Microsoft Wi-Fi
Isn't this just Skype Wi-Fi by another name?
If so, it's rather odd as I thought they were supposed to be pushing the Skype brand.
Microsoft's "Windows Insider" fast track is living up to its name, with build 10162 released yesterday, making it three builds in four days since 10158 appeared on 29 June. One difference this time round is that you can download the ISO image in one of 22 languages. The download page is headed "April update" at the time of …
Not necessarily! It's been a while since Microsoft made ISO files and installation disks unavailable for large numbers of consumers.
Last night I was looking on Microsoft website on how to purchase Windows 10 and all I got was the advice to buy a PC installed with Windows 8.1 and take advantage of the free upgrade. They're missing two points:
- I already have enough PCs in my home so I don't need to buy another one
- I want an installation disk so I can perform a clean installation on the PC of my choice (the one that has better hardware support)
I know that for a vast majority of consumers this is not an issue so I doubt Microsoft will do something about it. Oh well, my Windows XP is still working fine and Windows 7 has many years of useful life to live.
Of course they no longer use the odious stack ranking system, or rather they don't actually call it that any more .... However, according to one Microsoftie I know, the principle is still alive and well in the HR system. Learning from experience seems to equate to heresy in Microsoft's HR speak.
I'll get my coat now.....
Downloading now, but my Build upgrades have very often failed n-1 times. The reassuring feature has been that the previous version always reliably comes back, even if it takes all night with no apparent HDD activity to happen. Let's see if this one can also be tweaked to replicate Win7 appearance, to unlink 'Bing', and to work without a 'Microsoft Account'.
On a related topic,
do others still have the issue of the windows 7 and 8 patches that are "update(s) that enables you to upgrade to a later version of Windows." still damaging the performance of their PC with high CPU use?
It shows in process explorer as
rundll32.exe appraiser.dll,DoScheduledTelemetryRun
And run by windows scheduler. It's supposed to stop after 30 minutes, but doesn't appear to.
Installed by the updates KB 2990214 patch for Windows 7 (and KB 3044374 for Windows 8.1) in February and purpose is recording application telemetry.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_update/rundllexe-using-whole-cpu-to-run-appraiserdll/b29bdffd-56e2-418f-b0c5-a7f3dfbab2b5?page=1
Sneaky hamstringing of computers on the old OS? Surely not.