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Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

rumor was that bing devs specifically targeted their image/video search to be used for porno but ive never heard that confirmed

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Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Windows 10 is a consumer OS, with a primary use case as a gaming device and isn’t suitable for mission critical or medial tech.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

And you’ve already checked that you’re not stuck in a purgatorial timeless sea? Are your wall clocks and watches still working?

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

windows 10 is fragile and untested as-is, I wouldn't use those third party scripts like shutup10 to make it even worse

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Raccoon Natural Speed King

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Hola, gracias para participar en El Programa Beta para Windows 10. Por favor espere hasta que el versión definitiva.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Geemer posted:

I just wish these loving graphics designers could make up their minds on what icon style they want. By the time everyone starts (begrudgingly) adopting the new style, they're already outdated and being replaced.
I won't be sad to see Windows 10's "extremely plain rectangles with no discerning features other than way too much blank space" theme go, though.

lol I doubt it's the graphic designers making the decisions. it's more like the boring, soul-sucking MS higher ups in marketing/relations, who meticulously track the public's perception pendulum of flat design VS 3d and other poo poo that drains the life out of the final product.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Nice! Looking forward to installing around October!

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

disabling indexing after every fresh windows install was the cornerstone of my youth

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Godspeed beta testers.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

I think they mean that 1909 is now out of testing phase and should be considered fairly stable.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Klyith posted:

1909 was a glorified update rollup, you didn't need to wait this long.

For this one, return to your preferred level of caution for delays.

Nah I'm good, thanks.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Mr Shiny Pants posted:

For me the pinnacle of UI design was IOS before the flatness craze. The thing that speaks volumes about how stupid the whole UI stuff has become is pasting a telephone number in the IOS dialer. You have no clue that there is a text input field or that you can paste something in. It is just totally stupid.

Speaking of speaking volumes, it took them five years to "solve" the volume indicator not being in the way of content in iOS, when lo and behold iOS 6 and below had it solved by the volume adjustment overlay and icon just being "transparent" and not a giant full screen frosted glass nightmare that you couldn't see through.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Oh yeah, I joke that the latest release of Windows 10 is still in beta testing, but seriously, don't install it until right around the time the next release comes out if you value stability and important things that involve "storage" that tend to get wiped out in Windows 10 upgrades.

Wait until they've worked out the issues before jumping on. Unless you're brave and/or the machine is just a gaming machine or something.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

GreenNight posted:

Nope, it'll be cake and everything will migrate over. You won't lose anything.

Fingers crossed!

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

BaseballPCHiker posted:

Just got a new laptop for the wife and did a complete format and re-image with 10.

Holy poo poo Microsoft is really going out of there way to make this the most annoying OS yet. If my wife didnt need/want a local copy of office I would've installed Mint or Ubuntu or something on it instead.

It's gotten pretty bad, but not quite Ubuntu or Mint bad yet.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Statutory Ape posted:

unironically w10 is the best PC os ever, imho

it has problems but lol

lol

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Good point, I mean uppdating Linux through major releases has always been a crapshoot: it's easy to break something critical and wind up in a command prompt with no desktop environment.

Windows updates wipe data and settings regularly which is arguably worse 'cause you can probably fix up your Ubuntu install somehow, but recovering data from an SSD or an encrypted drive might be a lot more damaging.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Windows 2004 is still in beta testing, please don’t run it on production hardware yet

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

I still replace the slow as poo poo ugly start menu Lol

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Windows 10 was actually a shitshow for a good chunk of time in my experience. Anyone remember the early days when the start menu just didn't open when clicking start? Now it's just slow, but wow that was annoying.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

I use my Pi-Hole to block that telemetry traffic and hoo boy there's a lot of it.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

MikusR posted:

If I call somebody, they don't answer and I continue calling every couple minutes until they do. In my phone log it would look like I make many calls, but actually its a single phone call I am trying to make.

Yeah and if you're repeatedly calling like that, you're a creep.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Bing up you're rear end in a top hat

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Combat Pretzel posted:

I half expect them to bypass the default DNS now, too.

If they did that, I'd actually consider that a threat.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Fruits of the sea posted:

MS already got their hand slapped once for anti-competitive practices. It didn’t do much, but it’s about time they got another anti-trust suit for sneaking edge and Skype into updates :getin:

Lol yeah, big tech companies are going to be regulated . this isdefinitely a thing that's going to happen for sure

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Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Combat Pretzel posted:

I have no idea what the gently caress Microsoft did, but after the latest patch Tuesday, my system both idles and runs* 30W lower than before. :confused:

(*: browsing, watching Youtube and menial poo poo)

--edit: Nevermind, the update biased the balanced power plan to Best Energy Savings.

Windows does like to reset settings like this. I wish it wouldn’t

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