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 2015-06-07 13:10 (#AKRS) I'd say the ability to control which (and when) updates you want installed is a fairly important one. Especially seeing as how awful QA on recent Microsoft patches has been recently.Then there's the whole "Metro" thing where they strip away your ability to customize the interface (like, say, re-arranging the order of your start menu). The general "dumbing down" of the interface, taking away vital controls and information, is not welcome.POP3 support in a mail client would be nice too. Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 00:03 (#AMKR) Automatic updates will be pushed only for Win home users. Considering that most of Windows users do not have a clue what they are doing, that is probably a good thing. Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 11:41 (#ANGK) Perhaps we will see an increase in the number of everyday users who can implement a null route to force windows update to fail :)
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 2015-06-07 13:10 (#AKRS) I'd say the ability to control which (and when) updates you want installed is a fairly important one. Especially seeing as how awful QA on recent Microsoft patches has been recently.Then there's the whole "Metro" thing where they strip away your ability to customize the interface (like, say, re-arranging the order of your start menu). The general "dumbing down" of the interface, taking away vital controls and information, is not welcome.POP3 support in a mail client would be nice too. Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 00:03 (#AMKR) Automatic updates will be pushed only for Win home users. Considering that most of Windows users do not have a clue what they are doing, that is probably a good thing. Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 11:41 (#ANGK) Perhaps we will see an increase in the number of everyday users who can implement a null route to force windows update to fail :)
Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-07 13:10 (#AKRS) I'd say the ability to control which (and when) updates you want installed is a fairly important one. Especially seeing as how awful QA on recent Microsoft patches has been recently.Then there's the whole "Metro" thing where they strip away your ability to customize the interface (like, say, re-arranging the order of your start menu). The general "dumbing down" of the interface, taking away vital controls and information, is not welcome.POP3 support in a mail client would be nice too. Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 00:03 (#AMKR) Automatic updates will be pushed only for Win home users. Considering that most of Windows users do not have a clue what they are doing, that is probably a good thing. Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 11:41 (#ANGK) Perhaps we will see an increase in the number of everyday users who can implement a null route to force windows update to fail :)
Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 00:03 (#AMKR) Automatic updates will be pushed only for Win home users. Considering that most of Windows users do not have a clue what they are doing, that is probably a good thing. Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 11:41 (#ANGK) Perhaps we will see an increase in the number of everyday users who can implement a null route to force windows update to fail :)
Re: Logic (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-08 11:41 (#ANGK) Perhaps we will see an increase in the number of everyday users who can implement a null route to force windows update to fail :)