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On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:00:17 +0100, "Carlos E. R."
wrote: It is not nice that an old machine gets infected by ransomware via a hole that is patched in Win 10, and once there it infects or corrupts other systems via network. Damage can be many thousands or euros. If there is some task that needs an ancient OS, better remove the network access to that machine and remove the USB sockets. A long time ago, I worked at a company that had an overworked IT department because USB thumb drives were just becoming all the rage. Malware and pirated software were rampant. At a management meeting, one of the Directors suggested filling each USB port with super glue to stop people from being able to plug in their USB drives. Just then, another Director spoke up and said, "Ummm, these are leased machines. Someday they'll need to go back where they came from." The issue was addressed in other ways, but that little exchange was water cooler talk for quite some time thereafter. -- Char Jackson |
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Hash: SHA256 ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.comp.os.windows-10.] Ken Blake wrote: On 11/6/2019 11:36 AM, VanguardLH wrote: Rene Lamontagne wrote: T wrote: VanguardLH wrote: How old are these customers of yours? These three are in their forties. Old farts are a challenge to configure for, but fortunately, they are need are rather minor: web and eMail and something to jot down a note on. Oh and Solitaire. Hearts. :-) Ever played Zork I? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWQDccL0aXM Wasn't until 1993 with the release of Return to Zork that added graphics. The "Web" showed up a year or two later starting with Mosaic. Ah, nostalgia. The good old days of PCs thankfully since far surpassed. I have hardly ever played any computer games, with three exceptions: Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III, around 1985. It's very dark in here. You are liable to be eaten by a Grue. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl3DTt MACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooGd5gf7B20EXiXFepaE/JfJQvG4xddD2+BREtT7PxHOssy2VGstD4lKpd63zQbl AnTAh1KhtZ2wbnynklp0/lqOxw9+Fkitpovun+5LPbuzpbo7mRtlK8iV3PGVQxZW fDnXt8fExeG6vbIihaboWItc5/QNF+xkB4R3KQ9dDqSEriFo2OX99UbvEYl17Z29 Ee7F3Zxc2kBsdLWtskIn/KySK/l5dx+sfR0GuvHEsJyI6OBT5QoAoLyXkLd+Ze1k mSflfX9WGuwVKRI95qd/W56jyibR5Pe3SbTj2UKdVkQm8hkgUJ2AMHh1aC+YtQ3g jMKjQLPs3+5k6mtPCajVVO4Zz0undg== =FUfp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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On 11/6/2019 3:53 PM, Dan Purgert wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.comp.os.windows-10.] Ken Blake wrote: On 11/6/2019 11:36 AM, VanguardLH wrote: Rene Lamontagne wrote: T wrote: VanguardLH wrote: How old are these customers of yours? These three are in their forties. Old farts are a challenge to configure for, but fortunately, they are need are rather minor: web and eMail and something to jot down a note on. Oh and Solitaire. Hearts. :-) Ever played Zork I? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWQDccL0aXM Wasn't until 1993 with the release of Return to Zork that added graphics. The "Web" showed up a year or two later starting with Mosaic. Ah, nostalgia. The good old days of PCs thankfully since far surpassed. I have hardly ever played any computer games, with three exceptions: Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III, around 1985. It's very dark in here. You are liable to be eaten by a Grue. I was. That's why I haven't played any computer games since then. -- Ken |
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In alt.windows7.general Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 06/11/2019 21.40, VanguardLH wrote: "Carlos E. R." wrote: [Microsoft] were good in the past at purchasing external utilities, or a limited version of them. Since MsDOS times. For instance, they bought a version of PCtools backup. PC Tools (Central Point) was acquired by Symantec in 1994 who then made PC Tools disappear. Symantec didn't buy Central Point to include that software in their own product line. They bought Central Point to get rid of a competitor (to their own Norton Tools). Symantec also bought Altiris which had free SVM (Software Virtualization Machine) which let you install and run multiple versions of the same program or programs that conflicted with each other. When a program was disabled, it was invisible, so it no longer conflicted with other software. Some software doesn't like multiple versions of it concurrently installed or ran on the same host, but in QA you may need to test your program under different environs. Some software conflicted with other software, especially similarly functioned programs. You could have Altiris automatically disable (hide) one program when you loaded another known to conflict with the other. It was slick. It competed with Symantec's SVM (available only as an enterprise product), so Symantec bought them, claimed they would make it available, but instead made it disappear. Got rid of another competitor. Symantec acquired Delrina's Winfax. Guess what happened to that software? Yep, it faded away, too. Remember PartitionMagic from Powerquest? Yep, Symantec acquired Powerquest in 2003, so PartitionMagic disappeared, too. Uncharacteristic to Symantec, they acquired Peter Norton Computing in 1990 which continues today as the Norton product line. Because Norton Tools was included, 4 years later they acquired and got rid of Central Point to get rid of the highly successful but competing PC Tools. So that was it. I wondered. And Symantec's enterprise goes to Broadcom and consumer products to go to NortonLifeLock. https://investor.nortonlifelock.com/...m/default.aspx :O -- "In a battle between elephants, the ants get squashed." --Thailand Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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In alt.windows7.general "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , T writes: On 11/6/19 12:32 AM, Chris wrote: T wrote: [] Windows 7 is a perfectly functional operating system. Only for two more months. It is 10 years old. And functioning well. And there is a lot of them out there still. [] It'd be interesting to know both numbers and proportions. I _suspect_ 7 is now where XP was - actually some time after XP officially ended; 7's take-up was gradual, possibly even actually accelerated by the appearance of 8.0. I'm holding onto my 64-bit 7 HPE SP1 as long as I can like I did with XP Pro. SP3. I don't know where I will go after it. Maybe full-time Linux with VMs. At least I don't play computer game these day in Windows. -- "In a battle between elephants, the ants get squashed." --Thailand Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , T writes: On 11/6/19 12:32 AM, Chris wrote: T wrote: [] Windows 7 is a perfectly functional operating system. Only for two more months. It is 10 years old. And functioning well. And there is a lot of them out there still. [] It'd be interesting to know both numbers and proportions. I _suspect_ 7 is now where XP was - actually some time after XP officially ended; 7's take-up was gradual, possibly even actually accelerated by the appearance of 8.0. https://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp Win 10 54% and win 7 14% |
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Ken Blake wrote:
On 11/6/2019 1:10 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: On 06/11/2019 20.15, Ken Blake wrote: Â*T wrote: Hmmmm.Â* That is FUD.Â* 7 got broken into more than XP. M$ security is a joke.Â* You are much better off getting a good antivirus. Microsoft security has traditionally been poor compared to the third-party alternatives, with one exception: Windows 10 Defender. There might be one or two better ant-virus programs, but Defender is a good one too. As a matter of fact fact, most Microsoft utilities and application programs are inferior to most of the third-party alternatives. Not everyone will agree with my views on these, but I'll name just a couple of examples that I feel strongly about: FireFox is better than Edge, WordPerfect is better than Word; Quicken is better than Money (which Microsoft no longer sells). They were good in the past at purchasing external utilities, or a limited version of them. Since MsDOS times. For instance, they bought a version of PCtools backup. They can't do too much of that. Undoubtedly they fear being cited for monopolizng the market Like all big companies they do quite a lot. They bought a mobile email client and reskinned it as outlook and they recently bought GitHub for a lot of money. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...s_by_Microsoft |
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On 6 Nov 2019 16:22:19 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote: T wrote: [About having to switch to Windows 10 because of Office 2019:] They have tons of specialty software that runs Windows. They are going to eventually have to bit the bullet. There are things I can do to calm 10 down. 10's updates are a nightmare too. (I can turn them off.) They just are not looking forward to running an inferior version of Windows. And NVMe drive goes a long way to calming 10 down. And there is Open Shell and Shut Up 10 (From this and earlier threads,) It looks to me (us?) that it's not so much your customers who are unwilling to change, but you. You've had over four years to prepare migration plans from Windows whatever to Windows 10. Should be more than enough. Don't get me wrong, for my *personal* (non-business) use, I don't like Windows 10 very much either and hence still use 8.1, but holding on to Windows 7 past its use-by date for (small) *business* purposes is just plain unprofessional. If it's really your customers who can't handle change, they should get out of whatever business they're in. (N.B. This obviously does not apply to any 'old farts' which use their systems for private (non-business) use.) There are still plenty of people in mega corporations using XP for their POS and other industrial applications., If the job didn't change, why change the software? M$ has convinced a generation or two of customers that software just wears out. If nothing changed on a computer or to a computer from the day it was bought, then yes there's no reason to update anything. However, software and use cases continuously evolve such that you need upgrade. For example hardware can fail so you replace it with new, but you can't simply copy the existing install over as the chipset drivers aren't compatible with the old OS so you upgrade the OS, but then the app isn't compatible with OS and so on. |
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Ant wrote:
In alt.windows7.general "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: In message , T writes: On 11/6/19 12:32 AM, Chris wrote: T wrote: [] Windows 7 is a perfectly functional operating system. Only for two more months. It is 10 years old. And functioning well. And there is a lot of them out there still. [] It'd be interesting to know both numbers and proportions. I _suspect_ 7 is now where XP was - actually some time after XP officially ended; 7's take-up was gradual, possibly even actually accelerated by the appearance of 8.0. I'm holding onto my 64-bit 7 HPE SP1 as long as I can like I did with XP Pro. SP3. I don't know where I will go after it. Maybe full-time Linux with VMs. At least I don't play computer game these day in Windows. You might consider switching to 8.1 when 7 no longer gets any security updates. 8.1 will give you three more years of updates (Extended support until January 10, 2023). IMO, contrary to urban legen / FUD, 8.1 isn't all that bad. With little effort [1], it can be made to behave like normal/real (i.e. XP/7) Windows, i.e. you don't have to see any [2] of that Metro/Modern/UWP/ whatever crap ('Fisher Price UI'). It's not anywhere as bad as 10. I'm using 8.1 since May 2015 and quite pleased with it. [1] I only added Classic Start Menu. [2] Well, hardly any. Some Control Panel stuff has been moved to full-screen Metro/Modern/UWP-style, but that's very little. For me, it's only 'Networks' in a side-panel and some of the Bluetooth related stuff. |
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On 11/7/2019 8:26 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
IMO, contrary to urban legen / FUD, 8.1 isn't all that bad. It's all a matter of opinion. In my opinion, 10 is much better than 8.1 With little effort [1], it can be made to behave like normal/real (i.e. XP/7) Windows, i.e. you don't have to see any [2] of that Metro/Modern/UWP/ whatever crap ('Fisher Price UI'). Right, but... It's not anywhere as bad as 10. ....I strongly disagree. Just like 8.1, 10 can be made to appear and behave like XP/7 Windows. There are several third-party utilities that can do this. Classic Shell, free and perhaps the most popular, can do this very well, but my personal preference is Start10 (only $4.99) I'm using 8.1 since May 2015 and quite pleased with it. That's fine; we all have different opinions. I won't try to talk you out of your opinion. But for others reading here, I wanted to present an opposing point of view. -- Ken |
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On 7 Nov 2019 15:26:23 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:
You might consider switching to 8.1 when 7 no longer gets any security updates. 8.1 will give you three more years of updates (Extended support until January 10, 2023). IMO, contrary to urban legen / FUD, 8.1 isn't all that bad. With little effort [1], it can be made to behave like normal/real (i.e. XP/7) Windows, i.e. you don't have to see any [2] of that Metro/Modern/UWP/ whatever crap ('Fisher Price UI'). It's not anywhere as bad as 10. I'm using 8.1 since May 2015 and quite pleased with it. For me, 8.0 came on a new laptop that I bought in January 2013 and somewhere along the way I upgraded to 8.1. I didn't try to slay all of the dragons all at once, so for me it took almost exactly two years before I stopped seeing annoying intrusions of the Fisher Price UI. I just took care of things as they came up. After that, though, I agree with you that 8.1 is fine. I still prefer Win 7 and have it running on a laptop and multiple VMs, but 8.1 is (now) perfectly acceptable to me, as well. I have 8.1 on one laptop and multiple VMs. I have Win 10 on one PC and multiple VMs. IMHO, Win 10 is crap, relatively speaking. I can do serious work on any of the Win 7 systems and any of the 8.1 systems, but the Win 10 systems are questionable. At random times, Microsoft makes it clear that this is their OS and that I'm just barely tolerated, like an unwanted houseguest. Win 10 is a big break, in that regard, from previous versions. It's unfortunate. -- Char Jackson |
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Ken Blake wrote:
On 11/7/2019 8:26 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote: IMO, contrary to urban legen / FUD, 8.1 isn't all that bad. It's all a matter of opinion. In my opinion, 10 is much better than 8.1 Yes, it's a matter of opinion, hence my "IMO". With little effort [1], it can be made to behave like normal/real (i.e. XP/7) Windows, i.e. you don't have to see any [2] of that Metro/Modern/UWP/ whatever crap ('Fisher Price UI'). Right, but... It's not anywhere as bad as 10. ...I strongly disagree. Just like 8.1, 10 can be made to appear and behave like XP/7 Windows. There are several third-party utilities that can do this. Classic Shell, free and perhaps the most popular, can do this very well, but my personal preference is Start10 (only $4.99) For me, and I think many (most?) others, 10's gigantic update mess/ disaster is the big show-stopper. Yes, I know you can prevent/postpone/control updates with third-party utilities or/and 'hacks' in such a way that it is back to normal/real (i.e. pre-10) Windows Update behaviour, but you're still left with the broken model of new versions of 10. Just look at the endless stream of problem posts at each monthly/half-year cycle. And it's not just newbies having problems, quite the contrary, posters whose knowledge/expertise I value, also have problems or/and confirm the validity of other people's problems. Bottom line: 10 brings me nothing I need and only brings a mess and needless headaches. But I'll duly keep watching alt.comp.os.windows-10 (and other sources) and see if things change for the better. I'm using 8.1 since May 2015 and quite pleased with it. That's fine; we all have different opinions. I won't try to talk you out of your opinion. But for others reading here, I wanted to present an opposing point of view. |
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On 11/6/19 11:36 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , T writes: On 11/6/19 12:32 AM, Chris wrote: T wrote: [] Windows 7 is a perfectly functional operating system. Â*Only for two more months. It is 10 years old. And functioning well.Â* And there is a lot of them out there still. [] It'd be interesting to know both numbers and proportions. I _suspect_ 7 is now where XP was - actually some time after XP officially ended; 7's take-up was gradual, possibly even actually accelerated by the appearance of 8.0. I would agree. Office 2019 won't run on 8.x either, so .... |
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On 11/7/2019 11:51 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Ken Blake wrote: On 11/7/2019 8:26 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote: IMO, contrary to urban legen / FUD, 8.1 isn't all that bad. It's all a matter of opinion. In my opinion, 10 is much better than 8.1 Yes, it's a matter of opinion, hence my "IMO". With little effort [1], it can be made to behave like normal/real (i.e. XP/7) Windows, i.e. you don't have to see any [2] of that Metro/Modern/UWP/ whatever crap ('Fisher Price UI'). Right, but... It's not anywhere as bad as 10. ...I strongly disagree. Just like 8.1, 10 can be made to appear and behave like XP/7 Windows. There are several third-party utilities that can do this. Classic Shell, free and perhaps the most popular, can do this very well, but my personal preference is Start10 (only $4.99) For me, and I think many (most?) others, 10's gigantic update mess/ disaster is the big show-stopper. Yes, I'm well aware of the problems that many (I don't think it's most) people have had with updates. However my experience has been just the opposite. I have two computers here running Windows 10 since it was first released, and they have been had all updates installed as soon as they came out. Neither computer has had *any* problems. Why have I not had any problems with updates? I don't know for sure, but I suspect it has to do what the hardware is. -- Ken |
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In message , Ken Blake
writes: [] And regarding you statement "7 got broken into more than XP," yes, I agree, but that should be no surprise. It's not so much that XP was more resistant to malware; rather 7 was newer than XP, and as time passes, malware writers get better at doing what they do. And/or concentrated more on what was the commoner system. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf By most scientific estimates sustained, useful fusion is ten years in the future - and will be ten years in the future for the next fifty years or more. - "Hamadryad", ~2016-4-4 |
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