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Microsoft Store Offers Free Laptop If They Can't Upgrade Your PC To Windows 10 (microsoft.com)
Microsoft is now promising that their Microsoft Store employees "will give you a free Dell laptop if the staff can't do a same-day upgrade on your eligible PC by close of business," reports new Slashdot submitter Pritam Dash. To be eligible for the Dell Inspiron 15, the PC must meet Microsoft's upgrade requirements -- and be checked in by noon -- and in a further effort to boost adoption for their of the Windows 10 operating system, Microsoft is also announcing that "If your PC isn't compatible with Windows 10, we'll recycle it and give you $150 toward the purchase of a new PC." (This second offer is limited to PCs already running Windows 8). Both offers are valid until July 29th, "while supplies last."
Meanwhile, the U.S. army is "half a year behind the January 2017 deadline to adopt Windows 10 set by Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen," and has hired Microsoft engineers to assess their 1.1 million devices and legacy systems.
Meanwhile, the U.S. army is "half a year behind the January 2017 deadline to adopt Windows 10 set by Defense Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen," and has hired Microsoft engineers to assess their 1.1 million devices and legacy systems.
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
there’s no way to turn off some of the telemetry data Windows 10 collects about your system and beams back to the mothership. Microsoft executives don’t consider this a privacy issue. If you do, Windows 10 isn’t for you.
Now let's put this on 1.1 million military systems.
Either you lose a perfectly good PC and get a junk Dell that has Windows 10, or you have a perfectly good PC ruined by having Windows 10 installed!
In what way is either of these better than having a PC that works well with Win 7 or better yet Linux on it?! Its NOT WORTH IT!! Just say NO!!!!!
Have gnu, will travel.
...let me save you some time. Don't bother updating the laptop to Windows 10. It has driver compatibility issues that cause the laptop to freeze minutes after you boot the machine.
My mom has one, and I spent six hours over the 4th of July weekend trying to upgrade it. After a bunch of searching online, I came to the conclusion that some geeky workarounds like disabling the network port and using unsigned drivers was just not the right solution for mother. Instead, I just installed an SSD into the spare drive bay and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7. She says it runs like a brand new laptop. I figure that will buy her another two, maybe three years.
So it does take day to succesfully install then? Or does this mean small business is supposed to close doors for a day to have upgrade, assuming its goes without problems like erasing your programs without permissions, messing your passwords, etc...
Microsoft has gone into Gollum mode with Windows 10
Nothing creepy at all . . . it's simple greed. The new Microsoft CEO, Satya Nutella, obviously has a bonus tied to Windows 10 installations.
Just wait until December. Microsoft will be sending out folks to your home, to give you a free PC with Windows 10 installed on it. Just to boost the installation numbers over the goal line for Satya Nutella.
That's the gag with Windows 10 Telemetry . . . Microsoft can always know how many PCs are running it. So Satya Nutella can't fudge the numbers.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Welcome to Slashdot, no one reads the summary these days, never mind the article
How about undetectable modifications, such as a bit of code injected into BIOS firmware designed to target the Windows 10 installer or bootloader and trigger a reboot once detected, or slowdown, so the install process times out or takes longer than 8 hours?
Simple, reinstall win8.1 fresh from media, take ownership of everything on the drive and NTFS compress the whole drive, run system cleanup to be sure it's as small as possible, and set the page file to 0, and disable hibernation (powercfg -h off). Image the partition. Put it back on the drive with 1MB free, but only after you've used MHDD to ATAPI permanent-resize the drive to the minimum required LBA blocks.
You don't want to play their game though, it's done through one of those trade-in recyclers that resells equipment and always hoses the customer: Any appraised value will be determined at trade-in and provided as a Microsoft retail store credit. All trade-ins are subject to Microsoftâ(TM)s discretion and approval. All trade-ins are final. Recycle for Rewards program provided by CExchange, LLC., and other terms and conditions may apply.
http://iase.disa.mil/Pages/ind... has 3 relevant rules for Windows 10. It must be deployed by January 2017, Domain-joined systems must use Windows 10 Enterprise Edition, and Windows Telemetry must be configured to the lowest level.
It's right there. DISA is the DoD cyber rule maker, and you don't have to be military to read or use their guidance.
There is no special build. And apparently basic telemetry is fine.
If they are spending several hundred on a user to go to Windows 10, what make you thing there's ANYTHING to your advantage in doing so?
"Take our Futching Trojan Horse operating system, kiddo! It's not JUST FREE, we will PAY YOU to take it!"
This is not good. Trust me. It's not good at all.
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