Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-06 10:16 (#AHVZ) Windows 8 has tanked so badly Microsoft is giving away its next OS to millions of people for free, and they decide to go with it over Chrome? Wow. On the other side, obviously they missed the recent announcements about what has been stripped out in Windows 10. Re: Logic (Score: 1) by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2015-06-07 04:37 (#AK4H) As far as I know the only things that really have been stripped out are Windows Media Center, DVD playback, gadgets and some games. The other stripped-out stuff can be downloaded separately (games or floppy drivers for example).Media center can be easily replaced by several alternatives (XBMC for example), VLC will do the DVD player.Unless I missed something, I am missing your point. Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 11:37 (#ANGJ) I just built a test machine with updates enabled. It borked itself on the first two machines. Twice. Two screwups from a base install. Only on the third go did it actually work correctly. Microsoft updates are a nightmare. I have been nutted by updates in the past on Windows 7 and XP. Forced updates? Can anyone else hear millions of people scream as they watch their pc crash? I hope everyone in the world can handle a few hundred MB when the net is turned on.
Re: Logic (Score: 1) by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2015-06-07 04:37 (#AK4H) As far as I know the only things that really have been stripped out are Windows Media Center, DVD playback, gadgets and some games. The other stripped-out stuff can be downloaded separately (games or floppy drivers for example).Media center can be easily replaced by several alternatives (XBMC for example), VLC will do the DVD player.Unless I missed something, I am missing your point. Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 11:37 (#ANGJ) I just built a test machine with updates enabled. It borked itself on the first two machines. Twice. Two screwups from a base install. Only on the third go did it actually work correctly. Microsoft updates are a nightmare. I have been nutted by updates in the past on Windows 7 and XP. Forced updates? Can anyone else hear millions of people scream as they watch their pc crash? I hope everyone in the world can handle a few hundred MB when the net is turned on.
Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 11:37 (#ANGJ) I just built a test machine with updates enabled. It borked itself on the first two machines. Twice. Two screwups from a base install. Only on the third go did it actually work correctly. Microsoft updates are a nightmare. I have been nutted by updates in the past on Windows 7 and XP. Forced updates? Can anyone else hear millions of people scream as they watch their pc crash? I hope everyone in the world can handle a few hundred MB when the net is turned on.