What's that, Skippy? You want a taste of Windows 10 19H2? Oops, too late Over the past week in MicrosoftLand, Windows Mixed Reality continued its slow shuffle to relevance, a new Project Rome ushered in a world of cross-platform data slinging and Insiders had a play with the latest Skype tweaks. Azure woes The services key to Microsoft's success continued to wobble last week. As well as the Office …
Seems to dispense with most of the UI crap and MS claims it has less data usage. MS claims it's built for India, but I think most people in the world would like a clean simple UI and only essential data use.
Perhaps they should just junk Skype and rename Skype Lite to Skype.
Yes... the server versions are MORE stable than the desktop editions but they are still seriously sub-par in comparison with previous versions. I have had more than one Server 2016 machine completely ignore the "Active Hours" setting and STILL go down for updates on nothing more than a login to the Domain Administrator account (and then completely deny that they've done it). Server 2003 restarted when you TOLD it to, and so did every other version I've worked with right up to 2012r2 (which was basically a good OS once you got past TIFKAM).
Don't you really mean...
Over the past week in Microsoft Fantasy Land
IMHO, those inhabitants of 'Planet Redmond' are rapidly heading for another universe and most of us are clearly not invited.
I'm sort of torn between feeling insulted or feeling really happy.... [doh]
Real world testing is all well and good but Sat Nav firing all the QAs and leaving it to the public will always be a mistake.
Despite still sticking with Windows 7 at home I like bits of Windows 10 that 7 misses out on. The ability to natively mount iso files instead of having to get a 3rd party tool. But search in Windows 10 is simply shit. A good test is install sysinternals tools onto the machine. Put the folder in the path area so you can run it wherever and so search should fucking pick it up. I do this on users machine. It never pissing does until I manually go to the directory and run Procmon or Procexp from there at least once (the main ones I install). Its really pissing annoying.
STUPID
You search for things you've little or never used, or else it's a stupid menu/bookmark service needed because of stupid GUI design (like removing infrequently used items from menus, totally daft. Menus / toolbars should NEVER change on their own and menus should have access to everything without ever automatic changing of the order. Probably only Tool Bars use be user configurable and not change on their own).
Microsoft is continuing it's march to irrelevance. I think the Win XP & Win 7 boxes & laptops will stay. I've lost patience with the win 10 gear we have. It's getting Linux (too new for Win7 or XP). Some of the XP, Vista, and Win7 stuff has had Linux Mint for years now.
"It's getting Linux (too new for Win7 or XP)."
Have done that with one of the laptops I have, Ubuntu, works well does everything that's needed plus makes managing my home servers easier (Linux and omnios). One problem I have is, it only goes into standby not hibernate, so after a few days of no use under the table the battery is dead, need to find out how to enable hibernate.
"you can bitch all you like but nobody's listening AT MICROSOFT."
Fixed it for ya!
Yeah nobody at MICRO-SHAFT is listening, we scream "what about the icebergs?" and they're all "FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!" (obligatory Titanic reference for WIn-10-nic) Their arrogance is only exceeded by their cluelessness.
Having grown up two minutes walk from Waratah National Park (I always live near the most famous parks in the world, the other being Kew Gardens, but that is not fictional, Waratah Park is actually Kuringgai Chase NP) I can say Skippy would never fall for such a thing.
However, kangaroos are not that intelligent. And in all my bush walks around there I never saw a single kangaroo. You are more likely to see one in Kew Gardens maybe in the Palm House or the greenhouse where they keep Australian flora. Come to think of it, the dentist who lived on the corner of West Park Avenue was Australian!
Maybe Skippy has transformed into Skypy.
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