* Windows XP compatibility mode (the free VM) makes a comeback - because yes, I do play older games on occasion. Yes, Virtualbox, blah blah blah but virtualbox doesn't come with the free XP license.
Yes, I'm gonna miss that. A free, licensed windows-compatible virtual OS (even if it's outdated) to use for whatever. There's Hyper-V, but not a free license to run something in it IIRC.
I was surprised to find that without a valid key, 7 doesn't really disable anything at all--it just resets your desktop background to black (yawn) and gives you a nagging popup every once in awhile. Just dig up a clean install disc ISO and throw that into a VirtualBox machine.
I'm sure there are a couple things that work on XP but not on 7 but I haven't needed any yet, personally.
To be fair, that use case kind of makes sense. If you pull the hard drive out of a computer, all the permissions info on it is about the users on *that computer.* Being able to plug it into another random machine and have it say "oh, well you're admin on this machine so I don't see why not" is precisely one of the things NTFS permissions were designed to not allow, I would assume.
"Admin? You're not on the admin list *I* know. Take a hike, ya imposter."
Issues like that were the reason I kept a ~6GB FAT32 partition on my dual-boot machine for awhile. I called it "Decontam":) Whenever Windows/NTFS got whiney about permissions, move the file in, the FAT kills the permissions, then move it back out.
On the desktop, I have a dual-boot Windows 8.1 and Linux Mint install, with a Windows 7 VM in VirtualBox on Mint. I spend 95% of my time booting Linux, honestly not so much for idealogical reasons, but because of a job I had a couple years ago where I got fairly comfortable with the command line and honestly I got rather tired of clicking around Windows Explorer to navigate when I can use tab auto-complete, cd, rm, etc. as fast or faster anyway. And I have XFCE for my desktop so I don't have to wrestle with all the recent Windows UI bullshit either.
Then once I got used to it and eventually got the VM started, there's little reason for me to actually go back other than Visual Studio (as mentioned elsewhere, Win 8+ no longer lets me run old circa-2000 games that I still can on 7). This whole issue came up when my old Win 7 machine died last summer and due to the backlash I heard about the spying, I bought my replacement tower like 3 weeks before the big Win 10 rollout.
So. Comparing that experience to Android...
I have an Android phone, but I'm not really obsessed with it. Mostly I just use it for Google maps and occasionally checking things online when I'm not at home/don't want to boot up the desktop to handle stuff. Never bothered to spend any money on a paid app in the 15ish months I've had it. Since I have a desktop, I don't even have WiFi at home.
The catch with Google Maps is that to get directions, you more or less need to enable location tracking. Which isn't great, but allegedly (by the TLAs themselves) The Man can track you via GPS even when your phone is "turned off" so I have either a choice between using Maps (I have a terrible sense of direction), or getting a different phone entirely.
Google is basically an ad company. I expect them to spy on me and sell all my information to anybody they can. So I minimize somewhat what I tell them, don't facebook on my phone, and just try to live with it as the privacy intrusion that it is. Call the privacy loss the "price" I'm paying to use the service.
If I *could* use Google services without them spying on me, I would.
So. Microsoft and Google are both doing things I don't like. However I still use both of them more and less of the time.
Moral of the story: If I didn't use anything I ethically objected to, I'd be sitting in a cave somewhere.
Computers and technical goods, you trace to getting spied on and marketed to. Owning a car--car companies largely support the oil industry and nastiness in the Middle East. Using public roads and paying taxes implies support of the government. Using electricity supports the fossil fuel industry, contributing to global warming. Using paper supports rainforest deforestation, etc., etc., etc.
So I suppose if one is sufficiently pigheaded, one can label it "hypocrisy." However I'm sick and tired of people throwing around that word so freely, so why don't we just call it "I have different priorities than you."
Well then why don't you submit an article to the queue explaining how and I'll go complain there as well. This article is about Windows 10 and I'm staying on-topic.
(that can't run in Win7, therefore, not in Win10, since the drivers are mostly the same), people really shouldn't have too many complaints.
Classic games from around 2000 like Civilization II, Alpha Centauri, etc., still ran fine on Windows 7. Since then, you need a VM. They took out the compatibility mode settings for 16-bit programs.
So combine that with the fact that there have been literally zero value-add features that I wanted since 7, and several bad features added like the UI and spying, and you can see why someone might not want to upgrade.
Yes the upgrade tactics have been heavy handed. But so has the push back, the FUD from sites like Slashdot and other supposed "tech" blogs. If you have an Android phone and are bitching about Windows 10 you're a fucking hypocrite, full stop.
Saying "Company X is doing this bad thing, but if given the chance, Company Y would do the exact same thing" does not prove that the thing is fine to do.
So no, not hypocrisy. If Google were in this situation I'd be criticizing them exactly the same.
Honestly, I can't 100% blame them. We witnessed how hard people hung onto XP. I still see companies with Windows Server 2003 in play (some of them still DEPLOY 2003). We know there are large swathes of people that simply do not accept change, no matter how good it might be (there are legitimate debates about win10 being better).
Their marketshare is not my concern. My ability to use my own computer is.
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They make fire extinguishers for metallic/chemical fires. Just because you can't put it out with water doesn't mean it's somehow invincible.
Marchionne will be remembered as an incompetent douchebag who killed both Fiat and Chrysler.
and Chekov :P
Two transmissions are faster than one. Shock!
I dunno, how many young girls did you rape and murder in 1990?
We have this thing called "innocent until proven guilty," guys.
*Could* be. Sounds like everybody around here is assuming it is.
24 items out of millions and we're ready to tar and feather them already? Damn, tough crowd.
P.S: Thanks for all the free tech support sucker
* Windows XP compatibility mode (the free VM) makes a comeback - because yes, I do play older games on occasion. Yes, Virtualbox, blah blah blah but virtualbox doesn't come with the free XP license.
Yes, I'm gonna miss that. A free, licensed windows-compatible virtual OS (even if it's outdated) to use for whatever. There's Hyper-V, but not a free license to run something in it IIRC.
I was surprised to find that without a valid key, 7 doesn't really disable anything at all--it just resets your desktop background to black (yawn) and gives you a nagging popup every once in awhile. Just dig up a clean install disc ISO and throw that into a VirtualBox machine.
I'm sure there are a couple things that work on XP but not on 7 but I haven't needed any yet, personally.
"only"
How is this relevant to the GP?
Assuming they make the right ruling :(
Well apparently the courts disagree. If they were wholesale copies, they would have come down on Google like a bag of bricks.
You obviously haven't heard from anybody who's worked for Oracle. Yes, he really is that greedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"The lawnmower has no empathy. The lawnmower can't have empathy."
And then there's the part where basically the entire team of Sun technical people quit en masse after the acquisition.
Fukushima hurt -34 people?
If you want to eat your computer, sure...
I am 6 miles from what was the fastest growing city in the state.
In 1812?
Not *taking* it literally, *proving* it works literally.
Sarcasm depends on the assumption that the underlying premise is false. If you disprove that assumption, it no longer works as sarcasm.
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To be fair, that use case kind of makes sense. If you pull the hard drive out of a computer, all the permissions info on it is about the users on *that computer.* Being able to plug it into another random machine and have it say "oh, well you're admin on this machine so I don't see why not" is precisely one of the things NTFS permissions were designed to not allow, I would assume.
"Admin? You're not on the admin list *I* know. Take a hike, ya imposter."
Issues like that were the reason I kept a ~6GB FAT32 partition on my dual-boot machine for awhile. I called it "Decontam" :) Whenever Windows/NTFS got whiney about permissions, move the file in, the FAT kills the permissions, then move it back out.
is automatically upgrading their Android version the second it comes out
Assuming you even can :P I'm on 4.4.2 right now and my phone claims it's up-to-date.
On the desktop, I have a dual-boot Windows 8.1 and Linux Mint install, with a Windows 7 VM in VirtualBox on Mint. I spend 95% of my time booting Linux, honestly not so much for idealogical reasons, but because of a job I had a couple years ago where I got fairly comfortable with the command line and honestly I got rather tired of clicking around Windows Explorer to navigate when I can use tab auto-complete, cd, rm, etc. as fast or faster anyway. And I have XFCE for my desktop so I don't have to wrestle with all the recent Windows UI bullshit either.
Then once I got used to it and eventually got the VM started, there's little reason for me to actually go back other than Visual Studio (as mentioned elsewhere, Win 8+ no longer lets me run old circa-2000 games that I still can on 7). This whole issue came up when my old Win 7 machine died last summer and due to the backlash I heard about the spying, I bought my replacement tower like 3 weeks before the big Win 10 rollout.
So. Comparing that experience to Android...
I have an Android phone, but I'm not really obsessed with it. Mostly I just use it for Google maps and occasionally checking things online when I'm not at home/don't want to boot up the desktop to handle stuff. Never bothered to spend any money on a paid app in the 15ish months I've had it. Since I have a desktop, I don't even have WiFi at home.
The catch with Google Maps is that to get directions, you more or less need to enable location tracking. Which isn't great, but allegedly (by the TLAs themselves) The Man can track you via GPS even when your phone is "turned off" so I have either a choice between using Maps (I have a terrible sense of direction), or getting a different phone entirely.
Google is basically an ad company. I expect them to spy on me and sell all my information to anybody they can. So I minimize somewhat what I tell them, don't facebook on my phone, and just try to live with it as the privacy intrusion that it is. Call the privacy loss the "price" I'm paying to use the service.
If I *could* use Google services without them spying on me, I would.
So. Microsoft and Google are both doing things I don't like. However I still use both of them more and less of the time.
Moral of the story: If I didn't use anything I ethically objected to, I'd be sitting in a cave somewhere.
Computers and technical goods, you trace to getting spied on and marketed to. Owning a car--car companies largely support the oil industry and nastiness in the Middle East. Using public roads and paying taxes implies support of the government. Using electricity supports the fossil fuel industry, contributing to global warming. Using paper supports rainforest deforestation, etc., etc., etc.
So I suppose if one is sufficiently pigheaded, one can label it "hypocrisy." However I'm sick and tired of people throwing around that word so freely, so why don't we just call it "I have different priorities than you."
Well then why don't you submit an article to the queue explaining how and I'll go complain there as well. This article is about Windows 10 and I'm staying on-topic.
Yeah, don't even get me started on TPM, SecureBoot, etc. :P
(that can't run in Win7, therefore, not in Win10, since the drivers are mostly the same), people really shouldn't have too many complaints.
Classic games from around 2000 like Civilization II, Alpha Centauri, etc., still ran fine on Windows 7. Since then, you need a VM. They took out the compatibility mode settings for 16-bit programs.
So combine that with the fact that there have been literally zero value-add features that I wanted since 7, and several bad features added like the UI and spying, and you can see why someone might not want to upgrade.
Yes the upgrade tactics have been heavy handed. But so has the push back, the FUD from sites like Slashdot and other supposed "tech" blogs. If you have an Android phone and are bitching about Windows 10 you're a fucking hypocrite, full stop.
Saying "Company X is doing this bad thing, but if given the chance, Company Y would do the exact same thing" does not prove that the thing is fine to do.
So no, not hypocrisy. If Google were in this situation I'd be criticizing them exactly the same.
Honestly, I can't 100% blame them. We witnessed how hard people hung onto XP. I still see companies with Windows Server 2003 in play (some of them still DEPLOY 2003). We know there are large swathes of people that simply do not accept change, no matter how good it might be (there are legitimate debates about win10 being better).
Their marketshare is not my concern. My ability to use my own computer is.