There's an enterprise version of Windows 10 that has less telemetry/more controls about it but AFAIK isn't totally clean.
Also, some weeks ago there was an article here that said that Microsoft had reached an agreement with China's government for a special, more controllable, version of Win 10. So it seems you must be a government with a lot of money to get a good version of Windows 10
When I was depressed I had no sex desire at all so, yes, certain mind "states" can lead to celibacy. I might be that whatever made them so intelligent also made them uninterested in sex
If the green party is anything like similar parties here in Spain you'd expect them to be very nitpicky about what they use and to care about freedoms and such.
So I've been really disappointed that the reasons they give to stay in Linux is "WannaCry", i.e. Virus and the like.
I'd hope such a party would know and care about Windows 10's telemetry, publicity and user tracking. If even they don't know or care means that 99'9% of people don't and so Microsoft has no reason to change and then probably Windows will get worse and worse.
It's a pity because i quite liked Windows until 7 and I'm unlikely to ever be able to get completely away from it.
Come on, you can't seriously define freedom as being able to download Netflix and Hollywood created content. It's just entertainment created by for profit companies. It isn't gonna cure diseases, it isn't gonna help hunger or global warning. It's just enterntainment and nobody is entitled to it.
Freedom is about net neutrality, freedom of speech, democracy and so on, not about this.
I do pirate content from time to time but I'm not stupid enough to think that I'm entitled to it. I totally defend the rights of companies to create content with their own money and to profit from it.
Culture? There's lots of it available for free in public libraries around the world. Also, lots of creative commons content out there.
I dislike many (most) thing Apple does but you've gotta agree that iOS is by far the least user spying mobile OS there is.
Of course, it helps that, unlike Google, their main business is not completely dependent on gathering user data. I heard that in WWDC they threw some jabs towards Google precisely because of that.
As I said, you can't count on Google being too privacy friendly since their business depends on they not being that. And Microsoft has gone full Google on Windows Phone and Windows for PCs.
It's sad that the state of affairs has come to where we are, but people using the products gives the companies little incentive to change their ways
This will 99% crash. Andy Rubin's previous creation, Android, succeded because it arrived early not because it had anything magical. Microsoft dumped tons of cash on Windows Phone and failed, what can this man do that Microsoft can't?
Apple's implementation of everything is walled garden crap.
The worst thing about it it's they've been wildly successful with it showing others the way. Now we have a version of Windows 10 where you can only install programs from Microsoft's store and they'll keep trying to force that version into being the default one.
I haven't read the TFA so I don't know if it's mentioned there but Microsoft was said to be integrating an x86 to ARM translator so that x86 software would work on CPUs like the mentioned.
So this new systems might be able and intended to run x86 software after all
You can upgrade the hardware piece by piece as you see fit: Now a hard drive, then a new GPU, later a newer mobo+CPU+RAM, etc.
Also, so far, it's been much better than the consoles in preserving backwards compatibility. In a modern PC with Windows you can play most games made in the last 10 years, many in the last 20. The rest of them (ok,. I'm sure some you can't) you can run in a VM on the original OS for which they were designed.
Of course, it has bad things. For me, the biggest one is that you're tied to Windows and at the mercy of Microsoft. Never it's been more evident than now where the current Windows is an anti consumer piece of spyware.
The consoles are simpler and easier to use but for me a PC wins overall
Exactly. At this point it's known by almost everyone that uses a computer. In the beggining how do you think it got its marketshare? Did millions of geeks tell their non-geek friends and relatives how nice Chrome was? No, Google pushed it hard by every way they could think of.
Firefox got popular by being much better than IE was at the time (not that hard).
For some people Chrome may be better than anything else but publicity and bundling were very important to getting it where it's today.
Yes, only Microsoft can fix Windows, but they won't do it unless they feel threatened.
When the PS4 and Xbox one were about to be released Microsoft revealed that the Xbox would require constant connection to the Internet to play. They players revolted and Sony said they wouldn't do it. Microsoft (correctly, IMO) sensed that could be a fatal blow to their console and backtracked really fast.
Something of that caliber would have to happen for they to remove all the spying in Windows. What could that be? I can only think of mass migration of governments and big companies. Alas, that is very unlikely to happen.
In the end this is just another thing that shows how bad monopolies can be (In this case is a monopoly in the sense of "OS that can run Windows software and drivers", ReactOS could theoretically be an alternative but realistically they'd need billions of dollars to get close to Windows).
I'm the only one who thinks that despite Firefox's technical shortcomings Chrome won because Google advertises it everywhere?
We the geeks may discuss which one's better all day but ask to the millions of Joe Users that use Chrome why they use it and then you'll be getting somewhere. Don't forget that the common users vastly outnumber the geeks.
How Samsung can make a rugged Galaxy S8 which I presume it won't sell many units but can't be bothered to make one with a removable battery.
The conclusion is not many people care about removable batteries or they'd rather keep the programmed obsolescense of fixed batteries than cash our money
I also think that you can't force a company to support an OS forever but I also agree with you that when Win 7 is unsupported it will be horrible. It seems it's gonna be the last Microsoft "sane" OS (no huge amounts of spying, no constant pushing of Ms' services, no ads in the OS, UI designed for kb + mouse usage). But this only highlights the worrysome direction Microsoft is taking.
You may fault me for depending on software that only runs on Windows but I that such software for me is only games and, at least up to now, buying a console has been a much worse solution (backwards compatibility, piece by piece upgradability, cheaper games, the fact that I was going to buy a PC anyway)
I can only comment on the Xiaomi Mi Band 2 since it's the only device that tracks sleep that I've had. The times for going to sleep and waking up are pretty accurate. Of course I can't say anything about the validity of the "deep sleep" time.
Since most of these devices seem to use similar hardware I don't think there can be huge differences on them
I wouldn't care about they constantly altering the UI language if there was an option to get a "classic" grey Windows UI (think Windows 2000 or XP or 7 in classic mode). But it seems letting the user choose is too dangerous or bad for Microsoft
I do believe is very hard to make an UI that works equally well in both paradigms. Well, you can certainly just use a touch optimized UI on a desktop but it's not nearly as good as one designed specifically for mouse. You get UIs which have tons of whitespace and huge targets and thus waste lots of real state.
I do use all of them save for Apple. But the only one I couldn't leave behind is Microsoft: In business they still have a few very entrenched products.e.g: Office. Despite all the alternatives it's what most businesses (big and small) usually end up using. In a business setting few dare editing Office format files with Libreoffice since they might not work on Office.
At home I depend on Windows to be able to run my videogames. I could certainly buy a Playstation but I have lots of games that only work on Windows and they're usually cheaper on PCs that on consoles too.
I've been following the project for some years and they same some hardworking people...but they're way to few to take on a project of this size.
Cloning Windows is a huge huge work and they would need serious financial backing and a lot more people to be a viable replacement for Windows in a short time.
Of course! They really want everyone using their spying, publicity-laden OS. The false deadline was only a device to scare people into upgrading before it was too late.
This new Windows 10 S is just the first step into trying to force everyone into only using apps installed through their app store.
I wish the "walled garden" model had never been invented.
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There's an enterprise version of Windows 10 that has less telemetry/more controls about it but AFAIK isn't totally clean.
Also, some weeks ago there was an article here that said that Microsoft had reached an agreement with China's government for a special, more controllable, version of Win 10. So it seems you must be a government with a lot of money to get a good version of Windows 10
When I was depressed I had no sex desire at all so, yes, certain mind "states" can lead to celibacy. I might be that whatever made them so intelligent also made them uninterested in sex
If the green party is anything like similar parties here in Spain you'd expect them to be very nitpicky about what they use and to care about freedoms and such.
So I've been really disappointed that the reasons they give to stay in Linux is "WannaCry", i.e. Virus and the like.
I'd hope such a party would know and care about Windows 10's telemetry, publicity and user tracking. If even they don't know or care means that 99'9% of people don't and so Microsoft has no reason to change and then probably Windows will get worse and worse.
It's a pity because i quite liked Windows until 7 and I'm unlikely to ever be able to get completely away from it.
Come on, you can't seriously define freedom as being able to download Netflix and Hollywood created content. It's just entertainment created by for profit companies. It isn't gonna cure diseases, it isn't gonna help hunger or global warning. It's just enterntainment and nobody is entitled to it.
Freedom is about net neutrality, freedom of speech, democracy and so on, not about this.
I do pirate content from time to time but I'm not stupid enough to think that I'm entitled to it. I totally defend the rights of companies to create content with their own money and to profit from it.
Culture? There's lots of it available for free in public libraries around the world. Also, lots of creative commons content out there.
I dislike many (most) thing Apple does but you've gotta agree that iOS is by far the least user spying mobile OS there is.
Of course, it helps that, unlike Google, their main business is not completely dependent on gathering user data. I heard that in WWDC they threw some jabs towards Google precisely because of that.
As I said, you can't count on Google being too privacy friendly since their business depends on they not being that. And Microsoft has gone full Google on Windows Phone and Windows for PCs.
It's sad that the state of affairs has come to where we are, but people using the products gives the companies little incentive to change their ways
This will 99% crash. Andy Rubin's previous creation, Android, succeded because it arrived early not because it had anything magical. Microsoft dumped tons of cash on Windows Phone and failed, what can this man do that Microsoft can't?
Apple's implementation of everything is walled garden crap.
The worst thing about it it's they've been wildly successful with it showing others the way. Now we have a version of Windows 10 where you can only install programs from Microsoft's store and they'll keep trying to force that version into being the default one.
They should've left the "fire" name to Samsung
I haven't read the TFA so I don't know if it's mentioned there but Microsoft was said to be integrating an x86 to ARM translator so that x86 software would work on CPUs like the mentioned.
So this new systems might be able and intended to run x86 software after all
You can upgrade the hardware piece by piece as you see fit: Now a hard drive, then a new GPU, later a newer mobo+CPU+RAM, etc.
Also, so far, it's been much better than the consoles in preserving backwards compatibility. In a modern PC with Windows you can play most games made in the last 10 years, many in the last 20. The rest of them (ok,. I'm sure some you can't) you can run in a VM on the original OS for which they were designed.
Of course, it has bad things. For me, the biggest one is that you're tied to Windows and at the mercy of Microsoft. Never it's been more evident than now where the current Windows is an anti consumer piece of spyware.
The consoles are simpler and easier to use but for me a PC wins overall
..if it makes Microsoft concentrating their dumbing down on this new mobile platform and stop "mobilizing" Windows.
Exactly. At this point it's known by almost everyone that uses a computer. In the beggining how do you think it got its marketshare? Did millions of geeks tell their non-geek friends and relatives how nice Chrome was? No, Google pushed it hard by every way they could think of.
Firefox got popular by being much better than IE was at the time (not that hard).
For some people Chrome may be better than anything else but publicity and bundling were very important to getting it where it's today.
Yes, only Microsoft can fix Windows, but they won't do it unless they feel threatened.
When the PS4 and Xbox one were about to be released Microsoft revealed that the Xbox would require constant connection to the Internet to play. They players revolted and Sony said they wouldn't do it. Microsoft (correctly, IMO) sensed that could be a fatal blow to their console and backtracked really fast.
Something of that caliber would have to happen for they to remove all the spying in Windows. What could that be? I can only think of mass migration of governments and big companies. Alas, that is very unlikely to happen.
In the end this is just another thing that shows how bad monopolies can be (In this case is a monopoly in the sense of "OS that can run Windows software and drivers", ReactOS could theoretically be an alternative but realistically they'd need billions of dollars to get close to Windows).
I'm the only one who thinks that despite Firefox's technical shortcomings Chrome won because Google advertises it everywhere?
We the geeks may discuss which one's better all day but ask to the millions of Joe Users that use Chrome why they use it and then you'll be getting somewhere. Don't forget that the common users vastly outnumber the geeks.
How Samsung can make a rugged Galaxy S8 which I presume it won't sell many units but can't be bothered to make one with a removable battery.
The conclusion is not many people care about removable batteries or they'd rather keep the programmed obsolescense of fixed batteries than cash our money
I also think that you can't force a company to support an OS forever but I also agree with you that when Win 7 is unsupported it will be horrible. It seems it's gonna be the last Microsoft "sane" OS (no huge amounts of spying, no constant pushing of Ms' services, no ads in the OS, UI designed for kb + mouse usage). But this only highlights the worrysome direction Microsoft is taking.
You may fault me for depending on software that only runs on Windows but I that such software for me is only games and, at least up to now, buying a console has been a much worse solution (backwards compatibility, piece by piece upgradability, cheaper games, the fact that I was going to buy a PC anyway)
I can only comment on the Xiaomi Mi Band 2 since it's the only device that tracks sleep that I've had. The times for going to sleep and waking up are pretty accurate. Of course I can't say anything about the validity of the "deep sleep" time.
Since most of these devices seem to use similar hardware I don't think there can be huge differences on them
I wouldn't care about they constantly altering the UI language if there was an option to get a "classic" grey Windows UI (think Windows 2000 or XP or 7 in classic mode). But it seems letting the user choose is too dangerous or bad for Microsoft
I do believe is very hard to make an UI that works equally well in both paradigms. Well, you can certainly just use a touch optimized UI on a desktop but it's not nearly as good as one designed specifically for mouse. You get UIs which have tons of whitespace and huge targets and thus waste lots of real state.
I do use all of them save for Apple. But the only one I couldn't leave behind is Microsoft: In business they still have a few very entrenched products.e.g: Office. Despite all the alternatives it's what most businesses (big and small) usually end up using. In a business setting few dare editing Office format files with Libreoffice since they might not work on Office.
At home I depend on Windows to be able to run my videogames. I could certainly buy a Playstation but I have lots of games that only work on Windows and they're usually cheaper on PCs that on consoles too.
I've been following the project for some years and they same some hardworking people...but they're way to few to take on a project of this size.
Cloning Windows is a huge huge work and they would need serious financial backing and a lot more people to be a viable replacement for Windows in a short time.
I don't get the one about Chrome. Are you forced to use it on Windows or Linux? I just use Firefox everywhere
...since in the (distant?) future you won't be able to install programs from outside the Windows Store at all
Of course! They really want everyone using their spying, publicity-laden OS. The false deadline was only a device to scare people into upgrading before it was too late.
This new Windows 10 S is just the first step into trying to force everyone into only using apps installed through their app store.
I wish the "walled garden" model had never been invented.
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