Why is this presented as being bad? There's a question of quality over quantity, the move to 64-bit has cleared out ancient crap. I doubt that there are more than a few thousand apps which are not completely worthless, 2 million is insane.
It's not even a solution. Seriously, it's nearly 2018 and people are still suggesting disabling Windows Update as a viable solution to anything at all?! If your lack of trust or Microsoft is that deep, then how can you trust your operating system at all? Either use Windows and keep the damn thing updated and out of a botnet that will affect others, or switch to an alternative OS that you do trust.
If you have the Pro version of Windows 10, you can trivially delay the installation of major updates for up to six months, which is plenty of time for MS to get the bugs ironed out. With Microsoft in general (and Windows 10 in particular), either you're in and constantly-updated, or you're left behind and unsecured. I can understand people not liking that, but that's the way Windows works these days, so forget bad pseudo-solutions and either sign up or log out and move to MacOS, Linux, BSD, Android...
A much better option is to go with Firefox ESR, currently at version 52.4.1. I've installed it everywhere on all my Windows and Linux machines - it's guaranteed to be stable and supported until June 2018, which hopefully will be enough time for the new Firefox to stabilize (or worst-case scenario, give me enough time to find an alternative).
One warning though - it may be difficult to move your Firefox profile from 56 to 52, as from 54 onward Mozilla messed up some backwards compatibility in preparation for 57.
Not sure I'd want one, but at least they're making a decent effort to be innovative. For the last 10 years all phone companies have been doing is trying to make a "better iPhone" (as in the 2007 original).
But they can revoke it, can't they? An embarrassing screw-up, but no harm done. It's not as if the Adobe security team's credibility was particularly stellar to begin with...:)
The Drive app is replaced by the "backup and sync" app which does EXACTLY the same thing (plus you can sync directories other than the "Google Drive" one). It has a different icon and name, but it is basically an update, a version 2.0. The functionality is not "going away", if you install the new program is removes and replaces the old one, you don't even need to login again, everything is carried over.
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Why is this presented as being bad? There's a question of quality over quantity, the move to 64-bit has cleared out ancient crap. I doubt that there are more than a few thousand apps which are not completely worthless, 2 million is insane.
>> it's not a pretty solution
It's not even a solution. Seriously, it's nearly 2018 and people are still suggesting disabling Windows Update as a viable solution to anything at all?! If your lack of trust or Microsoft is that deep, then how can you trust your operating system at all? Either use Windows and keep the damn thing updated and out of a botnet that will affect others, or switch to an alternative OS that you do trust.
If you have the Pro version of Windows 10, you can trivially delay the installation of major updates for up to six months, which is plenty of time for MS to get the bugs ironed out. With Microsoft in general (and Windows 10 in particular), either you're in and constantly-updated, or you're left behind and unsecured. I can understand people not liking that, but that's the way Windows works these days, so forget bad pseudo-solutions and either sign up or log out and move to MacOS, Linux, BSD, Android...
A much better option is to go with Firefox ESR, currently at version 52.4.1. I've installed it everywhere on all my Windows and Linux machines - it's guaranteed to be stable and supported until June 2018, which hopefully will be enough time for the new Firefox to stabilize (or worst-case scenario, give me enough time to find an alternative).
One warning though - it may be difficult to move your Firefox profile from 56 to 52, as from 54 onward Mozilla messed up some backwards compatibility in preparation for 57.
Not sure I'd want one, but at least they're making a decent effort to be innovative. For the last 10 years all phone companies have been doing is trying to make a "better iPhone" (as in the 2007 original).
You've got to be willing to look yourself in the mirror and say I was wrong...
So can we get the headphone jack on our iPhones back?
They missed one...
But they can revoke it, can't they? An embarrassing screw-up, but no harm done. It's not as if the Adobe security team's credibility was particularly stellar to begin with... :)
The Drive app is replaced by the "backup and sync" app which does EXACTLY the same thing (plus you can sync directories other than the "Google Drive" one). It has a different icon and name, but it is basically an update, a version 2.0. The functionality is not "going away", if you install the new program is removes and replaces the old one, you don't even need to login again, everything is carried over.
So, what's the problem?
Bitcoin is a massive gamble, I'm not falling for it!
Tulip bulbs, that's where the smart money is going...