Probably true. I suspect you're not able to get the free offer now but use it later. You can get the ISOs for it for archiving (I have them), but once you install it's going to ask for your authorization code. You can't even get that auth code until after you install it. So if you want to take advantage of the free offer today but then install it next year when it's not so hectic then you're out of luck. This is not like the old Windows where you get a DVD and a printed auth code.
I tried it out in a VM, but without the authorization code it's stuck in a "trial" mode where I can't change the UI and other personalization. So it's stuck with the uglified new start menu (ads and all). But I don't want to waste my one-time-only upgrade from "Pro" edition. Applying for the authorization code is done from within Windows and I assume it would be applied to the VM image only and so if I upgrade again on my real computer it would likely complain that I already used up my upgrade. So doing a "test drive" here is difficult, unless you upgrade your computer and later rollback, but that's not completely safe and is very time consuming if it screws up.
Microsoft loves screwing up the OSX versions of Office. If you think Office sucks on Windows then you don't want to see how bad it is on Mac. Seriously get OpenOffice, LibreOffice, or anything else.
The functional updates are generally pointless anyway. Most updates of any value only ever shows up in the latest releases. Once there's a new Windows version the previous version stops getting anything useful except for some crash fixes. Windows 8 has mainstream support until 2018, but I can say with high confidence that they will never port DirectX 12 to it for example.
CEO: So what's the worst thing that can happen with this plan? Marketing: The entire world will hate us. CEO: But the entire world already hates us. Marketing: That's the beauty of it, there's nothing left to lose. CEO: Ok, let's pass it by legal. Legal: We're lawyers, the entire world hates us too. I say screw em!
It's all pointless. Who at this moment has not yet heard of the Windows 10 update availability? Are they concerned that someone somewhere hasn't heard about this and so they're intent on pissing everyone off just to reach this one person? Everyone has already either upgraded, ignored the upgrades, or taken active steps block the updates that trick you into upgrading. Why the hell are they still at this? The answer is NO, they gotta LET IT GO!
It's all about DRM, the "right" of the publishers to control when, where, and how you use a product regardless of and in spite of any laws to the contrary. They go out of business then you lose everyrhing you bought from them, even if they just get tired of the product and discontinue selling new ones you lose all the old access. Imagine if this were automobiles and there was no such thing as a "classic" because they just suddenly vanished into thin air.
Most is also not the same as everyone or even almost everyone. It's not even two thirds. I would suspect that 1/3rd of America isn't the same thing as "too small to be considered" as has been implied elsewhere in the comments.
Everything is a "potential" unicorn. No one has any clue what an unfunded company is going to be worth when they have no product, no employees, and only have a business plan that says "we're going to replace Facebook!"
Turns out sometimes it's the company you overlook that is purchased by Google for over $1B (which greatly increases the statistics).
This is an important point. Microsoft has shown without any confusion that they can no longer be trusted. "Well he does beat his wife, sure, but he's still available to babysit if you gave him a chance!"
The problem is that Microsoft has never understood how to provide good service. They've been a monopoly so long that they never learned how to have empathy. Now that customers have more choices and aren't as tightly locked in to Windows it is the time for Microsoft to learn how to make an OS that people actually want rather than one that they're going to get whether they like it or not. It's a PR disaster that any two bit company would know how to avoid and yet Microsoft is blundering into it.
With Windows 8 they fired the Windows VP and apologized, and came out with Windows 8.1 with some key improvements (can boot direct to desktop) and promises of more to come. But then Windows 10 seemed to backtrack on that and now they're doubling down on their "we know better than you what you need" mentality.
It's always implied irreversability for the end user, not irreversable for the manufacturer to deal with or for an expert to figure out. Because quite a lot of things out there called "bricked" are not actually completely irreversible.
Bricking has usually meant something that could be fixed but only in a very cumbersome manner using special tools or software. Ie, your router is "bricked" because you screwed up when installed DD-WRT. But you can fix it by soldering on the JTAG pins and desoldering/lifting a write protect pin and fixing things up using a debugger. Everyone calls that "bricked" because the time, expense, and training needed to fix it is out of the hands of the average customer and it's probably cheaper to just buy a replacement.
You accept the EULA when it first boots up into the new OS. If you decline it reverts you back. The problem is the massive waste of time this is, plus reverting to the original OS is not foolproof and screws up now and then. Sort of like being signed up to a book of the month club without your permissions; it's a pain in the ass to mail back all those unwanted books.
We all have to struggle to justify our expenses and salaries at real companies (unlike startups where the money grows on trees). If you look at only a single expense at a time then they're all pretty small, but a company has to add them all together and they add up to a very large number. Even the billion dollar monopoly has to justify its spending to its shareholders.
Didn't you see 2012? It's an ark to carry away Apple employees to space when the end of the world comes. The mistake was in thinking they could finish it before Trump gets elected.
Once you've got enough money you really don't need more. If you can retire comfortably then SELL! Don't stay in the rat race if you don't want to be a rat. I see executives hopping from job to job when they clearly have enough money to live extremely well compared to all their underlings, but they still keep grabbing for more and more.
During previous "busts" most of the people I knew in companies that were making profits kept their jobs. The job losses in the Silicon Valley are seemed to be from all those companies whose money was only in stock valuations. Of course that caused ripples across the country and world and seriously hurt retirement plans of everyone who kept their jobs. But utlimately it was just another California gold rush revived, with major financial experts getting conned into investing in the new econmy. The housing bubble collapse was the same thing all over again too, experts all giddy about short term profits from slicing and dicing mortgages until that vanished. We really need the "experts" to focus on fundamental basics in the economy instead of irrational exuberance.
Most startups here only have a goal of being bought out. Actaully becoming profitable is not in the plans. Their operations consist of continually going to all the countless conferences and trade shows that may be related to their "business". Basically, they're scams. The few honest ones may have a couple people mainly acting as consultants and other work for hire.
Basic 9 to 5 job only, out the door even if there's work to be done (ie, not an engineer). Home by 6, flip on the TV to watch the news, sports, Jeopardy, then whatever MustWatchTV series of the day. Meanwhile one spouse is at home with a kid, TV is on by 10am, with kids programs, left running during the soaps while doing housework or napping, etc.
Basically outside of Silicon Valley where you don't need both spouses working just to afford a house, it's much more common for one to be at home most of the day.
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That's never going to work, that's where I put the mother in law.
It's like that scene in Mars Attacks. "App app app, we are your friends, app app app."
Probably true. I suspect you're not able to get the free offer now but use it later. You can get the ISOs for it for archiving (I have them), but once you install it's going to ask for your authorization code. You can't even get that auth code until after you install it. So if you want to take advantage of the free offer today but then install it next year when it's not so hectic then you're out of luck. This is not like the old Windows where you get a DVD and a printed auth code.
I tried it out in a VM, but without the authorization code it's stuck in a "trial" mode where I can't change the UI and other personalization. So it's stuck with the uglified new start menu (ads and all). But I don't want to waste my one-time-only upgrade from "Pro" edition. Applying for the authorization code is done from within Windows and I assume it would be applied to the VM image only and so if I upgrade again on my real computer it would likely complain that I already used up my upgrade. So doing a "test drive" here is difficult, unless you upgrade your computer and later rollback, but that's not completely safe and is very time consuming if it screws up.
Microsoft loves screwing up the OSX versions of Office. If you think Office sucks on Windows then you don't want to see how bad it is on Mac. Seriously get OpenOffice, LibreOffice, or anything else.
The functional updates are generally pointless anyway. Most updates of any value only ever shows up in the latest releases. Once there's a new Windows version the previous version stops getting anything useful except for some crash fixes. Windows 8 has mainstream support until 2018, but I can say with high confidence that they will never port DirectX 12 to it for example.
CEO: So what's the worst thing that can happen with this plan?
Marketing: The entire world will hate us.
CEO: But the entire world already hates us.
Marketing: That's the beauty of it, there's nothing left to lose.
CEO: Ok, let's pass it by legal.
Legal: We're lawyers, the entire world hates us too. I say screw em!
It's all pointless. Who at this moment has not yet heard of the Windows 10 update availability? Are they concerned that someone somewhere hasn't heard about this and so they're intent on pissing everyone off just to reach this one person? Everyone has already either upgraded, ignored the upgrades, or taken active steps block the updates that trick you into upgrading. Why the hell are they still at this? The answer is NO, they gotta LET IT GO!
It's all about DRM, the "right" of the publishers to control when, where, and how you use a product regardless of and in spite of any laws to the contrary. They go out of business then you lose everyrhing you bought from them, even if they just get tired of the product and discontinue selling new ones you lose all the old access. Imagine if this were automobiles and there was no such thing as a "classic" because they just suddenly vanished into thin air.
But it would explain to the customs agent why you have no social life that would require social media.
Most is also not the same as everyone or even almost everyone. It's not even two thirds. I would suspect that 1/3rd of America isn't the same thing as "too small to be considered" as has been implied elsewhere in the comments.
Everything is a "potential" unicorn. No one has any clue what an unfunded company is going to be worth when they have no product, no employees, and only have a business plan that says "we're going to replace Facebook!"
Turns out sometimes it's the company you overlook that is purchased by Google for over $1B (which greatly increases the statistics).
Everyone talks about unicorns but they were always extremely rare (thus the name).
Sure, and the new home has great security, the best security in the neighborhood, so just ignore all the rats and mold.
This is an important point. Microsoft has shown without any confusion that they can no longer be trusted. "Well he does beat his wife, sure, but he's still available to babysit if you gave him a chance!"
Right, and this telemetry should pop up a window saying "Can we send this information back to Microsoft?" just like very other company does.
The problem is that Microsoft has never understood how to provide good service. They've been a monopoly so long that they never learned how to have empathy. Now that customers have more choices and aren't as tightly locked in to Windows it is the time for Microsoft to learn how to make an OS that people actually want rather than one that they're going to get whether they like it or not. It's a PR disaster that any two bit company would know how to avoid and yet Microsoft is blundering into it.
With Windows 8 they fired the Windows VP and apologized, and came out with Windows 8.1 with some key improvements (can boot direct to desktop) and promises of more to come. But then Windows 10 seemed to backtrack on that and now they're doubling down on their "we know better than you what you need" mentality.
It's always implied irreversability for the end user, not irreversable for the manufacturer to deal with or for an expert to figure out. Because quite a lot of things out there called "bricked" are not actually completely irreversible.
Wikipedia seems to disagree with your meaning also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bricking has usually meant something that could be fixed but only in a very cumbersome manner using special tools or software. Ie, your router is "bricked" because you screwed up when installed DD-WRT. But you can fix it by soldering on the JTAG pins and desoldering/lifting a write protect pin and fixing things up using a debugger. Everyone calls that "bricked" because the time, expense, and training needed to fix it is out of the hands of the average customer and it's probably cheaper to just buy a replacement.
You accept the EULA when it first boots up into the new OS. If you decline it reverts you back. The problem is the massive waste of time this is, plus reverting to the original OS is not foolproof and screws up now and then. Sort of like being signed up to a book of the month club without your permissions; it's a pain in the ass to mail back all those unwanted books.
We all have to struggle to justify our expenses and salaries at real companies (unlike startups where the money grows on trees). If you look at only a single expense at a time then they're all pretty small, but a company has to add them all together and they add up to a very large number. Even the billion dollar monopoly has to justify its spending to its shareholders.
Didn't you see 2012? It's an ark to carry away Apple employees to space when the end of the world comes. The mistake was in thinking they could finish it before Trump gets elected.
Once you've got enough money you really don't need more. If you can retire comfortably then SELL! Don't stay in the rat race if you don't want to be a rat. I see executives hopping from job to job when they clearly have enough money to live extremely well compared to all their underlings, but they still keep grabbing for more and more.
During previous "busts" most of the people I knew in companies that were making profits kept their jobs. The job losses in the Silicon Valley are seemed to be from all those companies whose money was only in stock valuations. Of course that caused ripples across the country and world and seriously hurt retirement plans of everyone who kept their jobs. But utlimately it was just another California gold rush revived, with major financial experts getting conned into investing in the new econmy. The housing bubble collapse was the same thing all over again too, experts all giddy about short term profits from slicing and dicing mortgages until that vanished. We really need the "experts" to focus on fundamental basics in the economy instead of irrational exuberance.
Most startups here only have a goal of being bought out. Actaully becoming profitable is not in the plans. Their operations consist of continually going to all the countless conferences and trade shows that may be related to their "business". Basically, they're scams. The few honest ones may have a couple people mainly acting as consultants and other work for hire.
Basic 9 to 5 job only, out the door even if there's work to be done (ie, not an engineer). Home by 6, flip on the TV to watch the news, sports, Jeopardy, then whatever MustWatchTV series of the day. Meanwhile one spouse is at home with a kid, TV is on by 10am, with kids programs, left running during the soaps while doing housework or napping, etc.
Basically outside of Silicon Valley where you don't need both spouses working just to afford a house, it's much more common for one to be at home most of the day.