The fundamental problem is that few US citizens are motivated to attain high levels of education, and to earn their wages / wealth by contributing to society, rather than living off subsidies doled out by the guvment.
A related problem is the high debts incurred in the process of getting educated, thereby creating wage slaves.
Another less fundamental problem is that the dollar is artificially high, and kept there by vested interests. If the market value of the dollar reflects its true worth, people from India will neither be motivated to move in to the US, nor supply manpower, because it will yield fewer rupees.
So long as these basic issues are addressed, we will see more of such Hem and Haw, dithering and filibustering, rather than resolution.
When Windows auto-updates go horribly wrong, almost all users blame the h/w vendor, not Microsoft. So Lenovo uses this BIOS trick to protect their reputation. Why is this being depicted as malicious behaviour?
Idiot. The problem occurs when there are orphaned SIDs in the registry and no real users corresponding. Happens every time in a domain attached PC with Active Directory in every single corporate network. So about let's say 30% of the cases.
Roughly 10 million machines with the problem. Very good I say!
1. We will not make hardware, we only write operating system software, so applications can run.
2. Our OS runs on many hardware configs., so many many applications run on our desktops
3. We own the desktop. We are on a billion devices, but we still don't make h/w, yet we still get to decide how h/w should be built for Windows. We can break h/w, h/w drivers, updates if we choose to. We don't care the OS is insecure, 'cos we are on a billion boxes, and that's all that matters.
4. Oh! So you turn off updates, so we can't force patch our buggy OS? You gave us a bad rep. in the market? Here... Take this 'free' upgrade, and you can't stop my forced updates. We get to a billion devices again.
5. Oh, the forced updates eat your bandwidth, infinite loops crashes??? Your bad... thanks for being our valuable beta tester.
6. What? You're running away to Ubuntu or Fedora to get stuff done? Boo...hooo, why does no one think of me, the great Microsoft? I'm giving you the OS for free, you still don't want it... boo..hooo!!
True, but they were differnt Windows, or rather true Windows. WinCE, Win XP-Embedded, even Win3.11 was available for devices until a few years back.
This Windows10 for Embedded is like WindowsRT for ARM CPUs which was largely abandoned by Microsft themselves, and the hardware was written off for a few billions.
The traditional VB style apps and the huge library of VB plug-ins for devices and peripherals do not wxist in Windows 10 anymore. All device developers have long jumped ship to the Raspberry Pi, and this is MS playing catch up just like in the Android and mobile markets which they lost.
will not make the pig attractive. People working on embedded systems and hobyyist electronics, are already well aware of command line unix and linux, languages like C, C++, Python, shell programming etc. Kids dabbling with these toys know Scratch, Alice. BlueJ Java IDE etc.
None of the above require Windows with or without the hideous UI or built-in anti-virus. The very notion of anti-virus drives hobbyists away from Windows, because the hobbyist thinks he is in charge of the toys, and not some uncaring 800lb gorilla.
It would've made sense a decade ago, if VB6 on Embedded Windows ran on these devices. node.js or Python do not need Windows at all. Another entire team at Microsoft wasting their time and money, distracting a few hobbyists and achieving nothing. After a year the whole team will be sacked en-masse, or moved on to other worthless projects.
According to the summary, the Android version of LibreOffice is available. Does it mean I can now edit my docs, spreadsheets and ppts on my smartphone if I want to?
He is still the largest shareholder in the 'Evil' company.
He still has the power to set right the source code of Windows, so as to completely remove any necessity of running any anti-virus software, just like on Linux PCs and Macs. Around 2 billion devices are said to be running Windows, so this single "Good Deed" alone will result in energy savings of atleast 2000 MWhrs per day.
But Bill will not do that. Instead he will criticise governments and pay lip service to poverty alleviation and the Press will lap it up, and declare him as Better than God!
The 'call taxi' market, as it is called here in India, is fractured and ripe for disruption. Unions in taxis are very weak. People here do not value privacy over saving a few rupees. RedBus and TicketGoose have made it big in bus reservations. Uber will tie up with Microsoft and Google to plunder the call taxi market.
I helped write taxi dispatch s/w for 3 firms, and I feel Uber will drive out Ola, TaxiForSure and other fringe players...
The editions for which "Free" upgrade options have been provided, Microsoft makes money by seling your data, and ensuring you don't run away to Linux. If you want all these controls and fancy stuff, you must pay about $800 for a copy., and get Enterprise edition.
Malware has given a very bad name to Microsoft. This is because of the immense, needless complexity in the so-called OS which contains linkages to non-essential things for an OS. Like the browser, Office, Email client, device drivers, etc. Even Enterprise users are afraid to apply latest patches due to stability issues.
But Enterprise users usually have firewalls in place, so atleast for them, MS provides complicated round-about methods to bypass snooping. To fix the malware problem permanently, Microsoft will have to reveal source code and truly give full vontrol to the users of their software. Neither of these will happen. So the control is with hardware vendors who have to write device drivers, and malware writers who have figured out the chinks anyway.
Thus MS is now in a race of continuously patching their shoddy OS, at your expense, your bandwaidth and your privacy. Live with it. Or go to another OS that runs on PC hardware, aka Linux. Or get a Mac for twice the price and half the funstionality and features. Or shut up and put up with Microsoft.
The only things holding back people to Windows, I thought - IE and VB style client server apps. There are still ao many websites, specially banking and so-called inhouse web apps that rely on ActiveX and Craptive things on the Windows Ecosystem. So with Edge, the intrwebs will be forced to support a standards-compliant browser on the Windows desktop. Very good.
Once that is complete, the only reason for Windows on the desktop will be gone, and browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Opera - which are all standards-compliant, more so than IE at any rate; will become first class citizens again. And there will be nothing to hold back Linux in the Enterprises which have moved on from VB crap.
the most obvious solution is to uninstall third party driver management and hand it all over to Windows Update to avoid clashes.
This is neither obvious nor desirable, never a solution. Windows is an OS written by Microsoft. Generally, Microsoft makes no hardware, yet, the OS runs on hardware.
So the obvious solution is for MS to publish and adhere to standards for device drivers interfacing and integrating with the OS, and keep shut. Otherwise, Microsoft should be the sole mfr. of all hardware that is supported by and on Windows.
H/w vendors aim to make money by making their products superior - faster, better resolution / frame rate / quality etc. So they tend to keep their innovations private. If MS demands all h/w mfrs to send their code to Seattle and get it certified for every version and release, the vendors would be afraid of backstabbing, and code, architecture, design reaching their competitors.
So only obvious way is to release a standards compliance OS and keep shut. Or else, like Linux, MS can open source their OS and allow the distribution makers to bundle the OS, h/w, appln s/w, printer drivers and updates to all of them. Or else MS must put up and shut up while ambitious companies like NVidia, Samsung etc. try to innovate..
Question: Who owns the device drivers for hardware?
In the Linux world, the h/w vendor publishes specs, or conforms to standards, so the kernel guys write drivers and merge it. The distributors like RedHat keep sending updated drivers.
In the Windows World, Microsoft seems to have deep distrust of h/w vendors, despite not making any hardware by themselves. MS does not enjoy any h/w vendor having control of the OS internals, but such control is essential for the h/w to work.
If MS published interface or device driver standards, and adhered to them, then again the device mfrs wouldn't have issues. But MS keeps changing WDDM, DirectX and other interfaces, very often and without prior notice to h/w guys.
Atleast in Linux, if somebody wanted to use a display h/w with just some poor standard such as VESA without any fancy acceleration stuff, they can get it without instability and proprietary shims and stuff. Windows users are doomed by design.
you might as well upgrade Ubuntu while you're you are contributing to the reversal of society.
You mean upgrading to Windows 10 contributes to progress in society? Thanks. I understand you are in some call center helping terrified people with their nightmarish Windows 10 upgrades, in the name of progress.
Oh... so you mean those who work need to stay updated on "Experiments" installing an operating system on a bloody hardware? I'm getting my work done on my Ubuntu14 desktop, thank you.
Please get the latest updates on when the first Windows 10 RTM version came out, when the release of RTM versions was stopped, when it was restarted, how Windows 10 installed on old hardware, how it gets installed on current hardware etc. etc. Too much work it seems. Might as well stay in the basement... than risk getting stuck with garbage operating systems that gets in the way of getting work done.
I guess MS still strongly feels this site gets so many eyeballs so it is worth relentless ads brazenly disguised as stories or Experiments... so inspire of Troll mods the site is worth defending...
I feel the execution was very well managed. Nokia was a failing and falling company, its biggest asset was the IP. Microsoft got hold of the IP for cheap, and used that to negotiate royalty bearing patent licenses with Android device makers. They pretended to make Windows Nokia phone 'cos otherwise they'd be accused of being NonPracticingEntities.
So now MS makes more money from Android phones than all Android mfrs put together.
And then Nokia is now executed along with Elop. Mission accomplished.
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unless they chicken out, like Edgar Villaneuva in Venezuela etc.
Stay with Windows7. You ain't losin' nothin'.
Not the symptom or its manifestation.
The fundamental problem is that few US citizens are motivated to attain high levels of education, and to earn their wages / wealth by contributing to society, rather than living off subsidies doled out by the guvment.
A related problem is the high debts incurred in the process of getting educated, thereby creating wage slaves.
Another less fundamental problem is that the dollar is artificially high, and kept there by vested interests. If the market value of the dollar reflects its true worth, people from India will neither be motivated to move in to the US, nor supply manpower, because it will yield fewer rupees.
So long as these basic issues are addressed, we will see more of such Hem and Haw, dithering and filibustering, rather than resolution.
And make him find more exploits and publish them. But too late for GooglePlus that's doomed now.
When Windows auto-updates go horribly wrong, almost all users blame the h/w vendor, not Microsoft. So Lenovo uses this BIOS trick to protect their reputation. Why is this being depicted as malicious behaviour?
http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
The problem was reported Aug 5, and it's gotten worse as on even date, with another patch creating more problems succeeding it.
Where did you get your 'fixed in 24 hours' story from, bro?
Idiot. The problem occurs when there are orphaned SIDs in the registry and no real users corresponding. Happens every time in a domain attached PC with Active Directory in every single corporate network. So about let's say 30% of the cases.
Roughly 10 million machines with the problem. Very good I say!
Microsoft's saga on desktops went like this:
1. We will not make hardware, we only write operating system software, so applications can run.
2. Our OS runs on many hardware configs., so many many applications run on our desktops
3. We own the desktop. We are on a billion devices, but we still don't make h/w, yet we still get to decide how h/w should be built for Windows. We can break h/w, h/w drivers, updates if we choose to. We don't care the OS is insecure, 'cos we are on a billion boxes, and that's all that matters.
4. Oh! So you turn off updates, so we can't force patch our buggy OS? You gave us a bad rep. in the market? Here... Take this 'free' upgrade, and you can't stop my forced updates. We get to a billion devices again.
5. Oh, the forced updates eat your bandwidth, infinite loops crashes??? Your bad... thanks for being our valuable beta tester.
6. What? You're running away to Ubuntu or Fedora to get stuff done? Boo...hooo, why does no one think of me, the great Microsoft? I'm giving you the OS for free, you still don't want it... boo..hooo!!
True, but they were differnt Windows, or rather true Windows. WinCE, Win XP-Embedded, even Win3.11 was available for devices until a few years back.
This Windows10 for Embedded is like WindowsRT for ARM CPUs which was largely abandoned by Microsft themselves, and the hardware was written off for a few billions.
The traditional VB style apps and the huge library of VB plug-ins for devices and peripherals do not wxist in Windows 10 anymore. All device developers have long jumped ship to the Raspberry Pi, and this is MS playing catch up just like in the Android and mobile markets which they lost.
will not make the pig attractive. People working on embedded systems and hobyyist electronics, are already well aware of command line unix and linux, languages like C, C++, Python, shell programming etc. Kids dabbling with these toys know Scratch, Alice. BlueJ Java IDE etc.
None of the above require Windows with or without the hideous UI or built-in anti-virus. The very notion of anti-virus drives hobbyists away from Windows, because the hobbyist thinks he is in charge of the toys, and not some uncaring 800lb gorilla.
It would've made sense a decade ago, if VB6 on Embedded Windows ran on these devices. node.js or Python do not need Windows at all. Another entire team at Microsoft wasting their time and money, distracting a few hobbyists and achieving nothing. After a year the whole team will be sacked en-masse, or moved on to other worthless projects.
According to the summary, the Android version of LibreOffice is available. Does it mean I can now edit my docs, spreadsheets and ppts on my smartphone if I want to?
He is still the largest shareholder in the 'Evil' company.
He still has the power to set right the source code of Windows, so as to completely remove any necessity of running any anti-virus software, just like on Linux PCs and Macs. Around 2 billion devices are said to be running Windows, so this single "Good Deed" alone will result in energy savings of atleast 2000 MWhrs per day.
But Bill will not do that. Instead he will criticise governments and pay lip service to poverty alleviation and the Press will lap it up, and declare him as Better than God!
The 'call taxi' market, as it is called here in India, is fractured and ripe for disruption. Unions in taxis are very weak. People here do not value privacy over saving a few rupees. RedBus and TicketGoose have made it big in bus reservations. Uber will tie up with Microsoft and Google to plunder the call taxi market.
I helped write taxi dispatch s/w for 3 firms, and I feel Uber will drive out Ola, TaxiForSure and other fringe players...
The editions for which "Free" upgrade options have been provided, Microsoft makes money by seling your data, and ensuring you don't run away to Linux. If you want all these controls and fancy stuff, you must pay about $800 for a copy., and get Enterprise edition.
Malware has given a very bad name to Microsoft. This is because of the immense, needless complexity in the so-called OS which contains linkages to non-essential things for an OS. Like the browser, Office, Email client, device drivers, etc. Even Enterprise users are afraid to apply latest patches due to stability issues.
But Enterprise users usually have firewalls in place, so atleast for them, MS provides complicated round-about methods to bypass snooping. To fix the malware problem permanently, Microsoft will have to reveal source code and truly give full vontrol to the users of their software. Neither of these will happen. So the control is with hardware vendors who have to write device drivers, and malware writers who have figured out the chinks anyway.
Thus MS is now in a race of continuously patching their shoddy OS, at your expense, your bandwaidth and your privacy. Live with it. Or go to another OS that runs on PC hardware, aka Linux. Or get a Mac for twice the price and half the funstionality and features. Or shut up and put up with Microsoft.
The only things holding back people to Windows, I thought - IE and VB style client server apps. There are still ao many websites, specially banking and so-called inhouse web apps that rely on ActiveX and Craptive things on the Windows Ecosystem. So with Edge, the intrwebs will be forced to support a standards-compliant browser on the Windows desktop. Very good.
Once that is complete, the only reason for Windows on the desktop will be gone, and browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Opera - which are all standards-compliant, more so than IE at any rate; will become first class citizens again. And there will be nothing to hold back Linux in the Enterprises which have moved on from VB crap.
Good to hear.
the most obvious solution is to uninstall third party driver management and hand it all over to Windows Update to avoid clashes.
This is neither obvious nor desirable, never a solution. Windows is an OS written by Microsoft. Generally, Microsoft makes no hardware, yet, the OS runs on hardware.
So the obvious solution is for MS to publish and adhere to standards for device drivers interfacing and integrating with the OS, and keep shut. Otherwise, Microsoft should be the sole mfr. of all hardware that is supported by and on Windows.
H/w vendors aim to make money by making their products superior - faster, better resolution / frame rate / quality etc. So they tend to keep their innovations private. If MS demands all h/w mfrs to send their code to Seattle and get it certified for every version and release, the vendors would be afraid of backstabbing, and code, architecture, design reaching their competitors.
So only obvious way is to release a standards compliance OS and keep shut. Or else, like Linux, MS can open source their OS and allow the distribution makers to bundle the OS, h/w, appln s/w, printer drivers and updates to all of them. Or else MS must put up and shut up while ambitious companies like NVidia, Samsung etc. try to innovate..
Question: Who owns the device drivers for hardware?
In the Linux world, the h/w vendor publishes specs, or conforms to standards, so the kernel guys write drivers and merge it. The distributors like RedHat keep sending updated drivers.
In the Windows World, Microsoft seems to have deep distrust of h/w vendors, despite not making any hardware by themselves. MS does not enjoy any h/w vendor having control of the OS internals, but such control is essential for the h/w to work.
If MS published interface or device driver standards, and adhered to them, then again the device mfrs wouldn't have issues. But MS keeps changing WDDM, DirectX and other interfaces, very often and without prior notice to h/w guys.
Atleast in Linux, if somebody wanted to use a display h/w with just some poor standard such as VESA without any fancy acceleration stuff, they can get it without instability and proprietary shims and stuff. Windows users are doomed by design.
you might as well upgrade Ubuntu while you're you are contributing to the reversal of society.
You mean upgrading to Windows 10 contributes to progress in society? Thanks. I understand you are in some call center helping terrified people with their nightmarish Windows 10 upgrades, in the name of progress.
I'd rather downgrade myself to barbarism....
"what do you think of Win10" ... maybe it's a cute girl asking.
If a cute girl asks your opinion on Win10, you better find another cute girl who doesn't ask you stupid questions.
Oh... so you mean those who work need to stay updated on "Experiments" installing an operating system on a bloody hardware? I'm getting my work done on my Ubuntu14 desktop, thank you.
Please get the latest updates on when the first Windows 10 RTM version came out, when the release of RTM versions was stopped, when it was restarted, how Windows 10 installed on old hardware, how it gets installed on current hardware etc. etc. Too much work it seems. Might as well stay in the basement... than risk getting stuck with garbage operating systems that gets in the way of getting work done.
I guess MS still strongly feels this site gets so many eyeballs so it is worth relentless ads brazenly disguised as stories or Experiments... so inspire of Troll mods the site is worth defending...
We don't want no stinking Windows10 stories. Submitters, editors... leave us nerds alone.
the execution was mismanaged
I feel the execution was very well managed. Nokia was a failing and falling company, its biggest asset was the IP. Microsoft got hold of the IP for cheap, and used that to negotiate royalty bearing patent licenses with Android device makers. They pretended to make Windows Nokia phone 'cos otherwise they'd be accused of being NonPracticingEntities.
So now MS makes more money from Android phones than all Android mfrs put together.
And then Nokia is now executed along with Elop. Mission accomplished.
Now we wait for the RTFM version so we can start screaming obscenities.
Last 3 patches since October have all been nuisance to sysadmins. Time to look elsewhere.