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The future of MS Windows
cesium133:
Microsoft keeps getting slimier and slimier about getting people to switch to Windows 10...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3042155/microsoft-windows/windows-patch-kb-3139929-when-a-security-update-is-not-a-security-update.html
If it weren't for things like this, I might have switched (when I had a spare long weekend to fuck around with all the crap that inevitably goes wrong when upgrading an operating system), but if Microsoft is going to insert things like this into security patches, forget about it.
ankhtahr:
So apparently Microsoft (after becoming part of OpenSSH) decided that the easiest way to use SSH on Windows would be implementing an interlayer which redirects syscalls (basically reverse Wine) and porting most of the Ubuntu userspace. Which allows you to run (almost) any Linux binary on Windows. It gives you a working bash. It gives you apt-get. On Windows.
Holy hell.
Most news outlets currently only focus on bash, but this means so much more.
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.html
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 13 Mar 2016, 18:19 ---Microsoft keeps getting slimier and slimier about getting people to switch to Windows 10...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3042155/microsoft-windows/windows-patch-kb-3139929-when-a-security-update-is-not-a-security-update.html
--- End quote ---
I'm amused that after telling us how bad this behaviour is, that blog then asks readers for an example because the author hasn't been able to trigger it.
SubaruStephen:
My old PC is still running Vista. How long do you think it'll be before MS forces my computer to upgrade to Windows X?
Because I'm fairly certain that the hardware won't handle it and I'll have to buy a new PC.
Tova:
I could be mistaken, but I was under the impression that Windows 10 is more likely to run well on old hardware than Vista, not less.
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