Press F to pay respects to the Windows 10 April Update casualties (apps killed off in latest Win10)

The Register ^ | May 1, 2018 | Richard Speed

[dayglored]

Not gonna miss the HomeGroup stuff, but OH NOEZ! No more Windows Help Viewer???

[dayglored]

Windows 10 Aprile Creators Update... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[ducttape45]

You mean the Spring Creator’s Update is finally out?!?!

[dayglored]

> You mean the Spring Creator’s Update is finally out?!?!

That's the rumor. El Reg's "has begun seeping out from beneath the Redmond bathroom door" might be a bit graphic, but after all the delays, I might say something like, "it finally broke loose from the Redmond chokehold and has been sighted lurching towards its freedom".

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

So SO SOOOOOO...... Sick of HOURLY “We’ve got an update for you” Pop-ups!!

[so_real]

I spent several days attempting to build a strategy for removing the crapware from clean Win10 Professional installs. Minecraft, movies, and adware just should not be available in a professional setting. After several days, I gave up. Not everything can be removed, and what is removed has a nasty habit of reappearing via Windows Update. The company will drag its feet on Windows 7 while our corporate culture officials mull transitioning to Apple or Linux. (I've been using desktop Linux for many years now. I won't say it is "perfect". Far from it. But as Windows gets worse and worse, Linux has become "superior" for those needing only standard office automation applications.)

[x]

The "Reader" app for PDF files disappeared.

It wasn't bad. I miss it already.

[NewHampshireDuo]

I’ll think about Windows 10 when they bring back Microsoft Bob. :-)

[hsmomx3]

This downloaded and installed yesterday and it took awhile.

With that said, not much has changed based on what I do and I certainly don’t use MSFT Edge.

It just seems so bloated with stuff I never use.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Installed this last night on my 2012 sony laptop and also brand new Dell XPS Desktop(Old one died) installed fine but yes, spybot search and destroy was removed from my laptop had to reinstall it..funny thing on the desktop it was not removed

[doorgunner69]

Killing off apes?

Does Jane Goodall know about this?

[Blue Highway]

Microsoft Bob, was that the idiotic animated paperclip from Win 95?

[VeniVidiVici]

Bob was a graphical shell on top of Windows. I thought it was actually pretty cool as far as getting non-computer users to actually get things done with a computer, but alas, it was too corny and so was killed off.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I wonder how long until MS has an update that will kill Office.

[upchuck]

Thanks for the update dayglored. As a firm user of Windows 7 Pro, MSFT seems to be doing more and more to discourage my even thinking about switching to 10.

Long live a good, stable, reasonable, easy to use operating system, Win 7 Pro. Does everything I need and then some. Just sits there and runs.

[dayglored]

> I wonder how long until MS has an update that will kill Office.

Windows as a standalone operating system is on its deathbed, the huge installed base notwithstanding.

MS-Office (actually Office365, of course) is Microsoft's future, along with the Azure cloud services. Windows will continue as a platform for accessing the Microsoft office services from the cloud, sort of like how Google Chrome OS is a platform for running Google Apps from the cloud.

Windows updates will calm down once Win10 gets as tight as Google Chrome OS. There won't be any need for regular updates, just different tiles for accessing cloud services.

MacOS and Linux will continue as real operating systems -- MacOS because that's how Apple sells their fancy computer hardware, and Linux because -somebody- has to provide an actual operating system you can develop software on.

[mrsmith]

If you can't use this unnngh, maybe the Apple Boys can.

[dayglored]

> I’ll think about Windows 10 when they bring back Microsoft Bob. :-)

Ah, Microsoft BOB.

My daughter was about 3 when she first saw Microsoft BOB. She played with it for about 15 minutes, and then pronounced it "Dumb". That was the end of that.

[dayglored]

I never get tired of that GIF. :-)

As I recall Gates was pretty good-humored about it all.

[dayglored]

> ...was that the idiotic animated paperclip from Win 95?

You mean the "Office Assistant", a.k.a. "Clippy".