That you cant cancel, is a mandatory update. This has to be illegal. A popup that you cant get rid of, barring doing what they say to do, and even if you don't you still get it. Why bother asking? This i can see ending in a lawsuit.
Fuck you microsoft. Fuck you in the ass you sacks of shit.
There are a few reasons. Its not very polished, one screen is classic windows small font, the next screen sometimes even in the same app is the large baby font touch screen interface. It's extremely inconsistent, switching between visual contexts that are glaringly different.
Microsoft have broken the right click context rule. Right click your current wireless connection and you get nothing. You have to left click it. Yet other UI elements are right clickable.
A lot of shit breaks, especially printers. Holy crap adding printers to Windows 10 is a nightmare. Windows 10 tries to be intelligent and ignores your suggestions for drivers and names. Set up a new printer, and you give it a custom name, it comes as something different. This is a bit issue with WSD devices.
The printing subsystem is broken as hell starting in 8 and still a problem. An example is one company i do work for has "department IDs" for tracking printing. Print from an office program you are fine. Print from edge or any other native windows 10 app, and windows totally ignores the department ID, and gives you no way to add it. It simply doesn't print at all. No error. Just wont print.
Removal of safe mode?? you cant press F8 to change boot options like get into safe mode? What the fuck of all things would they remove that?
Lack of choices. At lot of screens just have "ok" on them. You cant cancel, you cant close, you will DO what microsoft says you will DO, or you stop work. Its that simple. Windows is.. was a multitasking operating system, yet your entire workflow comes to a halt because of something like a windows update, "microsoft is adding features" or a variety of other un-admissible bullshit that just stops you using your computer.
Lets break things. Lets totally break the guest account, so you can no longer share files or your printers. What are you going to do, go to a different OS? hah. its microsoft or broke for 90 percent of the world.
And that comes to the crux of the situation. Its no longer your computer. You have to fight to stop ads, suggestions, get your privacy back, you have no choice on which updates and when to install them, or to cancel them because you are running something that absolutely cant be rebooted at 3am, much less all those open files you had with critical information that are now gone because microsoft released a patch that decided to break outlook. (this happened 2 days ago)
Its not your PC anymore. You have no idea what information microsoft is gleaning from you, what they are using it for, what income, what privacy or rights they have to your information because you clicked yes on everything just so you can get back to fucking work so you can pay rent and buy food.
No. Lets install windows 10 with a popup box that treats being closed as ACCEPTANCE after teaching users for over 20 years that clicking close will close the program.
Lets take the goodwill, the muscle memory, the training, the ability to do your job and throw it out the window for a clunky hacked up GUI that any designer would scoff at, while laughing that the irony that microsoft breaks their own GUI design rules at every single turn, then waiting to continue working because the OS decided to reboot while you were working.
I would rather use Windows Vista then 10. Hell windows 8 itself was semi decent with classic shell.
Windows 10 is an abomination of glaring design, privacy and usability issues.
But giving their current behaviour what stops them from doing this? Their GWX is already malware that modified your windows registry against your wishes. There is literally nothing stopping them.
Its now also officially malware, modifying the registry to force you to download something. This is the realm of drive by downloaders and malware authors.
Wow london. You have done it. You have successfully used George Orwell's novel as a template to create the perfect surveillance state. I hope your prime minister is proud of himself.
How is it stealing? Wait is this that geographic bullshit again where if you are in a different country you cant watch a show because of.. reasons? That make absolutely no sense at all? You think they would be happy that people are paying for it..
Look at this, piracy is bad, ok so we pay for it with netflix. now thats bad too.. at any time is the consumer going to win..
The CIA and american government has been doing these things for ages, with absolutely no repercussions, but when one guy does it, its a life sentence? He should have joined the government first.
1. Why arent EXE files blocked by mail servers? Even inside zip files? If you really need to send an exe file by email you need to look at your process. 2. Why are exe files allowed to run from temp directories by default? Microsoft, you need to make it a "chore" to download and run executable files from a mail client. You have to jump through hoops to run executables from a browser, but browsers arent really the hijack vector anymore. 3. Backups. 4. Backups. 5. Backup your machine. Your computer is about to break soon. If you have that mentality you will be good to go. Treat your computer like a tool thats about to break. Keep your backups ready to go.
Anyone see the parallel with the ink cartridge business? See how THAT worked out. People just started to buy printers that didnt need "manufacturer" ink, or just get "chip resetters"
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Sales of IR camera filters skyrocket!
That you cant cancel, is a mandatory update. This has to be illegal. A popup that you cant get rid of, barring doing what they say to do, and even if you don't you still get it. Why bother asking? This i can see ending in a lawsuit.
Fuck you microsoft. Fuck you in the ass you sacks of shit.
There are a few reasons. Its not very polished, one screen is classic windows small font, the next screen sometimes even in the same app is the large baby font touch screen interface. It's extremely inconsistent, switching between visual contexts that are glaringly different.
Microsoft have broken the right click context rule. Right click your current wireless connection and you get nothing. You have to left click it. Yet other UI elements are right clickable.
A lot of shit breaks, especially printers. Holy crap adding printers to Windows 10 is a nightmare. Windows 10 tries to be intelligent and ignores your suggestions for drivers and names. Set up a new printer, and you give it a custom name, it comes as something different. This is a bit issue with WSD devices.
The printing subsystem is broken as hell starting in 8 and still a problem. An example is one company i do work for has "department IDs" for tracking printing.
Print from an office program you are fine. Print from edge or any other native windows 10 app, and windows totally ignores the department ID, and gives you no way to add it. It simply doesn't print at all. No error. Just wont print.
Removal of safe mode?? you cant press F8 to change boot options like get into safe mode? What the fuck of all things would they remove that?
Lack of choices. At lot of screens just have "ok" on them. You cant cancel, you cant close, you will DO what microsoft says you will DO, or you stop work. Its that simple. Windows is.. was a multitasking operating system, yet your entire workflow comes to a halt because of something like a windows update, "microsoft is adding features" or a variety of other un-admissible bullshit that just stops you using your computer.
Lets break things. Lets totally break the guest account, so you can no longer share files or your printers. What are you going to do, go to a different OS? hah. its microsoft or broke for 90 percent of the world.
And that comes to the crux of the situation. Its no longer your computer. You have to fight to stop ads, suggestions, get your privacy back, you have no choice on which updates and when to install them, or to cancel them because you are running something that absolutely cant be rebooted at 3am, much less all those open files you had with critical information that are now gone because microsoft released a patch that decided to break outlook. (this happened 2 days ago)
Its not your PC anymore. You have no idea what information microsoft is gleaning from you, what they are using it for, what income, what privacy or rights they have to your information because you clicked yes on everything just so you can get back to fucking work so you can pay rent and buy food.
No. Lets install windows 10 with a popup box that treats being closed as ACCEPTANCE after teaching users for over 20 years that clicking close will close the program.
Lets take the goodwill, the muscle memory, the training, the ability to do your job and throw it out the window for a clunky hacked up GUI that any designer would scoff at, while laughing that the irony that microsoft breaks their own GUI design rules at every single turn, then waiting to continue working because the OS decided to reboot while you were working.
I would rather use Windows Vista then 10. Hell windows 8 itself was semi decent with classic shell.
Windows 10 is an abomination of glaring design, privacy and usability issues.
You fucking assholes. You are now actually worse then a lot of malware companies.
google for GWX Control Panel
Maybe now i can unblock the entire site from ublock origin! Sourceforge actually being a decent site to download from?
What will happen next?
YET.
But giving their current behaviour what stops them from doing this? Their GWX is already malware that modified your windows registry against your wishes. There is literally nothing stopping them.
Its now also officially malware, modifying the registry to force you to download something. This is the realm of drive by downloaders and malware authors.
Why is it ok that microsoft does this?
Teracopy is your friend here!
Shame it takes a third party to fix something that they should have figured out a good 20 years ago.
Please enable it! Please keep sending us all your activity so you can be more secure!
What?
Wow london. You have done it. You have successfully used George Orwell's novel as a template to create the perfect surveillance state. I hope your prime minister is proud of himself.
Fucking virus writers can write better anti malware programs then the big companies!!
Just like the 2N3055.. Yes, old. but in some cases, absolutely perfect for the job. Usually as linear pass transistors for power supplies :D
How is it stealing? Wait is this that geographic bullshit again where if you are in a different country you cant watch a show because of.. reasons?
That make absolutely no sense at all?
You think they would be happy that people are paying for it..
Look at this, piracy is bad, ok so we pay for it with netflix.
now thats bad too.. at any time is the consumer going to win..
oh i see what i did there.
The consumer is NEVER going to win.
I pay Netflix for NO ads. Now im paying netflix for ads? Why should I do that? I get ads for free from the rest of the internet!
The CIA and american government has been doing these things for ages, with absolutely no repercussions, but when one guy does it, its a life sentence?
He should have joined the government first.
How hard is that.. seriously.
Its the fucking clipper chip fiasco all over again. Doomed to repeat the past....
Does the same apply for other countries who are being attacked by america's cyber soldiers? *cough* NSA?
Mirrors Edge was a satirical poke at an orwellian future, not a fucking blueprint for goverments.
WAS a dystopian future.. WAS.
1. Why arent EXE files blocked by mail servers? Even inside zip files? If you really need to send an exe file by email you need to look at your process.
2. Why are exe files allowed to run from temp directories by default? Microsoft, you need to make it a "chore" to download and run executable files from a mail client. You have to jump through hoops to run executables from a browser, but browsers arent really the hijack vector anymore.
3. Backups.
4. Backups.
5. Backup your machine. Your computer is about to break soon. If you have that mentality you will be good to go. Treat your computer like a tool thats about to break. Keep your backups ready to go.
To protect yourself from malware, litter your system with artefacts that mimic sandboxes and virtual machines :)
Anyone see the parallel with the ink cartridge business?
See how THAT worked out.
People just started to buy printers that didnt need "manufacturer" ink, or just get "chip resetters"
Oh and Chrome, and Media Player Classic HC.