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This isn't news and isn't even related to Windows 10. Skydrive URLS have been formatted this way since it was released and OneDrive is the same. My SkyDrive bookmark I have in IE is from 2010 and has the CID in it. That's true. However, what's new is that millions of Windows users who never had SkyDrive or even a Microsoft account are now being herded into getting one, thus getting one of these vulnerable CIDs. It's something else for Win10 skeptics to point out to people on the fence, and for folks who might be moving to Win10 to consider before making the switch. Let's just say it's another arrow in our quiver. Or, from another perspective, another nail in the coffin. --JorgeA

^^ Touché! --JorgeA

"It's a new kind of tenant farming for everything" (9:59) -- chilling. --JorgeA

Well, well. Not merely does Microsoft claim the right to spy on its Windows 10 users, but it turns out that it's made it possible for others to spy on users too: Your Microsoft Account identifier is stored in plain text, exposing you online Use at your own risk. Don't say you weren't warned. --JorgeA

The Continuum concept makes its debut, and it hasn't exactly bowled over a usually fannish blogger: I'm sorry, Lumia fans, but Microsoft Continuum can't run two apps side-by-side So it's not quite the same thing as running a real PC. Fagioli offers some more of the gory details: His conclusion? The commenters down at the bottom bring up a number of other practical issues: . This Continuum idea is shaping up as another "neither here nor there" approach that'll struggle to find either a purpose or a market. As we've been saying here since 2012, a PC is not a phone and a phone is not a PC. Each serves a different need and requires its own distinct type of interface. --JorgeA

I feared that this would be the case ever since they introduced that gimped Settings app. Now it's pretty much a done deal. Control Panel is a "dead man walking." --JorgeA

It depends on how you look at it: after all, one needs to say "YES" just once... Sounds like the plot to a bad sci-fi movie: if you enter through that portal, you can never come back into the here and now, or perhaps you might succeed in coming back after a long and perilous adventure. --JorgeA

^^ Yup. --JorgeA

And after a reboot, KB3035583 popped up YET AGAIN. What total disregard for customers' choices. How many times do we have to say NO? --JorgeA

Yeah, I've never understood this "modern!/new!!" mentality. Show me that it's better, not that it's different. Excellent example you provided up there. The gradient on the buttons in the left image suggests there's something sticking out that one might push in. But the rectangles in the right image look like just text with an outline around them. "Are they really controls?" As a user, I'm left to guess as to where the functions are. When using software, I'd rather not have to guess. --JorgeA

A hard-hitting piece that I missed from last week: Accepting Microsoft's Windows 10 privacy stance at face value is sheer folly :thumbup As with the Start Button and Menu with Windows 8, the privacy angle may turn out to be Windows 10's undoing. Time will tell as word gets around about its privacy intrusions, and quoting (let alone enforcing) the MSA will only facilitate the decision to skip Win10. --JorgeA

I'm afraid you're right. I have to in order not to . --JorgeA

All right, so my most recent attempt at wordplay seems to have fallen flat (so to speak ). You might even say that I was PUNished for it by the application of complete silence... Here's a more straight-up treatment: Flat Design: Its Origins, Its Problems, and Why Flat 2.0 Is Better for Users --JorgeA

How about that -- a benign (?) protective virus: A viral vigilante may be keeping an eye on your home router --JorgeA

Try this link then http://windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com/ Sorry, I'm not doing well here. I will type it. http://xpexplorer.com/windows10_dpi_blurry_fix/ I downloaded and installed this little program yesterday. It did improve the sharpness of the type, especially at 125%. It's also survived a couple of reboots. The only glitch is that three of the four Windows Gadgets along the right edge of the screen are now slightly further away from the edge than they were before. Only the Clock gadget seems to have stayed where it always was. How to uninstall the program? It doesn't show up in the installed programs list. BTW, has anyone noticed how clunky the Windows 10 font size selector is? If you try to set it anywhere other than at either end of the bar, as soon as you release it it will jump to the nearest end: you can't leave it anywhere in between. What's the point of that? And the only settings available on my laptop are 100% and 125%. Why not just make it a switch then, like the On-Off sliders Win10 uses for so many other settings. --JorgeA

Another blog post on the same subject: Windows 10's growth slows dramatically Surely the timing of the Windows 10 launch is more than offset by the aggressive approach Microsoft has taken to get Win10 installed on existing PCs. Which makes the adoption rate so far rather, um, disappointing. --JorgeA

...and finally, the truth comes out. The culprit for Windows' abandonment of 3D esthetics in favor of the 2D look was revealed this week: --JorgeA

Forget Excel, Photoshop, and all other boring applications intended for (eeew ) serious work in Windows 10. Here's the biggest Win10 news of the year -- Candy Crush Soda Saga is now available on Windows 10 Everything is all right with the world now. I'm going out and getting myself 10 licenses. --JorgeA

Wearing my paranoia hat, I could say the French secret service wouldn't even have to try very hard when most people would use Win10. I can only envision "personalised" updates sent to French citizens that would simply switch certain listening servers to local ones instead of Microsoft's. Easy as a breeze… And then the rest of the world follows suit. A big happy family sharing everything, no secrets. No privacy either, but who cares… Reminds me of Winston Smith at the end of 1984: --JorgeA

^^ Funny you should say that jaclaz, I thought something along the same lines -- "what's that L inside a circle??" EDIT: Well, that's what they get for abandoning "skeuomorphism" so that images no longer resemble what they want to indicate. --JorgeA

I suspect that the steadily climbing dotted line in the OS usage graphs that you've been posting (thanks for the link BTW) represents mostly Linux. But hey, they'll have saved $$$ on their Windows licenses! --JorgeA

I'm pretty sure that the screenshot is from the early '80s film "War Games." I remember that line from the movie. --JorgeA

Please keep us posted on what happens with your request. --JorgeA

Huh, I never knew that virtual desktops were available in Longhorn. I doubt that I'd ever find a use for 'em, but for those who would use them it's kind of neat to know that that abandoned project already had them. --JorgeA

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