windows 10?
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Given its penetration, the Edge extensions hardly matter.
Most of the other features are niche, invasive, or useless. Seriously, does anyone release malware that can't evade Windows Defender out of the box?
Cortana will remain relatively useless until it can integrate with smartphones, which means Microsoft will have to put more effort into its Android and iOS apps, helping to make them first-class platforms.
Anything that makes the Windows Store better sounds good. That's the only thing of real value I see, and even then it's more for the future than the present.
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It must have been very embarassing for Microsoft that Long File Path weren't in Windows 10.
Very glad they finally fixed that.
Now it feels like it's 2016 !
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Do all of you Microsoft shills enjoy dodging flying chairs?
No, but repeating your false pro-Linux propaganda over and over won't make it true, either.
Which part is false: the part about the spyware (which even Microsoft admits is true, albeit in an indirect way, because they've documented that you cannot turn off any of the surveillance without the Enterprise edition), the part that Windows has malware and Linux does not, or the part that it is my advocacy that people should boycott Windows and use Linux instead?
I might be missing something but I was able to turn off all the spyware in the privacy settings and I am running the home version. ??
Will there be an upgrade to LTSB release? The only version useable...
Be or ben't
ISIL's offer of a free upgrade of Palmyra's architecture to the 21st century is coming to an end as well.
Describing the collection of anonymized data as spyware is dishonest and false for two reasons. First, it's anonymous so it can't be used to spy on anyone. Second, they are not hiding that they collect it; normally if you are spying on someone you don't tell them.
Aside from that it's just an overblow worry. People who have this concern typically have no problem using a smartphone or google products. They just use it as a flimsy prop for their anti-ms bias.
I performed this procedure on an old Win7 netbook, and it worked out fine. Good way to take an objective look at Win10 without endangering your Win7 installation with a possibly irreversible update process.
Describing the collection of anonymized data as spyware is dishonest and false for two reasons. First, it's anonymous so it can't be used to spy on anyone. Second, they are not hiding that they collect it; normally if you are spying on someone you don't tell them.
Aside from that it's just an overblow worry. People who have this concern typically have no problem using a smartphone or google products. They just use it as a flimsy prop for their anti-ms bias.
How do you know it's anonymized? How do you even know what information is being transmitted to Microsoft? It's encrypted. And clearly it's very valuable to Microsoft, because it conspicuously bypasses the user's hosts file and the firewall. And it's dispersed to over 100 domains, some of which you could possibly guess what it's for, but most of them in mystery.
Although Microsoft have publicly documented that you can't turn off the surveillance, the buttons in the OS which seem to turn it off is very misleading. Hence they are, in effect, hiding it.
No, but repeating your false pro-Linux propaganda over and over won't make it true, either.
Which part is false: the part about the spyware (which even Microsoft admits is true, albeit in an indirect way, because they've documented that you cannot turn off any of the surveillance without the Enterprise edition), the part that Windows has malware and Linux does not, or the part that it is my advocacy that people should boycott Windows and use Linux instead?
I might be missing something but I was able to turn off all the spyware in the privacy settings and I am running the home version. ??
No, you pressed some buttons that gave the appearance of turning off the spyware. In effect, they do nothing unless you're on the "Enterprise" edition: http://www.forbes.com/sites/go...
"It will also mark the end of the one-year free Windows 10 update offer" So, now they'll bill you after forcing the upgrade?
So again it is the "white man's" fault. Every single time something happens it is the "white man's" fault. All programs were interrupted to report about the attacks. The same video's have been played over and over again until new footage came available. Many 'experts' have had their moment of glory to comment on the attack. None of the experts said anything about Islamic Fascism that is brainwashing many young Muslims through social media, satellite TV, hate preachers, community centers, charities, recruiting in jails, etc... because telling the truth could hurt the feelings of Muslims (boohoo he said that some Muslims do bad things, I'm offended and call him an islamophobe so his career as expert is over).
All the news papers were full of the attacks. Special editions were printed and the usual left wing 'imagine' singers are calling for a march to support the victims. Some were already singing with a candle in their hand in my local (small) city center.
While after the attacks in Brussels, some young Muslims were cheering in the streets. A few days earlier when one of the Paris terrorists was arrested 200-300 young Muslims where insulting and even throwing stones and bottles at the police in the hope they could help the terrorist escape who had been living among them for months.
Now there are Muslims who kills Muslims in a Muslim country, and a lot of attention and condolence and moments of silence, ... are given and again Muslims feel victimized because the "white man" doesn't give as much attention to an attack in a "Muslim country" as to an attack in a "white man" country.
I've heard it too on the streets and in the media today. Muslims being mad at the white man, even blaming the white man, the Americans, the Jews for the attacks. It gets so tiresome this "victimhood" and blaming the "West (including of course the Jews)" for everything that happens in Muslim world. A Turkish second generation immigrant who calls him self an expert blamed the CIA on national tax sponsored TV and he also sees a connection with the recent friendly approaches between Israel and Turkey (yep, throwing some mud on the Jews). The reporter just sat there, mouth wide open, big eyes. You could almost here him think "WTF did they put next to me in a live TV show" and he couldn't even ask questions and just went to the next topic. This was seen by some (many?) Muslims as 'white man hiding the truth', and the news show got many angry tweets of Muslims in our country, defending the expert and blaming Americans and Jews for being behind the attack.
I'm getting so tired of this bullshit...
Looks like another list that I need to add to my router based DNS poisoning/blocking update script.
Time to offend someone
It is the 2nd major update since RTM. Not the first. Anyone remember the 1511 Fall Update that perma f'd up fixing apps via powershell.
As a Linux user, I applaud you. Good jab. LOL
Although Microsoft have publicly documented that you can't turn off the surveillance, the buttons in the OS which seem to turn it off is very misleading. Hence they are, in effect, hiding it.
Telemetry is fine. Forced telemetry is fine - for the free version (hey, you got it for free). Here's the problem I have with it: The paid version of Windows 10 will still have (I strongly imagine) this forced telemetry and all the other crap, like adverts and subscription Solitaire. That's unacceptable.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Found the white man.
I get the impression from "Activation in Windows 10" that when you upgrade to Windows 10 or install Windows 10 with a Windows 7 product key during this offer, your digital entitlement is stored with Microsoft. So if you upgrade before the end of July, go back to Windows 7, and then reinstall Windows 10, it will access the same digital entitlement.
You point out that Windows 10 isn't secure from its update provider. But is any general-purpose PC operating system secure both from its update provider and from attackers who exploit defects in software that isn't updated?
How do you even know what information is being transmitted to Microsoft? It's encrypted.
lol.. its encrypted.. so how do _YOU_ know what it is? Maybe its nothing.
You linux cheerleaders are funny and sad at the same time. I guess you don't really have to be rational to use Linux. You just have to be some kind of anti-ms troll.
I point out the irony in the shill posters' claims that your PC can't be secure without the service pack, which service pack changes nothing about the fox guarding the chicken coop
How do you even know what information is being transmitted to Microsoft? It's encrypted.
lol.. its encrypted.. so how do _YOU_ know what it is? Maybe its nothing.
You linux cheerleaders are funny and sad at the same time. I guess you don't really have to be rational to use Linux. You just have to be some kind of anti-ms troll.
That's amazing logic there. You don't have to worry about spyware because you don't explicitly know how much of the surveillance is being reported.
Somebody put an Internet-connected video camera in front of my toilet. I'm not worried though: I don't know what it's taping!
There is no "free" version of Windows 10. If you've paid for Windows 7 or 8, then you can get a free "upgrade" to Windows 10, but you still paid for it indirectly.
I should add though, it's clearly a substantial amount of data from surveillance, since it's multiple MB per day dispersed to over 100 domains. Although one should still be alarmed even if that were not the case: it only takes a few bytes and one domain to log that you're a political dissident, or to keylog your encryption password, or that you're a kayaking fan and Bing should show you related ads.
You point out that Windows 10 isn't secure from its update provider. But is any general-purpose PC operating system secure both from its update provider and from attackers who exploit defects in software that isn't updated?
If you use a FOSS operating system like Linux or FreeBSD, you can audit the updates and apply them selectively. So even if you didn't trust Red Hat/SUSE/Canonical, you could still benefit from their security patches.
I switched to a Mac, and these periodic releases of malware disguised as an Operating System don't concern me, only MisroShit Windsucks lusers.
Hahahahahah!
Written on a machine not crippled by MisroShit malware.
The Windows Store is a complete cash grab. It offers no value. They don't even properly filter out malware. Also you may see your purchase disappear, because reasons. Microsoft has done it in the past, on and is still doing it!
Taking these things into consideration, the only way to improve it, it to delete it off your system. It is a useless pile of garbage that has some fundamental design flaws. The biggest of which is that it is run by Microsoft and the biggest flaws in it Microsoft has no interest in preventing.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Why do people tell other people they are tired? I don't care. If you're tired, go to sleep.
Found the SJW racist.
Considering the extremely high probability of more security fixes in the future, is the system truly ever secure?
The briny, sweaty smell of SJW desperadoes is unmistakable.
1. Why does islam deserve special exemption from critique?
2. 'people of color' is about as divisive as it gets. Bigots define humanity in terms of skin color, sex, and whatever else.
3. Islam IS a violent belief system. It has not had the reformation that christianity and judaism have had. Sure, there are moderate individuals, but right now, their communities operate as beachheads for the violent sort. Islam is currently not compatible with western values.
4. I thought religion was looked upon as suspect around here, and for good reason. Of course, back then, atheism was supported as a victim caste by the left. Now islam has taken its place. How rational of them.
It will also mark the end of the one-year free Windows 10 update offer for Windows 7 and Windows 8.x users.
All I can say is "Good Riddance"... I lost count of the number of machines I've had to mess with because either the client DIDN'T WANT Windows 10 for one reason or another, OR the "malware" that *is* Windows 10, or "Windows NSA Edition" or my fav, Windows, the CTD (Computer-Transmitted Disease) managed to get installed, user was on the ball enough to initiate the "roll-back" to their previous version and 10 decided to shit the floor with their machine/data... I was soooo glad to hear of the lady who sued MS and got ten grand from them.. Hope theres a flood more of these suits... Couldn't happen to a more deserving company... Soooo glad I gave up using MS products on *my* systems quite some time ago...
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
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Does that mean I can sell my six retail wiindows 7?
The question is kind of rhetorical as I suspect not.
It's great that those of us normal people who have already updated to Windows 10 will receive this update. Meanwhile, the neckbeards and tinfoil hat Lunix zealots will be stuck without a secure and up to date system. Seems like a good deal to me.
Linux zealots don't have to bother about this, since they're already on Linux. Issue is with those primarily on Windows 7 and XP, and to a lot lesser extent, 8.x or Vista. Those are the holdouts who are stuck without the secure or up to date system. And for good reason: particularly for XP, Vista and 7, a lot of the systems just WONT RUN Windows 10, but won't be getting security updates either. Those are the ones SOL
Long before Windows 10 came out, I was excited to finally upgrade. When it was revealed how intrusive it is, how it sends a ton of data to Microsoft, can screw with your applications and settings at a whim, forces you to update without even the option to choose the ones you want, among all of its "downgrades", I figured public outcry would push them to bring back the options that I need as a professional user. I held off from upgrading on day one because of this, as well as the obnoxious taskbar icon and pop-up menu asking me to reserve my upgrade, which seemed fishy from the start. And now, after a year, I only have more reasons to prefer Windows 7 (with several updates blocked) or some flavour of Linux over Windows 10.
I find it sad that Microsoft has chosen to go the way of social networks and smartphone operating systems with this pseudo user-friendly, restrictive and hand-holding platform. I understand that these changes may be positive for regular users who are not comfortable with computers, but the fact that the only way to "fix" Windows 10 is to download third-party applications, and pirate the Enterprise version (since it's out of reach for individuals) in order to get back some basic features and settings is pathetic. More importantly, there is no telling what kind of intrusive update Microsoft may push to Windows 10 in the future. Considering the trend that Microsoft has been following, relying on Windows 10 for my needs is a risk I cannot afford to take. In the offline VM, it goes.
Sure do, it tastes great on toast....
Dunno why I'm replying to an AC, but here goes... You *just* think you turned off the spyware... I've found thru my own testing that installing using the non-default method, and turning OFF all those cute little toggle switches do NOT turn off the spyware aspects of 10... I described what I did later in another comment later on, and its certainly convinced me that, withOUT a hardware firewall blocking these connections, Windows 10 Home/Pro are a privacy nightmare... So glad I gave up using MS products on my personal systems quite some time ago....
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
ZZzzzzzzz...
Only this week I replaced my laptop's 5400rpm hard drive (Windows 10) with an SSD running Debian.
Sorry MS.
Do you support booting off a USB2 drive yet, cos come August I couldn't be arsed getting the screwdriver out again.
Good thing you have personally analyzed what they're sending. lol.. ofcource not. Trolls like you provide no actual evidence of anything.
If data was indeed being sent, it would be trivial to detect what data is being sent. Guess you are some kind of non-technical noob. Really, its OK to admit you are incompetent at anything even vaguely technical.
Somebody put an Internet-connected video camera in front of my toilet. I'm not worried though: I don't know what it's taping!
You haven't even shown that it is a camera. lol.. how stupid are you? Continue digging that hole.
I should add though, it's clearly a substantial amount of data from surveillance
False. Yet again, you prove how stupid you are. But then again, you have to be crazy to be a troll, so no surprise there. haha
Thanks for the list :)
Dropped them in the company DNS server. Good luck MS sending data if you can't resolve the domains >:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
On February 4, 2014, Satya Nadella succeeded Ballmer as CEO.
You'll probably want to update your snipes.
So does that mean that after 08/02 windows will stop buggering me to upgrade to W10 ? If so, this is good news -- especially when you're running some *nix system !