Windows 10: What You Need to Know

Buddahaid · 07-17-17, 11:53 AM

Still works for me as well as 7 did. I've been using their new mail app too but I suppose you'll tell me how bad that works for me too.

Rockin Robbins · 07-17-17, 11:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Still works for me as well as 7 did. I've been using their new mail app too but I suppose you'll tell me how bad that works for me too.

If the e-mail app is one of them "modern apps" translation: turns a computer into a cell phone, Thunderbird beats it in every respect plus a lot more respects than cell phone app doesn't have.

Moonlight · 07-17-17, 11:58 AM

^He's no need to tell you that Buddahaid as Microsnot already knows.

Rockin Robbins · 07-17-17, 12:51 PM

And if Windows 10 is so great why are one in four intending to switch to Apple in the next six months? How do you explain the graph above showing Microsoft falling off a cliff through Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 without a single hitch, just a straight downward trend?

Microsoft has made a corporate decision to die. Its refusal to alter the downward plunge for six years proves their demise is no accident.

Buddahaid · 07-17-17, 12:59 PM

I'm only relating my experience. I can't speak for the whiner generation.

Skybird · 07-20-17, 05:14 AM

https://www.askwoody.com/2017/window...ches-continue/

Well.

Rockin Robbins · 07-26-17, 04:06 PM

Microsoft’s stance on unsupported hardware adds uncertainty to Windows 10

To quote Microsoft, "any hardware device that falls out of the manufacturer's support cycle may be ineligible for future Windows 10 updates." That means if your sound card, headphones, DVD Drive, keyboard, or any component isn't presently supported by its manufacturer you may not be able to continue to run Windows.

Anybody think this is a reasonable stance? What are these people smoking?

Skybird · 07-26-17, 06:18 PM

Planned obsolescence. People should be forced to buy hardware new from scratch in shorter intervalls. Everything. PC, periphery, game controllers, printers. At best every two years. You see the same business "understanding" in their crappy tablets.

The Monsanto of digital seeds.

People. Boycott this crap. You owe it to yourself.

Skybird · 08-04-17, 09:02 AM

What a total mess. I have lost both my two DVDs where I had saved my patch archive for a fresh Windows 7 installation. The original, and the copy - both gone. I included the patches released until SP1, and then the patches from SP1 until summer 2015. It did not include anything later, avoiding most of those messy later patches dealing with Microsoft'S brutal GWX assault-campaign and the earlier attempts of inverse-installing W10-spy technology into Windows 7.

These DVDs were my holy grail. I forsaw the probolems I now have, and knew they were precious therefore. They would have allowed me to reinstall W7 without needing to access Microsoft's infested malware database online.

I desperately searched for an hour now foran old source, website, link, whatever, where I could get such an old patch archive and download it, and not from Microsoft. Two years ago, such places existed, today I find none anymore.

Has anyone a trustworthy link? The problem with PC magazinse' according offeringsd is that they always update their archive to the latest status, so I get all the crap from the past two years with them as well. I want nothing beyond summer 2015 at the latest.

I will never forgive Microsoft what a mess they have turned my gaming life into.

And don'T tell me about W10. I will never get into, period. Also do not tell me about Linux, I use it already for anything else. But the kind of simulations I want to play, and Linux - do not go well together.

Skybird · 08-04-17, 09:22 AM

To be precise, of course SP1 from 2011 is still downloadable. I need a patch archive for the patches from 2011 until late 2014 or early 2015 at max - not beyond.

No need to talk of SP2 either, that one is from Spring 2016 and thus includes too much of the toxic stuff already that I want to avoid. The patches - for 64 Bit btw - of the year late 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - this is what I am after.

Buddahaid · 08-04-17, 09:40 AM

Have you looked here? They pretty much have the full archive to dig through.
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx

07-17-17, 11:53 AM	#1
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,325 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Still works for me as well as 7 did. I've been using their new mail app too but I suppose you'll tell me how bad that works for me too. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

07-17-17, 11:58 AM	#3
Moonlight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Fookhall Copse Posts: 2,519 Downloads: 184 Uploads: 0	^He's no need to tell you that Buddahaid as Microsnot already knows. __________________

07-17-17, 12:51 PM	#4
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	And if Windows 10 is so great why are one in four intending to switch to Apple in the next six months? How do you explain the graph above showing Microsoft falling off a cliff through Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 without a single hitch, just a straight downward trend? Microsoft has made a corporate decision to die. Its refusal to alter the downward plunge for six years proves their demise is no accident. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

07-17-17, 12:59 PM	#5
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,325 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	I'm only relating my experience. I can't speak for the whiner generation. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

07-20-17, 05:14 AM	#6
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,645 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	https://www.askwoody.com/2017/window...ches-continue/ Well. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

07-26-17, 04:06 PM	#7
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	*Microsoft’s stance on unsupported hardware adds uncertainty to Windows 10* To quote Microsoft, "any hardware device that falls out of the manufacturer's support cycle may be ineligible for future Windows 10 updates." That means if your sound card, headphones, DVD Drive, keyboard, or any component isn't presently supported by its manufacturer you may not be able to continue to run Windows. Anybody think this is a reasonable stance? What are these people smoking? __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

07-26-17, 06:18 PM	#8
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,645 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Planned obsolescence. People should be forced to buy hardware new from scratch in shorter intervalls. Everything. PC, periphery, game controllers, printers. At best every two years. You see the same business "understanding" in their crappy tablets. The Monsanto of digital seeds. People. Boycott this crap. You owe it to yourself. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

08-04-17, 09:02 AM	#9
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,645 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	W7 Patch Archive disaster What a total mess. I have lost both my two DVDs where I had saved my patch archive for a fresh Windows 7 installation. The original, and the copy - both gone. I included the patches released until SP1, and then the patches from SP1 until summer 2015. It did not include anything later, avoiding most of those messy later patches dealing with Microsoft'S brutal GWX assault-campaign and the earlier attempts of inverse-installing W10-spy technology into Windows 7. These DVDs were my holy grail. I forsaw the probolems I now have, and knew they were precious therefore. They would have allowed me to reinstall W7 without needing to access Microsoft's infested malware database online. I desperately searched for an hour now foran old source, website, link, whatever, where I could get such an old patch archive and download it, and not from Microsoft. Two years ago, such places existed, today I find none anymore. Has anyone a trustworthy link? The problem with PC magazinse' according offeringsd is that they always update their archive to the latest status, so I get all the crap from the past two years with them as well. I want nothing beyond summer 2015 at the latest. I will never forgive Microsoft what a mess they have turned my gaming life into. And don'T tell me about W10. I will never get into, period. Also do not tell me about Linux, I use it already for anything else. But the kind of simulations I want to play, and Linux - do not go well together. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

08-04-17, 09:22 AM	#10
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,645 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	To be precise, of course SP1 from 2011 is still downloadable. I need a patch archive for the patches from 2011 until late 2014 or early 2015 at max - not beyond. No need to talk of SP2 either, that one is from Spring 2016 and thus includes too much of the toxic stuff already that I want to avoid. The patches - for 64 Bit btw - of the year late 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - this is what I am after. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

08-04-17, 09:40 AM	#11
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,325 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Have you looked here? They pretty much have the full archive to dig through. http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie