I imagine this is of interest to your Tech/Linux pingees...
Hope you're doing better every day.
Yeah, but it is also a nice perk for people that want to steal peoples tablets and wipe them.
Windows 8 assassinated the PC
once Pandora’s box is opened...
If Microsoft uses it, one of the following is appropriate:
1. Someone else did it correctly, Gates bought them out, and turned it into crap.
2. Microsoft developed it in house. It was crap from birth.
Nope, Apple is not an innocent, but at least they had a creative developer and they hire competent programmers (well, sometimes anyway).
“leaked”... intentionally?
Wow, huge screw up on someone’s part. Heads will roll.
People are always tinkering trying to get a little more out of their devices. Typically, the biggest challenge trying to run an operating system that was not intended on most devices is trying to find drivers that will enable all the built in features.
I bought a little Windows 10 bargain tablet/laptop for $99. It mostly does what I was hoping it would... it allows me to use much of the same software that I run on my Windows 7 laptop in a very compact device. It even came with a free portable version of Office. But it has lots of tinkering possibilities. That is what we are really talking about here. There is no compelling reason to waste lots of time messing around with a $99 device. There are Linux builds available for it, but no one has got everything to work yet.
thanks for posting this; more evidence Microsoft is in utter chaos, helping to explain why they FORCE buggy W10 updates (like anniversary update) down people’s throats that brick hundreds of thousands of PCs each and every time, thereby permanently driving off another large group of formerly loyal customers with each corrupt update.
I just can’t fathom MS’s current strategy, unless they secretly WANT everyone to abandon their operating system. I stand in amazement at their strategy - it strikes me as insane. They seem to be doing everything in their power to alienate their users short of having the start-up screen for Windows say: “FU@K YOU, Windows User: Switch to Mac or Linux, you Moron!” I’m just wondering what new anti-customer strategy they will adopt next.
Windows 10 is such a hot mess, with so many ridiculous and new problems that keep accumulating version after major version that, as an independent PC support company, it’s not worth our time and effort to keep up on how to fix all of the dozens of problems that accumulate with each release or update. We now just tell people to either buy a W7/W8.x x64 Pro PC or go elsewhere to fix their problems. (I just turned down a new client yesterday who’s Surface 4 blue-screened most likely because of the Anniversary update.)
At least W8.x hasn’t made the full transition to a cell phone operating system under the hood, and with Classic Shell and a few other tweaks, can mostly be made to behave and function like W7.
I’m old enough and financially secure enough, that by the time the last W8.x systems have been retired, I’ll be pretty much retired from the PC support biz myself, so Microsoft can go F themselves.
Hey, maybe this means someone will port Android or Linux to my Surface RT !!!
