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It's a little ironic that in the summer they have achieved Windows everywhere, that it would coincide with my first summer of Windows nowhere.
I bet it has been a great summer so far too
It's a little ironic that in the summer they have achieved Windows everywhere, that it would coincide with my first summer of Windows nowhere.
It's a little ironic that in the summer they have achieved Windows everywhere, that it would coincide with my first summer of Windows nowhere.
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ObjC ain't going anywhere.
The amount of ObjC sessions at last WWDC 2015 and the upcoming WWDC 2016 send another message.
1. New shiny thing is announced
2. Old busted thing starts getting talked about less
3. New shiny thing becomes the default, old busted thing hidden away
4. Official deprecation warnings issued
5. Old busted thing stops being supported. Apple being Apple, this quickly leads to
6. Old busted thing stops working altogether after something like an OS update.
We're currently at step 2. Originally I thought that Obj-C would be kicking around for a lot longer, but given that Apple dropped an entire CPU architecture in relatively short order, and their scorched earth attitude towards backwards compatibility...
I give it 2, maybe 3 years before ObjC isn't officially supported in Xcode anymore.
First immediate thought: Can you get virus/malware scanners for XBox? Otherwise, it seems an immediate easy target for a new botnet.
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Apparently it's also extremely slow, to the point that it needs a loading screen : https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/3ng3f4/windows_10_...
UWP apps (excluding the start menu) all just have a splash screen when you launch them, it doesn't have anything to do with 'speed'.
Even then, that means it has to do with speed but in an even worse way. An artificial slowdown added to everything.
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ObjC ain't going anywhere.
The amount of ObjC sessions at last WWDC 2015 and the upcoming WWDC 2016 send another message.
Remember how long it took them to get rid of the Carbon Finder?
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As a long-time Win32 programmer (over a decade), I can safely say that the vast majority of existing applications still remain (for the time being) forward-compatible. Here's some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOj-bAZBhnE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfn4M5DXTE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqFWuNmWbHk The reasons people hold off on "upgrading" Windows versions is not mainly because of compatibility…
> The reasons people hold off on "upgrading" Windows versions is not mainly because of compatibility, but other factors like unwanted UI changes and removed features, and particularly with Windows 10, the increased data-collection intrusiveness and "we own your machine" attitude Since quite a lot of people swear that they will never upgrade to Windows 10 for those reasons (esp. the data-collection, privacy, telemetry…
The biggest problem I see is that MS has somehow made all the pieces very tightly coupled (e.g. http://superuser.com/questions/957907/unable-to-install-font... ), and in typical fashion these days, has adopted a "you're either with us or against us - it's for your security" attitude in dealing with things like patches and other modifications.
Back in the XP and Vista days, well-meaning people would make customised versions of OS install images with a lot of these types of changes and share them. Piracy aside, that movement was mostly decimated by claims that all of them contained malware. Sure there were some, but a lot less than the FUD wants you to think, and the community of more experienced users quickly discovered and strongly called out those who tried. Maybe the "malwarez" creators have blossomed since then, I don't know; I haven't been following that scene for a while.
I don't like the Universal apps or whatever they're calling them this month. They are limited, slow, crashy and buggy. They regularly just disappear after a sleep and wake. I have been left questioning my sanity wondering if I closed Messenger. Also, they are clunky and slow. For example, switch to a desktop with a universal app open and for the duration of the desktop slide animation, the app window will be complete…
As a side note, I fixed the Start menu searching issue by disabling the slide animation for the menu: http://lifehacker.com/disable-this-animation-to-make-windows...
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I despise Microsoft for this. Two days ago, my dad accidentally triggered an upgrade to Windows 10. In a panic, he switched the computer off, and now it no longer boots. It's now down to me to repair the computer. Apparently, months of dismissing the pop up invitations to upgrade to Windows 10 were not enough for Microsoft, they had to go and practically force it down people's throats. And my family is paying the pri…
Time to consider an OS change maybe?