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Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com)
Microsoft officials have some fairly specific ideas about what they want their Windows-device-making partners to build in calendar 2017. From a report: Microsoft wants its OEMs and ODMs to make more Windows 10 detachables, convertibles, and ultraslims. They also are advising their partners to make devices and peripherals that highlight the "hero experiences" of Windows 10 involving Cortana, Windows Hello authentication, and Windows Ink. And another wish-list topper: Microsoft is looking for more Windows 10 PCs that can power mixed-reality peripherals and that are ready for gamers and "media fanatics."
Just switch off Metro and Cortana to use Windows 10 as a desktop OS. Not that much different than Windows 7.
You also have to add a few third-party applications to fix the rest of the stuff that Microsoft broke, such as the Start menu.
...What makes you say this? Have you looked at MS's financials lately? They're doing great. ...
Microsoft's enterprise cloud business is doing great. Microsoft's Windows' business is doing far less great.
They forced us onto Windows 10 at work, I installed Classic Explorer and that gets rid of their retarded implementation of a start menu.
Pro allows you to defer UPGRADES, not updates. The added control you paid for is being steadily chipped away. Pro is essentially home with a group policy editor at this point. Pro is no longer a 'business class' OS, thats reserved for Enterprise with its lovely annual licensing agreements.
Good-bye
Yes. If I recall, the point of the Surface was to kick other manufacturers in the butt so they'll start making quality and innovative hardware. If you recall, at the time, most manufacturers were only pumping out bargain basement Windows 7 machines that were barely qualified to toss into the scrap heap.
I don't see how a constantly updating Windows is much worse than a constantly updating Ubuntu?
No automatic reboots. An update to a userspace library takes effect the next time you start a process that imports a particular library. Kernel and systemd updates take effect only after a reboot, but those are manual.
To get something like Win 7 you'd also have to remove the following things:
- Ads for Office and Edge built into the OS.
- The infamous telemetry that can't be completely turned off.
- The annoying push to use MS' services (Ms account for login, Cortana, Bing, the Store...)
- The "bug" that resets your default applications to Ms' ones every major update.
- The inability to reject updates.
- The built-for-touch apps that are the defaults (and, in some cases like the Settings app, the only option) even on desktops without touchscreens.