They maintain they did nothing wrong. That means that their lack of ethics remains fully at play in every other business decision. Even if they did nothing wrong, is that really good enough? Google does no evil, Facebook does no wrong, does any corporate monolith proactively do any good as a top priority?
Children under 18 don't have credit cards. So how is it Facebook's fault that a child or minor input a credit card for a purchase. That's a parenting issue and the fault lies with them and not Facebook.
Maybe Microsoft actively pushing Steam away is what it takes for to encourage Valve to push on with SteamOS, and games developers to finally get a clue about the need to also make Linux versions of their games.
Good luck. Valve can't even make Steam work properly. You think they'll attract developers into creating games under Linux to distribute with a product that doesn't even work?
For starters f**k steam. They have the exact same goal Microsoft dreams of.
And f**k Microsoft with it's perpetual bullshit. Developers and end users are sick of being prevented from using the latest version of Direct X just because not everyone runs the latest version of Windows. As a result Microsoft's stack is on track to be ignored and left behind. Vulkan is going to win over DX12 leaving future Direct X a moot point.
Regardless it shouldn't be hard to sell software directly with numerous ecommerce packages and services available. It shouldn't be hard to get your title out to distributors.
What we have increasingly with Steam is the same problem with any successful App Store.
1. Many titles are only available via Steam. If you want to buy somewhere else your fucked.
2. Too many end users only know Steam and won't look elsewhere even if alternatives exist.
3. Nothing you buy is able to operate independent of where you bought it.
The end result is lockin the very same lockin Microsoft dreams of imposing within Windows. I don't give a shit whether it is Steam or Microsoft or Google or Apple... this bullshit is completely unnecessary.
Ultimately lockin is bad for customers and developers alike as the App store monopoly inevitably leverages itself extracting more and more value from an increasingly captive audience with nothing real to show for it in return save the bank accounts of the few "winners" at the top.
Steam OS competes against the PS4 and XBOX. Not Windows. When will people understand this.
I don't get it. Steam has been a pile of shit since Windows 7. It's slow to start, conflicts with other games while it's running and responds like a slug. Not to mention it's download speeds are horrendous. Steam is almost as bad as iTunes.
I don't think Microsoft needs to do anything to make Steam perform horrible. Valve is doing that all by themselves.
Assuming he survived the jump (using one of the oldest of the 4 parachutes he got) in what amounts to ordinary street clothes, how does he survive a hike out of the wilderness in November in a raincoat and loafers, likely at least pretty damp if not wet from atmospheric condensation? Even if he landed completely dry, you're talking a high risk of hypothermia dressed that way in November navigating miles of wilderness.
However well he planned it, there's no way he managed to hit a narrow drop zone where he might have staged survival gear -- his potential drop zone would have been miles wide jumping in the dark and without any decent navigational clues as to where to jump.
The larger mystery is why his body or chute were never found, but these seem more likely to be side effects of a potentially large search area than a successful landing and evasion.
You never know whether he had supplies waiting for where he planned to parachute to. He could have easily have survival gear waiting for him.
Here is Wikipedia's site for most of that:
Gunther, Max (1985). D. B. Cooper: What Really Happened. Chicago: Contemporary Books. ISBN 0-8092-5180-9. (Based on interviews with a woman known as "Clara", who claimed to have discovered an injured Cooper two days after the hijacking and lived with him until he died a decade later; considered a hoax by the FBI.)
There isn't any way to know how much aircraft knowledge he had or how much he planned without asking him. It looks like Wikipedia is using very questionable source about someone who claims to of known him and then cites it as fact.
Wikipedia should never be used as a source of truth. It's written by people with opinions.
Correct. They couldn't disable it. They could start showing you ads if you don't subscribe though.
Listen, the real lesson here is that, like it or not, Stallman was right. I'm not speaking as an FSF fan or Free software zealot either.
Linux is your only viable escape from this. Apple isn't. Android isn't. It's starting to dawn on the masses that Stallman saw something 30+ yeas ago that they are only just beginning to understand. Those who control the source code, control you (see also, Volkswagon and the emissions scandal).
It's happening all the time.,You only find out about a tiny number. You can't stop them unless you have the source code and the means to modifying the system.
Call it the right to repair, the right to tinker, the right to hack. Whatever.
Linux isn't a viable solution. They had their chance and blew it by bickering over standards instead of unifying their OS. Almost 20 years later it's still happening. OSX now has a higher adoption rate now than Linux for the Desktop.
That's what I've been saying since 10 was announced as a "free" upgrade from 7/8.
Soon as they get enough people updated, via hook or crook, they'll adopt a PAID subscription.
Adobe did it. On one had, it's not a bad business model, as you can pretty much know what
your revenue stream from month to month, year to year will be, but, as with Adobe Photoshop,
I'll just hang onto CC6 for a while longer.
They'll be doing what Apple is doing. Yearly releases for a small fee like $20-50. Every Apple user pays this fee with open arms. It will still be cheaper than buying a full version. If people didn't see this coming from a mile away they haven't been paying attention to anything in the OS market for years.
I was going to ream you for choosing your web browser based on its underlying programming language. After all, if you're not having to interface with it as a plugin-developer, what does it matter?
Then I remembered: security. Relying on a human programmer to get every memory allocation and deallocation right every single time has proven to be a security nightmare for the past 20 years the internet has been accessible by the general public. The more safety checks you can push down into the underlying platform/language/runtime/API, the fewer security holes you'll have.
And if you need proof that your standard, mature languages aren't cutting it, look no further than Symantec's recent debacle. If kernel programmers at the world's premiere security firm can't get it right, who can?
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if Symantec didn't purposely allow those bugs to stay. It helps sell more advanced, feature filled copies of their products instead. Oh that malware came through? Better buy the premier edition or you might get infected.
There's a reason why my companies virus issues went from 2-300 tickets every couple weeks to less than 10 a week. We switched to McAfee.
If Facebook does get preferential treatment from Apple, let's look at the numbers: Facebook (1600M+ users) vs. Spotify (75M+ users).
Which company would Apple benefit the most from — the whale or the minnow?
Apple benefits 0 from Spotify which is the entire point of this article. They are blocking Spotify now that they launched their own service. If Apple were to launch a service similar to Facebook you can be certain they would cripple the Facebook app.
The fact you're not going to make any money, doesn't get you out of contracts.
Oracle should have just continued supporting it badly and let performance whack Itanium on the head.
It's not Oracle's fault that HP was holding onto dear life rather than innovating by moving to new hardware. Everyone else saw the writing on the wall except HP themselves. One of the many reasons they can't keep a CEO to save their life.
Porn sites do NOT spread malware. Maybe at one time they did, but not any more.
I have an anecdote to prove my point (this is the internet, after all)
A guy brings in his computer it has a virus. He's sure the kid has been doing "naughty" things on it and got it infected. Digital AIDS as it were.
I fixed the virus and did an "audit" of the PC's surfing history and searches and so on, giving me a timeline up to the point where it got infected.
The kid was indeed surfing porn. I asked the guy when he and momma went to bed. "10:00" he said. I told him I could tell. Little Johnny was surfing for "hot milfs", "Zoo porn" and other horrible things starting at 10:30. But the virus didn't get downloaded then.
The virus got downloaded at 7:30 in the morning when the adult got on the PC and did a google search for "TV Repair in [local town name]" and followed whatever link was there that took him to a fake antivirus driveby download.
In other words, Bestiality? Safe. TV Repair? Not safe.
I have other examples too, such as malicious ads on PBS kids and Drudge report and so on.
Yeah I hate hearing people say "Stop browsing those Porn sites."
Porn sites aren't going to infect their customers who not only bring ad revenue but many times subscription revenue as well.
Some people want to monitor the premises from a remote site...
Some companies want to centralise their cctv monitoring to save costs.
There is already an ethernet network present, cheaper than running separate cabling for ip cameras.
That still doesn't explain why it's insecure. VPN's are cheap. Install a router/firewall where you can VPN in and then manage from there.
So why are those pieces of hardware designed to allow naughty unnecessary communications.
The problem is not that they're designed to allow naughty unnecessary communication, the problem is that they're not designed not to.
It's like designing a door with a knob but no lock- there was no thought given to keeping the bad guys out.
This is going to be a bigger and bigger problem with the advent of IoT crap (the Internet Of Trash).
So they have no firewall on their network to prevent un-authorized access from outside the building? I think that's the point he was trying to make.
No one should be able to connect to and manipulate this device in the first place.
This gif is good switching between the Orion and CoD model:
http://i.imgur.com/pVDLi5L.gif
I was ready to come down on their side, but after seeing the screenshots it clear they stole the asset, now they're lying and trying to play the victims.
Takedown was legitimate. No sympathy.
Not really. That screenshot shows that the 4 portions are not similar at all. If they did copy it, each component was clearly changed.
There are two Boolean flag vars in the Registry which turn off the automatic update and free-offer notifications. Using the builtin registry editor ("regedit") drill down to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows] and look for key entries 'WindowsUpdate' and 'GWX'. If they're not present then use the editor to create new key names WindowsUpdate and GWX in the Windows key list.
Then to disable auto-update add a dword named DisableOSUpgrade under WindowsUpdate and set it to 1 (true)
"DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001
To disable the freeWin10 upgrade offer notification add a dword named DisableGWX under GWX and set it to 1 (true)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GWX]
"DisableGWX"=dword:00000001
That's it. Now you can turn the automatic Windows-update back and not worry about Win10 being installed. Also you won't be nagged about the free Win10 offer.
Tell you what. Talk a your average user through that process, including the editing, without doing it remotely for them and then we'll talk.
By the way, the average user I'm talking about is the same one that's claimed to not be able to use Linux on a daily basis, who has trouble knowing what a browser is and when asked to click on "my computer" thinks you mean your actual computer.
It's really tough. You can download the change in a single file that imports the registry change. Double click, click yes and reboot.
I sure hope you do not do QA for any company, and if you are a programmer this speaks volumes about your inability to understand bounds checking. It implies an inability to perform root cause analysis and utter failure at applying the scientific method. Determining that six months on "multiple machines" without change is "permanent" because you've "tested" it. Wow. Just wow.
I hate to post this anonymously but I'd rather not undo moderation. Oh well.
I work for a major software company and can back him up. We have 110k Windows 7 machines and a few hundred Windows 8 installs. We pushed the GWX change to every single workstation within a week of the "Upgrade button" showing up back in July. It hasn't come back yet.
So the people who this is happening to either did it incorrectly or performed a Windows update and installed recommended updates (not critical) without reading what they were doing.
the more annoying thing is, that for a device this expensive, the warranty is only 1 year long. apple even tried to bring that crap to EU. fortunately, apart from UK, the whole EU has 2 year warranty on everything.
And you didn't realize that EU citizens are paying for an extended warranty?
Apple's probably one of the best examples as their "EU Tax" is low - take the US model, add AppleCare (to satisfy EU warranty), add in the requisite VAT (20-25%) and convert to Euros, and you come out pretty close to the cost in Europe.
So if you hate 1 year warranties, when the Best Buy cashier asks "DO you want the extended warranty", say "Yes". In Europe, Australia, etc., guess what? You can't say no, you don't want the 2 year warranty, let me save the 10-20%.
Turns out everyone's really been factoring in the extended warranty into the price for Europe.
TINSTAAFL. In North America, they ask if you want the extended warranty. In Europe, Australia and other countries, they answered for you.
Oh, and yes, if you open stuff, it's fine. it's when you try to fix stuff you have problems. Warranty fraud is a huge thing, and you will see people try to claim "No, it wasn't submerged in water" even though it's clearly dripping water all over the counter.
It's a really big problem and as much as everyone would like to see more repairable stuff, the real problem is too many people just are not skilled enough. The good ones will just open it, see they can't fix it and put everything back. Most people bumble through things and make things worse
Even the law says that - if the damage can be traced to the failure, the warranty can be voided. For most devices, opening them and trying to screw around with stuff can be traced as the cause.
The problem is not the 1% of people who go to iFixit and get their replacement parts and tools, it's the 99% who don't and try to "fix" it but make things worse. Because the vast majority of those lack the skill, care, precision, tools, education, etc to not mess anything up. It's why iFixit can get all high and mighty about it, because they don't see the other end of it. Perhaps a stint at a retail customer service desk should help realize that people who use iFixit generally know what they're doing.
Not to mention I would guess most people don't own an electrostatic discharge mat or cable for their arm. When you open these electronic without those safeguards you can shorten the life of the electronics. Unless you can prove you took all the safeguards and didn't cause any additional damage then the manufacturers should have every right to void your warranty.
My guess is that MS will just roll out a quick update, with a revised EULA.
You MS fanboys are amazing. You even try to justify MS bricking hardware.
We paid for Win7, so leave my OS the hell alone.
Win7 is still supported, so upgrading it should be completely optional. Again, leave my paid-for and still-supported OS the hell alone.
So if she agreed to the upgrade, clicked go and it did this same thing would it still be Microsoft's fault? Most companies have a Windows 10 checklist in their support website. There's bios updates, driver updates, etc that should be done prior to Windows 10. Heck they should've been done even if you didn't plan to upgrade. That's where the issues happen.
Btw, her system wasn't bricked or broken. It was just slow. Which probably means her HDD was failing before the upgrade.
It's not funny, that's actually what the new Windows 10 Upgrade dialog looks like, happened to me personally.
It just said tomorrow it will upgrade to windows 10, if you don't access this dialog by then, it will go on automatically.
If I was gone over the weekend, as I usually leave my computer on in case I need to remote in, by the time I was back, it would have upgraded without any interaction.
The level of lack of respect from Microsoft is truly incredible.
Turn OFF recommended updates already. Only critical updates should be enabled.
No, you signed a bit of paper saying he could keep the tires up to date, not that he could change round tires that work for square tires that don't work but that marketing says are "better". More environmentally friendly since you can't drive your car anymore. You save on gas, too. But no.
No. Windows 10 is like adding more efficient tires that use less tread while spinning. But due to you not changing you oil often enough the efficient tire change caused your engine to slow down instead of requiring less gas.
People don't keep the other portions of their machines up to date. Bios, drivers, etc so that can cause the W10 upgrade to fail.
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They maintain they did nothing wrong. That means that their lack of ethics remains fully at play in every other business decision. Even if they did nothing wrong, is that really good enough? Google does no evil, Facebook does no wrong, does any corporate monolith proactively do any good as a top priority?
Children under 18 don't have credit cards. So how is it Facebook's fault that a child or minor input a credit card for a purchase. That's a parenting issue and the fault lies with them and not Facebook.
Nope, but it does reset the browser default to Edge.
No it doesn't. Only during the initial upgrade. After that it's fine going forward.
Maybe Microsoft actively pushing Steam away is what it takes for to encourage Valve to push on with SteamOS, and games developers to finally get a clue about the need to also make Linux versions of their games.
Good luck. Valve can't even make Steam work properly. You think they'll attract developers into creating games under Linux to distribute with a product that doesn't even work?
For starters f**k steam. They have the exact same goal Microsoft dreams of.
And f**k Microsoft with it's perpetual bullshit. Developers and end users are sick of being prevented from using the latest version of Direct X just because not everyone runs the latest version of Windows. As a result Microsoft's stack is on track to be ignored and left behind. Vulkan is going to win over DX12 leaving future Direct X a moot point.
Regardless it shouldn't be hard to sell software directly with numerous ecommerce packages and services available. It shouldn't be hard to get your title out to distributors.
What we have increasingly with Steam is the same problem with any successful App Store.
1. Many titles are only available via Steam. If you want to buy somewhere else your fucked.
2. Too many end users only know Steam and won't look elsewhere even if alternatives exist.
3. Nothing you buy is able to operate independent of where you bought it.
The end result is lockin the very same lockin Microsoft dreams of imposing within Windows. I don't give a shit whether it is Steam or Microsoft or Google or Apple... this bullshit is completely unnecessary.
Ultimately lockin is bad for customers and developers alike as the App store monopoly inevitably leverages itself extracting more and more value from an increasingly captive audience with nothing real to show for it in return save the bank accounts of the few "winners" at the top.
Steam OS competes against the PS4 and XBOX. Not Windows. When will people understand this.
I don't get it. Steam has been a pile of shit since Windows 7. It's slow to start, conflicts with other games while it's running and responds like a slug. Not to mention it's download speeds are horrendous. Steam is almost as bad as iTunes. I don't think Microsoft needs to do anything to make Steam perform horrible. Valve is doing that all by themselves.
Assuming he survived the jump (using one of the oldest of the 4 parachutes he got) in what amounts to ordinary street clothes, how does he survive a hike out of the wilderness in November in a raincoat and loafers, likely at least pretty damp if not wet from atmospheric condensation? Even if he landed completely dry, you're talking a high risk of hypothermia dressed that way in November navigating miles of wilderness.
However well he planned it, there's no way he managed to hit a narrow drop zone where he might have staged survival gear -- his potential drop zone would have been miles wide jumping in the dark and without any decent navigational clues as to where to jump.
The larger mystery is why his body or chute were never found, but these seem more likely to be side effects of a potentially large search area than a successful landing and evasion.
You never know whether he had supplies waiting for where he planned to parachute to. He could have easily have survival gear waiting for him.
Here is Wikipedia's site for most of that: Gunther, Max (1985). D. B. Cooper: What Really Happened. Chicago: Contemporary Books. ISBN 0-8092-5180-9. (Based on interviews with a woman known as "Clara", who claimed to have discovered an injured Cooper two days after the hijacking and lived with him until he died a decade later; considered a hoax by the FBI.) There isn't any way to know how much aircraft knowledge he had or how much he planned without asking him. It looks like Wikipedia is using very questionable source about someone who claims to of known him and then cites it as fact.
Wikipedia should never be used as a source of truth. It's written by people with opinions.
i heard an american scooped up tons of classified data and put it on her personal email server, and then they made her president.
Hilary's private email server is sounding more secure than the governments each passing day.
Correct. They couldn't disable it. They could start showing you ads if you don't subscribe though.
Listen, the real lesson here is that, like it or not, Stallman was right. I'm not speaking as an FSF fan or Free software zealot either.
Linux is your only viable escape from this. Apple isn't. Android isn't. It's starting to dawn on the masses that Stallman saw something 30+ yeas ago that they are only just beginning to understand. Those who control the source code, control you (see also, Volkswagon and the emissions scandal).
It's happening all the time.,You only find out about a tiny number. You can't stop them unless you have the source code and the means to modifying the system.
Call it the right to repair, the right to tinker, the right to hack. Whatever.
Linux isn't a viable solution. They had their chance and blew it by bickering over standards instead of unifying their OS. Almost 20 years later it's still happening. OSX now has a higher adoption rate now than Linux for the Desktop.
That's what I've been saying since 10 was announced as a "free" upgrade from 7/8. Soon as they get enough people updated, via hook or crook, they'll adopt a PAID subscription. Adobe did it. On one had, it's not a bad business model, as you can pretty much know what your revenue stream from month to month, year to year will be, but, as with Adobe Photoshop, I'll just hang onto CC6 for a while longer.
They'll be doing what Apple is doing. Yearly releases for a small fee like $20-50. Every Apple user pays this fee with open arms. It will still be cheaper than buying a full version. If people didn't see this coming from a mile away they haven't been paying attention to anything in the OS market for years.
I was going to ream you for choosing your web browser based on its underlying programming language. After all, if you're not having to interface with it as a plugin-developer, what does it matter?
Then I remembered: security. Relying on a human programmer to get every memory allocation and deallocation right every single time has proven to be a security nightmare for the past 20 years the internet has been accessible by the general public. The more safety checks you can push down into the underlying platform/language/runtime/API, the fewer security holes you'll have.
And if you need proof that your standard, mature languages aren't cutting it, look no further than Symantec's recent debacle. If kernel programmers at the world's premiere security firm can't get it right, who can?
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if Symantec didn't purposely allow those bugs to stay. It helps sell more advanced, feature filled copies of their products instead. Oh that malware came through? Better buy the premier edition or you might get infected. There's a reason why my companies virus issues went from 2-300 tickets every couple weeks to less than 10 a week. We switched to McAfee.
Actually, Apple want $3 a month for handling the payments, since the subscription would be going through the App Store's payment mechanisms.
You can subscribe right through their website. There's no need to do it through a store. Then you download the App and login.
Facebook gets preferential treatment. Why shouldn't Spotify?
Citation please?
If Facebook does get preferential treatment from Apple, let's look at the numbers: Facebook (1600M+ users) vs. Spotify (75M+ users).
Which company would Apple benefit the most from — the whale or the minnow?
Apple benefits 0 from Spotify which is the entire point of this article. They are blocking Spotify now that they launched their own service. If Apple were to launch a service similar to Facebook you can be certain they would cripple the Facebook app.
The fact you're not going to make any money, doesn't get you out of contracts.
Oracle should have just continued supporting it badly and let performance whack Itanium on the head.
It's not Oracle's fault that HP was holding onto dear life rather than innovating by moving to new hardware. Everyone else saw the writing on the wall except HP themselves. One of the many reasons they can't keep a CEO to save their life.
You're wrong on #2.
Porn sites do NOT spread malware. Maybe at one time they did, but not any more.
I have an anecdote to prove my point (this is the internet, after all)
A guy brings in his computer it has a virus. He's sure the kid has been doing "naughty" things on it and got it infected. Digital AIDS as it were.
I fixed the virus and did an "audit" of the PC's surfing history and searches and so on, giving me a timeline up to the point where it got infected.
The kid was indeed surfing porn. I asked the guy when he and momma went to bed. "10:00" he said. I told him I could tell. Little Johnny was surfing for "hot milfs", "Zoo porn" and other horrible things starting at 10:30. But the virus didn't get downloaded then.
The virus got downloaded at 7:30 in the morning when the adult got on the PC and did a google search for "TV Repair in [local town name]" and followed whatever link was there that took him to a fake antivirus driveby download.
In other words, Bestiality? Safe. TV Repair? Not safe.
I have other examples too, such as malicious ads on PBS kids and Drudge report and so on.
Yeah I hate hearing people say "Stop browsing those Porn sites." Porn sites aren't going to infect their customers who not only bring ad revenue but many times subscription revenue as well.
All kinds of reasons...
Some people want to monitor the premises from a remote site... Some companies want to centralise their cctv monitoring to save costs. There is already an ethernet network present, cheaper than running separate cabling for ip cameras.
That still doesn't explain why it's insecure. VPN's are cheap. Install a router/firewall where you can VPN in and then manage from there.
So why are those pieces of hardware designed to allow naughty unnecessary communications.
The problem is not that they're designed to allow naughty unnecessary communication, the problem is that they're not designed not to.
It's like designing a door with a knob but no lock- there was no thought given to keeping the bad guys out.
This is going to be a bigger and bigger problem with the advent of IoT crap (the Internet Of Trash).
So they have no firewall on their network to prevent un-authorized access from outside the building? I think that's the point he was trying to make. No one should be able to connect to and manipulate this device in the first place.
Maybe it was meant to say "take knock off indie game"
Please do the needful.
This gif is good switching between the Orion and CoD model:
http://i.imgur.com/pVDLi5L.gif
I was ready to come down on their side, but after seeing the screenshots it clear they stole the asset, now they're lying and trying to play the victims.
Takedown was legitimate. No sympathy.
Not really. That screenshot shows that the 4 portions are not similar at all. If they did copy it, each component was clearly changed.
There are two Boolean flag vars in the Registry which turn off the automatic update and free-offer notifications. Using the builtin registry editor ("regedit") drill down to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows] and look for key entries 'WindowsUpdate' and 'GWX'. If they're not present then use the editor to create new key names WindowsUpdate and GWX in the Windows key list.
Then to disable auto-update add a dword named DisableOSUpgrade under WindowsUpdate and set it to 1 (true) "DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001
To disable the freeWin10 upgrade offer notification add a dword named DisableGWX under GWX and set it to 1 (true) [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GWX] "DisableGWX"=dword:00000001
That's it. Now you can turn the automatic Windows-update back and not worry about Win10 being installed. Also you won't be nagged about the free Win10 offer.
Tell you what. Talk a your average user through that process, including the editing, without doing it remotely for them and then we'll talk. By the way, the average user I'm talking about is the same one that's claimed to not be able to use Linux on a daily basis, who has trouble knowing what a browser is and when asked to click on "my computer" thinks you mean your actual computer.
It's really tough. You can download the change in a single file that imports the registry change. Double click, click yes and reboot.
I sure hope you do not do QA for any company, and if you are a programmer this speaks volumes about your inability to understand bounds checking. It implies an inability to perform root cause analysis and utter failure at applying the scientific method. Determining that six months on "multiple machines" without change is "permanent" because you've "tested" it. Wow. Just wow.
I hate to post this anonymously but I'd rather not undo moderation. Oh well.
I work for a major software company and can back him up. We have 110k Windows 7 machines and a few hundred Windows 8 installs. We pushed the GWX change to every single workstation within a week of the "Upgrade button" showing up back in July. It hasn't come back yet. So the people who this is happening to either did it incorrectly or performed a Windows update and installed recommended updates (not critical) without reading what they were doing.
And you didn't realize that EU citizens are paying for an extended warranty?
Apple's probably one of the best examples as their "EU Tax" is low - take the US model, add AppleCare (to satisfy EU warranty), add in the requisite VAT (20-25%) and convert to Euros, and you come out pretty close to the cost in Europe.
So if you hate 1 year warranties, when the Best Buy cashier asks "DO you want the extended warranty", say "Yes". In Europe, Australia, etc., guess what? You can't say no, you don't want the 2 year warranty, let me save the 10-20%.
Turns out everyone's really been factoring in the extended warranty into the price for Europe.
TINSTAAFL. In North America, they ask if you want the extended warranty. In Europe, Australia and other countries, they answered for you.
Oh, and yes, if you open stuff, it's fine. it's when you try to fix stuff you have problems. Warranty fraud is a huge thing, and you will see people try to claim "No, it wasn't submerged in water" even though it's clearly dripping water all over the counter.
It's a really big problem and as much as everyone would like to see more repairable stuff, the real problem is too many people just are not skilled enough. The good ones will just open it, see they can't fix it and put everything back. Most people bumble through things and make things worse
Even the law says that - if the damage can be traced to the failure, the warranty can be voided. For most devices, opening them and trying to screw around with stuff can be traced as the cause.
The problem is not the 1% of people who go to iFixit and get their replacement parts and tools, it's the 99% who don't and try to "fix" it but make things worse. Because the vast majority of those lack the skill, care, precision, tools, education, etc to not mess anything up. It's why iFixit can get all high and mighty about it, because they don't see the other end of it. Perhaps a stint at a retail customer service desk should help realize that people who use iFixit generally know what they're doing.
Not to mention I would guess most people don't own an electrostatic discharge mat or cable for their arm. When you open these electronic without those safeguards you can shorten the life of the electronics. Unless you can prove you took all the safeguards and didn't cause any additional damage then the manufacturers should have every right to void your warranty.
My guess is that MS will just roll out a quick update, with a revised EULA.
You MS fanboys are amazing. You even try to justify MS bricking hardware. We paid for Win7, so leave my OS the hell alone. Win7 is still supported, so upgrading it should be completely optional. Again, leave my paid-for and still-supported OS the hell alone.
So if she agreed to the upgrade, clicked go and it did this same thing would it still be Microsoft's fault? Most companies have a Windows 10 checklist in their support website. There's bios updates, driver updates, etc that should be done prior to Windows 10. Heck they should've been done even if you didn't plan to upgrade. That's where the issues happen. Btw, her system wasn't bricked or broken. It was just slow. Which probably means her HDD was failing before the upgrade.
It's not funny, that's actually what the new Windows 10 Upgrade dialog looks like, happened to me personally. It just said tomorrow it will upgrade to windows 10, if you don't access this dialog by then, it will go on automatically. If I was gone over the weekend, as I usually leave my computer on in case I need to remote in, by the time I was back, it would have upgraded without any interaction. The level of lack of respect from Microsoft is truly incredible.
Turn OFF recommended updates already. Only critical updates should be enabled.
No, you signed a bit of paper saying he could keep the tires up to date, not that he could change round tires that work for square tires that don't work but that marketing says are "better". More environmentally friendly since you can't drive your car anymore. You save on gas, too. But no.
No. Windows 10 is like adding more efficient tires that use less tread while spinning. But due to you not changing you oil often enough the efficient tire change caused your engine to slow down instead of requiring less gas. People don't keep the other portions of their machines up to date. Bios, drivers, etc so that can cause the W10 upgrade to fail.