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I thought it was. Microsoft LOOOVVESS to copy apple. Apple got stuck in 10.x world and Microsoft wanted in, then now that Apple finally left to 11 and 12 world Microsoft is leaving too. Coincidence? I think not.

Appears that MSFN is back up now! To report back now: Windows 11 was leaked. Almost a 100% possibility of it being Windows 11. It brings a new UI and is codenamed cobalt under co_release. On the 24th we will see its announcement and possible release later this year. It is still version dev (the leaked build is 21996.1) so it is most likely not 21996. Windows 11 also features many new changes like a new hotkey sound UI (not enabled, of course) and a new taskbar. Open Shell does not 100% work (the start menu is now different) and Aero Glass is a good luck to that. Fluent is now more everywhere and the corners are rounded like in Windows Vista and 7. There have been false claims of terminated Microsoft accounts or it sending data to China, but I have yet to see actual evidence of this. Windows 11 in general at this moment is a reskinned version of 10. It follows the same NT kernel version and still includes the older explorer-based taskbar and start menu. And yes, the Windows 3.1 file manager still exists. Do not expect Windows 11 to be any improvement unless it is UI based. We still have the spying, automatic updates, lack of control, and inconsistent design. Plus, you can't change taskbar setttings right now.

Always thought this day was far from now. Farewell. We will have to see what AMD does now.

hehaha.... ahh microsoft, now i have to uninstall defender whenever i make my install run well? this is just hilarious...

This is almost 100% sun valley. But some people are rumoring that it may be a new release of Windows, like Windows 11. What do you guys think? This could be the first major release since 2015.

I can and will say with passion that 10 has gotten worse over the years. Back when it came out it was much of a shock to us because it was so different, but we got the tools to fix some of it and that was that. As the years go by Microsoft has put more and more shady practices in Windows 10. I used to be able to deal with it, I didn't even do any 3rd party mods to it back in 2015, 2016, 2017. Ever since around 2018 things have just gotten worse and worse.

I actually did run 8.0 on my system for a bit, and it ran fine although some programs complained about it not being 8.1. I still don't know how to bypass things like that.

The thing that gets me a little scared of LTSx is Microsoft's lack of care toward it.

I'm feeling indecisive.

I don't know then. I have a system that supports 7, 8.x and 10. Ive used 10 for years, so I dont know if I should take advantage of my supported hardware and go with 8.x or make a custom 10 ISO. I'd prefer not to use 21H1 due to its recentness, 20H2 the same, 2004 because of the SSD bug. Leaves me with 1909 or 1903.

I've used 10 since the day it came out and never have fully understood the best steps at making it respect you. What specifically would I do to get it to respect me?

I believe it still works, I am not sure though.

Through the context menu it still exists, but in the latest dev insider I tried that and it doesn't work. Fully gone in Dev builds right now.

It may not be as simple as that. There are many, many hex values with all 4 of those numbers.

I have deceided with my poor knowledge of how drivers work to attempt to recreate what he did. From what I can understand, there are just some hex numbers that need to be replaced in the driver .sys file to prevent unloading. More specifically the hex numbers that specify the versions to run on. Currently, they are: 3839: EFF (this number prevents unloading) 295A: 10586 (possibly the Pascal specification) 3FAB: 16299 (possibly the Turing specification) 4563: 17763 (possibly the Ampere specification) If it is as simple as that, it would just be going into the driver with something like HxD and changing any of those values to 3839 or, a previous version. Say you want to run 14393 on Ampere, you would maybe replace 4563 hex with 295A. Not sure if this will work though. I only have a 1050 Ti, so I can try 10240 support.

20H2 has been out since October. 21H1 was released 4 days ago. 2004 about a year ago. I upgraded my other partition from 20H2 to 21H1, no issues at all. There is basically nothing new in 21H1 compared to 20H2, other than you get support until Dec 2022. 2004 compared to 20H2 though, Control System is gone and the start menu changed to remove icon backgrounds.

So nowadays you have to spend almost 70% of your annual income for a car, plus rounding that up for taxes and rent, you almost can have absolutely no extra money meaning you can never retire. Life sucks.

Probably not. We can assume maybe an extra 2 billion desktop / laptop / embedded systems exist that are not accounted for. Adding it equally, we can assume 140 million added to each OS. This is horribly inaccurate though, so we can't really know for sure. Most ATMs, embedded machines and such run 7 or older. If we take a look at the Disney theme parks, only a few run anything 8.1 or newer, believed to be LTSB 2015. The older systems even run all the way back to Win2000 / 98, even OS/2 WARP. It is definitely safe to assume though that there are a lot more legacy systems out there in the world, very possibly more than 10. The Xbox 360 runs a variant of the Windows 2000 kernel (NT 5.0) sold 85 million consoles worldwide. Assuming around 10 million were thrown out or recycled to their minerals, another 10 million due to hardware failuire, around 65 million still exist today. That means that 65 million computing devices still run a Win2000-like OS. Add another 40 million-ish for the Win10 region for the Xbox One.

Right now im on the second to last season of Futurama.

I may be one of the younger guys here but I did grow up at the end of the tech pinnacle when everything was just greatly designed, and when companies cared. The main point of this post is for me to speak out and say that technology is in a depression, user experience and consumer wise. Let me explain from many places. Microsoft Windows Windows as you may know has not been that great since the release of 8.0 in 2012. The focus towards metro has been apperant, and especially the lack of user control and focus towards advertising and collecting data has been even more apperant starting in 8.1 and becoming even worse up to the latest, Windows 10 21H1 which released two days ago. Windows 7 and older had little to no advertising, user control, and telemetry that could be disabled but even then when enabled did not collect very intrusive data. Don't blame Microsoft entirely, they are just following what everyone else does. Game consoles Game consoles are not exempt from this. The years where it was just put the disc / cartridge in and go were awesome. My parents never bought the latest consoles so I mainly used the N64, Gamecube, PS2 and Wii even in 2013/2014. We got our Wii U in 2014 and that is when the first sign of things are going bad were found. the N64 was as simple as put in the cartridge and go, similar with the Gamecube but it was a disc and just worked. The PS2 was even more simpler, with it being the simplest of disc based consoles. The Wii was pretty cool too, it was internet connected, but didn't have advertising and it was perfeclty designed, where it was simple to just play a game but also you could watch youtube, browse the web, it was perfect. Plus, with how easy it is to homebrew using letterbomb, it still is very usable today, even though it's using the ancient PowerPC architecture and has little RAM. When the PS4, Wii U and XBone were released, we saw advertising and over-design coming into play, where they designed it so hard that it was getting worse. the Xbox One needed to be FULLY ONLINE (remember that??) and the PS4 had all these things installed. The Wii U had HORRIBLE advertising to the actual console and thats why no one really bought it. The Xbox One nowadays can't even be used online without updating. You are forced to update it. The Switch was simple when it first came out, but over time did get some advertising. Nintendo by far has been the least over-designing. The 3DS was awesome. Social Media Social media you can say has been a big problem. It allows people to communicate, but also demonstrates that many people can't stand negative feedback and lose their mind because Alex from California doesn't like James from Florida. Facebook is by far the most in this world. Mark Zuckerberg is an absolute psychopath in my opinion, the fact that he stole the idea of Facebook from someone else and it was originally going to be a "hot or not" site for the Harvard college students. I have never used Facebook and never intend to. Facebook actually sells your information. Twitter, Reddit, Discord, Tumblr, etc are all similar, they collect information about you to use targetted advertising. Google does this the most, because more often than not I Google a topic, then go on youtube and for some reason that topic I just googled on a different site is in my recommended. Sometimes, it even can predict what I am going to search which is just plain creepy. Google knows everything I ever do and knows so much about me that it is able to predict what I am going to do. Social Media has also caused many silent groups who previously lurked in the shadows to be more visible to the world, like terrorist groups and such. Social Media is throwing everyone on a public stage. Mobile operating systems Mobile OSes haven't been that awesome lately, either. iOS really hasn't done much over the years and its a similar story with Android. Android still has the same problem where OEMs don't know how to support phones at all, and iOS has issues where Apple is either controlling too much or too little on their App Store. Epic Games and many other companies are suing Apple over this and its just an absolute headache. Who agrees? I have asked my family and friends. My entire family does miss the technology of 10 years ago, because no one had to worry about social media. Game consoles were simple, computers just worked, and phones just worked too. Most of my friends also had the same statement. What do you guys think? Do you think that 10 years ago it was better, worse, or the same technology and software wise?

So it seems like people do still use 8.1, and I decided to go about finding rough estimates. As of January 2020, there are 1.2 billion Windows PCs on the internet. We will use that data for our estimates. As of today, the current marketshare of each Windows version is: Win10: 66.64% Win7: 18.49% Win81: 2.57% Win8: 0.5% WinXP: 0.48% WinVista: 0.07% 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000 are all at 0.00% marketshare, meaning it is probably a very small number. If we use our percentages with our total # of Windows PCs, we get: Win10: 1.3 billion (as of Mar 2021), not calculated with the total becuase our latest data for that was before 10 hit 1 billion Win7: 221.8 million Win81: 30.8 million Win8: 6.0 million WinXP: 5.7 million WinVista: 840,000 (Assuming marketshare of 0.01%) Legacy: <120,000 Meaning that around 30.8 million use 8.1, and 6 million use 8.0. This is not exact numbers, these are rough estimates. Lets go deep into the specific Win10 versions. We have 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909, 2004, 20H2, 21H1, and Insiders to find. According to AdDuplex, per 70K computers it is: Insider: 0.7% 21H1: N/A 20H2: 40.1% 20H1: 40.6% 1909: 11.1% 1903: 3.3% 1809: 1% 1803: 1.4% 1709: 1.0% 1703: <1% 1607: <1% 1511: <1% 1507: <1% If 1.3 billion devices run 10, we get: Insider: 9.1 million 20H2: 521 million 20H1: 527 million 1909: 144 million 1903: 42.9 million 1809: 13.0 million 1803: 18.2 million 1709: 13.0 million >1703: <13 million Why get this data? Just to see actually how many computers you are in a pool with on the internet.

So the rounded corners design has been leaked and so far, It looks fine other than the enormous title bar text, and why is the button not rounded either? Honestly, I kind of miss Metro from seeing this design. It's not really as exciting as I thought, and it honestly seemed like Metro was just so much more colorful, better for tablets and such. So far sun valley is, okay I guess?

I gotta give Windows 10 some credit recently, the enablement packages make it really easy to keep one install for more than 6 months unlike builds before 1809. Especially with how 21H1 is also an enablement package, its very easy to rollback, you just uninstall the update. Windows 10 has gotten better in certain scenarios, but in most cases is still a disaster. 21H2 is completely eyecandy changes.

With 10, it suffers massive "upgrade rot" that happens because NT was never intended to update two times a year. With 7 / LTSC, I never have to reinstall.

So out of the box, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (the new one) does not support 7 or 8. Obviously, it came out past the EOL date of 7 and MSFT wants to forget about 8. But I really think it is possible to get working. Trying to run the app with steam just ends up in it closing, and running FlightSimulator.exe gives us this: Alright, a missing function. This is something we would need to extend in the DLL, but I am not sure what would be a worthy replacement. Someone with knowledge like win32 would be helpful here, but I don't want to disrupt his time making the already awesome Vista extended kernel. I would assume that it may be easier to port 8 functions over first, but we aren't in a need of that. The first step is to find if this function exists in 8, and see if we can use the same dll on 7 or port over its function. But this isn't our entire problem. The main issue is that this isn't the only missing function. There are a lot of missing API-MS-WIN-* DLL files (might exist in 8) and as well as that, the missing functions using DependencyWalker tell us this: ESENT.DLL -> JetStopServiceInstance2 IEFRAME.DLL -> Entry Points not bound, function #160, 141 and 159 API-MS-WIN-CORE-THREADPOOL-L1-1-0.DLL -> SetWaitableTimerEx IMM32.DLL -> ImmDisableLegacyIME NCRYPT.DLL -> NCryptKeyDerivation MFPLAT.DLL -> MFRegisterLocalByteStreamHandler, MFCreateMFByteStreamOnStreamEx UXTHEME.DLL -> GetThemeAnimationTransform, GetThemeAnimationProperty, GetThemeTimingFunction DWMAPI.DLL -> DwmTetherContact, DwmRenderGesture NDFAPI.DLL -> NdfCreateNetConnectionIncident OLE32.DLL -> CoIncrementMTAUsage, RoGetAgileReference MFPLAT.DLL -> MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager API-MS-WIN-CRT-PRIVATE-L1-1-0.DLL -> __CxxFrameHandler4 Those are all the missing functions. There is a lot to do here, but who knows if it will work anyway because the game is DirectX12 now. After looking through deeper, the last missing DLL seems to just be a number that is wrong. *FrameHandler4 does not exist in that DLL, but *FrameHandler3 and 2 exist. I am wondering if they give the same results when used. Some other DLLs like OLE32 tell us that the missing functions just don't have anything related at all. Any ideas here?