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Windows 10 Anniversary Update: the Best New Features (theverge.com)
A year after the release of Windows 10, Microsoft is gearing up for Anniversary Update, the first major update to the company's desktop operating system. Ahead of the public release of Anniversary Update on August 2, Microsoft provided media outlets with the Anniversary Update, and their first impressions and reviews are out. The Verge has listed the big changes Windows 10 Anniversary ships with. From the article: Windows Ink: Windows Ink is without a doubt the best part of the Anniversary Update. It's essentially a central location to find built-in or third-party apps that work with your stylus. You can use the new sticky notes to note down reminders, and they'll even transform into true reminders as Cortana understands what you write.
Microsoft Edge extensions: If you're a fan of Chrome extensions, then you'll be glad to hear that they're heading to Microsoft's Edge browser. The Anniversary Update brings support for extensions, and it's now up to third-party developers to fill the Windows Store with their add-ons.
Cortana improvements: Microsoft's digital assistant, Cortana, debuted on Windows 10 last year, and the software maker is bringing it to the lock screen with the Anniversary Update. You'll be able to ask it to make a note, play music, set a reminder, and lots more without ever logging in. Cortana is also getting a little more intelligent, with the ability to schedule appointments in Outlook or options to send friends a document you were working on a week ago.
Dark theme and UI tweaks: You can switch on what I call even darker mode in settings, and it will switch built-in apps that typically use a white background over to black.Other improvements include things like Windows 10's ability to set your time zone automatically, and opening up of Windows Hello, the biometric feature to apps and websites. Additionally, the Xbox One is getting Windows apps. The Verge adds, "It feels like a promise that was made years ago, but it's finally coming true with the Anniversary Update. As Windows 10 now powers the Xbox One, Microsoft will start rolling out an update to its console to provide support for Cortana on Xbox One and the new universal apps." Microsoft is also adding Bash, the Linux command line to Windows with the new update. It's an optional feature and users will need to enable it to use it. Users will also be able to "project to PC," a feature that will allow one to easily find a PC to project to from a phone or another PC. There's also a new Skype app, and syncing of notifications between PC and phone is getting better.
Going by the reviews, it appears Windows 10 Anniversary Update is substantially more stable, and has interesting new features. You can read the first impressions of it on ZDNet, and review on PCWorld.
Microsoft Edge extensions: If you're a fan of Chrome extensions, then you'll be glad to hear that they're heading to Microsoft's Edge browser. The Anniversary Update brings support for extensions, and it's now up to third-party developers to fill the Windows Store with their add-ons.
Cortana improvements: Microsoft's digital assistant, Cortana, debuted on Windows 10 last year, and the software maker is bringing it to the lock screen with the Anniversary Update. You'll be able to ask it to make a note, play music, set a reminder, and lots more without ever logging in. Cortana is also getting a little more intelligent, with the ability to schedule appointments in Outlook or options to send friends a document you were working on a week ago.
Dark theme and UI tweaks: You can switch on what I call even darker mode in settings, and it will switch built-in apps that typically use a white background over to black.Other improvements include things like Windows 10's ability to set your time zone automatically, and opening up of Windows Hello, the biometric feature to apps and websites. Additionally, the Xbox One is getting Windows apps. The Verge adds, "It feels like a promise that was made years ago, but it's finally coming true with the Anniversary Update. As Windows 10 now powers the Xbox One, Microsoft will start rolling out an update to its console to provide support for Cortana on Xbox One and the new universal apps." Microsoft is also adding Bash, the Linux command line to Windows with the new update. It's an optional feature and users will need to enable it to use it. Users will also be able to "project to PC," a feature that will allow one to easily find a PC to project to from a phone or another PC. There's also a new Skype app, and syncing of notifications between PC and phone is getting better.
Going by the reviews, it appears Windows 10 Anniversary Update is substantially more stable, and has interesting new features. You can read the first impressions of it on ZDNet, and review on PCWorld.
This would be the 2nd Major update since RTM for Windows 10, not the First.
The First was the Fall Update. It changed lots of things and broke powershell which still hasn't been fixed.
Basically, there's still nothing in it for us workstation/desktop users, it's all about mobile and apps. I'm definitely staying on Windows 7.
It rolls back to Windows 7. The villagers rejoice
And now that the "free upgrade to Windows 10" is about to expire, they will have a new version to assault Win7 users with! "No, we didn't break our promise. We just want to give our users a chance to upgrade to the brand new Windows experience for free!"
"Going by the reviews, it appears Windows 10 Anniversary Update is substantially more stable"
How the hell can you judge an OS's stability before it's even out?
That's like the third story about Microsoft today. How much are you getting to promote this piece of crap?
Public beta testing has never been more blatant.
Automatic timezone, Dark theme. Whoopy do. Sounds like the bottom of the features barrel being scraped to make items for the story. I'm still sticking with Win7. My laptop doesn't need to be confused with a phone - and I don't want all of the telemetry/spyware.
It took them 2 years to make some crappy apps nobody gives a shit about?? Fix your fucking OS first assholes! (yes im using windows 10)
Oh no!
I didn't read the summary, but It's Microsoft, and therefore bad.
Now everyone pat me on the pack because of my wit with +5 Insightful.
so it's still a mobile UI forced onto a workstation OS?
No thanks.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Going from what's mentioned in the summary...
Ink - no touch screen
Edge - I don't use either it or Chrome
Cortana - I only use it in my Windows Phone which is stuck at 8.1 (and probably better for it); aggressively disabled in the laptop
Dark Theme - why revert to the b/w TV look of my original Radio Shack Model 1?
Auto Time Zone Setting - requires Location Services, which I have disabled for privacy reasons except on the phone
Windows Hello - don't have a fingerprint sensor, and keep the camera off/covered
Xbox - don't have one
BASH - interesting, but if I want Linux I'll get Linux (it's in a VirtualBox for now)
Project to PC - how is this different from Remote Access, which I normally block for privacy/security reasons?
New Skype - I never used the old one, and since it no longer supports any Windows but 10 why bother (phone is 8.1)?
Phone/PC Sync - works fine now using BT or cable; which lily are they gilding?
No mention of whether they've fixed the massive latency issues that forced me to roll back the desktop used for sound editing to Win7.
I'll get it automagically (if it doesn't just crash things) in the laptops, but based on this list it doesn't look like it'll be an improvement, though maybe not any worse. Will probably have to spend a day ferreting out the new and reset privacy settings, though. Meh?
This is Slashdot.. The best and "only" new feature is BASH.. Who cares about the rest...
it will -probably- shut GWX up after July, 31st...
Let's see, four major features
- "You can use your stylus..." uh, my PC doesn't have a stylus or a touchscreen, so this is a non-feature developed just so you can further push your Surface tablets.
- "WE HAVE BROWSER EXTENSIONS TOO!" - it is now an OS feature when you add missing bits to your bundled browser
- "We're improving Cortana" - which nobody uses. Another non-feature. I don't want to talk to my PC because it is stupid and because it means piping everything from my mic to Microsoft servers
- "Dark UI theme" - see, we can do PALETTE SWAPS! Major OS feature right there.
XBox One software - all tied to Windows Store which means all your purchases go byebye the moment Microsoft decides to drop this feature (they very quick to drop everything they do, so no, I'm not going to buy anything that is tied to MS-controlled service that can be killed without warning as soon as MS beancounter or two decides that it is not making enough money this quarter). Yes, Windows is also tied to MS servers these days, but at least with their OS I don't think they're going to scrap it quite so easily. Their store I'm far less sure about (see: Games for Windows live store, for an example)
This is days before a huge LAN party I'm going to, I finally got everything set up the way I want it in Windows 10
IT BURNS
crazy dynamite monkey
The interface is still terrible. I know it can be changed; but it isn't easy to use by default.
You'll be able to ask it to make a note, play music, set a reminder, and lots more without ever logging in
I do not understand this trend. Under Android, there is also a lot of functionality available without logging in (for example, turning on a hotspot). Worse, there is no way to block access to this functionality.
If I wanted my phone unsecured, I could leave off the passcode. If I have a passcode, it means that I don't want some random dude able to do anything. At the very least, such access should be customizable.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
You're probably aware, but others reading your comment may not be. Microsoft back-ported all the fancy Windows 10 spying to Windows 7. To continue using Win7 without the spyware, you'll want to run a tool such as 'Destory Windows Spying' to cleanse the system.
* http://dws.wzor.net/
This. I want Cortana. What I don't want is Cortana logging everything I do with Microsoft so that I can be sold to advertisers.
I'm generally happy with Win10 on both my laptops.
But Cortana? Why isn't there an option to disable it completely who don't want it? And why does putting it on the lock screen (hey, if its locked, maybe that's to keep anyone from doing anything, including random voice tasks..) feel like they're just jamming it somewhere *else* it's not wanted because people are ignoring it on the task bar?
I really would like to hear actual meetings where highly paid people at Microsoft think running around like a third-rate Apple knockoff is a good idea.
In addition to seeing some kind of supporting data driving these decisions. Either they'd confirm that research shows shoving Cortana everywhere actually adds to its usage, or they'd confirm there is no data, this is all mental masturbation to further fantasies that badly imitating Apple is actually a strategy.
"You'll be able to ask it to make a note, play music, set a reminder, and lots more without ever logging in. "
All I can think when reading that is "attack vector." No matter how much they claim it's limited, sand-boxed, walled off and segregated from the rest of the system, someone will figure out a way to gain system access through it. Microsoft may as well advertise Windows 10, Now With Built In Password Bypass!
If someone were to go to Reddit, that's certainly not a worthwhile sub-reddit, and will give a bad impression of the whole site. r/politics is insane enough, but the link you posted is to a subreddit for the worst of the worst right-wing lunatics. People so far gone that they support an openly-fascist candidate.
I'd very nuch love if Microsoft would quit unhiding the "update to windows 10 update". it's the third time this month.
"If a boss demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty." (John Boyd, 1927-1997)
For this is a shameless piece of Microsoft propaganda.
Frist!
Nope..
You're messin' with my Zen Thing, man.....
until they let people - normal users that is, not just the hella-expensive enterprise sku users - turn off the damned invasive, spyware/malware-esque telemetry.
Cortana is the new Bob, but with lipstick and a sexy voice. That makes all the difference in the world.
Cortana only logs what is necessary to do her job. Want to be reminded of calendar events? Well, then you'll have to give Cortana access to your calendar. Want to have package tracking automatically from e-mails? Well, then Cortana will need access to your email account. People want features but bitch about the data necessary to drive these features. It's funny how that works.
I think that by this point, anyone who is aware of and cares about Win10 spyware has already disabled automatic updates on their Win7 machines, and goes through the list manually every week or two to pick up actually-critical updates.
I'm still sticking with Win7.
If you couldn't justifying the technical improvements of Windows 10 over Windows 7 what made you think that a small service pack would change that? Also a gentle reminder that your telemetry is back-ported and you're not playing a game of Windows Update roulette using your old system, babying it as you do. What a horrible way to use an OS.
My laptop doesn't need to be confused with a phone
If this is likely to happen to you then you're holding it wrong.
Let's run through that announced feature list.
So, a hugely marketed mixed bag of fail and irrelevant. I am soooo glad I upgraded to Win 10 on my guinea pig machine.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
I want control of my f__king computer back.
Until Microsoft decides that we have to at least give them permission before they shove their hand up to the elbow into my computers lower colon, I will never use Windows 10.
Cortana only logs what is necessary to do her job.
You sound pretty confident of that (even though the source is closed so unless you're the one who wrote Cortana you would have no idea). Perhaps then you can explain why opening Notepad will result in Windows 10 contacting 107 different domains, including watson.live.com and m.adnxs.com?
I turned off automatic updates 10 years ago.. stopped using ie never had a problem. Don't be ruled by fear
Is this a comedy post, because that's funny.
"and I don't want all of the telemetry/spyware"
You say that as if there's nothing you can do about it, but you can block it, through a variety of means. The easiest would be Spybot's Anti-Beacon: https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/ , though I personally prefer to block all that crap at the network level with my Pihole DNS black hole server.
I'm genuinely curious about this - what exactly is it that you want to do with Cortana? I've been running W10 on my home machine (desktop) since the original release and I've always had it configured to deactivate Cortana as much as possible (it's still always running though). I've never once been tempted to turn it on. Is there some use case that I'm not thinking about?
I understand the use case on mobile, but I don't see the value on a desktop machine.
Windows: systemd free since the beginning.
My Windows 7 Home-Premium PC had a process called scvhost.exe that was running full core CPU-wise. I eventually found it's related to the Windows Update service, and switched off updates.
Before that I applied all kinds of alleged fixes and patches without success. Some suggested it's related to the "encouraged" Windows 10 upgrading process.
What the h8ll is it doing so long that hogs an entire core? I don't see a lot of disk activity from it. Anybody else encountered this and studied the guts by chance?
Table-ized A.I.
...would be "Can we have a one-click solution to REMOVING CORTANA FOR GOOD if we don't actually want it?"
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Woot! All the shit I disabled got better!
Yawn.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
"Windows Ink is without a doubt the best part of the Anniversary Update. It's essentially a central location to find built-in or third-party apps that work with your stylus."
Most people at my office use Windows 10 at home and work. None use a stylus. Do that many people use a stylus on Windows 10 and is it so difficult to find apps that properly use the stylus that someone would call what is "essentially a central location to find built-in or third-party apps that work with your stylus." the best new feature of the Anniversary Update? This just blows my mind. I cannot believe this quote.
The most (possibly the only) interesting update for me just based on reading the summary seems to be bash in Windows. Although with Powershell allowing me to type 'ls' instead of 'dir' that's been working out good enough for me since I don't spend much time in a shell in Windows.
much.
http://www.techradar.com/news/...
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Microsoft is meeting it's goals: Testing how many abuses people will accept.
Yes, the new windows 10 update now proxies through Microsoft to the Govt in one easy step! No more convoluted intelligence gathering when the O/S will do it for you! Oh by the way you misspelled altitude in line 3, 2nd paragraph of you now open Word Document. Your Agent today is Agent Bob.
The backported spyware is tied to CEIP. If that is disabled, the spyware shouldn't work. But to be sure you can simply uninstall or not install those updates in the first place.
No need for any 3rd party tools.
telemetry is back-ported
The backported telemetry is part of CEIP and you just need to keep that disabled. But to be sure you can simply uninstall or not install those telemetry updates in the first place.
It's really not the same as using Windows 10, at all. Once (if) Windows 10 gets an off switch we can talk.
You are not referring to that soundly debunked FUD piece where the author failed to actually disable Cortana correctly, and also ignored live tiles are you? Because what you just said is bullshit.
Cortana only logs what is necessary to do her job.
Which is pretty much everything.
Windows 8 was worse, but Vista and Windows 7 were beautiful. The Aero themes, the shaded window controls, etc. - Vista and 7 were pleasing to the eye. Windows 8 and 10 look like they were just focused on building an OS and planned to add a visual theme later. Or maybe they just liked Windows 3.x so much, they wanted to go back to a flat-looking theme. Either way, I would avoid Windows 10 just because it's ugly even if the data collection concerns didn't exist.
It's a perfect time for being wasted.
A perfect time to watch the stars.
- Burden Brothers, "Beautiful Night"
Funny how they gloss over that...
The point of logging out is to deny functionality of the computer to others. This is going to take the Windows mantra of trusting everyone-bar-the-owner to a whole new level.
For some number of years "What's new" feature lists related to Windows has been like peering into another universe where the laws of nature are reversed.
Nothing in the lists is anything I would actually want or find valuable or helpful to me and my work in any way. It does not help me get anything done better or faster or cheaper. It does even provide intangible benefits. Doesn't make things look "cool" or any more "fun" to use.
In fact what I see from "What's new" highlights more often involve production of misfeatures actively getting in my way and wasting my time or flat out evil shit indistinguishable from malware.
I have a list of things I want to see fixed or improved in Windows. Nothing on that list includes talking to my computer, doodling all over my screen with a fake marker, turning UX into fugly windowless interfaces from the 80's complete with 4-bit pallets and persistent cyber stalking of my activities.
.. it still spies on you.
Destroy Windows 10 Spying
Fuck off M$.
Uhhhh you DO know there are ways to get updates other than WU, yes? That many of those make it beyond trivial to refuse the spyware updates (and if I'm not mistaken AutoPatcher doesn't include them in the first place) so that we can have Win 7/8/8.1 completely spyware free?
I have dealt with Win 10 on more PCs at the shop than I care to mention and I can say with confidence...Windows 10 is a giant piece of shit. Its buggy as fuck, its updates are more unstable than running a Linux alpha build, hell I had forgotten what BSODs even looked like until Win 10 and its "sad face of suckiness". And the new "features"? Its either designed to give MSFT more datamining or fricking more cellphone style crap. Hey MSFT? If I wanted a cellphone I'd use my smartphone, which just FYI runs Android because unlike your mobile OS it actually has apps..
There is NOTHING about the new OS that makes it worth leaving Win 7/8/8.1, hell even Windows 8 had at least one reason, which was it made a good UI for HTPCs, but 10? It sucks your bandwidth, spies on you, gives you zero control over the OS, and for what? So I can give MSFT more data on me? Fuck you MSFT, you want my data PAY ME, I'm not giving up an OS I paid $110 for so you can make free money shoving ads down my throat using MY bandwidth onto MY desktop and snatching MY data..fuck off.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Oh Gawd! I almost fell off my chair I laughed so hard when I read that someone actually believed that Windows 10 doesn't spy on you!! What do you call it then?! Micro$haft will not reveal exactly what data is collected and sent. Even with everything turned off that can can be turned off, Windows 10 is still contacting M$ servers thousands of times per day! Then there is the fact that M$ has used malware tactics to get Windows 10 on far far far far too many people's computers that didn't want to switch or didn't want to switch yet. Without the user's permission in most cases. "Windows 10 doesn't spy on you." HAHAHAHAHA...PROVE IT! Oh, you can't because M$ will not say exactly what data is being collected and sent. All that they will say is "trust us". I have more trust in a shark turning vegan!
Uhhhh you DO know there are ways to get updates other than WU, yes?
Err sure. This comes into the whole having to babysit your OS.
Hey MSFT? If I wanted a cellphone I'd use my smartphone
Yeah you're still doing it wrong if Windows makes you hold your laptop to your ear.
There is NOTHING about the new OS that makes it worth leaving Win 7/8/8.1
Yeah disagree. But look it up yourself I don't feel like wasting time typing. It's in my post history if you're interested.
I took the plunge and upgraded my last and more important PC this weekend, 'cause I don't want to be on the hook to pay $199 for a new Pro license when something forces me off 7.
I swear I'm not a shill; I bitch regularly about Microsoft because my job forces me to bear with it. But I was pleasantly surprised how well the in-place upgrade went. Nothing broke, even my old copy of Office 2003 (from my cold, dead hands...) The only thing the upgrade removed without asking were a couple of 3d-party diagnostic utilities like speccy, which doesn't bother me in the slightest. Even Steam fired back up without a hitch.
Now, about that ugliness. You don't have Aero transparency or rounded edges, but with Classic Shell and WinAero Tweeker, you can do a lot to make 10 more livable. A right-click on the taskbar can make Cortana go away, and ClassicShell separates Windows programs from Metro Apps in separate sub-menus, so you never have to look at them if you don't want to. Also, you do NOT have to use a Microsoft/Outlook cloud account. With this kind of setup, it's pretty much the same Windows as before.
Finally, I haven't tried this yet, but there's Spybot Anti-Beacon to address the "phone-home" issues that might be nagging you.
So, here's an idea to grab Windows 10 while its still free with the least risk. Shop for an SSD upgrade, like a 1TB Samsung Evo because damn it's gotten cheap. Clone your precious Windows 7/8/8.1 drive to the new SSD, remove it, set it aside. Then, perform an in-place upgrade as described here on the clone. Try it out. Something go wrong? Hate it? Swap back your old drive; clone again, do what you like. Your old build is safe and sound.
But here's the thing: according to the article, you have effectively retrieved/reserved your free Windows 10 license to use... whenever. If you want to try again in a few months, you can take a blank SSD and download/build Windows 10 from scratch, Microsoft will recognize your PC signature (assuming you haven't changed you mobo) and license you (just skip the part where it asks for a key). In the mean time, however, your old Windows will still work for as long as you want to keep it.
There. Assuming Microsoft doesn't wimp out and extend the deadline, you've just pocketed a $150-200 license for free to use any time you want.
Take it easy, Charlie, I've got an Angle...
Windows 10 is spyware. If you use it you're a moron.
End of discussion.
Mod this man up to +1000 "totally right right on the fucking money" !!!!
Fuck you MSFT.
People are still hoping that there will be one killer feature that will make it worthwhile to "upgrade". At work i have a surface so i have to use win10.
Windows 10 features that I like are 1) better multi monitor support 2) better direct access VPN client 3) wireless display sharing is cool
Other than that, I really don't see a need for anyone to upgrade. You have a boatload of crap to deal with over 7 and yes as time goes on, the problems with windows 10 keep adding up. As others have mentioned, windows 10 machines frequently get into a state where you have to blow away a user completely to fix it. Sometimes even the whole machine. Something gets corrupted in the microsoft store, and even if you don't use it, it can create negative effects everywhere.
Patching in the corporate environment is a nightmare now, as each "patch" is actually a brand new operating system. I still haven't got things to go smooth between versions yet and expect another week of fighting before this new edition will image to workstations properly.
i dont care so much about telemetry. The main problems I have are this rapid feature release cycle ( 2 major updates a year is far too fast), and its various ways that it screws up and requires time to be rebuilt. Another huge annoyance is that they got rid of the file settings and transfer wizard, which has been a godsend since XP in terms of giving people the exact same environment that they started out with before i came in and switched the computer, or the hdd or whatever. Now I have to say "unfortunately we cant copy your profile cleanly anymore, so you have to start fresh", then i have to hand copy bookmarks back in chrome, desktop items, etc. Real annoying and like everythign else bad about windows 10, i blame the new features for causing these sorts of problems: the store and cortana. They couldn't get file and transfer settings wizard working reliably with these new features, so they dropped it as opposed to fixing it.
Oh and the number one reason i will never go to windows 10 on my home PC is the way in which it was pushed out. I lost all resepect for microsoft when they used windows update to deliver and trick people into installing windows 10. So I am morally opposed to installing it now because of the abuse of a great patch system that was windows update. Now it can no longer be trusted, and that is the real long term damage that they have done to their reputation. Abuse of their position.
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
I don't:
use a stylus
use Edge
use Cortana
fiddle with themes.
So what "anniversary" updates will I find useful?
Nothing, I suspect. I certainly won't be able to remove Edge, Cortana or switch off software updates!
...just more lame shit copied from other OS's, but without exception all with a twist designed to further lock you into their ecosystem.
I bet the Microsoft koolaid-drinkers will love it and think its crazy innovative though.
It's nice to be able to turn on the dark theme without having to use a registry hack now. The light (95% empty white space like everything in the last few fucking years) settings menus are so blinding on a big LED monitor. Unfortunately that's the only new feature I'll be using.
This weekend I had fun with the "Your CMOS Battery Died and somehow it made Windows hose your boot sector feature and now you get to reload" feature in Windows 10.
"Dark theme and UI tweaks: You can switch on what I call even darker mode in settings, and it will switch built-in apps that typically use a white background over to black."
Wow, the innovation at Microsoft is OFF THE SCALE!!! A new theme, OMG, let us all bow our heads in thanks for this exciting new feature!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Below, the contents of my own personal procedure manual for dealing with a new Win10 machine, with a very strong emphasis on disrupting/removing the spying apparatus. A lot of stuff gets removed. This has been done on numerous machines and so far no failures, no lockups, no blue screens. Some machines are slightly different, some will not have every listed item, some may have a few "extras." The machines seem to run noticeably faster following the hatchetings, and all of them, to date, remain tack sharp, rock solid, and quite nimble. No warranty is provided, express or implied.
.Net runtimes, there IS NO IMMERSIVECONTROLPANEL OR SHELLEXPERIENCEHOST)
/set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy (via cmd as administrator)
Stardock Start10
Revo existing AV program
Reset folder view options including "date created"
Install Unlocker & TakeOwnership
Taskbar properties
Classic Personalize
Screensaver & power settings
Defender to do not send
Desktop icons include & view small icons
Computer, properties, advanced settings, best performance (Leave drop shadows, smooth screen fonts, view thumbnails)
systeminfo verify 10586 or higher.
Windows Update, if not.
ToggleTweaker.bat 12 to kill Cortana (says it kills Edge [ver3.3], but it does not).
IF CORTANA NOT DEAD C:\Windows\SystemApps\Cortana\SearchUI.exe kill with TakeOwnership and/or Unlocker (assume both, or as-required, if only one or none mentioned from here on)
Manual Directory Pass Destroy C:\Windows\SystemApps\ TakeOwnership\Unlocker killkillkill one at a time, starting with Cortana, which takes the longest LEAVE SHELLEXPERIENCEHOST INTACT
Manual Directory Pass Destroy C:\Users\MainUser\AppData\Local\MicrosoftEdge; C:\Users\MainUser\AppData\Local\Packages\ for special destructive attention to apps BUT LEAVE WINDOWS.IMMERSIVECONTROLPANEL & SHELLEXPERIENCEHOST ALONE! or Windows Update might not work; C:\Users\MainUser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PRICache
Manual Directory Pass Destroy Unlocker C:\Users\All Users\Package Cache; C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft OneDrive
Manual Directory Pass Destroy TakeOwnership C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\ (LEAVE IMMERSIVECONTROLPANEL, SHELLEXPERIENCEHOST, RUNTIMES, STATEREPOSITORY ALONE!)
Manual Directory Pass Destroy TakeOwnership C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\PACKAGES be careful, watch out, dead "Settings" & "Notifications" (LEAVE IMMERSIVECONTROLPANEL & SHELLEXPERIENCEHOST ALONE!)
Manual Directory Pass Destroy C:\Program Files(x86)\Windows Mail
Manual Directory Pass Destroy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL; OCHelper.dll; ONBttnIE.dll; ONBttnIELinkedNotes.dll
Manual Directory Pass Destroy C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\GROOVEEX.DLL; OCHelper.dll; ONBttnIE.dll; ONBttnIELinkedNotes.dll
Manual Directory Pass Destroy C:\Program Files\Windows Mail; C:\Program Files\WindowsApps (leave VC &
Manual Directory Pass Destroy C:\Windows\MiracastView\
DWS_Lite as administrator, enable professional mode - delete one drive - delete all metro apps - smash everything except defender (mind the checkbox)
Reboot
bcdedit
w10privacy.exe (via cmd as administrator)(be patient, it'll come)
Reboot
OOShutUpWindows10 as administrator
Verify Defender still alive, if not:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender - DWORD (32bit) DisableAntiSpyware needs to be set with a Value of 0 - DWORD (32bit) DisableAntiVirus needs to be set with a Value of 0 -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender
DWORD (32bit) DisableAntiSpyware needs to be set with a Value of 0
Reboot
win10-unfuck-master data-harvesting-services-removal.bat - gpedit.msc-screenshots (NOTE
Is it fascism yet?
Other improvements include things like Windows 10's ability to set your time zone automatically
Sounds like they're really grasping at straws if this is a feature worth mentioning. I didn't realize this was such an innovative thing.
They actually want to be Google. They've modified Windows to gather a lot of user data and to push many of their services (OneDrive, Cortana, Windows Store...) just like Android does. They of course also plan to do a lot of money out of it all, again just like Google.
Once (if) Windows 10 gets an off switch we can talk.
Microsoft is doing their best to listen to your opinion.
> and the data collecting it does do is to improve the services that they provide.
Exactly, but the services are to advertisers to better target you.
And it's precisely this as to why Microsoft are moving to a evergreen-subscription model. (Well, it's currently evergreen, but I suspect evergreen-subscription is just around the corner.) The idea is you pay a modest amount on a subscription and that covers security updates, feature updates and other development. Each release of W10 isn't going to be earth-shatteringly different -- which is a good thing -- more a constant, gradual, evolution coupled with consistency where everyone simply updates.
Yes I am. I had to turn off all updates to Win7. Probably powned by a dozen pieces of malware by now. But it's better than Microsoft's spyware & forced upgrades.
Hooray! ARBEIT macht FREI, Windows Ten!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I would be happy if those fucking idiots at Microsoft could fucking figure out how fucking accounts work.
I have a fucking Microsoft account, a fucking domain account, and a fucking Office account. Microsoft, you fucking goose fuckers, they are fucking separate fucking accounts. Stop "forgetting" which account I'm using for what. This isn't fucking hard. Three fucking accounts. Fucking count with me: 1... 2... 3... Fucking three, separate, fucking accounts.
A bunch of fucking embarrassing, incompetent, fucking idiots.
https://www.cygwin.com/
> What is it?
>
> Cygwin is:
>
> a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.
>
> a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API functionality.
No need to accept Microsoft's half-assed implementation. With Cygwin, you get the whole kit+kaboodle. bash and various other shells. X Window client and server, Firefox, mutt, sendmail, whatever. Even gcc, so you can build from source. And it's free. If the PHBs at work insist, you can buy support from Redhat, who publishes it.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
Like the guest account?
The inconsistent UI?
The terribly broken wifi?
No, lets put some more polish on this fucking turd.
where the author failed to actually disable Cortana correctly, and also ignored live tiles are you?
Windows... the only operating system where, if I "fail to correctly disable Cortana" (because Microsoft has clearly made *that* part easy) and/or to "correctly disable live tiles", opening notepad.exe contacts hundreds of domains.
Paraphrasing Apple fanbois everywhere: "Microsoft isn't really spying on you; you're just holding it wrong."
The First was the FAIL Update.
I've had to mess about with a few MS Win10 machines of relatives due to the update fucking up network, audio and even search being unavailable.
Windows 10 doesn't spy on you.
Prove it.
Second class citizen of the New Gilded Age
Oh and the number one reason i will never go to windows 10 on my home PC is the way in which it was pushed out. I lost all resepect for microsoft when they used windows update to deliver and trick people into installing windows 10.
Actually there were quite a lot of people who know exactly what they are doing with their home PC, and know which version of OS they want to run, and were not tricked at all. Do you class yourself among those who are so computer-illiterate and unaware that they cannot read the most basic information and instructions about their equipment? Maybe you are right in not trying to keep up with technology.
If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
That's like the third story about Microsoft today. How much are you getting to promote this piece of crap?
Microsoft is a global giant in software and services. Which means that a "news for nerds" tech site like Slashdot won't be taken seriously if it doesn't provide in-depth coverage --- which Ars Technica (among others) does quite well without drawing protests like yours.
I'm still using Windows 7 on my daily driver, but when I had a handy spare SSD to install in another system, I first yanked my current drive, installed Windows 10 on that SSD, activated it, then put my original drive back. That should "reserve" my activation for a future upgrade if I so desire, while leaving my current setup completely untouched.
This is also something you can do if you haven't upgraded to an SSD yet - get one ASAP, pull your drive out, install Windows 10 using a USB flash drive created with the Media Creation Tool, activate it with your current product key. THEN you image your current hard drive across to the new SSD, stomping the Windows 10 install.
fencepost
just a little off
Office 2013 is keyboard antagonistic, and server 2012 as well. I can argue about telemetry and other shit all day, but when it takes me longer to accomplish things, that's a deal breaker.
Grab the mouse, focus on a box, continue? Or learn the number if times to hit tab? Win 7 added a ridiculous number of tab stops just in explorer, and I still don't forgive that. The keyboard jockey days are numbered. I can't get behind that.
There is literally a negative total of "what's in it for refuseniks", purely on UI alone.
Go kill yourself already and stop wasting valuable oxygen.
No, I just do manual updates (something you can't do in Spyware 10) for critical patches only AFTER I have looked them up to see what they fix and what they change.
I have a cloned drive image if I ever need to revert to a clean install.
Use unpatched Windows 7 or Windows 8 and you might have a malware problem.
Downgrade to Windows 10 and you definitely have a malware problem.
I'm sorry, but when you link to an non-technical, known and bought Microsoft shill like little Eddie Bott, you lose any amount of credibility that you might have had.
Her? It's a piece of voice recognition software, not a person.
Ah, voice recognition. I remember it well from the 1990s before most able-bodied people realised that it was stupid and counterproductive.
If you couldn't justifying the technical improvements of Windows 10 over Windows 7 what made you think that a small service pack would change that?
Maybe hope that Microsoft did the ethical thing and removed the spyware and forced updates and forced reboots from Windows 10?
Also a gentle reminder that your telemetry is back-ported
Then it's a good thing that it's not installed on my systems.
you're not playing a game of Windows Update roulette using your old system, babying it as you do
Disable updates. Done. No babying needed as my systems are secure by means other than Microsoft (let's face it, even a fully patched system needs other security because of Microsoft's piss poor track record on security).
What a horrible way to use an OS.
Yeah, unlike having to reset all of your settings and configuration every single time Microsoft shits out a new patch for Windows 10 that reverts everything you did. Let's also not forget about lost work due to bandwidth theft and random forced reboots that you cannot stop.
If this is likely to happen to you then you're holding it wrong
Whoosh. He's referring to Windows 10's Fisher-Price interface, not how he holds his PC.
Now, got any more shilling to do or are you done?
Nobody wants to hear your marketing crap, shill.
Spying and ad serving are the primary functions of Windows 10. Only the most naive individuals cannot see that.
By the way enjoy your Windows subscriptions, sucker.
Spying implies doing so without your knowledge, as well as nefarious purposes. Microsoft is open with what they're doing
Then why won't they let users see exactly what data is being harvested and exactly where it's being sent? Shady behavior like that isn't conducive to being open and transparent.
and the data collecting it does do is to improve the services that they provide
HAHAHAHAHAH! You fucking moron.
You say that as if there's nothing you can do about it, but you can block it, through a variety of means. The easiest would be Spybot's Anti-Beacon: https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
Works great, until the next forced updates reverts everything. With Windows 10, you have a constant battle for privacy and trying to tame the system to obey you.
though I personally prefer to block all that crap at the network level with my Pihole DNS black hole server
Great, until you connect to another network or AP.
Here you go: http://www.nuance.com/dragon/i...
Has been doing everything that Cortana does for decades.
Same. I think we need to send "thegarbz" some tinfoil hats and perhaps a book on computer administration and security.
. . . of "Nothing to see here, move along."
How about some stuff that people actually care about, like removing the spyware, adding some configurability, and replacing the legacy closed Microsoft Office Open XML formats with some modern, real, open formats such as ODF?
Satya you claimed we would love Windows. But we hate it more and more. You lied to us. You failed us. You should be fired.
Gee, I'd really love to want to help you Flanders.
Ah, the crutch of third-party software to fix the flaws in Microsoft operating systems. Timeless!
The ability to use an external monitor and not have HUGE UI elements (so large that one must lean backwards to see them) surrounding miniscule text (so small that one must lean-in to one inch from the screen to see them.)
That would be an awesome feature after only a year's additional development effort - considering the apparent difficulty of the task.
Requiem for the American Dream
yeaaaaaaaaa...
from that article...
emphasis mine. this is the round-about way of saying that they do, in fact, exactly that.. they just don't do it for the specific purpose of targeting ads.
further..
WHO OWNS THOSE FACILITIES? and who else has access to them and the data? there's a big giant huge "facility" in utah that is likely extremely "secure".. but it's NOT microsoft's.. but it still fits within their claim.
even if it is in "their own" facility, who's to say it's actually secure? microsoft's track record is not absolute. they've had data breeches, they've had hackers, they've had massive data losses, their software (if they're eating their own dog food) is full of holes............
and finally...
they cannot guarantee that some file or memory dump does not contain personally identifying data. just like they can't guarantee that a url transmitted to them for 'smart screen' doesn't, either.
and you know damn well when you put everything (hell, not even 'everything' for that matter) together that they have, they can most certainly uniquely identify every single pc that runs windows. there may be that small chance that they can't put an actual name to the pc without a little extra 'help' from some other databases they have (or from an outside source), but they can still do it if they put a little automated effort into it.
So assuming MS continue down this path (i.e. Win10 is 'the last version ever'), what will you do when V8.1 goes out of support?
Run unsupported?
Suck up win10?
Switch to OS X?
Switch to Linux?
Switch to xBSD?
etc.
Spying implies doing it in secret and generally for a nefarious reason. Microsoft is very open about what data is collected and why the collect it. For instance, that "keylogger" every was up in arms about? The first one was for the Insider's only, and they put that warning right on the download page, meaning everyone who downloaded it was told it was happening. The newest one is that Cortana sends what's typed into the search bar to Microsoft. No shit...that's how the service works. This is the same as google.com sending what was typed into the search bar to the Google servers. The "data snooping" that was talked about? That's allowing them to ensure what's in your OneDrive is nothing illegal. These are the same provisions held by Dropbox, Google (for Google Drive), iCloud, etc. That's how the service works. I could keep going on with these, but if you look at what services are baked into 10 by default, and then read the privacy statement/ToS/EULA, you'll see that everything has a reason to be there, and it's for the services provided. It's not a giant data collector, it's a service provider.
Exactly, but the services are to advertisers to better target you.
Or, services like Windows Store, OneDrive, Office, etc.
HAHAHAHAHAH! You fucking moron.
Yup, I'm a moron for reading privacy policies, EULA's, and ToS and actually educating myself on what is going on. Sorry that I don't have the doom and gloom outlook on life that regular /. users do.
>Uhhhh you DO know there are ways to get updates other than WU, yes
A humble request from a regular plebe...
How does one get updates outside of the Updater, please. I really do not know but would like to, thanks.
Hmmm, all the touted improvements are for things I turned off immediately after downloading the Windows 10 fix for Windows 8 malware. The whole of Win8 acted like malware.
NRRPT/RCT
That would be probably the biggest improvement. However I will go one better. Since moving from 7 to 10, I *HAD* to find a WMC replacement. I found Plex.
MS should just take some of the money they have sitting in the bank, go out and buy Plex the company, re-brand it as MS, release the Pro version and mobile apps for free to everyone with Windows 10. Done. Many happy people.
Plex is way better than WMC ever was.
Of course that is assuming that MS doesn't immediately wreak Plex. On second though forget I said anything...
One W10 feature that I'd really like to see is it becoming magically W7. All problems solved.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
I don't know yet, seven years is a long time. What I do know is that I will never use Windows 10.
None of those things need spyware to work.
You're a moron for believing a corporation's (one that has been found guilty of criminal offenses at that) marketing lies and for not having a clue about the privacy or security implications of handing control of your PC over to that corporation.
People like you should just go buy video game consoles because I seriously doubt that you do anything but consume on your PC.
I have it turned off as well. So far as I know if nothing else it can be used to transcribe your words in a voice-to-text sort of way. We here on slashdot may be good touch typists, but some people can't and/or won't commit to typing. So being able to talk into the machine is helpful.
And I guess MS's assumption is some contingent of users have been only using iphone for however long that group may be accustomed to only using voice-to-text. If that were the case said people may find trying to use an icky QWERTY keyboard alienating. I imagine if I were say...14 years old and had used very little iOS 99% of time my whole life being forced to switch to typing on a windows computer could be quite alienating. Like something out of era of bell bottoms (thinking like this imaginary 14 year old for a moment, I lack imagination).
Of course, I can think of other reasons. China and india are big markets for instance and most of those populations have only known the phone as their sole computing device. A voice interface of some type might make this transition much easier.
Lets face it: the markets of "the west" are second fiddle now-days. It's more about accommodating the up-and-coming potential markets. If that were the rational I don't fault MS at all for it. I mean 90%+ market share in the western hemisphere there's not much place else to go but China/India that's like 2+ billion people. Choice of who to cater to seems obvious.
Obviously I'm just speculating here. And I hope I had answer to your question somewhere in there....
"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." -Dennis Ritchie
Introducing Hyper-V Container: You can now use Docker natively on Windows 10 with Hyper-V Containers, to build, ship and run containers utilizing the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5 Nano Server container OS image. A new version of the Docker engine for Windows has also been made available that extends the support of containers while also improving the DockerFile syntax and getting started experience for users. For more details on how to get started with this check out the Windows container documentation or the Windows 10 Getting Started Guide.
source: https://blogs.windows.com/wind...
"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." -Dennis Ritchie
> 2) better direct access VPN client
The VPN implementation is one of the most braindead UI choices I've seen in recent years. I want to connect to a VPN I've configured, so I:
* Click the Notifications icon in the systray to slide out Action Center
* Click the "VPN" tile
* The VPN "Settings" window opens, with a list of my configured connections
* Click on the particular VPN connection I want, causing it to expand and show additional buttons
* Click the "Connect" button
Compare to Network Manager, where I click to expand Gnome's systray, Click "VPN", click whichever connection I want and it's done, connection made. No windows popping up with other things to click around, no fanfare.
Replace the old "transfer wizard" with Ms USMT, transfers profile (+ user's reg, optional, office only) from 7/8.*/10 to 7/8.*/10, (32/64 bit)
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_State_Migration_Tool