I'm not a fan. A centered dock does look pretty, but to me it's not as intuitive as a left-aligned screen. Especially since you would be navigating to the "Start" menu a lot. Getting my mouse bottom left is more natural than "some random offset of dead bottom center". I can't tell if the icons get larger as you hover. That sort of magnifies this problem, as the start button would shift left as other icons are highlig…
I mean.. The taskbar seems like a Dock now. The interface seems very Apple Finder-esque now. I feel like they're just aligning with macOS now. Not that I'm complaining, the video and the interface all are sexy.
Yeah, it looks like they finally just threw the towel in and admitted that macOS has had a superior design aesthetic, and started heading in the same direction.
MacOS has, MacOsX has not. It seems that SW got autistic those days. ( no offence for autistic people)
Apparently the Home edition will require a Microsoft account and an internet connection. [1] Can't say I'm looking forward to this. All my Windows installations are with local accounts and I would like to keep it that way. Microsoft has already made it incredibly obnoxious to achieve this with the latest Windows 10 setups, where you have to make sure your computer is not connected to the internet to even unlock the f…
I think a recent version of Windows I had the misfortune of setting up also required a Ms account: no option for a local install. It's also possible that I'm just stupid and didn't see it, but (shrug)
You can bypass it by either turning off the network connection prior to a new/clean installation on 20H2/21H1. If you are stuck on the account screen during the installation process, then entering wrong credentials 3 times will present you with a local account option. However, if you have completed installation, then there is an option to turn it into a local account in Settings --> User Accounts --> Change your account type.
I mean.. The taskbar seems like a Dock now. The interface seems very Apple Finder-esque now. I feel like they're just aligning with macOS now. Not that I'm complaining, the video and the interface all are sexy.
I think it's probably closer to ChromeOS with the idea being centered is better for touch support.
There is no bloody touch on a desktop except on their braindead surface tablets. You can point your finger at the monitor but after some time, it hurts.
Just got a new mac. It doesn't require it, but - They ask you to when you buy it - They ask you to in an email after you buy it - It prompts you during install - It prompts you right after you installed - It prompts you when you try and update the non-operating-system software that came with the computer, and doesn't let you upgrade it if you don't create one. And probably a whole lot more prompts that I missed. It a…
macOS does that, but I find Windows 10 to be way, way worse. There's an option in one of the setup screens, but good luck finding it. They really make it hard to use a local account (or at least used to - I haven't reinstalled Windows in 2 years).
That doesn't sound right, search around in the BIOS for "Platform Trust Technology" or "PTT". If it's disabled, change it to enabled.
Just enabled PTT in the BIOS, but the tool still says my computer is not compatible (but it doesn't tell me exactly why).
You probably only have the header on your motherboard, without a tpm module actually plugged in. Mine was like this, and the specs for your motherboard suggest this is also the case for you. You can buy them on online pretty cheap (I got one for $20)
Comment on the Reddit thread where this screenshot was posted - https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/o1x183/the_famou ... The ODBC Driver interface for configuration is tied to the old dialog. The interface for the drivers was designed around GetOpenFileName() as it was at the time. One of the features of GetOpenFileName/GetSaveFileName is that the structure passed in can include two special options- a functio…
The backwards compatability on Windows is truly great, particularly compared to Linux and macOS (where messages fired off when buttons are clicked silently disappear nowhere, and the button does nothing)....
There is no backward compatibility from Win 7 onwards. A lot of games stopped functioning in Win 7( you need to rename system dlls or change registry entries for them to work). And in win 10 they just don't work.
It sounds like Windows and macOS are similar in this regard, except Apple has more customers who would see this as a "convenience" because their smartphone/tablet world is tied to Apple.
Well that, but also things like "Find my", which are a genuinely valuable and cannot function without some sort of account you can access online.
You could pair devices to each other instead of to an account. There is no reason an account needs to sit at the core of the find my experience.
I'm sure they're refering to the undying love every single web developer had for Internet Explorer.
In the late 90s, IE4 and then IE5 was the gold standard. We were all ecstatic when we didn't have to support Netscape 4 anymore. It wasn't until Firefox (more specifically Firebug) was mature that IE lost the crown.
Maybe for you. For us the best usage of IE was to download Netscape Navigator .
This was unclear to me as well. “This holiday” is not a phrase I’ve ever really heard in casual conversation or in the media register. I know the British “go on holiday” but that means vacation. Their PR/marketing department dropped the ball on this specific phrase. At the same time it seems that marketing department slip ups are common these days. If they mean Christmas time, I.e. December or winter, they should jus…
I'm quite sure it was supposed to say "this holiday season", which indeed would imply December?