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Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by cjsuk »

stephengillie wrote: post #22

> Faster file sharing: Windows 10 Pro for Workstations includes a feature called SMB Direct, which supports the use of network adapters that have Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) capability. Network adapters that have RDMA can function at full speed with very low latency, while using very little CPU. Interesting to see file copy speeds mentioned. "Drag-and-drop" file copy has a known bottleneck that other methods (…

It won't make a damn bit of difference for a lot of users. Most of the horrible performance I find for windows file copies (and git/svn checkouts etc) is due to MFT contention in the filesystem rather than the network layer. This is for the "average user" scenario rather than fileserver however. This apparently hasn't gone away with ReFS either but I haven't personally tested it.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by intoverflow2 »

cjsuk wrote: post #36
intoverflow2 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get this is OS X too these days during the early hours. Computer wont even be idle I'll literally be typing and suddenly my apps will start closing left and right as OS X has decided its time to update/reboot. Classic example of Metrics Driven Design, if you start scoring a team's performance on how many people update to the latest version then the methods of forcing an update become more and more intrusive. No wonde…

That only happens if you tick all the boxes in the app store preferences window. And that's not the default. So you had to tick it.

It is by default I'm actually sitting on a fresh install as of a week ago on my work machine.

It probably retains a legacy setting if you updated but this is straight from Apple. I never even knew that preference box existed.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by [deleted] »

silly_giraffe wrote: post #38
tokenizerrr wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rebooting your computer daily will do the trick. Either shut it down at the end of the day, or give it a reboot. It will do its thing and leave you alone for the next 24 hours. Before you downvote me, which many of you have done already for some reason, please keep in mind that this advice actually works. It's not my decision to have things work like this. That's on Microsoft. But it does work, and is legitimate advi…

Except for us crazy individuals that need the computer on for uninterrupted data processing. I have Windows only software that can take two weeks to complete a dataset. There is no intermediate data backup, so if the job is killed, I have to start over. My only reliable option has been to keep it off the network.

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Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by tokenizerrr »

silly_giraffe wrote: post #38
tokenizerrr wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rebooting your computer daily will do the trick. Either shut it down at the end of the day, or give it a reboot. It will do its thing and leave you alone for the next 24 hours. Before you downvote me, which many of you have done already for some reason, please keep in mind that this advice actually works. It's not my decision to have things work like this. That's on Microsoft. But it does work, and is legitimate advi…

Except for us crazy individuals that need the computer on for uninterrupted data processing. I have Windows only software that can take two weeks to complete a dataset. There is no intermediate data backup, so if the job is killed, I have to start over. My only reliable option has been to keep it off the network.

You're not a regular end user. The Microsoft way is for you to get the more expensive license so you can use group policies to adjust this behavior.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by oneplane »

intoverflow2 wrote: post #43
cjsuk wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That only happens if you tick all the boxes in the app store preferences window. And that's not the default. So you had to tick it.

It is by default I'm actually sitting on a fresh install as of a week ago on my work machine. It probably retains a legacy setting if you updated but this is straight from Apple. I never even knew that preference box existed.

It will actually both make a notification popup on "turning on automatic updates" which then directs you to a settings panel where you manually have to check the box.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by pidg »

cm2187 wrote: post #29
tokenizerrr wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rebooting your computer daily will do the trick. Either shut it down at the end of the day, or give it a reboot. It will do its thing and leave you alone for the next 24 hours. Before you downvote me, which many of you have done already for some reason, please keep in mind that this advice actually works. It's not my decision to have things work like this. That's on Microsoft. But it does work, and is legitimate advi…

Sounds like a Windows 98 advice...

Problem: I do not like that the computer reboots automatically.

Solution: Reboot computer manually.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by cm2187 »

4ad wrote: post #31

I don't need this. What I need is a legal way to acquire Windows 10 Long Term Support Branch. Basically Windows 10 without all the crap. No metro, and no feature updates whatsoever, just security updates, and supported for 10 years. Sort of like a Windows version of RHEL, if you will. Now that is something that I want. To play a numbers game, I'd pay $500 for that if it came with HyperV and the possibility of creatin…

You are getting close to a MSDN license

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/visual-studio-profes...

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by [deleted] »

detaro wrote: post #25
mdek wrote: post #24

Will this address the absurd automatic updates/reboot "feature"? I've had the experience multiple times where a step away for a few minutes and come back to a blank desktop, even during the "active hours" period. This is especially infuriating when I do most of my work in a vbox slackware VM and win10 is just a host that I want to stay out of the way; instead I lose my entire current state. This seems like a major de…

I set the group policy to ask the user before installation and never had a problem. It still wants to reboot after you install the update, but since it only installs the update when you tell it to it's effectively manual control.

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