NoelC Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 How do you resist the feeling "OMG, I'm going to become infected the instant I start my browser" that's brought on by the hype in the security bulletins? -Noel
dencorso Posted January 1, 2016 Author Posted January 1, 2016 Easy. My main machine, and most others I own run XP SP3, and up to 2007, they were on 98SE... I simply know, by experience, that's just FUD. Simple as that! 1
NoelC Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 My feelings as well. More such anti-FUD needs to be spread. People somehow lose sight of the fact that Microsoft built the vulnerabilities into Windows in the first place. -Noel
dencorso Posted January 2, 2016 Author Posted January 2, 2016 Digital sold excellency, MS sells fads and gives away for free FUD galore... times change, for sure!
JorgeA Posted January 3, 2016 Posted January 3, 2016 Imagine the possibilities if the pregnancy test strip had Windows 10 IoT Core installed on it... --JorgeA
TELVM Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 Speaking of FUD ... Forbes - Microsoft Warns Windows 7 Has Serious Problems
NoelC Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 we do feel a responsibility to get people to a much better place -Microsoft Marketing chief Chris Capossela I'm reminded a little bit of the line near the end of "Cowboys and Aliens" where Col. Dollarhide (Harrison Ford) tells Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig), after his new female (alien) friend has just blown herself into subatomic particles in a nuclear blast... "She's in a better place..." -Noel
submix8c Posted January 8, 2016 Posted January 8, 2016 Speaking of FUD... the above link no longer exists but -http://web.archive.org/web/20160103221556/http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/01/02/microsoft-windows-7-problems/I wonder if said contributor has been banned from posting heresy against Microsoft.
JorgeA Posted January 8, 2016 Posted January 8, 2016 I just tried that original link, and it's working (once again?). The page does say it's been viewed 397,705 times. Maybe when you tried to visit the page the server was crashing due to the great interest in the article. --JorgeA
dencorso Posted January 12, 2016 Author Posted January 12, 2016 Got offered KB2976978 yet again today on an 8.1 machine I'm servicing! Won't MS ever tire?
NoelC Posted January 12, 2016 Posted January 12, 2016 Tire of being nefarious? What do you think? That's easier than doing real work. -Noel
dencorso Posted January 13, 2016 Author Posted January 13, 2016 I see... so it seems they'll never give up trying to...
NoelC Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 In all seriousness, we must assume the minions in Redmond have all been told that if the company doesn't get Windows 10 on a billion devices that doom and gloom will follow for the company (and thus their jobs). They're already quite aware that they themselves could not do better work than they are doing - which of course led us to the Epic Fail technically of Windows 8/8.1/10. It's not that they're holding back. They're giving it their all. Their all pales by comparison to the hard workers who wrote NT, or Vista, for example - even with all its shortcomings. So what's a minion to do? Claim it's good, shill it, and try their best to hide all the shortcomings. They even think they can control the media. Say something less than glowing on the answers forum and see where it gets you, for example. -Noel
aviv00 Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 (edited) try this: Stop the annoying "get Windows 10" app#Exec with cmd with adminicacls C:\windows\system32\Gwx*.exe /inheritance:r /grant everyone:(S,SD)#restart PC Edited January 13, 2016 by aviv00
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