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7 minutes ago, seb33190 said:
full glass
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16 minutes ago, seb33190 said:
je ne parle pas anglais
Une possible solution :
https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT#fr/en/Peut-être on peut essayer le Google Translate%3F
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1 hour ago, seb33190 said:
sans Aeroglass , mais juste avec windowblids
I did not realize that WindowBlinds could be used to create a glass effect on window borders.
...BTW, je vous remercie de l'information mais no me parece que haya muchos más socios de este foro que puedan comprender los diez últimos comentarios.
En anglais, s'il vous plaît!
--JorgeA
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Details are starting to come in on the new $7/month Windows 10 Enterprise version:
Microsoft's plan to move more small-business users to Windows 10 Enterprise
QuoteEnterprise E3/E5 users will get a choice of two servicing options. They can be on the Current Branch of Windows 10 Enterprise, which means they will automatically get all security updates plus regular bundles of new features, automatically; or they can be on Current Branch for Business, which gives them between four and eight months to delay their new feature updates. Those on Enterprise E3 cannot opt to be on the Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) via which they will not get new features, just security fixes, for 10 years or so.
[emphasis added]
My first thought was that this was going to be Microsoft's (sneaky) way of steering users into a subscription model: the idea (in my mind) was that some people would gladly pay $7 a month for the option to decline the "feature updates" Microsoft sends down the pipeline. But if this report is true, then there's not even that benefit to the $7/month subscription. So, you can put off for a few months the new features that Microsoft's pushing -- big f#$%ing deal.
--JorgeA
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Woody weighs in on the Win10 Anniversary Update:
10 reasons you shouldn't upgrade to Windows 10Quote8. Privacy concerns are getting worse, not better
Privacy was, and continues to be, a major concern for Windows 10 customers -- particularly for those who aren’t connected to a corporate network. Microsoft has published a metric ton of web pages about its privacy policies and procedures. What they haven’t published is a simple list of the data they collect as part of their ongoing “telemetry” efforts.
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Thanks, den.
Reason I asked is that I just made the switch to IE11 from IE9 on my main Windows 7 machine a few weeks ago, as I got tired of websites not working. (And the reason for using IE is that I visit a number of news sites and they have this annoying "feature" of automatically refreshing themselves, and IE is the only browser that I know can "freeze" a website so that I can read the whole thing without it refreshing and interrupting my reading.)
FWIW, I don't seem to have that KB3146449 installed, unless it's bundled in a later IE cumulative security update. But if so, then (to quote from the KB article) I have not come across any new "functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that lets users learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10." Maybe my Win7 PC doesn't make the cut to be included among those "some computers."
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On Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 7:10 PM, dencorso said:
Since I've decided to remain using IE10 on 7 Ultimate x64 SP1, I'm getting those nags from time to time, so I provide my solution in case it may help others avoid such nags.
Out of curiosity, what do you like about IE10 that you don't like about IE11?
Neat solution BTW.
--JorgeA
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On Friday, July 29, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Mathwiz said:
I just hate "roll-up" updates. Why couldn't Microsoft have addressed each issue with a separate update? That way, even if there are problems with one, you could still install the others.
That's the NuMicrosoft for you, where Windows is being turned into an ad-supported OS and you and I are being changed from the customer into the product. As the product, our convenience and our preferences take a back seat to Microsoft's convenience and preferences.
--JorgeA
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I dunno, this sounds to me like a classic case of projecting current trends into the far future, as if people would not respond accordingly.
We're supposed to have run out of energy, what -- two or three times already? I remember attending a college lecture in 1979-80 by some supposed energy expert who confidently predicted that we'd run out of petroleum before the year 2000. He had the stats and the charts to prove it.
But people (markets, companies, individuals, even governments) do respond to changing conditions and they devise solutions that today's experts cannot even conceive of.
Who knows, maybe by 2040 we will even have overcome this "Internet of Things" urge to put a chip on every freakin' thing that sits in our homes, and the issue will be irrelevant.
--JorgeA
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Microsoft rewards Windows Insiders with exclusive wallpapers, reveals more stats as well
Among those stats, this one stood out for me:
QuoteMicrosoft has also stated that Insiders spent a total of 443 million hours on Windows 10. Keeping in mind that there are roughly 7 million Insiders, this can be calculated to almost 63 hours utilized by each user on average. Additionally, the company also announced that the Program is now available in 30 languages.
This is strange. I wonder (and the Neowin piece doesn't specify) over what period of time those 443 million hours were spent on Win10. "63 hours by each user"? Heck, I spend that -- and more -- at my Vista machine in a single week.
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Here are a few of the many words that that image is worth
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Turns out there was no real last-minute rush to upgrade to Windows 10 for free
QuoteJuly was the last month of Windows 10 being available for free, and that coupled with Microsoft's final aggressive push should have resulted in the operating system being installed on a lot more devices.
NetMarketShare has updated its usage share figures for July and while Windows 10's growth in that month is decent, it's not much different from what we've seen in previous months, which is a little surprising.
In July, Windows 10 grew from 19.14 percent to 21.13 percent, gaining 1.99 percentage points. In comparison, the OS gained 1.71 percentage points in June, and 2.09 percentage points in May.
Now that the GWX campaign is (supposedly) over, it will be interesting, going forward to see what the "natural" rate of Win10 growth is.
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17 minutes ago, Tripredacus said:
Oh that was a setting (nested quote support) that was changed abit ago, but it seems maybe an update changed it. I will check on it again later.
Great, thanks!
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6 hours ago, ralcool said:
Here is my submission... maybe.
Hey, maybe I'll blow that up and get it printed!!
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1 hour ago, Tripredacus said:
No. I'm saying that those links do not work or don't have anything useful on them if they do work.
Stupid board software. Were we still on the previous version, the full context of the conversation would be easily and immediately understood. As it is, we have to jump back and forth and in the process lose the thread (so to speak).
Lacking that useful embedded-quotes feature, let's see if we can sort this out. You'd commented on an article that I'd linked to about more advertising creeping into Windows. Since the context was about ads showing up in Windows, I asked if what you meant was that ads might now be making their way into Windows Updates and Event Viewer. (NoelC had the right follow-up question in the original version of his post just above.)
So, just to make sure -- by "those links," you mean not ads in WU and EV, but the standard sort of stuff that we've been seeing there since Vista and Win7, is that right?
I can't say for Event Viewer because I only go in there occasionally, but for KB pages linked to WU, it's totally the case that the quality of the information has dropped dramatically. Been complaining about it to Microsoft in the KB pages' feedback section for a couple of years now. For all the good that's done.
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All right boys and girls, here's a critical area where Microsoft is eager to listen to you:
Dona Sarkar opens up voting for official Microsoft Windows Insider t-shirt design
Whoo-hoo, I am so excited that I get to have a say in picking a t-shirt design!!!
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12 hours ago, Tripredacus said:
It will be a sad day when all the advertisement links work, but the ones attached to Windows Updates and Event Viewer are still generic or a 404.
Wait a minute -- do you mean to say that Windows Updates (presumably the UI for them) and Event Viewer may be getting ads??
--JorgeA
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Now that the GWX campaign is (supposedly) over, Paul Thurrott does some math on its success:
QuoteLet’s estimate how bad it was. Warning: There will be bad math. Roll with it.
Over the four quarters in which Windows 10 was available, PC makers sold approximately 272 million PCs: 74 million units in Q3 2015, 72 million units in Q4 2015, 63 million units in Q1 2016, and 63 million units in Q2 2016. While it’s not possible to know how many of those PCs shipped with Windows 10—many were corporate devices that were downgraded to Windows 7, I’m sure—let’s guess and say that 50 percent of them are now running Windows 10. So about 135 million.
We know that most but not all Windows 10 devices are PCs. There are about 20 million Xbox Ones, for example. And then we would need to guestimate for phones and other devices. Being charitable, I’ll put that number at 5 million, even though that is a stretch.
This suggests that real human beings upgraded about 215 million PCs to Windows 10 over that first year. Out of 1.5 billion, or out of about 1 billion that were at some point eligible. So 20 percent-ish.
(The math, such as it is. If 135 million PCs sold with Windows 10 preinstalled then we arrive at about 240 million of the roughly 375 million Windows 10 devices being upgrades. But we have to subtract 20 million for Xbox and 5 million for phones/etc., arriving at 215 million. Yes, this is one giant hairball of supposition.)
So even though Microsoft was for some crazy amount of time tricking users into upgrading and then hoping they wouldn’t care enough to complain and/or roll back the system to their previous Windows version, the firm was only able to convince about 1 in 5 people to upgrade. To a free new version of Windows. 1 in 5, or 20 percent.
The "average" Windows user is frequently maligned and looked down upon by more expert users, but the fact that so many of those non-techie users managed to avoid getting Win10 despite Microsoft's aggressive and even deceptive efforts is a tribute to those users' actual level of technical ability. People are more knowledgeable (and are more keenly aware of what they want) than we often give them credit for.
One humorous bit in Paul's analysis:
QuoteBut for those who have held out and stuck with Windows 7—or god help them, Windows 8
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Microsoft: More details on the end of 'Get Windows 10' and what's next
QuoteQ: Will MS still be marking Windows 10 as a recommended update on July 30 to those with Auto Updates turned on? Or will this no longer be the case?
A: The free upgrade offer ends at 11:59 p.m. UTC-10 on July 29, 2016. As such, it will no longer be available as a recommended update through Windows Update. (MJF note: This is the first time Microsoft officials have said this. I've been asking for the past couple of months and they declined to comment.)
Q: Microsoft officials said it will take a while for all the Get Windows 10 prompts to stop showing up. If people running Win 7/8.X see the GWX prompt starting July 30 and click on it, what happens? Will they go to a site suggesting they buy the update?
A: On July 29th the notifications will end. The Get Windows 10 (GWX) application will advise that the free upgrade offer has ended. In time, we will remove the application.
Hallelujah!!
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7 hours ago, 351837 said:
Mark another victory (not!) for the "mobile Windows" model (ugly UI, UWP walled garden).
Logic would suggest desisting from force-feeding a failed phone UI onto desktop users, but then this is Microsoft we're talking about.
Arrogance and stubbornness more than compensate for whatever scores their IQ tests might show.
--JorgeA
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More details about the crippling of Group Policy in the Win10 Pro edition:
More forced advertising creeps into Windows 10 ProQuoteMost disconcerting is the fact that Microsoft has disabled the GPEdit setting in Win10 Pro called Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences. It's located in GPEdit directly below the "Windows tips" entry. The obvious question is, what's a Microsoft consumer experience?
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I can't find an official list of "consumer experiences," but they include a lot of tiles for crapware that's now being installed by Microsoft on new machines. My list is pretty impressive. Here are the crapware app tiles I've seen installed by Microsoft on my test machines, apparently as part of the Windows 10 consumer experience: Candy Crush Soda Saga, Flipboard, Adobe Photoshop Express, iHeartRadio, USA Today, Twitter (the official app), Farmville 2, World of Tanks Blitz, Duolingo, and Pandora. Microsoft's also pushed tiles for its own Minecraft, Get Office, and Solitaire Collection.
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10 hours ago, xpclient said:
There's also FileLocator Lite (free) and FileSearchEX (paid). The latter is a clone of the Windows 2000/classic XP Search UI once the dawg is disabled (Shameless plug: I helped a little bit with FileSearchEX's testing and UX feedback).
Thanks @xpclient and @dencorso for the tips. I'll look into the alternatives you suggested.
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16 hours ago, vinifera said:
lol check out Prism chart from snowden
MS was 1st large company that agreed to it in 2006/07(sorry for word) but they are whores
Yup. They've been one of the biggest contributors to the surveillance state. Not only are they busy entangling their customers in "telemetry" and tracking, but they also helped New York City create its camera network.
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13 hours ago, jaclaz said:
Well, this statement is however accurate
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/3100358/windows/you-cant-turn-off-cortana-in-the-windows-10-anniversary-update.htmlThough it does sounds to me more like a menace than anything else ...
jaclaz
Anybody know of an alternative to Start Menu Search that looks for search terms within files? The utility that the writer mentions there searches only for the names of files and folders.
Of course, one can always resort to Classic Shell. For as long as Microsoft allows it, anyway.
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What Microsoft is taking away from Windows 10 in the Anniversary Update
Few of the things listed there will be missed.
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Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions
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The last two lines basically answer the first one.
IMO, Cortana is one Windows 10 feature that could grow up to become a truly useful assistant, reminding me of appointments and the like -- but only if the information that I gave it were to remain strictly in my possession. That is, nothing going out to Microsoft (or anybody else's) servers. I could see Cortana working then as a glorified Outlook calendar keeper.
I could even see the mobile/synching benefits of having stuff go back and forth between my PC and my phone... but again, puly in the context of a home- (or office-) based cloud service that never went to anybody else's server. No Bing searches, no appointments or travel arrangements recorded by anyone or anything but me and my own equipment. Ain't nobody's business but my own. Let Cortana, if necessary, contact the airline via StartPage or DuckDuckGo.
Otherwise, Cortana is of no interest to me.
--JorgeA