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  1. 13 points
  2. Leave windows 7 for fear of malware for what? Windows 10 which has malware already built in?
    11 points
  3. GCHQ: It's time to ditch Windows 7 if you want to stay safe online

    Nah, I'm just going to unplug my Ethernet cable tomorrow instead.
    8 points
  4. I wouldn’t dare leave Windows 7 for that atrocity named Windows 10. I’ve already wisely, and happily, made other plans. If an LTSC version is legally made available for regular consumers, then maybe.
    4 points
  5. The fact that we have 440 millions of users running Windows 7 5 years after Windows 10 release tells me how horribly Windows 10 failed. We all should move away from Windows 7 but Microsoft did not create a viable replacement for it.
    4 points
  6. Side note: I ran the Windows 10 installer and was able to successfully upgrade 5 Windows 7 systems to Windows 10, fully activated last week.
    4 points
  7. Port 0 on grc.com

    I'd pay good money to see/hear @BudMan have a rap battle with Steve Gibson
    3 points
  8. Effing DRM. Pirated versions probably work fine.
    3 points
  9. It also tells me people hate change. Last week had one customer bring me their "New" Windows 10 laptop to switch all their stuff to. A beautiful HP Spectre x360 ultrabook with an SSD. The Plot twist was that they got it 3 years ago and just left it in a box at 0% battery because they loved their Samsung windows 7 laptop. When it came time to use her "New" laptop the battery was shot. The bios would say it's time to replace the battery and once in windows the % would instantly read 100% but once unplugged it would just shut off. Windows 10 brought nothing to people, other than horrible UI, inconsistency, bugs and not to mention Settings which is hell of more confusing for average Joe than Control Panel not to mention lack of visual cure in Windows 10 UI....just horrible experience with built in malware, annoyance and other stuff. Complete failure. The search in Start menu is just one big cluster f. In fact Start Menu is so useless that most people just pinned the crap out of everything on Taskbar and Desktop to avoid Start Menu all together. 5 years of Microsoft alienation of Win32 led to complete Microsoft Store and UWP failure. It really bite them back. I am sure security improvements Windows 10 bought are good but from average Joe point of view it is something they could care less about, they assume it is secured. Microsoft built Windows 8/8.1/10 and all what people wanted was Windows 7 Service Pack 2. The number of people using Windows 10 is much less than what Microsoft and other sources tells us. There are lot of Windows 10 machines sitting duck, no one cares or using them. In fact Windows 10 market is so fragmented between different version that even Microsoft lost themselves in it. The last two releases 1909 and 2004 bring nothing meaningful, in other words Microsoft themselves is running out of ideas too. I honestly think they need to kill Windows 10 and revive Windows 7 in some new form.
    3 points
  10. Port 0 on grc.com

    Compelling arguments from both sides...
    3 points
  11. Port 0 on grc.com

    I'm not worried really, just odd that this only started showing up recently. Usually get this, as I did just now. Charter/Spectrum is my ISP. Wow! Did you really say that!! Don't think I've ever heard anyone say that out loud!!
    3 points
  12. Nothing to do with sensibility. It's a matter of justice. People get away with far less for more serious crimes on a daily basis.
    3 points
  13. These are people that got apps like never10 and didn't take the free windows 10 upgrade. You'd be surprised how many people still don't know Windows 10 is still a FREE upgrade. I thought they stopped offering that? You can still run the media creation tool and upgrade 7 to windows 10 or clean install using your windows 7 key.
    3 points
  14. GCHQ: It's time to ditch Windows 7 if you want to stay safe online

    These are people that got apps like never10 and didn't take the free windows 10 upgrade. You'd be surprised how many people still don't know Windows 10 is still a FREE upgrade.
    3 points
  15. Nope, leave it for Linux Mint Xfce, as suggested in article. Why do they say Windows 7 is dead after tomorrow? Tomorrow is patch Tuesday, which Windows 7 will receive, so sort of technically, it's still good for another month. I wiped a cheap laptop that came with Windows 10 and instead I installed elementaryOS. I will never run windows again. I only have Linux and Macs at home.
    3 points
  16. Nope, leave it for Linux Mint Xfce, as suggested in article. Why do they say Windows 7 is dead after tomorrow? Tomorrow is patch Tuesday, which Windows 7 will receive, so sort of technically, it's still good for another month.
    3 points
  17. But didn't that decrease clock speed in half, for backward compatibility? It depended on how your button was wired by default, since it was a toggle push button. Turbo mode was just the default mode and disabling it caused it to use a lower frequency. Most had it so that when it was toggled on (pushed in), turbo mode (regular speed) was on. But some had it the opposite way.
    2 points
  18. So they're finally implementing power plans, like Windows has had for almost 20 years?
    2 points
  19. Might be a little more elegant than the previous generations pro-mode, which activated when you put it in a freezer.
    2 points
  20. 2 points
  21. Windows 7 has had a good run but it's time to put it to rest. It's over 10 years old now. Windows 10 is a completely viable OS even if you don't personally like it. I agree it is time, it just happens Microsoft didn't release anything worth replacing it. It looks like I will have another 2 years of run on Windows 7 regardless. I think you forgot about Windows 10. If I was fine by now, I will be for the next two years as well. I still do all my work and play all games on Windows 7 fine. I hope in next two years Windows 10 gets replaced by something or at least evolves into something I can use. Google and other said they will support Windows 7 for the next two years anyway. Just curious....what on Windows 10 can you not use? I just don't like OS, UI is not user friendly...and don't like forced updates. It does not play games as good as Windows 7, and lot of old games do not work right. Wi-Fi never worked right with it, search is broken. Sorry but when I search something in Start Menu it cannot find a squat. Entire experience there with useless web search result appears to me like I installed some third party malware crap. No safe mode. Microsoft idea of Safe Mode in Windows 10 defeats the purpose of safe mode. Audio support in Windows 10 is an absolute junk. Windows 7 / Vista already had horrible broken Audio support compared to Windows XP. It is ridicilous that sound coming out of Windows XP is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> better than what is considered a modern OS.
    2 points
  22. Steam works will be good in the Long run. Don't we get Game Save Syncing too that way.
    2 points
  23. They should extend Windows 7 support in general for 18 months as well.
    2 points
  24. if you want to stay safe(online or offline) you have to ditch windows.
    2 points
  25. I used Win10, and got tired of my pc crashing after every new update. I went back to Win7. Not worried, hell..half our banks in the US are still on Windows 2000. lol
    2 points
  26. GCHQ: It's time to ditch Windows 7 if you want to stay safe online

    FWIW, that's exactly what I've done on 7 of the 8 machines here! Dang wife had a chance to get used to Windows 10 at her work place before I could get her computer switched! Actually, I don't really have anything really bad to say about Windows 10 except I just don't like it's setup and updates take 10 times longer than on Linux. I just wish that by default Cortona would shut the **** up and just let us go next next next. Hmm? Haven't ever heard or seen anything from Cortana on any Windows 10 Home or Pro that I've used here. On a clean install when it first gets to windows for the rest of the setup "Hi, i'm Cortona and i'm here to help. A little wifi here sign in there and we'll get your PC ready for all you plan todo. If you'd like me to stay quiet all you have to do is press the sound icon" (If you press that, it just mutes her and you still have to wait for her to get done talking. If it doesn't detect your audio driver it will let you blast through it. Jesus Christ this... I setup 4-5 laptops one day, walked away, suddenly had Cortana yelling at me through them all.
    2 points
  27. IDK, I have been using windows 10 for a while now and how I use it, it is no different than windows 7. FWIW, I rarely use the start menu, commands or cortana is how I use it. The only time I use start is when I right click on it to use one of the menu options, ie. shutdown/sign out. It is much faster to type what I want than it is to scroll through the start menu to try to remember the company and/or the program I want. Even the control panel applets are faster to type out than try to figure out where microsoft put them. I got tired of playing "guess where microsoft put it" back in windows xp, now it doesn't matter where they put it.
    2 points
  28. So he didn't know he wasn't allowed to have a phone, no one took it from him when he went in, and in what seems to be something of a rare case he has worked to change his ways after his previous conviction. And they want to give him 12 years? Are they mad? What happens to the officers? It's down to their negligence after all.
    2 points
  29. Wait... this article telling people if they have windows 7 and want windows 10 they have to buy it? Microsoft is still offering Windows 10 for free. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Just go here and if you want windows 10 download and install it. You can upgrade over Windows 7 or you can create an iso and make a bootable dvd / usb drive and clean install using your existing windows 7 key. Typically if your system has a core i3 / core i5 it should run windows fine. I would recommend you have a minimum of 4gb of ram.
    2 points
  30. Nope, leave it for Linux Mint Xfce, as suggested in article. Why do they say Windows 7 is dead after tomorrow? Tomorrow is patch Tuesday, which Windows 7 will receive, so sort of technically, it's still good for another month. I wiped a cheap laptop that came with Windows 10 and instead I installed elementaryOS. I will never run windows again. I only have Linux and Macs at home. If you are happy with elementaryOS it means you didn't need Windows in the first place. I have tried elementaryOS too, good looking user interface... and not much else. Its like a toy to me.
    2 points
  31. GCHQ: It's time to ditch Windows 7 if you want to stay safe online

    What malware are you talking about?
    2 points
  32. SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

    2 points
  33. oh dear gawd, look up the history of "life line phones" hint it wasn't obama..... The original program (legislation) started with Reagan with landline phones but it has been changed several times and the current program is from Obama, hence its name. No and No. Yes, the legislation started under Reagan, back when Leftists called it the horrific Reagan phone. (Oh wait, they weren't ######ing ghouls, and didn't do that.) The Cellphone provisions were added under Bush 43. If you want to call it 'Obama' anything - the only changes made, were to add Home Internet Access (and this has even been ######ed up by Republican Pukes.) Why not just be honest? YOU didn't know it was originally a Reagan program YOU only heard crap from Fox or some other source THAT WAS INTENTIONALLY LYING TO YOU, and MADE YOU LOOK FOOLISH. If any of my sources for information did something like this, I would never trust them again. Everyone should also go, weird, is that true? - And then source the information every time a story is NOT properly sourced. Which is why a TV News Station or blowhard on the Radio should NEVER be a source for News, Facts or Information. I wonder what else you might falsely believe. There is a chance, if you suck it up and do some questioning of things you were told, you might find out your were conned by horrible people.
    2 points
  34. The program was started by Bush (43), not Obama.
    2 points
  35. They missed the mark completely with the store. Should be more like a package manager. No one uses 'apps' in Windows.
    2 points
  36. Morbius (July 31st, 2020)

    1 point
  37. Ima buy a big red button for this.
    1 point
  38. Windows 7 has had a good run but it's time to put it to rest. It's over 10 years old now. Windows 10 is a completely viable OS even if you don't personally like it. I agree it is time, it just happens Microsoft didn't release anything worth replacing it. It looks like I will have another 2 years of run on Windows 7 regardless. I think you forgot about Windows 10. If I was fine by now, I will be for the next two years as well. I still do all my work and play all games on Windows 7 fine. I hope in next two years Windows 10 gets replaced by something or at least evolves into something I can use. Google and other said they will support Windows 7 for the next two years anyway.
    1 point
  39. Windows 7 has had a good run but it's time to put it to rest. It's over 10 years old now. Windows 10 is a completely viable OS even if you don't personally like it. I agree it is time, it just happens Microsoft didn't release anything worth replacing it. It looks like I will have another 2 years of run on Windows 7 regardless.
    1 point
  40. GCHQ: It's time to ditch Windows 7 if you want to stay safe online

    FWIW, that's exactly what I've done on 7 of the 8 machines here! Dang wife had a chance to get used to Windows 10 at her work place before I could get her computer switched! Actually, I don't really have anything really bad to say about Windows 10 except I just don't like it's setup and updates take 10 times longer than on Linux. I just wish that by default Cortona would shut the **** up and just let us go next next next.
    1 point
  41. Port 0 on grc.com

    Yeah he is like the 1 fan I don't have a problem with a port tester - it can come in handy.. And don't have a problem with him trying to get security issues out to the masses.. What I have a problem with is the sky is falling tactics he has used over the years, etc. Remember how raw sockets were going to "break" the internet as we knew it.. As to taking anything he says with a "grain" of salt - yeah would agree with that assessment... The whole shaker would be good to use
    1 point
  42. Port 0 on grc.com

    You mean you get blue - ie "closed" vs failed (red) and their nonsense term of "stealth" green If that gets back a closed answer that just means something answered, could of been a reject or icmp message saying hey nothing here sort of thing.. Normally your firewall should not answer to a port 0 dest, etc. Could be something between you and them as well.. Might not actually be your firewall.
    1 point
  43. Some of those might just be Surface Go issues, not windows 10 Issues. On the Surface Pro X, pressing the power button turns off the screen just like on a phone or non-windows tablet. I haven't used it in tablet mode a lot, but the times I have I didn't notice any issues with the on-screen keyboard showing up. I just tested it again with Edge (not chromium), Firefox (ARM64 beta), notepad and word, and the onscreen keyboard comes right up when I tap an input box or text area. And this was in regular mode (not tablet mode). The Pro X does disable the type cover keyboard in portrait orientation like you describe with older Surfaces. I've never actually noticed this before either with this new Surface or my old Surface RT, because honestly the only time I rotate the device is with the keyboard detached. I expect this is by design, to avoid accidental key presses when it's not in laptop mode. I'll admit I'm really not sure why this bothers you... how are you supposed to type on the keyboard with it sideways? But I guess everyone has their likes and dislikes... maybe submit feedback (via the feedback hub) that you'd like an option added to the settings to change this behavior?
    1 point
  44. GCHQ: It's time to ditch Windows 7 if you want to stay safe online

    Officially, you have to pay. According to Microsoft, the free upgrade is over. Unofficially, they're not going to remove the free upgrade until Windows 8 goes away because it would be support nightmare.
    1 point
  45. GCHQ: It's time to ditch Windows 7 if you want to stay safe online

    440 million seems worryingly high, especially considering Windows 10 will be turning 5 this year.
    1 point
  46. Nokia 7.2 review: A $299 phone that's better than a Moto G7

    I just have to say there's something about seeing phones face down on bricks that makes me wince! Makes for a nice looking pic though.
    1 point
  47. MS and Apple do the same thing with their apps. So nothing new with what Google is doing. That's a poor argument for justification. Furthermore, I can remove the Mail and Calendar apps if I want, along with a number of other things non-essential. By comparison, carriers alone on Android can install like 10 apps on your phone at least. I recall some stupid football app on my old Samsung back with Sprint for example. :/
    1 point
  48. A closer look at Dynabook's 1.92-pound Portégé X30L-G

    I’m not average, woot! (I don’t eat fries at all)
    1 point
  49. For those of use who believe in the Tooth Fairy and that privacy exists on the Internet, the following quote applies: Samsung has clarified that the storage scanner feature only sends generic data back to Qihoo's servers in China that's required for the feature to work properly. This includes data like the OS version, phone model, and storage capacity. No data is sent to Qihoo's servers that would allow it to locate any data stored on a user's phone. Of particular interest is the last sentence. Yeah...right.
    1 point
  50. Playstore bug? Sounds like Google is up to its old tricks again.
    1 point