It looks like Business pricing starts at $12.50 per user and up to $20/Month if you want the admin console for up to 300 users. Enterprise pricing is not been explicitly announced but price probably depends on users like most of their products.
Pretty much if you're on office 365 business premium, it's a no brainer to go to this since you essentially get the same thing but get windows 10 as well. The $20 version may be useful if you don't have or want a Windows Server at your business for app deployment and policies but not sure if it's really worth the extra $7.50/Month until I see what you can actually do from the console, especially when it comes to virus mitigation and RMM Options (ie: Remote desktop, Patch Deployment, ticketing, ETC)
I remember when Windows 10 Anniversary hit, our tech office was flooded with customers that had screwed up start menus and windows apps. in some cases Explorer would not even boot and would crash in an endless loop. The only thing they all had in common: an older copy of Kaspersky. The latest version wasn't even fully compatible.with anniversary and would still cause issues until they updated it about a month later. As far as I could tell, no other AV vendor had similar issues with Windows 10 and my response to every one of those Kaspersky customers was "Switch to Defender and Save 50 bucks a year because all antivirus sucks. The Only difference is how much you're paying for it to let you get infected."
If you can't keep your product up to date and it screws up upgrades, Don't blame MS from removing it when it's time to upgrade.
Scary enough, I've actually had part of the Motorola Deluxe Phone in my garage and though for years it was an old amplifier. One of the neighbors on my block threw it out and I dumpster dived it when I was 9 but dad threw it out before i figured out what it was.
I found out later from his wife that not only did the guy have a cellphone, But it was installed in his 48 Tucker. Apparently Her husband was really into exotic cars and was one of the first Fulfilled Tucker orders. He also owned a large bank so he had money to spare. Apparently the receiver for the phone was actually installed in the bank itself so he could answer his office phone while he was driving.
To be fair to Uber, they did pick one of the worst case scenario cities to be testing their cars in.
If you ever driven through Pittsburgh it's a literal mouse maze of exits and one way streets coupled with narrow windy roads and traffic patterns that would make anyone short of a Pittsburgh native insane.
The fact that they aren't wrecking the cars daily is an achievement in itself.
Well, they already have an arm variant of win10 that can run native x86 desktop apps in emulation. It's only a matter of time before they ditch continuum and windows mobile and make a phone interface mode for Windows 10.
At least then the HP Elite X3 design would make a lot more sense (especially with some sort of laptop conversion dock a la Motorola atrix)
That's not the point here. I'm all for being on the latest OS and all, but explicitly blocking updates for no other reason other than the processor is new (Especially on Windows 8.1 that is still under mainstream support until 2018 and is still actively sold by MS) is just stupid. All that point you are treated worse that a windows pirate is. At least a Pirate can get critical updates...
The only way I would even think of supporting MS in this decision is if Windows 10 was free to windows 7 and 8.1 users indefinitely, but since that is not happening they better have a better reason than "Processor Too New".
Yeah. Because when I think of the bulletin of atomic sciences I think climate science
I would be more receptive to climate change affecting the clock if the bulletin was pushing atomic energy research and development as a clean energy replacement to coal but it seems like they don't or it falls on deaf ears because the media is too busy using this change to call Trump Hitler than to report about their purposed energy policies
Yahoo! the name is the only thing worth over a billion dollars. Everything else Yahoo does is done better by someone else. Hell the only reason I can even think of why Verizon is buying Yahoo and not use the name is so they can finally get their customers off of the Yahoo Experience Email Clusterfuck they put their customers into almost a decade ago.
It's like buying the Dead Corpse of Seabiscuit for a billion dollars and renaming it Sparkle Princess.
The company is a simple mom and pop Tech Company. The owners were literally husband and wife. The Husband knew tech and understood its complexities. The Wife understood finances. Pretty sure neither of them knew how to manage.
My previous job before the tech company was at a College for about 11 years. I enjoyed it for 9 years until the president was given a vote of no confidence and was replaced by another president that wanted to basically turn us into the college he came from. He fired the CIO after he set him up to fail and literally replaced him with his brother in law. the New CIO got my boss to retire and started to screw over my performance by promoting someone who had no idea what was going on in my old boss's position. Since I was already doing the job of two techs, (since they fired one of them) dealing with my mom's terminal illness at the time and forced me to read This and write a book report on it, (which I did. Looking back it probably helped me in the second job. I pretty much was Dr Gregory House M.D. in the emergency room when it came to demeanor with students.) I switched to the tech company I've been talking about. For what it's worth the college's sysadmin quit the same day I did and I had no idea until he walked into HR the same time I did. All in all when the President started there was 11 people in IT at this college. When I left, only 1 of the original team of 11 was still there and over 1/3 of the entire college staff retired, quit or was fired over a 1 year period. Since then my replacement i trained quit. The Boss's Replacement Quit. They went through Two sysadmins with a third that I heard quit right on the spot on the first day, and the CIO brother in law followed the president to be VP of IT of the college the president eventually switched to. I'm sure their college's IT dept is having the same fun ride I went through.
The first few years of the tech company I enjoyed. it was easy work, There was no MicroManagement for me or the server admin, (although I heard the Web Devs were MMd to death during that time) the customers were better to deal with than some of the students and i got real close with the employees. It was when we started to expand that it got nerve wracking. it was about that time they they started squeezing the stone to try to get blood to come out of it, and they got happy when it started bleeding not realizing that the blood was coming from their hand and not the stone.
My current job is at a K-12 school. The only reason I got this job was probably from the references I put from the college years since the IT team have stayed close through the years. Even with all of the chaos, screaming kids, and working in between, it's not as bad because there isn't any MicroManagement or work to death conditions yet. If and when that happens I can assure you I'll be out of there.
It seems like the smaller Tech companies do this more than the big ones when it comes to extreme micromanagement. Im not surprised that there isn't someone with a similar or even worse experience.
They didn't have anything logging our screens. (as far as I know, but I built my PC's OS image, had full admin on the systems, and was their senior AV tech. I could smell screen scraping and rootkits a mile away so I was pretty sure my pc's was clear at least.) I was Pretty positive they were logging DNS entries and Internet. They had cameras in the building but they were only watching the entry points cause just about everybody would have quit on the spot if they put cameras on us. Pretty sure the few cams they had had mic's on them. One former employee was convinced the building was Mic'd either through the cams, the phone system or both. I even called them on it and when I brought up our state's wiretapping policy (which covers listening devices and recording without being informed) we got a new employee handbook that pretty much confirmed that they were doing it.
In our state (Pennsylvania by the way), they also had laws governing overtime. you couldn't have more than two people on Salary at any one time. They had to take us all off of salary and moved us to Hourly because of it. I was averaging about 60 hours. Server admin was pushing 80+. I was trying to take stuff off of him when I could but most of his stuff towards the end was exchange migrations from SBS and he was the only guy that had any success with that and I was forced to pretty much live at the customer with the scissor lift because they had 100+ mission critical Thin clients running their industrial complex and no one on staff that could fix anything so they had us on full contract. If anything broke from the entire internet down to this machine froze we need someone to hold the power button in for 6 seconds I had to do a 20 minute onsite. They eventually had me going there every morning so they didn't have to pay me mileage. We should have never took that client and before the micromanagement when into full steam they were the #1 reason I was going to leave that place. They were #2 when I left.
Our overtime justified adding a new employee. So they tried. I say tried because in Western Pennsylvania it's pretty rural and either the North south or West CIties would suck out the talent. I came from a college with 11 Years of client administration, repair and AV removal under our belt. The Server admin came from another Tech company from the south and had a lot of experience with repair and knew what he was doing. We also had two web coders on site doing site creation. one was let go. the other eventually went west to do DBA work which freed up money for more techs. The two owners (the managers) decided to move to the Carolinas for some reason in which one did tech work so we were saddled with his work as well. Guy #1 was a guy from a CSR shop. CSR killed his brain so he was let go. Guy #2 admined for a county courthouse and was good, but slower than us. they put the Micromanagement Screw to him and he walked out. Guy #3 was another CSR but with a brain. They MM him so bad he wasn't sleeping because of the Anxiety Meds his doctor had to put him on and he Walked. Guy #4 came straight from college and was very green so they hired Guy #5 that worked for the Volunteer fire dept and knew some tech but was perfect because he was great with the front desk and would shield the customers from us that were stressed to the point that we didn't care anymore. Also Keep in mind that all this hiring was roughly over a period of 1 year.
Anyway whenever they hired someone they would put pressure on both me and the server admin about time, and our answers were always "we can't get the techs up to speed because once we do they leave." That didn't work for them. Guy #3 I pretty much had trained for the big site and even his mother worked there so it was perfect. Two weeks later he was gone and his mother told me about the stress. This is was made the MM tha
It's not worth it. period. There are better jobs out there.
My previous job I was at was micromanaged severely, which isn't exactly the same thing as Gaslighting, but it screws with your job performance and sanity in similar ways. It was so bad I had to make an app out of Google forms on my phone to literally log everything I do every minute of every day on the job. And then get bitched at because I missed 10-15 minutes or so on the report it generated (or missed logging the ticket in one of the three different ticketing systems and the calendar we had) cause of unexpected things turning up, like climbing a scissor-lift at 3 in the morning on a Sunday at one of our clients cause a UPS three stories up in the ceiling decided to shit the bed and then not get paid for half of it cause I had to wait an hour and a half for the skeleton maintenance crew to actually find it.
The other thing you need to understand is that you come first. Everybody, and I mean Everybody that worked at this place had something that I could only describe as Stockholm Syndrome. Everyone under management hated the way the company was managed and how they were treated but they were real close to their coworkers and nobody wanted to leave because they knew it would screw the rest of the team or the company would go under if they left. We thought we could get management to see the light but got nowhere. This kept me there for almost a year longer than I should of stayed.
I finally got out, and was willing to give them two weeks to transition my duties, but my new employer wanted a reference from my current employer, Which they refused to give positive or negative because it "was their choice to do so". When I called them on it they literally called me and my coworkers into a meeting and wanted me to repeat the question to everybody so that they could 1) divide the coworkers up and turn them against me. and 2) show them what will happen if they tried to leave. As the meeting was talking place my new employer called and would accept me without the reference if I would take a 6 month probationary period, Which I accepted over speakerphone, handed them my office keys and walked out of the meeting and the door. No way I was giving them two weeks either way and let the bosses screw my career over by making shit up about my performance after they pulled that stunt.
I am now working at a place where I am being Paid less (with better benefits that offset the loss however) and working twice as much but I'm not being micromanaged and that's good enough for me. I'm not as stressed out, I've lost weight and I'm not on call 24/7 (although I'm still on the old companies alert system. during Christmas break I would have got called out no less than 10-15 times) so I can sleep at night and actually take vacation time without worrying that all hell was going to break loose when I was away.
DNC Hack aside, I think that Hillary lost because she was literally the worst candidate the DNC could've nominated.
She was so bad that her poll numbers barely fluctuated a week after the Access Hollywood Trump Leak. If anyone else would have been the candidate Trump would've been toast right then and there.
Yes but out of the two, the chances are that Trump would do less than Clinton simply because of the politics in place.
If Clinton were elected, she would have full support of the Democrat base regardless on what craziness she would propose, and the Republicians would bow to the media pressure to pass anything she would want in congress.
Trump is a totally different matter. Democrats and most of the media will never support anything he proposes even if it was a democrat issue, and many Republicans don't support him either. If he does anything out of the ordinary he will be impeached faster than the news media can say "Trump is Grand Wizard Adolf Stalin."
The only way he's going to get anything done is to walk on eggshells and negotiate law that all three sides (Democrats, Conservative Republicans, Moderate Republicans) will agree with. Something that no president in the last 16 years has done or has had to to.
In my opinion, AT&T wants time Warner because of the retransmission fees.
They know that in the end, the channels are where the money is, and if Comcast doesn't want to pay 3x as much for Turner channels then we'll just put in ad in the paper with a crying Scooby Doo telling Comcast Customers why their kids can't watch Cartoon Network and the Comcast customers will force their hand to pay for it. (And Comcast passes the cost on the customers as well) Of course nothing stops Comcast from doing the same thing too on NBC Channels to DirecTV.
If anything, this is pretty much becoming a cable cold war. AT&T will use this to keep their transmission costs low and threaten to raise theirs when Comcast raises theirs. This is why these companies shouldn't be able to merge entertainment and transmission companies. In the end everyone but investors lose.
Time Warner is the entertainment wing. Think Warner Bros and the former Turner networks.
Time Warner Cable is the former cable wing that was spun off years ago and is now owned by Charter Cable. The only common ground was their name since it never changed it when they spun it off. That's why their changing their name to Spectrum now that Charter bought them.
This would have no effect on broadband. If anything it will make DirecTV cheaper (since they won't have to pay for the Turner channels anymore since they own them) and possibly other cable companies more expensive by raising the retransmission rates to Turner channels.
Still not good for consumers but its not going to kill broadband as we know it.
Yes i know that. That's where the 'technically' in my first post comes in. Anniversary Does not take 7 or 8 keys at least from the test I did but the December update still does and you can update that to anniversary no problem, but no one really knows if it's going to come up as a pirate at some point or another. I highly doubt MS will do this but you never know.
It would have been just easier to extend the free offer indefinitely but if MS doesn't want to do that then so be it.
Frankly, if this finally fixes the issue where windows 7 searches windows update for hours taking 100% of a core and 1-2GB of RAM in the process then I'm all for it.
One of the reasons I was recommending people to upgrade to windows 10 was for this issue alone. Hell, Half of my "my computer is slow" calls this week were for this issue alone, which now I can't recommend to upgrade to 10 cause it's no longer (technically) free.
Another method (although honestly it doesn't always work, but its worth a shot with more non techy users afraid of installing windows) is leave the System on for an entire day or two.
Tried this with about 10 machines now and it worked on 8 of them as long as you didn't do any of the "Fixes" that are out there. Apparently Windows will fix itself with one of the maintenance routines it does when it is idle. Of course with Anniversary out there now it would be fixed as soon as it upgrades itself. I've also had luck with the tweaking.com all in one utility repairing this issue, but that's a last resort before reinstalling windows.
As for my personal experience with win10. so far so good. It runs better especially on lower ram systems, and there is definitely improvements in app performance and startup. Got it on all my machines and the only problem I had was an issue with VIA audio, which was fixed with anniversary. As for other issues I'll quote my older post on this.
1) Update your BIOS! Especially if its a Laptop: There are issues with the screen going black after updating to 10 that are caused by an outdated BIOS, especially on older Dell Vostro and some ASUS systems. If you forget chances are you can get a screen by plugging in a monitor but update the BIOS to avoid it in the first place.
2) if you have IDT audio installed on your PC, remove the driver NOW from programs and features!: Older Versions of this driver is FUBARed and will cause explorer to crash infinitely while it is migrating your profile, which will screw it up to the point where you will have to rollback to 7. Cheap Dells, HP's and Toshiba's usually have this sound card. 10 Will detect it as a HD audio codec and will work fine without the crashing, or use the latest 8.1 driver if your manufacturer actually has one. Not sure why MS doesn't detect this as incompatible during its check.
3) Windows update on windows 7 will screw you out of time: Windows update is so FUBARed on 7. it alone is a reason to upgrade to 10. I've found the best way to update from 7 is to install windows 10 setup to a flash drive, keep the upgrading system off the network until you see the installing windows circle, and open a administrative command prompt and "net stop wuauserv" about every 5 minutes during install. This will cut load times down significantly because the install process will start a windows update session every 5 minutes and with win7 taking about 2 hours a checkin the above will get 10 installed in minutes rather than hours
4) Profiles may not migrate on first run and run temporary profile: Seems to happen to a lot of 2010-2011 HP units for some reason. Boot with safe mode and the profile should fix itself although the start menu will be clean of Squares.
5) Wifi card goes AWOL after Shutdown/Sleep: See this one constantly with 2013-2015 Dell laptops with a dell customized broadcom driver. Some people say removing the Dell driver altogether and using the 10 driver works but YMMV also the latest Dell driver does not fix this issue. I typically disable fast startup and Wifi Power saving options to get around this one but it will still happen from time to time.
The only reason the last few VP picks existed was for impeachment shields.
No one would dare impeach Bush or Obama because the VP would be worse.
It wouldn't surprise me if she gets an impeachment charge before her first year of office ends with Kaine as the VP. If she Chose Pelosi or Warren the Republicans would at least think about it before going forward. Even Bernie would have been a better shield and at least his followers would vote Clinton in the hopes that Bernie gets in through the back door instead of sitting back at home or voting Trump out of spite.
This makes me wonder why MS didn't look into AMD for some offerings if the atom is on the way out. Not sure if AMD has an offering in that TDP range, but at least they could keep the cost low.
No. There is something to Edge's efficiency. At least vs Chrome I've noticed it.
I have an old Lenovo S10e with an SSD and 2GB Ram running Windows 10, running on a first gen Atom Processor. When I installed Chrome on it it would take minutes before the main windows for chrome would show up. same goes for IE. Edge however would take up to 15 seconds tops. It also ran much better than chrome when browsing sites performance wise. Pages came up faster, video played smoother and pages would scroll smoother than Chrome Although Edge still sucks for general browsing vs Chrome rendering wise with some sites, but it's better than when it first came out on 10.
The Anniversary update will be the real test. Extensions do work on Edge and Adblock plus is pretty much the Chrome version with multiple lists and icons (although its interface is laggy, but it's still in beta so Not sure if it an Edge or ABP issue though). It also handles problem pages better than the current Edge.
If they keep refining Edge as they have so far, it could be a serious Chrome contender, but until the anniversary version comes out it's pretty much still in beta. A very efficient Beta, but a beta nonetheless.
First off I recommend upgrading to 10. It runs better especially on lower ram systems, and there is definitely improvements in app performance and startup.
That being said, these are the issues I've run into upgrading users to 10
1) Update your BIOS! Especially if its a Laptop: There are issues with the screen going black after updating to 10 that are caused by an outdated BIOS, especially on older Dell Vostro and some ASUS systems. If you forget chances are you can get a screen by plugging in a monitor but update the BIOS to avoid it in the first place.
2) if you have IDT audio installed on your PC, remove the driver NOW from programs and features!: Older Versions of this driver is FUBARed and will cause explorer to crash infinitely while it is migrating your profile, which will screw it up to the point where you will have to rollback to 7. Cheap Dells, HP's and Toshiba's usually have this sound card. 10 Will detect it as a HD audio codec and will work fine without the crashing, or use the latest 8.1 driver if your manufacturer actually has one. Not sure why MS doesn't detect this as incompatible during its check.
3) Windows update on windows 7 will screw you out of time: Windows update is so FUBARed on 7. it alone is a reason to upgrade to 10. I've found the best way to update from 7 is to install windows 10 setup to a flash drive, keep the upgrading system off the network until you see the installing windows circle, and open a administrative command prompt and "net stop wuauserv" about every 5 minutes during install. This will cut load times down significantly cause the install process will start a windows update session every 5 minutes and with win7 taking about 2 hours a checkin the above will get 10 installed in minutes rather than hours
4) Profiles may not migrate on first run and run temporary profile: Seems to happen to a lot of 2010-2011 HP units for some reason. Boot with safe mode and the profile should fix itself although the start menu will be clean of Squares.
5) Wifi card goes AWOL after Shutdown/Sleep: See this one constantly with 2013-2015 Dell laptops with a dell customized broadcom driver. Some people say removing the Dell driver altogether and using the 10 driver works but YMMV also the latest Dell driver does not fix this issue. I typically disable fast startup and Wifi Power saving options to get around this one but it will still happen from time to time.
6) Start menu and/or Windows store/control panel disappears or will not load: running tweaking.com all in one repair with all checks enabled and leave the system on overnight seems to fix this one. also reseting default apps may get this one fixed. if it doesn't fix after doing the above than use your win10 Stick to reinstall Win10 as an upgrade install.
Microsoft (or Google for that matter, just not as bad) doesn't play games with their account credentials anymore. You have to have an out of network way to verify your account or you're going to lose it. Either through a Phone number or another Email address, and dammit make sure its up to date.
Also the two factor app that MS has for android is one of the best I've used when it comes to ease of use and how it's implemented. it's pretty much make sure the code on the PC matches the code in the authentication window and click approve on the phone if it does. No typing verification numbers like most authenticators. so it's a good idea to use that too since it will let you in if all else fails.
This account protection of course makes it a pain with windows 8 or 10 users that use MS accounts for credentials. Half of the time they use stupid pins for their passwords and forget their real password, and MS doesn't like that sort of thing to adjust account settings. Especially if you got to refresh the PC. Just about once a week I have a conversation that goes something like
(Me) Whats your password for your PC? (grandma) It's 1111 (Me) No that's your pin. I need the password (grandma) but it lets me in the computer so that's my password (Me) (Three minute explanation of the difference between a pin and a password) (grandma) oh... well, I don't know it cause my grandson set it up. (or its in my password book buried at my desk) can you reset it?
Then you find out that their recovery creds were an old Email and phone number from a DSL/Phone provider they no longer have and have to go through the account verify process of shame that the Parent post went through, which never seems to work until you submit it 3 or more times regardless of how much info you put in the thing.
One of the worst decisions MS ever made is to tie Software support to Service pack and Point releases. They would be much better off setting the lifecycle date hard to 10 years after initial release and extend it by announcements if necessary.
All that policy does is make them call service packs anything but service packs, delay or flat out cancel them to avoid extending OS lifecycle (which is the main reason why 7 takes forever to update anymore) and confuse the hell out of Sysadmin staff trying to figure out what Version of OS users are on. (EX: Windows 8 should be 8.4 by now instead of 8, 8.1, 8.1 update 1, 8.1 update 2, ETC)
Windows 7 updates are so bad anymore, it's almost alone a reason to upgrade to Windows 10. At least with 10 they're doing the Cumulative security updates like they do for IE so there's only a few patches to download from a fresh install. On a fresh windows 7 install It's takes hours just to get 7 to see updates, and during that entire time it's sucking down 100% on one or your CPU cores and SVCHost taking 1GB or RAM in the process. You can kiss the rest of your RAM goodbye when it actually updates for 6 hours and starts thrashing the drive for Swap space in the process on anything short of a 16GB machine.
Almost all of my Windows 7 "my Computer is Slow" calls the past 3 months have been due to windows update and the only fix is either install windows 10, or install the optional windows update client of the month, which basically is the same thing as installing windows 10 since the GWX will force it on them at some point and the telemetry patches are all included as well, not to mention that all it does is take that 1GB of SVCHost ram usage and Shift it to TrustedInstaller during the patch install session.
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It looks like Business pricing starts at $12.50 per user and up to $20/Month if you want the admin console for up to 300 users. Enterprise pricing is not been explicitly announced but price probably depends on users like most of their products.
Pretty much if you're on office 365 business premium, it's a no brainer to go to this since you essentially get the same thing but get windows 10 as well. The $20 version may be useful if you don't have or want a Windows Server at your business for app deployment and policies but not sure if it's really worth the extra $7.50/Month until I see what you can actually do from the console, especially when it comes to virus mitigation and RMM Options (ie: Remote desktop, Patch Deployment, ticketing, ETC)
This.
I remember when Windows 10 Anniversary hit, our tech office was flooded with customers that had screwed up start menus and windows apps. in some cases Explorer would not even boot and would crash in an endless loop. The only thing they all had in common: an older copy of Kaspersky. The latest version wasn't even fully compatible.with anniversary and would still cause issues until they updated it about a month later. As far as I could tell, no other AV vendor had similar issues with Windows 10 and my response to every one of those Kaspersky customers was "Switch to Defender and Save 50 bucks a year because all antivirus sucks. The Only difference is how much you're paying for it to let you get infected."
If you can't keep your product up to date and it screws up upgrades, Don't blame MS from removing it when it's time to upgrade.
Very elite is more like it. These things were big and very expensive. Here's a site with a few of those early units.
http://www.wb6nvh.com/MTSfiles...
Scary enough, I've actually had part of the Motorola Deluxe Phone in my garage and though for years it was an old amplifier. One of the neighbors on my block threw it out and I dumpster dived it when I was 9 but dad threw it out before i figured out what it was.
I found out later from his wife that not only did the guy have a cellphone, But it was installed in his 48 Tucker. Apparently Her husband was really into exotic cars and was one of the first Fulfilled Tucker orders. He also owned a large bank so he had money to spare. Apparently the receiver for the phone was actually installed in the bank itself so he could answer his office phone while he was driving.
To be fair to Uber, they did pick one of the worst case scenario cities to be testing their cars in.
If you ever driven through Pittsburgh it's a literal mouse maze of exits and one way streets coupled with narrow windy roads and traffic patterns that would make anyone short of a Pittsburgh native insane.
The fact that they aren't wrecking the cars daily is an achievement in itself.
Well, they already have an arm variant of win10 that can run native x86 desktop apps in emulation. It's only a matter of time before they ditch continuum and windows mobile and make a phone interface mode for Windows 10.
At least then the HP Elite X3 design would make a lot more sense (especially with some sort of laptop conversion dock a la Motorola atrix)
That's not the point here. I'm all for being on the latest OS and all, but explicitly blocking updates for no other reason other than the processor is new (Especially on Windows 8.1 that is still under mainstream support until 2018 and is still actively sold by MS) is just stupid. All that point you are treated worse that a windows pirate is. At least a Pirate can get critical updates...
The only way I would even think of supporting MS in this decision is if Windows 10 was free to windows 7 and 8.1 users indefinitely, but since that is not happening they better have a better reason than "Processor Too New".
Yeah. Because when I think of the bulletin of atomic sciences I think climate science
I would be more receptive to climate change affecting the clock if the bulletin was pushing atomic energy research and development as a clean energy replacement to coal but it seems like they don't or it falls on deaf ears because the media is too busy using this change to call Trump Hitler than to report about their purposed energy policies
Yahoo! the name is the only thing worth over a billion dollars. Everything else Yahoo does is done better by someone else. Hell the only reason I can even think of why Verizon is buying Yahoo and not use the name is so they can finally get their customers off of the Yahoo Experience Email Clusterfuck they put their customers into almost a decade ago.
It's like buying the Dead Corpse of Seabiscuit for a billion dollars and renaming it Sparkle Princess.
The company is a simple mom and pop Tech Company. The owners were literally husband and wife. The Husband knew tech and understood its complexities. The Wife understood finances. Pretty sure neither of them knew how to manage.
My previous job before the tech company was at a College for about 11 years. I enjoyed it for 9 years until the president was given a vote of no confidence and was replaced by another president that wanted to basically turn us into the college he came from. He fired the CIO after he set him up to fail and literally replaced him with his brother in law. the New CIO got my boss to retire and started to screw over my performance by promoting someone who had no idea what was going on in my old boss's position. Since I was already doing the job of two techs, (since they fired one of them) dealing with my mom's terminal illness at the time and forced me to read This and write a book report on it, (which I did. Looking back it probably helped me in the second job. I pretty much was Dr Gregory House M.D. in the emergency room when it came to demeanor with students.) I switched to the tech company I've been talking about. For what it's worth the college's sysadmin quit the same day I did and I had no idea until he walked into HR the same time I did. All in all when the President started there was 11 people in IT at this college. When I left, only 1 of the original team of 11 was still there and over 1/3 of the entire college staff retired, quit or was fired over a 1 year period. Since then my replacement i trained quit. The Boss's Replacement Quit. They went through Two sysadmins with a third that I heard quit right on the spot on the first day, and the CIO brother in law followed the president to be VP of IT of the college the president eventually switched to. I'm sure their college's IT dept is having the same fun ride I went through.
The first few years of the tech company I enjoyed. it was easy work, There was no MicroManagement for me or the server admin, (although I heard the Web Devs were MMd to death during that time) the customers were better to deal with than some of the students and i got real close with the employees. It was when we started to expand that it got nerve wracking. it was about that time they they started squeezing the stone to try to get blood to come out of it, and they got happy when it started bleeding not realizing that the blood was coming from their hand and not the stone.
My current job is at a K-12 school. The only reason I got this job was probably from the references I put from the college years since the IT team have stayed close through the years. Even with all of the chaos, screaming kids, and working in between, it's not as bad because there isn't any MicroManagement or work to death conditions yet. If and when that happens I can assure you I'll be out of there.
It seems like the smaller Tech companies do this more than the big ones when it comes to extreme micromanagement. Im not surprised that there isn't someone with a similar or even worse experience.
They didn't have anything logging our screens. (as far as I know, but I built my PC's OS image, had full admin on the systems, and was their senior AV tech. I could smell screen scraping and rootkits a mile away so I was pretty sure my pc's was clear at least.) I was Pretty positive they were logging DNS entries and Internet. They had cameras in the building but they were only watching the entry points cause just about everybody would have quit on the spot if they put cameras on us. Pretty sure the few cams they had had mic's on them. One former employee was convinced the building was Mic'd either through the cams, the phone system or both. I even called them on it and when I brought up our state's wiretapping policy (which covers listening devices and recording without being informed) we got a new employee handbook that pretty much confirmed that they were doing it.
In our state (Pennsylvania by the way), they also had laws governing overtime. you couldn't have more than two people on Salary at any one time. They had to take us all off of salary and moved us to Hourly because of it. I was averaging about 60 hours. Server admin was pushing 80+. I was trying to take stuff off of him when I could but most of his stuff towards the end was exchange migrations from SBS and he was the only guy that had any success with that and I was forced to pretty much live at the customer with the scissor lift because they had 100+ mission critical Thin clients running their industrial complex and no one on staff that could fix anything so they had us on full contract. If anything broke from the entire internet down to this machine froze we need someone to hold the power button in for 6 seconds I had to do a 20 minute onsite. They eventually had me going there every morning so they didn't have to pay me mileage. We should have never took that client and before the micromanagement when into full steam they were the #1 reason I was going to leave that place. They were #2 when I left.
Our overtime justified adding a new employee. So they tried. I say tried because in Western Pennsylvania it's pretty rural and either the North south or West CIties would suck out the talent. I came from a college with 11 Years of client administration, repair and AV removal under our belt. The Server admin came from another Tech company from the south and had a lot of experience with repair and knew what he was doing. We also had two web coders on site doing site creation. one was let go. the other eventually went west to do DBA work which freed up money for more techs. The two owners (the managers) decided to move to the Carolinas for some reason in which one did tech work so we were saddled with his work as well. Guy #1 was a guy from a CSR shop. CSR killed his brain so he was let go. Guy #2 admined for a county courthouse and was good, but slower than us. they put the Micromanagement Screw to him and he walked out. Guy #3 was another CSR but with a brain. They MM him so bad he wasn't sleeping because of the Anxiety Meds his doctor had to put him on and he Walked. Guy #4 came straight from college and was very green so they hired Guy #5 that worked for the Volunteer fire dept and knew some tech but was perfect because he was great with the front desk and would shield the customers from us that were stressed to the point that we didn't care anymore. Also Keep in mind that all this hiring was roughly over a period of 1 year.
Anyway whenever they hired someone they would put pressure on both me and the server admin about time, and our answers were always "we can't get the techs up to speed because once we do they leave." That didn't work for them. Guy #3 I pretty much had trained for the big site and even his mother worked there so it was perfect. Two weeks later he was gone and his mother told me about the stress. This is was made the MM tha
It's not worth it. period. There are better jobs out there.
My previous job I was at was micromanaged severely, which isn't exactly the same thing as Gaslighting, but it screws with your job performance and sanity in similar ways. It was so bad I had to make an app out of Google forms on my phone to literally log everything I do every minute of every day on the job. And then get bitched at because I missed 10-15 minutes or so on the report it generated (or missed logging the ticket in one of the three different ticketing systems and the calendar we had) cause of unexpected things turning up, like climbing a scissor-lift at 3 in the morning on a Sunday at one of our clients cause a UPS three stories up in the ceiling decided to shit the bed and then not get paid for half of it cause I had to wait an hour and a half for the skeleton maintenance crew to actually find it.
The other thing you need to understand is that you come first. Everybody, and I mean Everybody that worked at this place had something that I could only describe as Stockholm Syndrome. Everyone under management hated the way the company was managed and how they were treated but they were real close to their coworkers and nobody wanted to leave because they knew it would screw the rest of the team or the company would go under if they left. We thought we could get management to see the light but got nowhere. This kept me there for almost a year longer than I should of stayed.
I finally got out, and was willing to give them two weeks to transition my duties, but my new employer wanted a reference from my current employer, Which they refused to give positive or negative because it "was their choice to do so". When I called them on it they literally called me and my coworkers into a meeting and wanted me to repeat the question to everybody so that they could 1) divide the coworkers up and turn them against me. and 2) show them what will happen if they tried to leave. As the meeting was talking place my new employer called and would accept me without the reference if I would take a 6 month probationary period, Which I accepted over speakerphone, handed them my office keys and walked out of the meeting and the door. No way I was giving them two weeks either way and let the bosses screw my career over by making shit up about my performance after they pulled that stunt.
I am now working at a place where I am being Paid less (with better benefits that offset the loss however) and working twice as much but I'm not being micromanaged and that's good enough for me. I'm not as stressed out, I've lost weight and I'm not on call 24/7 (although I'm still on the old companies alert system. during Christmas break I would have got called out no less than 10-15 times) so I can sleep at night and actually take vacation time without worrying that all hell was going to break loose when I was away.
DNC Hack aside, I think that Hillary lost because she was literally the worst candidate the DNC could've nominated.
She was so bad that her poll numbers barely fluctuated a week after the Access Hollywood Trump Leak. If anyone else would have been the candidate Trump would've been toast right then and there.
Yes but out of the two, the chances are that Trump would do less than Clinton simply because of the politics in place.
If Clinton were elected, she would have full support of the Democrat base regardless on what craziness she would propose, and the Republicians would bow to the media pressure to pass anything she would want in congress.
Trump is a totally different matter. Democrats and most of the media will never support anything he proposes even if it was a democrat issue, and many Republicans don't support him either. If he does anything out of the ordinary he will be impeached faster than the news media can say "Trump is Grand Wizard Adolf Stalin."
The only way he's going to get anything done is to walk on eggshells and negotiate law that all three sides (Democrats, Conservative Republicans, Moderate Republicans) will agree with. Something that no president in the last 16 years has done or has had to to.
In my opinion, AT&T wants time Warner because of the retransmission fees.
They know that in the end, the channels are where the money is, and if Comcast doesn't want to pay 3x as much for Turner channels then we'll just put in ad in the paper with a crying Scooby Doo telling Comcast Customers why their kids can't watch Cartoon Network and the Comcast customers will force their hand to pay for it. (And Comcast passes the cost on the customers as well) Of course nothing stops Comcast from doing the same thing too on NBC Channels to DirecTV.
If anything, this is pretty much becoming a cable cold war. AT&T will use this to keep their transmission costs low and threaten to raise theirs when Comcast raises theirs. This is why these companies shouldn't be able to merge entertainment and transmission companies. In the end everyone but investors lose.
Time Warner is the entertainment wing. Think Warner Bros and the former Turner networks.
Time Warner Cable is the former cable wing that was spun off years ago and is now owned by Charter Cable. The only common ground was their name since it never changed it when they spun it off. That's why their changing their name to Spectrum now that Charter bought them.
This would have no effect on broadband. If anything it will make DirecTV cheaper (since they won't have to pay for the Turner channels anymore since they own them) and possibly other cable companies more expensive by raising the retransmission rates to Turner channels.
Still not good for consumers but its not going to kill broadband as we know it.
Yes i know that. That's where the 'technically' in my first post comes in. Anniversary Does not take 7 or 8 keys at least from the test I did but the December update still does and you can update that to anniversary no problem, but no one really knows if it's going to come up as a pirate at some point or another. I highly doubt MS will do this but you never know.
It would have been just easier to extend the free offer indefinitely but if MS doesn't want to do that then so be it.
Frankly, if this finally fixes the issue where windows 7 searches windows update for hours taking 100% of a core and 1-2GB of RAM in the process then I'm all for it.
One of the reasons I was recommending people to upgrade to windows 10 was for this issue alone. Hell, Half of my "my computer is slow" calls this week were for this issue alone, which now I can't recommend to upgrade to 10 cause it's no longer (technically) free.
Another method (although honestly it doesn't always work, but its worth a shot with more non techy users afraid of installing windows) is leave the System on for an entire day or two.
Tried this with about 10 machines now and it worked on 8 of them as long as you didn't do any of the "Fixes" that are out there. Apparently Windows will fix itself with one of the maintenance routines it does when it is idle. Of course with Anniversary out there now it would be fixed as soon as it upgrades itself. I've also had luck with the tweaking.com all in one utility repairing this issue, but that's a last resort before reinstalling windows.
As for my personal experience with win10. so far so good. It runs better especially on lower ram systems, and there is definitely improvements in app performance and startup. Got it on all my machines and the only problem I had was an issue with VIA audio, which was fixed with anniversary. As for other issues I'll quote my older post on this.
1) Update your BIOS! Especially if its a Laptop: There are issues with the screen going black after updating to 10 that are caused by an outdated BIOS, especially on older Dell Vostro and some ASUS systems. If you forget chances are you can get a screen by plugging in a monitor but update the BIOS to avoid it in the first place.
2) if you have IDT audio installed on your PC, remove the driver NOW from programs and features!: Older Versions of this driver is FUBARed and will cause explorer to crash infinitely while it is migrating your profile, which will screw it up to the point where you will have to rollback to 7. Cheap Dells, HP's and Toshiba's usually have this sound card. 10 Will detect it as a HD audio codec and will work fine without the crashing, or use the latest 8.1 driver if your manufacturer actually has one. Not sure why MS doesn't detect this as incompatible during its check.
3) Windows update on windows 7 will screw you out of time: Windows update is so FUBARed on 7. it alone is a reason to upgrade to 10. I've found the best way to update from 7 is to install windows 10 setup to a flash drive, keep the upgrading system off the network until you see the installing windows circle, and open a administrative command prompt and "net stop wuauserv" about every 5 minutes during install. This will cut load times down significantly because the install process will start a windows update session every 5 minutes and with win7 taking about 2 hours a checkin the above will get 10 installed in minutes rather than hours
4) Profiles may not migrate on first run and run temporary profile: Seems to happen to a lot of 2010-2011 HP units for some reason. Boot with safe mode and the profile should fix itself although the start menu will be clean of Squares.
5) Wifi card goes AWOL after Shutdown/Sleep: See this one constantly with 2013-2015 Dell laptops with a dell customized broadcom driver. Some people say removing the Dell driver altogether and using the 10 driver works but YMMV also the latest Dell driver does not fix this issue. I typically disable fast startup and Wifi Power saving options to get around this one but it will still happen from time to time.
The only reason the last few VP picks existed was for impeachment shields.
No one would dare impeach Bush or Obama because the VP would be worse.
It wouldn't surprise me if she gets an impeachment charge before her first year of office ends with Kaine as the VP. If she Chose Pelosi or Warren the Republicans would at least think about it before going forward. Even Bernie would have been a better shield and at least his followers would vote Clinton in the hopes that Bernie gets in through the back door instead of sitting back at home or voting Trump out of spite.
This makes me wonder why MS didn't look into AMD for some offerings if the atom is on the way out. Not sure if AMD has an offering in that TDP range, but at least they could keep the cost low.
No. There is something to Edge's efficiency. At least vs Chrome I've noticed it.
I have an old Lenovo S10e with an SSD and 2GB Ram running Windows 10, running on a first gen Atom Processor. When I installed Chrome on it it would take minutes before the main windows for chrome would show up. same goes for IE. Edge however would take up to 15 seconds tops. It also ran much better than chrome when browsing sites performance wise. Pages came up faster, video played smoother and pages would scroll smoother than Chrome Although Edge still sucks for general browsing vs Chrome rendering wise with some sites, but it's better than when it first came out on 10.
The Anniversary update will be the real test. Extensions do work on Edge and Adblock plus is pretty much the Chrome version with multiple lists and icons (although its interface is laggy, but it's still in beta so Not sure if it an Edge or ABP issue though). It also handles problem pages better than the current Edge.
If they keep refining Edge as they have so far, it could be a serious Chrome contender, but until the anniversary version comes out it's pretty much still in beta. A very efficient Beta, but a beta nonetheless.
First off I recommend upgrading to 10. It runs better especially on lower ram systems, and there is definitely improvements in app performance and startup.
That being said, these are the issues I've run into upgrading users to 10
1) Update your BIOS! Especially if its a Laptop: There are issues with the screen going black after updating to 10 that are caused by an outdated BIOS, especially on older Dell Vostro and some ASUS systems. If you forget chances are you can get a screen by plugging in a monitor but update the BIOS to avoid it in the first place.
2) if you have IDT audio installed on your PC, remove the driver NOW from programs and features!: Older Versions of this driver is FUBARed and will cause explorer to crash infinitely while it is migrating your profile, which will screw it up to the point where you will have to rollback to 7. Cheap Dells, HP's and Toshiba's usually have this sound card. 10 Will detect it as a HD audio codec and will work fine without the crashing, or use the latest 8.1 driver if your manufacturer actually has one. Not sure why MS doesn't detect this as incompatible during its check.
3) Windows update on windows 7 will screw you out of time: Windows update is so FUBARed on 7. it alone is a reason to upgrade to 10. I've found the best way to update from 7 is to install windows 10 setup to a flash drive, keep the upgrading system off the network until you see the installing windows circle, and open a administrative command prompt and "net stop wuauserv" about every 5 minutes during install. This will cut load times down significantly cause the install process will start a windows update session every 5 minutes and with win7 taking about 2 hours a checkin the above will get 10 installed in minutes rather than hours
4) Profiles may not migrate on first run and run temporary profile: Seems to happen to a lot of 2010-2011 HP units for some reason. Boot with safe mode and the profile should fix itself although the start menu will be clean of Squares.
5) Wifi card goes AWOL after Shutdown/Sleep: See this one constantly with 2013-2015 Dell laptops with a dell customized broadcom driver. Some people say removing the Dell driver altogether and using the 10 driver works but YMMV also the latest Dell driver does not fix this issue. I typically disable fast startup and Wifi Power saving options to get around this one but it will still happen from time to time.
6) Start menu and/or Windows store/control panel disappears or will not load: running tweaking.com all in one repair with all checks enabled and leave the system on overnight seems to fix this one. also reseting default apps may get this one fixed. if it doesn't fix after doing the above than use your win10 Stick to reinstall Win10 as an upgrade install.
If you do what the parent says and reboot, the Nag is gone for good
For the Less Technically inclined:
https://www.grc.com/never10.ht...
Works just as well and also cleans up space that the Win10 background download takes up.
Microsoft (or Google for that matter, just not as bad) doesn't play games with their account credentials anymore. You have to have an out of network way to verify your account or you're going to lose it. Either through a Phone number or another Email address, and dammit make sure its up to date.
Also the two factor app that MS has for android is one of the best I've used when it comes to ease of use and how it's implemented. it's pretty much make sure the code on the PC matches the code in the authentication window and click approve on the phone if it does. No typing verification numbers like most authenticators. so it's a good idea to use that too since it will let you in if all else fails.
This account protection of course makes it a pain with windows 8 or 10 users that use MS accounts for credentials. Half of the time they use stupid pins for their passwords and forget their real password, and MS doesn't like that sort of thing to adjust account settings. Especially if you got to refresh the PC. Just about once a week I have a conversation that goes something like
(Me) Whats your password for your PC?
(grandma) It's 1111
(Me) No that's your pin. I need the password
(grandma) but it lets me in the computer so that's my password
(Me) (Three minute explanation of the difference between a pin and a password)
(grandma) oh... well, I don't know it cause my grandson set it up. (or its in my password book buried at my desk) can you reset it?
Then you find out that their recovery creds were an old Email and phone number from a DSL/Phone provider they no longer have and have to go through the account verify process of shame that the Parent post went through, which never seems to work until you submit it 3 or more times regardless of how much info you put in the thing.
One of the worst decisions MS ever made is to tie Software support to Service pack and Point releases. They would be much better off setting the lifecycle date hard to 10 years after initial release and extend it by announcements if necessary.
All that policy does is make them call service packs anything but service packs, delay or flat out cancel them to avoid extending OS lifecycle (which is the main reason why 7 takes forever to update anymore) and confuse the hell out of Sysadmin staff trying to figure out what Version of OS users are on. (EX: Windows 8 should be 8.4 by now instead of 8, 8.1, 8.1 update 1, 8.1 update 2, ETC)
Windows 7 updates are so bad anymore, it's almost alone a reason to upgrade to Windows 10. At least with 10 they're doing the Cumulative security updates like they do for IE so there's only a few patches to download from a fresh install. On a fresh windows 7 install It's takes hours just to get 7 to see updates, and during that entire time it's sucking down 100% on one or your CPU cores and SVCHost taking 1GB or RAM in the process. You can kiss the rest of your RAM goodbye when it actually updates for 6 hours and starts thrashing the drive for Swap space in the process on anything short of a 16GB machine.
Almost all of my Windows 7 "my Computer is Slow" calls the past 3 months have been due to windows update and the only fix is either install windows 10, or install the optional windows update client of the month, which basically is the same thing as installing windows 10 since the GWX will force it on them at some point and the telemetry patches are all included as well, not to mention that all it does is take that 1GB of SVCHost ram usage and Shift it to TrustedInstaller during the patch install session.