Windows is like Idiocracy. It’s a disastrous shitshow of capitalism gone absurd, yet everyone there thinks it’s fantastic and that Windows is what plants crave.
Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)
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#72Sometimes I wonder how worse our world could be if Google and Facebook doesn't exist and Microsoft kind of corporates dominating search and social networks. Products will be shitty AF and no regards even for paid user and expert at annoying them.
That's called the nineties and no, it was great.
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#73I have never been a Microsoft Windows user but keep one install for possible use.
Not only is there constant hard sell by the McAfee anti virus and Bing browser but also *hours* long updates and quite a few obvious bugs.
The box in question is a factory installed Lenova Idea Center.
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#74I have never been a Microsoft Windows user but keep one install for possible use. Not only is there constant hard sell by the McAfee anti virus and Bing browser but also *hours* long updates and quite a few obvious bugs. The box in question is a factory installed Lenova Idea Center.
Edge with Bing
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Google really started this though. And they didn’t use anti competitive advertising practices to kill IE, they used them to kill Firefox.
Some people inside Google's where certainly trying to kill off IE: Former Google engineer reveals the secret YouTube plot to kill Internet Explorer 6 https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/4/18529381/google-youtube-in...
To be fair, by this time IE was up to IE 8 and even Microsoft was trying to kill off IE 6.
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#76This month I picked up a Surface Go, which I've been eyeing for a while as a decent drawing tablet. There I learned the fantastic joys of "S Mode", which helpfully restricts the otherwise general purpose computer from running apps that aren't delivered through the Microsoft Store, forces the browser to Edge+Bing and requires you to sign in with a Microsoft Account before you can disable the nonsense. I jumped through…
> Microsoft... what happened?
Intense jealousy of Apple
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Windows 7 is a fine OS if you don't connect it to the Internet, but it's basically screaming "hack me" everywhere you go online. A few occasional mild annoyances from the marketing team is worth tolerating for a reasonably secure operating system. I'd argue people who feel otherwise need to reprioritize their risks.
Genuinely interested, why would Win7 be worse than Win10 if you had the same network setup, same browser (same extensions) and behaved the same as you do with Win10? I ask as even at home, my different devices all use the same browser/extensions, VPN and browsing habits. I use established FOSS where possible and the only problems I have had since Windows 98 are from data breaches (nothing I could have prevented with…
Remember WannaCry? 67% of infected PCs ran Windows 7, the rest mostly ran Windows XP: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3197762/wannacry-was-a-...
Windows 10 was technically vulnerable, but since Windows 10 has drastically better security features, from a defense-in-depth standpoint, having Windows 10 more or less rendered most computers immune in practice. (Likely, the few 10 machines infected were intentionally crippled by their admins.)
Bear in mind, Windows 7 is an OS from 2009, 12 years ago. It's ancient from a computer security standpoint.
Whether you are personal or corporate, you probably should be running either Windows 10, or choose an alternate operating system entirely like OS X or Linux.
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All sorts of security features in the browser only work on newer operating systems: Hardware-enforced Stack Protection: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-this-new-feature... Significant improvements to ASLR starting in Windows 8: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2013/12/11/software-defense-... And many more things. New Windows releases aren't just coats of paint.
Understanding the difference between security and privacy is why I actually use Edge on Windows for some desktop tasks.
There is no difference between security and privacy. If you have no privacy, compromising your security is easy. If you have no security, compromising your privacy is easy.
Guarding one protects the other.
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> do yourself a favor and use LSTC Would be nice if you could mention how your typical reader could feasibly (and legally) do this.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst... If you want to be 100% legit.
Interesting, am I reading it right that this ...
“ 4x Microsoft Identity Manager - 1 User CAL - Open Business (NK7-00031)”
... means to get a valid single-user LTSC license you need four Identity Manager licenses? That’s odd
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Windows 7 is a fine OS if you don't connect it to the Internet, but it's basically screaming "hack me" everywhere you go online. A few occasional mild annoyances from the marketing team is worth tolerating for a reasonably secure operating system. I'd argue people who feel otherwise need to reprioritize their risks.
This is the sort of BS paranoia-propaganda that is contributing to the propagation of walled gardens and continued mass user oppression and "herding". List the last known remote exploit that will work for someone behind a NAT, and that doesn't involve visting a malicious site with all the default settings of IE or downloading and running an executable (at which point nothing will save you but the most authoritarian o…
First of all, the most common attack surface of most Windows PCs is Chrome. I find almost all malware in either extensions, or via misuse of Chrome features (many customers think they have malware because a spammer has been granted access to Chrome's notifications feature).
However, bear in mind, as others said, NAT isn't a security feature, it's just an annoying roadblock that helpfully makes accessing computers somewhat more difficult. However, quite a few applications on the average PC reach out and touch other services, granting malicious actors plenty of ways into a PC.
I get the hate on walled gardens, as a big antitrust supporter, but unfortunately, Windows 10's app model (universal apps) gets a bad rap because of the Microsoft Store being generally considered attached to it: UWP apps are basically the safest way to run apps, because UWP apps cannot harm other things outside of their little sandbox. And contrary to popular belief, it's entirely possible to create, distribute, and install UWP apps without the Microsoft Store. Microsoft has definitely had some missteps in both rolling out and marketing the newer app model, but it is the future.
Sandboxed applications not only provide unparalleled security, they also are incredibly stable because other apps can't tamper with them either. By being self-contained, developers can generally be confident the app will work on any machine without issue.