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Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by duxup »

ulzeraj wrote: post #62
duxup wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only thing I really notice is the settings ... app, box, thing, (not sure what to call it even) is wonky. Seems to get wonky-er all the time. But I'm hardly ever in there. That's really the major change I notice. The little UI changes in menu or task bar I find easy enough to just adjust and so forth whenever I need to do so. Mostly I just turn them off and doing so doesn't really bother me.

That reminds me there are two control panels. One with the trendy web page style (the pretty one) and the other using the old Windows 7 style (the useful control panel). And I suspect they know its terrible. What other reason would they reserve the the good stuff like the LTSC version to premium enterprise contracts? People who purchase and run Windows Pro and Windows Home are literally paying to feed the monstrous M…

That's exactly what I thought when I ran into the old control panel. "Oh ... I see ... they know."

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Post by TkTech »

ohgodplsno wrote: post #45
willtim wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, shows thumbnails for pictures, videos, pdfs etc. More formats than Windows in fact. Windows has been standing still, the rest of the world hasn't. EDIT: I used "Files", not the file picker.

Thumbnail preview is a _massive_ attack surface. All those RCEs in JPEGs, MP4s, PDFs etc are now potentially immediately executed upon displaying the file. No thanks.

So turn it off if it worries you. Keep in mind thumbnail rendering is sandboxed[0]. It's Linux, the reason I like it is that it doesn't try to prevent you from doing whatever you want.

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-desktop/-/blob/master/R...

Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by duxup »

hughrr wrote: post #40
duxup wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I liked it.

So did I. Until it aged which it didn’t well.

I know you didn't mean it that way but the concept of "not aging well" and Rolling Stones gives me a music-ish allergic reaction ;)

Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by ravenstine »

Lariscus wrote: post #24
willtim wrote: post #9

Windows definitely needs improving. I tried the Gnome 40 desktop recently and it's much more polished, consistent and refined.

Does the file chooser show thumbnails yet?

It will until you upgrade your Ubuntu version and you open it up to find a message that "your file manager is deprecated. use this crappy fork with fewer features instead", only to have it abandoned after a few years because the devs for the fork got butthurt.

I'm so glad I ditched Linux. Got tired of losing features because of people's egos, and being told ffmpeg was deprecated when it really wasn't became the final straw.

Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by carlosf »

hpoe wrote: post #6

As a life long Linux fan I hold the position that the reason they started moving to Linux is all the MS engineers realized how much easier it was to use Linux when MS first started rolling out Azure and that's why they put in WSL. My hope is the new Windows is now just the Linux kernel that runs an emulator for windows. EDIT: For clarification this is mostly meant humorously, but there is some hope there. Because dre…

My wet dream: MS buys Canonical and Windows + Ubuntu become one.

As a Devops / sysadmin the biggest value MS brings to the table is Azure AD/MDM/PIM. I feel like we really have stepped up our security game with those tools.

I just wanted some Linux distro that had something equivalent. Ubuntu 21 already has native AD integration.

Must be a sign right?

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Post by outside1234 »

willtim wrote: post #9

Windows definitely needs improving. I tried the Gnome 40 desktop recently and it's much more polished, consistent and refined.

Do multiple displays actually work yet?

ie. Can you plug-in laptop to two displays, arrange windows, and then disconnect and reconnect and have the windows in the same place?

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Post by windowrgrgrg98 »

TravHatesMe wrote: post #12

> There is little doubt that the system will be called Windows 11, but it may still not be so. For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they always fell short with branding.

What could be more appealing than Windows(e)xp(ee)?!

Re: Microsoft support page says Windows 10 “retirement date” is 2025

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Post by mackrevinack »

TravHatesMe wrote: post #12

> There is little doubt that the system will be called Windows 11, but it may still not be so. For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they always fell short with branding.

yea theyve had some interesting names alright. "windows phone 7 series" is one that comes to mind. it was a bit of a mouthful compared to "iphone", which is probably why they shortened it after but its still amazing that they announced that name in the first place
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