On 01/16/16 11:31, edevils so wittily quipped:
On 16/01/2016 18:14, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:06:39 -0000, Paul wrote:

Fritz Wuehler wrote:

So, free Windows is just like Linux now. A lot of code and
promising crap that never gets fixed or developed further.

Most of the time, we end up not understanding
why they're changing things. If the objective was
to in an obvious way, "make Win10 better and better",
I might have a more positive attitude to the rolling
release idea and what they're actually doing to it.

For example, the desktop version uses Windows
Update. The latest builds added Update Orchestrator,
which sits above Windows Update, a piece of software
used on the Enterprise edition. Do consumers
need Update Orchestrator ? No.
Did the policies in the OS change, because
of the presence of Update Orchestrator ? Yes.
Is the overall change an improvement for
consumers ? No.

The desktop version is being used as a testbed,
and for ideas that may have no positive impact
on the consumer version itself. And that's not
really the intention of the rolling release idea.
It's an abuse of rolling release.

Yawn..... it works for me, it's the nicest OS I've ever used. And it's
not gone wrong once.

It works for me too, but the fact that it is being used as a testbed,
like Paul put it, combined with the nearly "unstoppable" automatic
updates, makes me a bit unconfortable. I mean, a new feature update
could break it any time, could it not?


a new feature "update" could *ALSO* **** ME THE **** OFF. You know,
like that *****ING* *UGLY* 2D FLAT WINDOWS 1.01 "back to 1985 or worse"
appearance, so-called "Modern" look, with its fat-finger-friendly
spacing that WASTE MY SCREEN SPACE, and that "Phone OS" start THING that
puts "all apps" alphabetized with NO user configuration, and the
*ADVERTISING* and the *LIVE* *TILE* billboard and the *SPYWARE* feeding
what I do with *MY* computer back to "the mothership", etc. etc. etc.

"New" features indeed. what *ELSE* is coming down the pike, without our
ability to shut off or remove?