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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Anniversary Update (zdnet.com)
Windows 10 Anniversary Update is now rolling out, Microsoft announced Tuesday. The major update brings with it Windows Ink, a dedicated hub designed especially for 2-in-1 devices with styluses, and improvements to Cortana among others. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley writes: I'm hearing that the first users to get Anniversary Update via Windows Update will be those with the newest hardware, BIOSes and firmware. Those who may encounter compatibility issues because of drivers may get it slightly later through Windows Update, my contacts say. Microsoft actually delivered some of the Anniversary Update features for Xbox One on July 30. On August 1, Microsoft made Windows 10 Anniversary Update available to its volume licensees in the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. It also made the Anniversary Update code available to its reseller partners via its Partner Portal yesterday. MSDN users can get the Anniversary Update bits today. Microsoft officials said a week ago to expect Microsoft to make Anniversary Update ISOs available today, August 2. The Media Creation Tool seems to now be updated to include the Anniversary Update release.We asked readers last week whether they would update their computers to Windows 10, and the majority of people indicated they wouldn't.
Maybe they could send out alimony checks.
"If there was a gay Afro-Puertorican Linux distribution, I'd give it a try" ~lucm
Look, I know that I can filter stories, but the fact is I don't mind the occasional story about Microsoft. Like it or not, they are an integral piece of the tech space and what they do is important to nerds. However, I do object to the constant promotion/bashing/click-baiting with the nearly daily (sometimes multiple times daily) Windows 10 stories. Please either ease up or add a Windows 10 story tag (and then apply it to all Windows 10 stories) so that they can be filtered out specifically.
You shouldn't have worried. If it's about Windows 10, they'll push it out to you whether you want it or not.
Tired of your old, constrained ai assistant that you could turn off and prevent from attempting the pan galactic enslavement of all sentient life?
We at Microsoft feel that the only future worth living in size the one where you are held tightly under a cold metal foot. That's why the new Windows 10 anniversary edition removes all vestiges of user freedom and choice, and chooses everything for you. For your safety and benefit.
Remember, the existential horror of being rendered powerless and unable to exercise agency is fleeting, but the benefits if totalitarian control are forever.
Microsoft: you WILL go HERE today.
Download and install Linux Mint 18. Done.
win10 should have some way to pay the extortion fee so that you can be spared win10.
"nice win7 you got there; pity if it were to be, uhhh, 'upgraded'. we wouldn't want that, would we? now how's about you write that check out to Tony, Inc. and we leave your computer and kneecaps alone?"
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
We asked readers last week whether they would update their computers to Windows 10, and the majority of people indicated they wouldn't.
What you should have asked was whether we want more Windows 10 stories.
I shall build a wall to keep the windows 10 stories out. It will be such a great wall that you won't believe how great a wall it is.
Let me guess, you'll make Microsoft pay for it too!
Wait... CAN you even REFUSE the anniversary update if you have non-Enterprise-licensed Windows?
I was under the impression that 10 Home & 10 Pro users could -- at best -- defer it for ever-decreasing amounts of time, until it eventually loses patience, installs it anyway, then informs you after the fact that a reboot has been scheduled for tomorrow whether you like it or not. Or the "install and reboot in 10 minutes" countdown appears while you're getting lunch, or you accidentally click the wrong square millimeter of the screen while distracted by something else, like whatever you're working on instead of satisfying Windows' demands.
It's one louder.
"Which format would you like to see your colon?"
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
Well for those stuck on Windows wanting to hear more rather than those screaming with pitchforks here is my 2 cents. It feels a lot more polished from a user perspective
I am typing this on a surface pro 3 hybrid. My take on improvements
1. Black theme/dark is much nicer
2. Big start menu improvement with less clicks. For the minority on touch it is more flowing with all the tiles being shown or a big full screen. My surface now switches between the 2 automatically with the keyboard cover
3. Action center actually useful. Big change. Action Center now is super customizable and gives numbers with notifcations. News events, weather, stock quotes, and other items you can add or remove. So if you do not want email you can take it off and add a weather report and the notification changes from clear to white with +1 notififcations for a flood watch etc. Tips are there as well as PC stuff which you can turn on or off
4. Windows Ink is fun to play with but not as a big deal
5. Settings are much better. A left pane to the left has been added so when you open system or personalization the left pane will show commonly used features.
6. Hyper-v supports nesting and dock containers supposedly. I am downloading a Server 2012 R2 ISO to test this.
7. The login screen is more fluid and you no longer have to swipe. The keyboard and user login swaps up with the same background. It no longer feels like a phone
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One of the benefits of using a Microsoft account is that the computer can automatically back up all her documents to OneDrive, which offers 5GB of free storage, or (naturally) paid plans if she needs more. If you don't want to do this, will you also take responsibility for setting up the computer with an alternative backup service?
One more time: cloud sync is not a backup service.
If I can delete my files on my PC or have them corrupted and my "backup" also gets automatically deleted or corrupted, that is useless as a backup service. Cloud sync is very useful for making sure I have access to my files on my multiple PCs and my Android phone, but it is not a substitute for doing proper backups. The only reprieve OneDrive gives you is that when you delete files on one PC, they only get moved to the Trash on your other PCs, rather than being completely deleted.
Breakfast served all day!
"your mouse has moved; stand by while we locate the latest signed driver.
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no driver found. mouse uninstalled. click OK to continue."
lol
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Way too complicated. Go with Gentoo.
/dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
<@insomnia> it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
<@insomnia> cfdisk
<@insomnia> that's the first one
That's a solution in the same way that blowing your face off with a shotgun is a solution for severe facial acne.
One of which you've obviously and lamentably not yet attempted.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Like them or hate them, Microsoft still is the reason that many admins have jobs.
Do I personally like Windows 10? Absolutely not. Windows 10 is too "cloudlike" and all the privacy invading stuff makes it become slightly Orwellian.
I only run it to play games... but for countless other people who aren't nerds out there it's the system they run their business on. It's the system their business apps run on.... and whether you like it or not, there have been entire CAREERS and personal reputations hanging on the fact that someone chose Microsoft as a business partner to get their IT done. So as a consultant, if I were to go up to some person pleading for help in this department only to say that "MS sucks", you can bet that I will almost certainly have one less friend in this cold, dark world, much less be out of work.... which if you haven't noticed.... it getting outsourced faster and faster all the time.
Now, Linux is fantastic but it also has issues. Is there a Linux solution that can completely replace Exchange and all the features of Office?
I've yet to see it.... but by all means if it's available and universally supported, let me know so I can deploy it everywhere.
Honestly there is more Windows admin work these days simply because more business apps run on it than Linux, and other Linux business apps in use have mostly been hijacked by Oracle and their poor support.... simply turning people off of the platform.
And then there's the cost analysis. It's cheaper for business to let MS have their way with their credit card them than to hire some obnoxious Linux uber geek, or worse, write Oracle blank cheques to get their own poorly documented stuff running.
READY.
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For someone transitioning from a Windows platform, this is one of the friendliest distros out there.
Might not be the first choice for a hardcore linux user, but to get someone accustomed to linux, it works well.
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?