Posted on 07/21/2015 10:23:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’ll wait for Windows 10.11a
I don’t want anything in my life with any MS software in it.
Right now, I have one of the MS DVR/STB and it’s incredibly slow and very limited in functionality. Why would I want to allow MS to become a part of my HVAC system, appliances, car, security system, etc. when time and time again MS has shown themselves to be a simple target for hackers?
I think the IoT is a very bady idea, all in all.
Just because something can be done, doesn’t mean it should be done.
Why bother?
Does anyone else out there see the ease with which dominant Big Brother scenarios can very easily emerge?
CA....
Sounds like they are learning from Apple, a little bit anyways. MS Windows still has a long way to go.
Just a few articles earlier there was a report of hackers taking over a jeep and crashing the vehicle by cutting of the engine and slamming on the brakes. Airplanes will be next then, toasters and garage door openers.
Anyone who puts their front door lock on the Internet deserves what they get.
I hear ads for that sort of tech all day long. You’d have to be nuts to do it.
I prefer manual locks myself. Remote status monitoring is ok, but no control.
I don’t get the desire to have every device monitored or managed. ..I have refused automatically running our thermostats ...having a smart phone is one thing...don’t want a smart house etc.
precisely. This is the very reason government at all levels must be eliminated from private sector transactions. We will either be free of government intrusion or we will be controlled by government. There is no middle ground.
I don’t know why some of the older posters aren’t getting my joke...
Translation = Microsoft abandons traditional Window in order to be just like Apple, Google and Amazon.
Microsoft is going to fail here too if they decide to charge people for their Operating System. It means that they will not have as many users on their data base, and that will cost them sales in their new database.
Apple, Google, and Amazon do not do that..., and offer free upgrades to their O.S. it’s why they have exploded in growth.
Plus if this software does not work with older Microsoft Operation Systems. Then expect Microsoft to bleed off more customers to Apple, Google, Amazon, etc...
Overall it’s a step in the right direction by Microsoft, but not enough. I think if they don’t move away quick enough from their old model, then they will be out of business in 20 years or less.
I believe various flavors of Unix have been performing that internet-of-things function already, and quite successfully, for at least a decade. People would be surprised at the number of devices that run various embedded Unixes. Unix may not be worth a farthing as a personal OS, but it’s a damn fine backroom and/or embedded OS.
Personally I find the IoT more than a little worrisome to begin with: embedded operating systems were my specialty for 20 years of engineering, and they're not easy. Adding Windows to that mix is downright scary. It's a suitable desktop OS -- I use Win7 everyday and it works fine -- but it's not an embeddable OS. I'm not sure any good will come of this. But that's just my opinion...
If it won’t run my old photoshop I won’t update.I’m too damned old to spend big bucks on software.
Or at least “windows 10 service pack 1”.
I think a lot of them would be surprised how many ATMs are running Windows XP.
I’m going to put it on my gaming rig. Most of the early adopters in the flight sim world are pretty happy with it. That’s ALL I do on my gaming rig, so I don’t care about big bro watching my antics on my A2A Cessna.
ME TOO! Privacy is all but gone! Everything is about ID and tying that ID to everything... Adding ID to your thought;
IDIoT
I think that's prophetic.
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