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Is this story true? If so, can anyone find a more substantive source for it? In the meantime, we added a question mark to the title.
edit: that's from October 15 (Thursday) and might or might not be the same issue, hard to say.
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Actually, most things laptops do are pretty generic, but manufacturers seem obsessed about owning the "experience" of doing the most basic things. My ThinkPad T430 runs Windows 10 without any Lenovo crapware, and it's such a smooth experience. No more invisible windows randomly popping up in the taskbar, stealing my keyboard focus, no more dozens of TPCRAP.EXE in my autostart.
Do you use TrackPoint? If you do, these drivers are inevitable. Considering how fragile and inconsistent across models and versions they are I'd say good luck. Nice coinage: "TPCRAP.EXE"
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I wonder how all of the Microsoft haters who think this is "not a mistake" feel about other conspiracy theories? What do you know about lizard people?
You may be interested in this older documentary: https://youtu.be/DfsK6DuNhnc?t=2208 about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. The psychologists claim that they can predict who will believe in conspiracy theories, and they use as a dividing test the following question to separate conspiracy theorists from healthy trustful people: "The government is using mobile phone technology to track people all the time. Yes/N…
> While switching to a new OS, especially Windows 10 is definitely a good move Who is claiming this? Maybe for hardware known to have good Windows 10 support it's a good move. For me, I've had more blue screens in the last month than I had in the 10 years before that. Lots of poor driver support (fingerprint reader doesn't work, touchpad reverts settings after every boot, crashes). The user experience is an upgrade f…
I don't even bother upgrading Windows on laptops. It's better to wait until all of the drivers are fully supported by the manufacturer then do a clean install. I don't know what Microsoft is thinking. Laptops are incredibly fragile from a driver perspective because of all the non-standard and model specific things they do.
On a new ASUS X205ta ("Windows 8.1 with Bing") the audio drivers are broken, and which don't have Linux drivers yet. (at least, the websites I read from July suggest that.)
Is this story true? If so, can anyone find a more substantive source for it? In the meantime, we added a question mark to the title.
Ars Technica is saying that they contacted Microsoft and got a statement that it was a "mistake": http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/window... edit: that's from October 15 (Thursday) and might or might not be the same issue, hard to say.
Is this story true? If so, can anyone find a more substantive source for it? In the meantime, we added a question mark to the title.
I ran windows update literally 10 minutes ago as well.
Meaning that the only chance that this is true(for windows 8.1 at least) is if I missed multiple micro-updates on my windows box and in that period of time they pushed an update enabling this forced conversion to windows 10 and then pushed a subsequent one returning to current functionality.
Previous update check to the latest performed update was ~22 hours ago. That's a very small window.
I doubt this is true.
edit: I think it's far more likely that some specific individual, perhaps the author or his friend was on the specific update effected by -> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/window... and as a result was 'forced to update'
Pretty ridiculous to publish this without looking into it though.
Not saying that Microsoft didn't mess up here, they very well may have, just that this article seems to be flagrantly false and it's disappointing how much attention it's gotten in spite of that fact.
> While switching to a new OS, especially Windows 10 is definitely a good move Who is claiming this? Maybe for hardware known to have good Windows 10 support it's a good move. For me, I've had more blue screens in the last month than I had in the 10 years before that. Lots of poor driver support (fingerprint reader doesn't work, touchpad reverts settings after every boot, crashes). The user experience is an upgrade f…
When I installed windows 10 last week I had the .. pleasure... to look at the various privacy options. During the installation, Windows uses weasel words to present the user with privacy settings hiding the option to change them at all. Take a look: https://jonathan.porta.codes/images/posts/2015/07/window-10-... In "express settings": * Send contact, calendar and input data to Microsoft * Send typing and inking data…
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PSA: For people with Windows 10 installed, I've found the following tool quite useful in shutting down the large amount of information collected.
Is this story true? If so, can anyone find a more substantive source for it? In the meantime, we added a question mark to the title.
I've been a Windows user since 1995 and a huge fan of certain MS products, but I'm done with using it as my desktop and laptop OS when I replace my current systems. I'll be running Linux or Mac OS as the base OS, and only using my existing Windows license in a VM where necessary for specific software (the list of which is growing shorter every day).
I'll miss Visual Studio in particular, but if I have to use the least-user-friendly OS to get the best IDE, I'm saying goodbye to the best IDE :\.
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Ars Technica is saying that they contacted Microsoft and got a statement that it was a "mistake": http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/window... edit: that's from October 15 (Thursday) and might or might not be the same issue, hard to say.
Ok, in that case this submission is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10400807 . Thank you!
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>P2P share windows updates with any windows computer on the internet I'm not sure that concerns me since they're doing signature verification on the data before doing anything with it.
I think you're missing the point of concern here. That would be one, but let's just hope that Microsoft is smart enough to validate the data gotten from P2P updates. That still brings up the issue that Microsoft is leveraging my broadband connection, my power and my computer(s) that I pay for to issue updates to their customers without even asking. That's not ok.