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Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by MrDosu »

72deluxe wrote: post #362
MrDosu wrote: post #266

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Backwards compatibility is a STRONG point of windows, not a drawback. Remember that this is something used by business users. Technologies like COM are without equal in the field (native automation of every major software for example). The only negative points you mention are icons and the pure existence of things you obviously don't and can't use. It's all in all a very silly paragraph you wrote.

I understand backwards compatibility being a benefit, but why keep introducing new frameworks and ways of doing things if the old ones never get truly deprecated or cleaned up? Why highlight all the wonderful new Metro features and Universal apps if Win32/AFX/MFC/COM/COM+/DCOM/.NET/.NET not compatible with that other .NET/Silverlight/Metro never gets tidied up or moved on? It just leads to more bloat. They've made a…

I never said it was easy. It's enterprise features that HAVE to have a long lifetime.

But COM is simple interface dispatching (it is actually much easier to implement COM in C/C++ because you have actual control over the interfaces and marshaling) in the end with syntax that is a bit dated i agree. It is not rocket science by far...

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by s73v3r »

egeozcan wrote: post #388
s73v3r wrote: post #386

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I don't think it's uncalled for that someone who would judge others and call them "irrational" for something like their smartphone choice be called out as a jerk.

I didn't call anyone being irrational and definitely didn't have anyone's smartphone decision in my mind (I had, instead, people arguing for their favorite programming language in mind, to be honest). Also, I think you are more judging than I am. At this point, I can't take what you are saying as anything more than random attacks, sorry.

Except that's exactly what we were talking about here: Saying that people are "irrational" for not buying the same thing the poster did, in this case, Apple products. And I believe that if you care that much about what other people are using to the point where you would have to question their rationality, then you're a class-A jerk.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by egeozcan »

s73v3r wrote: post #392
egeozcan wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't call anyone being irrational and definitely didn't have anyone's smartphone decision in my mind (I had, instead, people arguing for their favorite programming language in mind, to be honest). Also, I think you are more judging than I am. At this point, I can't take what you are saying as anything more than random attacks, sorry.

Except that's exactly what we were talking about here: Saying that people are "irrational" for not buying the same thing the poster did, in this case, Apple products. And I believe that if you care that much about what other people are using to the point where you would have to question their rationality, then you're a class-A jerk.

I replied to this:

> The amount straw grasping I've seen when people try to justify their purchases leaves me unable to tell anymore

The Mac mention in the grand-(...)-parent is just an example there. Surprise: I own a Mac.

> Except that's exactly what we were talking about here: Saying that people are "irrational" for not buying the same thing the poster did, in this case, Apple products.

It seems to me that you are the only one talking about people being irrational or not. People can't be irrational. Decisions can and only with different knowledge and/or values.

> I believe that if you care that much about what other people are using to the point where you would have to question their rationality, then you're a class-A jerk.

Class-A attack towards a straw man! :) Your potential issues with a stereotype have nothing to do with what I said. Good luck in your crusade, though.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by gdulli »

skrebbel wrote: post #272
gdulli wrote: post #253

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I would only deploy and run my code in Linux, but with VirtualBox I get all the benefits of Windows for applications (my favorite editor, mail client, Excel, mp3 player, IM client, a hundred other things) and a local Linux VM that works the same as my production environment. It's the best of both worlds. And no compromises like Cygwin (ugh) or the frustrating almost-but-not-quite Unix nature of OSX.

Woa, mail client. I've always hated the lack of good mail clients on Windows, may I ask which client you think is so good that you're willing to start VirtualBox for it? Thanks :-)

I meant I use VirtualBox only for my development environment and everything else is on the host OS.

Honestly nothing has been better than Outlook if the mail is hosted on an Exchange server. These days I use Outlook 2013 with an Outlook365 backend (their hosted service, it's what my employer uses, outside of my control) and it's not great but I don't like web-based clients and I don't know of a better desktop client.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by kozukumi »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #375
kozukumi wrote: post #356

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It is a ThinkPad T420s. The product key is on the CoA behind the battery not in the BIOS.

Yes, you have 2 cd keys, the key in the CoA sticker, which you have to activate by phone, and the OEM key embedded in the BIOS.

Are you sure? I have looked at the BIOS string and there is no product key. BIOS embedded product keys was something that happened with the Windows 8 release. Are you thinking of something else?

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by 72deluxe »

MrDosu wrote: post #391
72deluxe wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand backwards compatibility being a benefit, but why keep introducing new frameworks and ways of doing things if the old ones never get truly deprecated or cleaned up? Why highlight all the wonderful new Metro features and Universal apps if Win32/AFX/MFC/COM/COM+/DCOM/.NET/.NET not compatible with that other .NET/Silverlight/Metro never gets tidied up or moved on? It just leads to more bloat. They've made a…

I never said it was easy. It's enterprise features that HAVE to have a long lifetime. But COM is simple interface dispatching (it is actually much easier to implement COM in C/C++ because you have actual control over the interfaces and marshaling) in the end with syntax that is a bit dated i agree. It is not rocket science by far...

It is if the interface is connected to a rocket.....

You're right. The syntax is grim and debugging/troubleshooting is not pleasant.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by k-mcgrady »

tdicola wrote: post #365
k-mcgrady wrote: post #190

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>> "Because for years Microsoft built up a reputation for supporting old software and old APIs." That's a reputation they need to lose. It was important at one time but has been holding them back for years.

Just like the start menu was holding them back and had to be removed in Windows 8...

The start menu isn't old software/API's.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by zuck9 »

Aleman360 wrote: post #279
currysausage wrote: post #239

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> a broken start menu I love Windows 7, but do you honestly think the Windows 7 start menu is not broken? I believe we just got used to it over time. In Windows 7, I can either have an unstructured list of "pinned" programs, or I can manually categorize the real ("All programs") start menu. Option 1 doesn't scale beyond ~15 items (I have 22 pinned programs and it's a mess), and option 2 breaks whenever a program upda…

You can still make it full screen if you want: Settings > Personalization > Start > Use Start full screen

Can you put your contact info in your profile? I need to ask a quick question.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by aparecido »

lhecker wrote: post #189

Does anybody else experience issues with Truecrypt 7.1a? It displays X:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function. and the Computer Manager displays the drive with the RAW type. - Even though the filesystem is intact (tested on another Windows 8.1 computer) and - chkdsk showing NO errors (yes that's right: it even shows the filesystem as being NTFS). Aside from that my UI/UX experience with Windows 10 is great and I'm r…

same issue here. truecrypt was running well with windows 10 but then started showing this warning. i looked in the windows events logs but found no clues.

Re: Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

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Post by [deleted] »

lhecker wrote: post #189

Does anybody else experience issues with Truecrypt 7.1a? It displays X:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function. and the Computer Manager displays the drive with the RAW type. - Even though the filesystem is intact (tested on another Windows 8.1 computer) and - chkdsk showing NO errors (yes that's right: it even shows the filesystem as being NTFS). Aside from that my UI/UX experience with Windows 10 is great and I'm r…

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