Posted on 01/21/2015 6:27:53 PM PST by smokingfrog
Today’s Windows event was the flashiest to grace Redmond in years. The company pulled a number of projects, like HoloLens, out of its skunk works in an effort to convince finicky geeks it isn’t out of ideas.
Whether this gambit was successful is hard to say (the Twittersphere seems impressed), but in a few weeks it will also be irrelevant. Microsoft’s problem has always been execution, not imagination. Kinect, Courier and even Windows 8.1 are examples of ideas getting ahead of reality.
Yet this event wasn’t entirely about concepts and prototypes. Alongside holograms and room-sized tablets, the company also displayed a number of improvements and innovations that could once again give Windows an edge. Practicality, not pizzazz, will win back the confidence Windows 8 lost.
The Windows 10 Technical Preview is only the latest in a long line of beta builds used to test out new editions, but its rollout has been different than those prior. Built-in feedback tools have helped users direct their concerns to the people in Redmond who can actually fix them.
It’s easy to see the results. At the event, we witnessed a refined Start Menu that works better with tablets, an easy way to switch between tablet and desktop mode, and a blending of the control panel and Metro settings menu that finally resolves a core conflict between the old-fashioned desktop and the modern Windows interface.
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The time and date order configurable in any order you want to always has been
Hell I still like win2k!
The worst part of using Windows is developing Windows applications in Windows, thanks to Windows Update:
My development PC at work will always have lots of applications running: Visual Studio, MSSQL Studio, various SOAP and XML tools, FTP clients, web service testers, Sublime, VB.NET development, Explorer folders opened up across mapped drives nested five directories deep, etc. I have dual screens and fill them both with running apps I need to stay open overnight because I’m actively developing and designing in an Agile environment.
I need to leave everything the way it’s running so I can pick up where I left off, but I’ll often come into work the next morning and damned if Windows Update didn’t dump a bunch of security patches onto my machine and auto-reboot it in the wee hours of the morning. Takes fifteen minutes of flailing to reopen everything and find the right auto-save temp file created during the forced reboot.
Between the MS Windows Update and our own separate internal corporate Windows Update site, Microsoft comes and kicks over my sandcastle one or two times a week to apply patches to their F’ed up operating system... And that’s just my dev box I’m talking about; we have zillions of MS Windows Servers that constantly are undergoing reboots and patches and updates all across our enterprise.
It just flat sucks, but Microsoft just thinks they’re cool. “Hey! We introduced TOUCHSCREEN to the corporate desktop environment to make everything simpatico with your Zune music player and your Nokia Windows Phone and all those Surface RT lap-pad things that are such a big hit! And get THIS: You can TALK to Bing now! Pretty bitchin’, huh? HUH?!”
No, not bitchin’. Totally gay, actually. Shoot yourselves in the face, Microsoft.
Huh? All that computer knowledge and you don’t know that you can configure updates to NOT load automatically?
Not old new. I wanted to take advantage of an audio interface that connected via Thunderbolt. So after 18 years of Windows I slid over to a Man Mini. Turns out that Cubase is “not authorized” for Yosemite. As it happens Cubase 7.5 balked at loading to what ever OS came in the Mac, prompting me to upgrade the OS. So between whatever came in the Mac and Yosemite there is a window of opportunity; otherwise you own a 3000.00 brick.
I used an installer provided by Cubase and got it in but it is unpredictable and buggy. This all truly amazes me as I have been deride by Mac users (to say nothing of hardware/software providers) for 18 years as sitting at the kiddie table using windows. I suffered slight buggy behavior on the part of my previous audio interface for 10 years because “Well it was actually meant for a Mac” (MOTU).
I have no idea what I am going to do. Maybe download Reaper and pray. Or wait until Steinberg figures out the problem and writes a fix. But here I am sitting at the “pro table” with an empty plate before me and damn well starving.
Amd that was just in the modern era: NT4, of course, had support for various 64-bit architectures, mostly by HP Enterprise....remember the Alpha/AXP?
What do you like about it? Is it an improvement on 8.1?
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Don’t let IT find you screwing up your computer. That’s their job.
“So is Cortana Microsoft’s answer to Siri?”
Ya think?
“but don’t see it being that useful on a desktop machine”
Indeed. And yet MS keeps claiming how deeply concerned they are about their hundreds of millions of existing desktop/laptop users and how concernedly they are listening to their customers. Yeah, right. MS isn’t listening at all, they just SAY they are listening and plowing ahead making what they think is the optimal OS Microsoft needs.
Terminable offense too. We’re PCI compliant because we address and store financials. You can’t even modify the Windows System Registry to delete the key that disables the Windows Update Service in the MMC Services module.
That's nice. How do I disable or uninstall it?
Just tell Cortana to “get lost.”
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