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Microsoft Yanks Three Bad Patches Of Their Last Outlook Patch (computerworld.com)
An anonymous reader quotes ComputerWorld's Woody Leonhard:
I just received word from Gunter Born that Microsoft has pulled three of its Outlook patches... There's no specific recommendation that you uninstall the yanked patches -- indeed, there's no description of the problems caused by the latest round -- but earlier versions of the bad patches-of-patches had a nasty habit of crashing Outlook... Microsoft still hasn't fixed any of the Office 2007 bugs it introduced in the June security patches.
If you're keeping score at home, the yanked patches are:
If you're keeping score at home, the yanked patches are:
- KB 4011042 - July 5, 2017, update for Outlook 2010
- KB 3191849 - June 27, 2017, update for Outlook 2013
- KB 3213654 - June 30, 2017, update for Outlook 2016
Windows 10 has high DPI support... too bad 99% of Microsoft apps don't actually support it.
Please list them so we can audit your 99% number. Because the way I see it the only things that don't support high DPI is some older MSI installers, and some of the management console things. Pretty much everything user facing does support high DPI and has for a while.
Go ahead, try and install it on a 5400 RPM laptop if you dare (with 6 GB of RAM and >2.5 GHZ processor) and it'll run like a pile of cow dung. It will literally spend HOURS doing nothing but running telemetry, superfetch, "application compatibility", and windows defender.
Well yes, just like when you install Linux the first thing it does is update the slocate database. The thing is after those first few hours it runs just fine, and certainly faster and leaner than all its predecessors. Incidentally I have no problem running it on a machine lower specced than yours. 4800RPM drive, 4GB of ram and a 2GHz machine. No problem here. Just don't try and run the latest Adobe CC software on it.
I've been manually disabling Windows Defender on that laptop.
Why? It is the leanest antivirus software there is. The initial scan when you first install the system takes a little while and then there is literally no reason to disable it other than stupidity or because a corporate overlord has a contract with Mcafee.
Add that Windows 10 will reboot "quietly" without telling you
No it won't. You sound like you have a massive hardware issue. Or maybe its a PEBCAK issue where you've set the computer to automatically reboot without warning, like set your active hours to midnight instead of during the day and turned off the function that gives you the reboot warning, deferral options etc. Except even then it prompts you.
Oh wait, with this recent Creators Update, Microsoft found out people were doing that, and MOVED THE PAGE. So now, it's another 3 clicks of pages, to get to the button that disables defender. A "subtle" act of conditioning to make it harder for lazy people to modify from Microsoft's godlike will for our lives.
Oh no, a feature most people shouldn't use, that is irrelevant for nearly everyone is no longer front and centre of a redesigned menu. Help help I'm being oppressed!
Microsoft has literally designed a operating system that can't actually run... on modern hardware.
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Maybe you need to learn english. Not sure if you should do that before or after learning how to use a computer.
Waiting 20 seconds for a page to load on a machine with GIGAHERTZ processors is pure lunacy. And it's happened to every single laptop with a slower hard drive at our company. Do they even TEST their software? Is anyone running the ship? Who thought these decisions would be a good idea?
Agreed. It seems there is a common factor here. You.
And yeah, my job is literally installing and maintaining their software. So I AM allowed to complain. If I could convince every client to magically switch to Linux overnight, I would. Linux has plenty of problems but the difference is... they're actually reported and solvable.
Normally I don't suggest people quit their day job, but in this case it may be for the best.