Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 Released
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I won't be installing Windows 10 before this happens, but I also realize that at some point they will stop providing Windows 8 security updates.
It's a bit of a pain to do but once done should make it quite a lot better...
Microsoft's doubling down on this position with their UWP which makes for binary sharing between mobile, tablet and phone. The expectation on Phones (maybe unstated? I'm always surprised we don't hear a single peep from the privacy people on it) is that your apps are sending home telemetry for everything you do. No vendor prevents this, no vendor even really enforces any restrictions on gross EULAs.
And as someone managing multiple mobile apps in the marketplace and doing code commits to one, let me tell you. What users expect is impossible without sufficient telemetry. Our dev tools on mobile are, at best, hacky garbage compared to the great stuff we have on the browser. So all we can do is observe issues in the field.
Unless we can convince the market to substantial raise the price point of software back up to the days when it was $60 in 2005 dollars, people are going to have to accept SOME sort of telemetry and subsidization. We cannot build the apps as cheaply as the market expects otherwise.
I know this isn't your problem, but maybe it should be?
Presumably, audio could be implemented by using a named pipe or network socket talk to an audio daemon too. The work on the Linux side should have already been done by PulseAudio while there seems to be some sort of port for older versions of Windows that might be a starting point for the Windows side:
http://downloads.tomsguide.com/pulseaudio-pulse-audio,0301-1...
If the X server supports GLX (which I read XMing and Cygwin/X support), we might even see 3D Linux games running on Ubuntu on Windows and presumably, people would publish benchmarks for the Linux versions of things like Unigine Oilrush against the Windows versions. I would expect the Linux versions to be at a disadvantage, but a surprise there would be hilarious.
If it could modify actual W32 apps then it'd be cool.
So much data. And users will want this in droves (specially since Pushbullet went premium).
Of course. What can possibly go wrong always having copied all the work the user does to some servers?
> keeps you in perfect sync
Actually keeps the company servers "in perfect sync" with the work of the user. And some of us worry about the telemetry and copying what user types -- it's actually presented/accepted as a big feature?
I understand that I'm probably a minority, for me, it's scary.
Researchers have shown the same sort of key mirroring is at play there. Especially for OSX, where it is just ridiculous how eager it is.
I enabled it when after saying "no thanks for the reboot now", it self-rebooted 10 minutes later
A small Azure instance is probably cheaper than the electricity you pay for your beastly desktop machine.
I really want to turn the automatic updates off, because they are actively counterproductive to everything I want to do. I know I need to update it, but I'll update it on my own schedule, thanks (like, when I'm not actually trying to use the computer).
At this point I no longer trust Windows Update to do its job properly. The idea of it even thinking about forcing a reboot terrifies me.
I sort of get this, but I also sort of think that it's unreasonable. On the one hand: yeah it's annoying. On the other, you're using outdated software, yo. Security is seriously business and just being in a VM is not actually great protection.
> I know I need to update it, but I'll update it on my own schedule, thanks (like, when I'm not actually trying to use the computer).
I don't mean to be cheeky but, if you were actually going to do that then you probably wouldn't be 2 months behind on the update schedule?
I have this constant internal conflict between, "This is my computer it should do what I tell it to do" and "Wow as a user I am acting unreasonably and recklessly by expecting that thing to work the way I want it to." Maybe I'm just projecting that at you right now. If so, sorry.
I often keep e.g. games suspended, especially when they are slow to start or have poor savegame support. I minimize them and suspend with process explorer. End user triggered savegames have had declining support for years.
I also don't particularly enjoy re-setting my screen session just the way I left it. There's a reason I run screen; it's persistent.
I stop the Windows Update service on a loop, because (on Windows 7 at least) it's quite buggy, eating hours of CPU time at 100% on a core, and stopping it once isn't enough.
I don't do any real work in Windows any more. In many ways, that makes it more annoying to reboot, because less perceived uptime has been had.
assuming that people don't use Windows 10 as a server but as a workstation the "will lose your unsaved work" argument is a bit exaggerated.
This is that moment for Microsoft.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/13/windows-1...
Isn't it still unknown what is sent to Microsoft even if the user says "don't" in the settings? What was with "everything the user types is copied to MSFT" servers?
When you work around this kind of problem with technical solutions you are telling Microsoft that they can get away with spying on most people.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...
The most interesting part:
"We configured our test virtual machine to use an HTTP and HTTPS proxy (both as a user-level proxy and a system-wide proxy) so that we could more easily monitor its traffic, but Windows 10 seems to make requests to a content delivery network that bypass the proxy."
As far as I'm aware this is as much as they've publicly released regarding telemetry, as for the "keylogger" thing I thought that was just a conspiracy theory.
> you must use Windows 10 Enterprise, version 1511 or Windows 10 Education, version 1511 to manage them all.
Note that the Enterprise versions seem to be effectively unreachable for most (as far as I understand, you must be a company and license for at least 5 computers for two years in advance). Windows 7 is the last generation where a "normal user" was able to get the so called "ultimate" edition which included the functionality from the "enterprise" version for approximately double the price of the Pro version.
What can everybody else do?
People continue to claim that it is still part of Windows 10 which has never been proven and most of these complaints aren't based on fact.
"At telemetry levels Enhanced and Full, Microsoft uses Linguistic Data Collection info to improve language model features such as autocomplete, spellcheck, suggestions, input pattern recognition, and dictionary. For more info, see the Get to know me setting in the Speech, inking, & typing section of this article and the Send Microsoft info about how I write to help us improve typing and writing in the future setting in the General section of this article. Note
Microsoft doesn't intentionally gather sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, usernames and passwords, email addresses, or other similarly sensitive information for Linguistic Data Collection. We guard against such events by using technologies to identify and remove sensitive information before linguistic data is sent from the user's device"
Of course, they can't know if anybody is typing the password in the wrong field or at the time they didn't expect.
I would have sworn there was a Reddit post where someone documented the same behavior on Enterprise SKUs as well, but I'm either mistaken or can't find it.
[1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...
I've had to resort to dirty hacks with cmd'er and screen to get the same cmd sessions across virtual desktops. This should definitely make things smoother.
- "We polished the Wi-Fi flyout UI and fixed an issue where text entry into a Wi-Fi password field was noticeably top-aligned rather than centered."
Source: I work on it.
As of yet, I have found no good solution to this problem, if I still want to be able to receive updates for other drivers.
First, you can opt into the bleeding-edge update stream http://i.imgur.com/7gWXLd3.png
Next is "current branch" for normal consumers, who are forcibly kept up to date (arguably a good thing, since they don't have an IT department to update their computers for them) http://i.imgur.com/kYkvffQ.png
Third is "current branch for business". Businesses are still required to upgrade, but they get a bit more time to ensure rollouts go smoothly. CBB can delay updates but not indefinitely. http://i.imgur.com/vsejEFC.png
Lastly, Enterprise and Education SKUs have access to the "long term servicing branch" where you can indefinitely delay updates, and/or run your own WSUS update servers. http://i.imgur.com/2JsFq1Y.png
tl;dr yes, but you need to pay for the Enterprise SKU for that privilege.
This reminds me very much of the old, arrogant MS. I fully appreciate "forcibly kept up to date (arguably a good thing, since they don't have an IT department to update their computers for them)" but imo to earn the good citizen award, MS should support a registry edit to give sophisticated users at least a few weeks of a nag screen before a forced update.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/deskto...
Aside from that I think you just have to give it some time.
How many Windows sys admins are there in the world what percentage of them do you know?
Giving more people access to common code and frequently-updated, open-source utilities -- how can you find fault with it?
Basically, take a look at the Windows Internals book and the new security isolation mentioned here https://www.blackhat.com/us-15/briefings.html#battle-of-the-... and you will quickly realize that Windows is a different beast with its own plan.
People have been predicting this since at least NT 4.
Which is not to say there weren't a ton of issues. It's just that we've seen historically how bad it could be and it was nowhere near that bad.