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14 minutes ago, vinifera said:
and without win32 (or 64... whatever you wanna call it now...)
what will power up .net, which is their ultimate next platformic garbage for long time... ?They're OK with killing off .NET at this point. UWP is just their next "fad" API. It started off with MSHTML and ActiveX, then they started pushing .NET. Now they're pushing UWP instead.
Ironically enough, the one thing that was around throughout all these fads was pure win32. It shipped with Windows 95, and you still (for now) can write a pure win32 application for Windows 10 without any ActiveX, .NET, or UWP garbage.
Win32 is probably the longest lasting currently supported API in the history of graphical computing. A vast majority of the worlds desktop applications are written in it, killing it off entirely will be a BAD move.
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8 minutes ago, JorgeA said:
Microsoft Clarifies How It Will Update Edge With The Windows Store
Two things:
- The stated rationale, that delivering Edge updates through the store makes it possible to deliver features faster, doesn't hold water. Don't know about Chrome, but Firefox releases a new version every six weeks. Microsoft could continue delivering Edge improvements on Patch Tuesday as they have been, and that's a faster monthly cycle than FF's 6-week cycle.
- Therefore, this new policy comes off as a further attempt to draw people into the Windows Store. There's no particular reason to deliver Edge updates via the store.
--JorgeA
Not only that, only the UI gets updated from the store. The rendering engine still gets updated with Windows Update, so this new store update model has no real benefit to end users.
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19 hours ago, jaclaz said:
Naah, marketing is (mostly) harmless
, AI will be the thing that will drive the next near-extinction, coincidentally:
(from the same people that brought to you Tay, the long lived Twitter bot )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
jaclazYou know, I find it very important that Microsoft is spending so much time and money on stuff like AI research and holographic glasses, especially since they have extra money to throw around now that their entire QA division has been laid off. Isn't it great that they are thinking about the distant future so much while their current product is broken in too many ways to count and they're not planning on fixing it in the present?
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On 9/19/2016 at 1:20 PM, dencorso said:
True. But that's beside the point, here, because NT-OSes are modular OSes by nature.
Right, but the original Windows NT was designed back when Microsoft actually put thought into how they developed their operating systems. Now with Windows 10, they seem to only want to work with one singular codebase. One update modifying everything, nowhere near the modularity of the past. Any modularity remaining is just left over from the original NT architecture.
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8 hours ago, NoelC said:
There's a setting that can turn the App universe black. I find it preferable for Settings, which is the only App I run.
I'm curious: does this dark mode setting have any effect on win32 applications like the old DESK.CPL did?
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1 hour ago, jaclaz said:
Peter Bright seems like trying to convince us that after all the MS flawed approach to updates could be fixed by using the Google Chrome or Mozilla approach:
Either he has not re-read his article after having written it or he is intentionally failing at it.
A whole OS is very, VERY different from a browser, and an approach (which BTW it is not IMHO particularly good ) for the latter SURELY cannot be adopted for the former.
jaclaz
Yeah, my favorite part is
QuoteNone of this is excusable. I wrote last Friday that issues like the webcam problem would "inevitably recur" due to the problems of Microsoft's current testing regime: lack of internal testing (the people who did this were laid off); Insiders not testing on real systems (because they're advised not to use it on their primary PCs); and Insiders tending to give poor feedback (they're not professional testers, and Microsoft's very weak release notes give no indication of what things have been changed and hence need testing in the first place).
MS laid off their QA department, and is now wondering why there are all these issues?
For this browser-type update model to even have an attempt at working (which it won't) you need to have a lot of professional testers, as the stakes are much higher when you need to push out these updates so rapidly. So MS attempts this by laying off their QA department and using external testers that probably have little to no experience with development, let alone OS development?
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2 hours ago, NoelC said:
Mark my words, they'll remove the ability to disable it after claiming telemetry showed most people didn't turn it off.
-Noel
Exactly, it's a catch-22. User turns telemetry off, since telemetry is disabled, no data is being sent to MS about telemetry being disabled, MS doesn't see any data regarding telemetry being disabled, MS removes option to disable telemetry.
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13 hours ago, jaclaz said:
And now, "paid browsing"
Those not in the US might need to use a US based proxy:
https://www.bing.com/explore/rewards-browse-and-earn
The combination of Edge and Bing is so successful that the good MS guys need to "bribe" users in order to have them use the new wonderful browser and search engine ...
jaclaz
I wonder if you can cheat this by using a Win10/Edge UA string on any browser and OS.
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39 minutes ago, JorgeA said:
The biggest Windows news of the year: the Windows 10 update model is being ported to Windows 7 and 8.1:
Win7 and 8.1 to get cumulative updates – you no longer control your Win7 or 8.1 machine
Based on whose feedback, exactly? I have seen NO groundswell of people clamoring to lose the ability to decline or ignore Windows Updates that could wreak havoc on their machines. Especially in light of Microsoft's increasingly erratic performance with respect to the monthly patches, this decision is incomprehensible.
The notice, as reported by Woody, is itself confusing. In one paragraph it states that there will be a monthly rollup including both security and reliability issues, and then just three paragraphs later it says that there will "also" be a "single Security-only update." So which is it -- security+reliability, or security only? A single rollup, or two "single" rollups?
September may be the last month that my Windows 7 systems are allowed to get updates from Microsoft.
Maybe, just maybe, my Vista and XP POSReady systems will be spared this insanity.
--JorgeA
I have no idea how to respond to this without using choice words, so I'm just going to post a picture of my cat.
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9 hours ago, cc333 said:
This makes me want to stay on XP and 7 indefinitely, although I will try out 8.1 to see if I can stand it, since it has a few more years before EOS than 7 does.
By the way, I just got 20 (allegedly legitimate) product keys for XP Pro x64, so I ought to be good for awhile.
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Where did you get these and for how much? If the source is still around, I would love to get a few of them.
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RETROZILLA STATUS UPDATE:
OK, after a few weeks I had to take off due to various offline issues, I'm back to working on RetroZilla. I recently got an SSD in the laptop that I use to work on RZ, so I can now compile the whole thing in about 15-20 minutes (down from about an hour), which will allow for faster development. But of course, with every step forward, we must go two steps backward. I recently found out that Mozilla shut down MXR, the main site for looking through and searching the Mozilla source code, past and present versions. DXR, the replacement, is a major learning curve from MXR, and the search function is a major regression from MXR. Not to mention all of the broken links to MXR.
On 7/31/2016 at 9:58 PM, danikayser84 said:This is an excellent project so far, I've run it on an old IBM ThinkPad (Pentium II 400) on 95 OSR2, seems to run better than my modded Opera 10.63
Wonder if once Firefox drops XP/Vista support we might see a project similar to TenFourFox (for PPC Macs) to continue support on Windows 2000/XP/Vista as well? Sadly even Firefox 3.6 under KernelEx is starting to become rather useless IME, but it's always nice to see old OSes alive and well
I honestly don't think that Firefox will drop XP/Vista support anytime soon. Google Chrome did because, well, Google. They're known to drop support for older, but perfectly capable, technologies. The latest versions of Firefox are built using MSVC 2015, which is both the latest version and supports XP targets. The reason why Windows 9x and 2000 support was dropped was because the version of MSVC they're using dropped support for 9x/2k targets. I can see at least another 2-3 years of XP/Vista support.
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On 8/7/2016 at 1:02 PM, JorgeA said:
For a while, it was said of Windows 98 that it had actually become safer to use online than more recent versions of Windows, the theory being that so few people were using it that it the bad guys didn't bother writing malware for it.
Assuming that that was true, maybe the same thing will happen eventually with XP, Vista, and 7.
--JorgeA
It is possible that it would work out that way, but I find it extremely unlikely. XP, Vista, and 7 are built on Windows NT, which 8 and 10 are also built on, so the OSes share much of the same or similar core code. Once an exploit is found in windows 10 and is made known, it can be applied back to XP, hell even all the way to NT4, easily. There are issues being patched now that date all the way back to 1997, and in some cases, earlier. The difference with the situation with Windows 98 is that Win95/98/Me was built on the Windows 9x/DOS kernel, so when an exploit was found in XP, there was a greater chance that it didn't apply to Windows 98.
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So today's the day...
- Will Microsoft disable the Windows 10 nagware?
- Will every Windows 7/8.1 machine mysteriously "upgrade" in the span of the next 24 hours?
- Will a paywall be installed on top of the existing nagware?
- Will MS cave and extend the "upgrade" offer?
Only time will tell.
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4 hours ago, Kippykip said:
Try having a look in device manager as it might come up as "Unknown device" or something similar. If it is, you could try pointing the new driver to wherever the Dell sound drivers were extracted.
The drivers for both the internal speakers and the USB card are installed and working. I tried the USB card in another Win2k machine, using the exact same driver, and it works fine. The internal speakers are using the driver from Dell and are installed perfectly. Both drivers show up under Sound Devices in DM and show no errors or exclamation points. It's showing the same symptoms as an XP box with "Windows Audio" service not started, but Win2k doesn't have the Windows Audio service.
Edit: I forgot to mention that I have USP5 and UUR installed.
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I installed a fresh copy of 2000 on a Dell Latitude D630 (official Win2k drivers available) and for the life of me, I can't get the audio to work. I thought it was just a driver/hardware issue, but the issue also persists to my USB soundcard device, which works perfectly fine on another Windows 2000 machine using the same driver. All the options in "Sounds and Multimedia" => "Audio" are disabled. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
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I'm pretty sure everyone that's still on Windows 7 or 8.1 is aware of the Windows 10 "upgrade" by this point, they just choose not to install it.
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1 minute ago, JorgeA said:
Confirmed: Only Microsoft Edge will play Netflix content at 1080p on your PC
Reports down in the comments section:--JorgeA
QuoteI'm sure all browsers are technically capable of 1080p streaming. This appears as if Microsoft paid Netflix to have it disabled on all other browsers just to make Edge look better. A marketing ploy; not a technical limitation. Nope, still not switching to Edge.
This one is especially interesting, because even on XP, both Firefox and Chrome can handle 1080p YouTube streams. (both HTML5 and Flash players)
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9 hours ago, TELVM said:
Who'd have thought?:
Microsoft: Windows 10 won't hit 1 billion devices by mid-2018
It didn't take Nostradamus to predict that one.
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14 hours ago, JorgeA said:
Microsoft confirms Windows 10 and Surface subscriptions are on their way
How the hell do you subscribe to physical hardware?
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3 hours ago, NoelC said:
Many decades ago the pundits predicted Unix would ultimately be The One that would take over..
Personally I think the ex-DEC basis for Windows NT is better, architecturally. I can only imagine another derivative of Mr. Cutler's kernel might ultimately rise again after Microsoft drives theirs into the ground (and that's pretty much a foregone conclusion given what they're doing with Win 10
). I can't be the only one to think this.
-Noel
I definitely think that ReactOS has potential. I have messed around with it in VMs, and FWIW it's pretty good.
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Kind of off topic, but I think this sums up nuMS perfectly:
Microsoft invites ‘bae’ interns to ‘get lit’ on ‘lots of dranks,’ then apologizes — again
QuoteIn the gamut of things Microsoft has had to apologize for lately, including a racist chatbot and sexy dancers, this might be one of the strangest: The company sent an email inviting interns to a party that begins: “Hey Bae Intern! <3’‘ and gets worse from there, offering “lots of dranks’‘ and the ability to “get lit on a Monday night.’‘
If that’s not alluring enough to the young folk, there’s also the promise of beer pong and “hella noms” (If you’re over 40, try www.urbandictionary.com to translate).
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52 minutes ago, JorgeA said:
Arguably, this trend first popped up in XP, at least in a visual-design sense. I remember people back then complaining about the colorful "chiclet" window controls and the overall "Fisher-Price" look of the default theme.
Vista then turned things in the direction of elegance, while 7 toned the beauty down a bit. And then it all really started to fall apart with 8.
--JorgeA
At least with XP, Vista, and 7 you had the option to fall back to Classic if you didn't like the theme they provided. With 8 and 10, you're stuck with their ugly idea of how an OS should look.
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5 hours ago, NoelC said:
For those who don't already have it bookmarked:
http://changewindows.org/overview
Click the vNext box for a bullet summary of what's coming out in the anniversary release of Win 10.
-Noel
I went through the entire vNext list, and outside Ubuntu (cygwin is a thing), NTFS improvements, and changes to OneCore (which I assume is their new metrofied name for Windows NT), none of these changes will benefit users like us. Almost all of the changes involve "apps" or other pointless things like redesigning "emojis".
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On 6/12/2016 at 3:05 PM, pionner said:
How is work going with next version?
Good, I already got cursor:none and content:none added, two simple bugs. I am currently juggling a lot of personal projects, which was a major cause of delay, but I since adopted a new project schedule. Every Wednesday, I will backport one or two bugs to rzGecko, I should have ACID2 (my current goal) by September.
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, AI will be the thing that will drive the next near-extinction, coincidentally:
). I can't be the only one to think this.
Windows 10 - Deeper Impressions
in Windows 10
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That's been gone since Vista.