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Microsoft To Stop Offering Support For Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Old Surface Devices in Forums (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft has announced that starting next month it will no longer be participating in the technical support forums for Windows 7, 8.1, 8.1 RT and numerous other products. On the software front, the company says that it will also no longer provide support for Microsoft Security Essentials, Internet Explorer 10, Office 2010 and 2013 as of July. It is not just software that is affected. Microsoft is also stopping support for Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2, Surface RT, Surface 2, Microsoft Band and Zune. Some forums will be locked, preventing users from helping each other as well.
Like you can actually get any help in Microsoft forums.....
considering Windows 7 doesn't EOL until 2020. I think Microsoft needs another pimp slap from the anti-trust folks in the US Government. This is a blatant attempt to make currently popular versions of its operating system appear less secure in an effort to consolidate everyone under Windows 10.
After months of usage, I've come to the same conclusion as when it was first announced -- Windows 10 sucks. I don't need a tablet/phone interface on my desktop. Their attempt at giving us a "regular" desktop really doesn't cut it either. I do not need the internals obfuscated so that "normal" users find it difficult to affect them as that makes it difficult for IT staff to reach them as well unless I learn a whole bunch of new shortcuts. Shortcuts that are there just because Microsoft decided to change how access worked; not because workflow is better or follows the Vulcan principles of logic -- just because they needed a UI change.
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
~Anonymous~
U: I have a problem with xdog.dll not regestering and giving result code 0x32De32
Top Solution--------
MS: Hi this is sanjay. I will help you with this problem now. Have you tried system restore: **Irrelevant ms KB article**
I will now walk you through windows re-install **Irrelevant KB article** Link to irrelevant microsoft fix it.
Other solutions:
U: You need to replace the dll with version 32.64.99 and try again.
So no big loss.
Have you not used Linux since 1997?
That was the most terrible attempt at trolling I've seen in a while. Up your game, or at least update your game.
HINT: Complain about systemd or pulseaudio. That always works these days. Doesn't matter what your complaint is or how badly formed it is, you'll get everyone to agree with you if you use those trigger words.
Anyone else notice that Microsoft products work better after they no longer support them?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
In my experience, the advice on Microsoft forums always boils down to the following anyway: Save all of your data an reinstall Windows from scratch.
The advice is pretty useless in many circumstances, but since most people don't have the time&money to sue Microsoft for their own loss of time & money, the advise always works for Microsoft. If I could bill Microsoft for every hour I've spend fixing what their operating system messed up, I could be a rich man...
I can only speak for myself, but the UI in Win10 is not the main objection
Not being able to manage when updates are applied
Telemetry
These are my issues.
I understand that MS changes the UI so that people do not wonder why they are spending money on an update.
What I don't understand is why people fall for that.
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I agree that spyware and telemetry are serious problems. But I think you have under-appreciated exactly how terrible the "new" UI is. They basically have gotten rid of everything that we use to tell one UI element from another. Everything looks like a background element. Nothing looks like something you can actually interact with. There are no borders to help determine where one element ends and another begins. Title bars blend in with the rest of the window. It's like someone on some seriously powerful drugs is making the UI decisions.
I understand that MS changes the UI so that people do not wonder why they are spending money on an update.
That's true for previous Windows OSes. Although I wouldn't say "changes" in this case. Change would be like making Windows look like KDE or some other different but still usable UI. For this case I would say, "royally fucked." And nobody actually buys Windows 10. They either got force upgraded during the force upgrade period or they bought a new computer and didn't know how to get a better OS.
What I don't understand is why people fall for that.
This makes it sound like you are trolling. Nobody "falls for" the Windows UI. That doesn't make any sense.
Eliza doesn't try, it just is (and it was available for my Radio Shack Model 1 back in the day, written in Level 2 BASIC!). Unfortunately, the original comment is right on - it's been at least a year or 2 since I've seen a response allegedly from MS in any MS forum that hasn't been obviously a bot pasting mostly irrelevant text. Any actual support in MS fora has come from other users, not MS. OTOH, if that's the level of "support" MS is willing to provide, then the least they could do is leave the fora open for others in the "Community" to help with some light AI moderation to contain the trolls.
At least with Linux support fora, if you can get past certain attitudes, there's community support for versions back to arbitrary numbers, not just the latest ones. But then, Linux distro publishers are usually not trying to get you to buy the latest version and abandon one that works...