It's a good day to upgrade

Slimer wrote:

John Doe wrote:
CRNG wrote:
John Doe wrote:

Time to upgrade. For me, much earlier than usual. I didn't even
use Windows Vista or Windows 7.

I'm still on WinXPsp2. I have never performed a single upgrade
and have no plans to upgrade until the hardware dies.

Why not service pack 3? And why are you here?

Admittedly, Windows XP was the first and apparently last Microsoft
Windows that took Windows seriously. But hopefully that will change.

You're ignoring Windows 7 which was a masterpiece

It was hardly a masterpiece. The look and feel of Windows was already
being destroyed by Windows 7.

and Windows 10 which, according to a list published today, is the
version of Windows with the least vulnerabilities

If you had any credibility, you would cite the "list" or at least its
name.

An operating system that's only been around for a short while is likely
have less vulnerabilities. Just like Windows having more vulnerabilities
is due to the fact that it's widely used. Like software publishers,
hackers write for stuff that's widely used.

Anybody who knows anything about technology should know that...

Taking a look at Windows 10... I am impressed that Microsoft is
making Windows look worse than ever before. Now there are even fewer
theme customization options than there were in Windows 8/7/Vista.
Windows borders look like ****. Fortunately, if you are using a high
contrast color scheme, you can repair most of the damage simply by
copying the Colors folder from the Windows 8 registry. But forget
about gradient title bars.

Gradient title bars are seriously out of style.

Your opinion doesn't mean they shouldn't be an option to people who have
a different opinion. Customization options are being eliminated, that's
the problem.

If you like that sort of thing, you can use GNU/Linux

You can go **** yourself, troll.

Strangely, nowadays Microsoft apparently thinks that a cool desktop
background picture is all it takes to make Windows look okay.
Microsoft should change the name to something other than "Windows"
if it's going to destroy the look and feel of Windows. But hopefully
appearance customization of the desktop will come back to Microsoft
as it struggles for its life against ultraportable PCs. Or maybe it
will just die. Time will tell.

Windows is whatever Microsoft wants it to be. As a mere user, you have
no say as to what the corporation decides to do with it. You can moan
and bitch

I'm not moaning and bitching, asshole, as any open-minded reader can
tell that by my posts.

Next up, I will see what Microsoft has done for speech recognition
in Windows. Google has already made their speech recognition
practically on par with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, at least for short
phrase dictation. If Microsoft wants to combat ultraportable PCs,
it's going to have to improve Windows for desktop users. There are
plenty of innovations Microsoft should have been doing all along.
They are already happening on ultraportable PCs. If Microsoft doesn't
see those things by now, it's dead.

People have been claiming that Microsoft is dead since Windows 1.0.

I've been doing personal computer stuff since you were in diapers and
I've never claimed that Windows is dead, asshole.

But in fact Microsoft is under extreme pressure lately.

In fact, Apple's iPhone revenue alone is greater than Microsoft's total
revenue. That's a recent development, asshole. At least it's recent to
someone who wasn't born yesterday.

Meanwhile, it has only grown since then...You seem to have closed your
eyes to reality and made up an entirely new one.

No, you are, obviously. Since Bill Gates's influence over Microsoft
dwindled and the pressure has been off since the end of the big
antitrust trial, Microsoft's leaders have been destroying Windows' look
and feel. If you were not wearing blinders, you would know what I'm
talking about.

You sound no different than a Linux Lunatic denying reality.

http://www.ibtimes.com/apples-iphone...mbined-1797318

"Apple Inc. announced that iPhone sales generated $51.18 billion dollars
of revenue in its last quarter. That means, based exclusively on iPhone
sales, Apple generated nearly double the total revenue that Microsoft
Corp. did with all of its businesses in the last quarter ($26.5
billion)."

Humongous pressure from ultraportable PCs is the reason Microsoft is
giving away, Windows to home users. Microsoft is under a serious threat
of losing its desktop software monopoly. Maybe not immediately, but it's
down the road. And Microsoft knows it.

From your signature I can see that you are another loony troll that
infests UseNet. Being at the mercy of nym-shifting assholes like you is
the reason UseNet generally sucks for discussion.









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Get a life, troll.

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On 2015-12-31 10:55 PM, John Doe wrote:
Please learn how to post to UseNet...

Says the guy who posted ABOVE the quoted content!


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"I'll be the first one to admit that Microsoft removed certain
personalization options"

Nobody gives a ****, asshole. Go crawl back under the rock
you came from.

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On 2015-12-31 9:52 PM, Ed Mullen wrote:
John Doe wrote on 12/30/2015 6:43 PM:
Getting Windows 8 for $40 and now Windows 10 for free. Easy to
understand why, because Microsoft is under humongous reverse
pressure from ultraportable PCs and their operating systems. But
I have a feeling it's going to effect more than the price of
Windows.

This reminds me of the big Microsoft antitrust trial prior to
2000. That's when Windows XP came out and ended the crappy
consumer versions of Windows power users had to restart several
times during the day. This huge pressure on Microsoft could
result in another major improvement of quality. No more sitting
on its hands, at least for a while.

Time to upgrade. For me, much earlier than usual. I didn't even
use Windows Vista or Windows 7.


You missed out on W7. Great OS. So far I'm unimpressed by W10 by
comparison. It's getting better but almost in secret. You have to
dig around to find what's new and better. Like changing the program
title bar color from that horrid white. Took out the ability then
put it back in. Why didn't they just ask first? Or why even
contemplate changing that? White? Uh, white?

It's almost as if the MS Devs like being called idiots and cursed
at. Geez.

Lemme see, an MS Windows dev meeting ...

"Let's make all the title bars white!"

"Why?"

"Because we can!"

"Um, what if people don't like it?"

"What!? Of course they will!!!"

"Why?"

"I don't care!"

I'll be the first one to admit that Microsoft removed certain
personalization options in Windows, however I wonder how Microsoft's
decision to turn all title bars white is any different from Apple's
decision to make their operating system look a certain way regardless
of what the user desires. We probably shouldn't be comparing to Apple
as a way of apologizing for what Microsoft did but clearly, it isn't
the only one doing such things.


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edevils wrote:

Slimer wrote:

Microsoft removed certain personalization options in Windows,

That's not just a one time thing, asshole, it's a trend that's been
going on since after Windows XP.

And then they are adding them again. My Win10 title bars are dark
blue, like the accent color I chose in PC Settings - Personalization.

And hopefully they will begin to reverse all of the other appearance
customization restrictions so that we can start making Windows look the
way we want it to look like we used to be able to do. Nowadays, they are
pushing background pictures and accent colors as if they are themes.

But of course destroying Windows' look and feel is not Microsoft's only
problem. Microsoft's lack of innovation is rightly being highlighted by
innovation in the ultraportable PC market, by Apple and Google. And it's
about time.

Suck it up Microsoft. See how much longer you can survive without adding
viable speech input and output to Windows. Otherwise... DIE! DIE! DIE!

John Doe wrote in news:n64vhu$367$1@dont-
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Subject: It's a good day to upgrade
From: John Doe
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NO! YOU **** OFF!!
AND YOUR MOTHER TOO, YOU NINCOMPOOP!!!


Eat **** asshole.

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On 2016-01-01 2:28 PM, John Doe wrote:
Slimer wrote:

John Doe wrote:
CRNG wrote:
John Doe wrote:

Time to upgrade. For me, much earlier than usual. I didn't
even use Windows Vista or Windows 7.

I'm still on WinXPsp2. I have never performed a single
upgrade and have no plans to upgrade until the hardware dies.


Why not service pack 3? And why are you here?

Admittedly, Windows XP was the first and apparently last
Microsoft Windows that took Windows seriously. But hopefully
that will change.

You're ignoring Windows 7 which was a masterpiece

It was hardly a masterpiece. The look and feel of Windows was
already being destroyed by Windows 7.

That is your opinion and it seems to be a very unpopular one.

and Windows 10 which, according to a list published today, is the
version of Windows with the least vulnerabilities

If you had any credibility, you would cite the "list" or at least
its name.

An operating system that's only been around for a short while is
likely have less vulnerabilities. Just like Windows having more
vulnerabilities is due to the fact that it's widely used. Like
software publishers, hackers write for stuff that's widely used.

Anybody who knows anything about technology should know that...

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/31/so...vulnerabilitie
s-in-2015-mac-os-x-ios-and-flash/ - Your opinion on there being fewer
vulnerabilities in newer operating systems goes against all logic and
all historical data and I'm sure that you know it but don't care at all.

Taking a look at Windows 10... I am impressed that Microsoft is
making Windows look worse than ever before. Now there are even
fewer theme customization options than there were in Windows
8/7/Vista. Windows borders look like ****. Fortunately, if you
are using a high contrast color scheme, you can repair most of
the damage simply by copying the Colors folder from the Windows
8 registry. But forget about gradient title bars.

Gradient title bars are seriously out of style.

Your opinion doesn't mean they shouldn't be an option to people who
have a different opinion. Customization options are being
eliminated, that's the problem.

What you're proposing is that Microsoft be forced to remain in the
past for those users who insist on being stuck there the same way that
it was forced to hold onto MS-DOS for much longer than it should have.
You have a right to your opinion but like I said before, Microsoft is
under no obligation to respect it. They moved into the future and
ignored people like you who most likely wouldn't have purchased
anything from them anyway.

If you like that sort of thing, you can use GNU/Linux

You can go **** yourself, troll.

I'm offering you an alternative and you decided to insult. Suit
yourself, I'll just most likely filter your posts once I'm done with
this one.

Strangely, nowadays Microsoft apparently thinks that a cool
desktop background picture is all it takes to make Windows look
okay. Microsoft should change the name to something other than
"Windows" if it's going to destroy the look and feel of
Windows. But hopefully appearance customization of the desktop
will come back to Microsoft as it struggles for its life
against ultraportable PCs. Or maybe it will just die. Time will
tell.

Windows is whatever Microsoft wants it to be. As a mere user, you
have no say as to what the corporation decides to do with it. You
can moan and bitch

I'm not moaning and bitching, asshole, as any open-minded reader
can tell that by my posts.

Actually, that's exactly what you're doing. You insist that Microsoft
hold onto the past to appease those users who are fearful of the
future like yourself. Like I said before, as someone who most likely
doesn't buy anything at all from the company, they have a right to
ignore you wholeheartedly and I'm sure that they do. They want to
produce the best product possible and that might result in the
elimination of certain features (for a variety of reasons including
security and performance). If it alienates you, that's fine: you have
GNU/Linux if you're interested in holding onto the past.

Next up, I will see what Microsoft has done for speech
recognition in Windows. Google has already made their speech
recognition practically on par with Dragon NaturallySpeaking,
at least for short phrase dictation. If Microsoft wants to
combat ultraportable PCs, it's going to have to improve Windows
for desktop users. There are plenty of innovations Microsoft
should have been doing all along. They are already happening on
ultraportable PCs. If Microsoft doesn't see those things by
now, it's dead.

People have been claiming that Microsoft is dead since Windows
1.0.

I've been doing personal computer stuff since you were in diapers
and I've never claimed that Windows is dead, asshole.

But in fact Microsoft is under extreme pressure lately.

In fact, Apple's iPhone revenue alone is greater than Microsoft's
total revenue. That's a recent development, asshole. At least it's
recent to someone who wasn't born yesterday.

I never claimed that you did, you're dishonestly projecting.

Meanwhile, it has only grown since then...You seem to have closed
your eyes to reality and made up an entirely new one.

No, you are, obviously. Since Bill Gates's influence over Microsoft
dwindled and the pressure has been off since the end of the big
antitrust trial, Microsoft's leaders have been destroying Windows'
look and feel. If you were not wearing blinders, you would know
what I'm talking about.

Why are you even mentioning Bill Gates when the man is no longer
leading the company at all? Satya Nadella is in charge now and Steve
Ballmer led the company before him.

You sound no different than a Linux Lunatic denying reality.

http://www.ibtimes.com/apples-iphone...worth-more-goo
gle-microsofts-combined-1797318

"Apple Inc. announced that iPhone sales generated $51.18 billion
dollars of revenue in its last quarter. That means, based
exclusively on iPhone sales, Apple generated nearly double the
total revenue that Microsoft Corp. did with all of its businesses
in the last quarter ($26.5 billion)."

Humongous pressure from ultraportable PCs is the reason Microsoft
is giving away, Windows to home users. Microsoft is under a serious
threat of losing its desktop software monopoly. Maybe not
immediately, but it's down the road. And Microsoft knows it.

From your signature I can see that you are another loony troll that
infests UseNet. Being at the mercy of nym-shifting assholes like
you is the reason UseNet generally sucks for discussion.

Where exactly have I nym-shifted, pray tell? Once again, you are being
dishonest.

As for Windows 10 being given away, it's a nice upgrade and it's clear
that Nadella is looking to place the operating system on _all_
electronic devices whereas iOS will remain on everything OTHER than
the desktop. OS X is no threat to Windows on the desktop and neither
is Linux. At 90% control, Windows is not going become a distant memory
anytime soon.

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On 2016-01-01 2:29 PM, John Doe wrote:
Get a life, troll.

You first, troll.


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On 2015-12-31 5:52 PM, John Doe wrote:
CRNG wrote:

John Doe wrote:
Time to upgrade. For me, much earlier than usual. I didn't even
use Windows Vista or Windows 7.
I'm still on WinXPsp2. I have never performed a single upgrade
and have no plans to upgrade until the hardware dies.
Why not service pack 3? And why are you here?

Admittedly, Windows XP was the first and apparently last Microsoft
Windows that took Windows seriously. But hopefully that will
change.

You're ignoring Windows 7 which was a masterpiece and Windows 10
which, according to a list published today, is the version of Windows
with the least vulnerabilities. It fares better than OS X, iOS, Ubuntu
Linux, openSUSE, Debian Linux and every other version of Windows. It's
kind of hard to acknowledge that and claim that it isn't "serious."

Taking a look at Windows 10... I am impressed that Microsoft is
making Windows look worse than ever before. Now there are even
fewer theme customization options than there were in Windows
8/7/Vista. Windows borders look like ****. Fortunately, if you are
using a high contrast color scheme, you can repair most of the
damage simply by copying the Colors folder from the Windows 8
registry. But forget about gradient title bars.

Gradient title bars are seriously out of style. If you like that sort
of thing, you can use GNU/Linux though: they have a number of window
decorations that are embarrassingly ugly in KDE and GNOME.

Strangely, nowadays Microsoft apparently thinks that a cool desktop
background picture is all it takes to make Windows look okay.
Microsoft should change the name to something other than "Windows"
if it's going to destroy the look and feel of Windows. But
hopefully appearance customization of the desktop will come back to
Microsoft as it struggles for its life against ultraportable PCs.
Or maybe it will just die. Time will tell.

Windows is whatever Microsoft wants it to be. As a mere user, you have
no say as to what the corporation decides to do with it. You can moan
and bitch all that you want but they are doing what they believe is
best for the users knowing very well that they will alienate some of
the users who each have a varying definition of what a "pure" Windows
is supposed to be. You're free to use GNU/Linux and to customize your
desktop to whatever look and operation you believe is most appropriate
but your comments about Windows, so far, are completely off the mark.

Next up, I will see what Microsoft has done for speech recognition
in Windows. Google has already made their speech recognition
practically on par with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, at least for
short phrase dictation. If Microsoft wants to combat ultraportable
PCs, it's going to have to improve Windows for desktop users. There
are plenty of innovations Microsoft should have been doing all
along. They are already happening on ultraportable PCs. If
Microsoft doesn't see those things by now, it's dead.

People have been claiming that Microsoft is dead since Windows 1.0.
Meanwhile, it has only grown since then and become increasingly
influential. With Jobs, it was about domination and we can argue that
the company was against standards and all about forcing unwelcome
technologies down our throats. Under Ballmer, there was a greater
acceptance of open standards and more response to what users truly
wanted. With Nadella, Microsoft has actually overtaken Apple when it
comes to innovation (see Hololens and the SurfaceBook as excellent
examples). You seem to have closed your eyes to reality and made up an
entirely new one.

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Yeah but how many of those other OS that you mentioned use a key logger
to nib**** your private stuff?

In article , Ed Mullen
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John Doe wrote on 12/30/2015 6:43 PM:
Getting Windows 8 for $40 and now Windows 10 for free. Easy to
understand why, because Microsoft is under humongous reverse pressure
from ultraportable PCs and their operating systems. But I have a feeling
it's going to effect more than the price of Windows.

This reminds me of the big Microsoft antitrust trial prior to 2000.
That's when Windows XP came out and ended the crappy consumer versions
of Windows power users had to restart several times during the day. This
huge pressure on Microsoft could result in another major improvement of
quality. No more sitting on its hands, at least for a while.

Time to upgrade. For me, much earlier than usual. I didn't even use
Windows Vista or Windows 7.


You missed out on W7. Great OS. So far I'm unimpressed by W10 by
comparison. It's getting better but almost in secret. You have to dig
around to find what's new and better. Like changing the program title
bar color from that horrid white. Took out the ability then put it
back in. Why didn't they just ask first? Or why even contemplate
changing that? White? Uh, white?

It's almost as if the MS Devs like being called idiots and cursed at. Geez.

Lemme see, an MS Windows dev meeting ...

"Let's make all the title bars white!"

"Why?"

"Because we can!"

"Um, what if people don't like it?"

"What!? Of course they will!!!"

"Why?"

"I don't care!"



My wife bought a new laptop with 8.1 She was happy with it but upgraded
to W10.
Noticeably slower and she preferred the 8.1 tiles.
So rolled back to 8.1
Now is unhappy with a partially ****ed up 8.1
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bert

bert wrote:

My wife bought a new laptop with 8.1 She was happy with it but upgraded
to W10.
Noticeably slower and she preferred the 8.1 tiles.
So rolled back to 8.1
Now is unhappy with a partially ****ed up 8.1

Backup! Backup! Backup!

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4...Developers.jpg

Before the "Upgrade"

Paul

A typical UseNet troll...

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NO! YOU **** OFF!!
AND YOUR MOTHER TOO, YOU NINCOMPOOP!!!


Eat **** asshole.

bert wrote:

My wife bought a new laptop with 8.1 She was happy with it but
upgraded to W10. Noticeably slower and she preferred the 8.1 tiles.
So rolled back to 8.1 Now is unhappy with a partially ****ed up 8.1

Like Paul said, all you have to do is backup your system. Obviously the
best time is before a major "upgrade". Macrium Reflect is free and does
a perfect job. Life can be so easy...

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On 2016-01-01 2:28 PM, John Doe wrote:
Slimer wrote:

John Doe wrote:
CRNG wrote:
John Doe wrote:

Time to upgrade. For me, much earlier than usual. I didn't
even use Windows Vista or Windows 7.

I'm still on WinXPsp2. I have never performed a single
upgrade and have no plans to upgrade until the hardware dies.


Why not service pack 3? And why are you here?

Admittedly, Windows XP was the first and apparently last
Microsoft Windows that took Windows seriously. But hopefully
that will change.

You're ignoring Windows 7 which was a masterpiece

It was hardly a masterpiece. The look and feel of Windows was
already being destroyed by Windows 7.

That is your opinion and it seems to be a very unpopular one.


Certainly unpopular with me. Through a combination of tweaks and
add-ons I've made W10 look pretty much like W7. I'm happy.


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If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person; they'll find an
easier way to do it.

Ed Mullen wrote:

Through a combination of tweaks and add-ons I've made W10 look pretty
much like W7.

Please provide screenshots...

I'm particularly interested in how you got rid of the upper right-hand
window border weirdness where there is only the thinnest line, if you
can grab it, for resizing the window. That nonsense started right after
Windows XP.

Apart from destroying the Windows' look and feel... One of the silliest
things Microsoft has done I believe beginning with Windows XP is to put
a border around maximized windows that interferes with effortless
clicking on the scrollbar. Nowadays it's all mixed up. Some programs
include that border and some don't. Consistency is lost.

John Doe wrote on 1/1/2016 8:51 PM:
Ed Mullen wrote:

Through a combination of tweaks and add-ons I've made W10 look pretty
much like W7.

Please provide screenshots...


Here ya go: http://edmullen.net/temp/shot.jpg

The Start menu is produced by the add-on Classic Start Menu/Classic Shell.

http://www.classicshell.net/

I'm particularly interested in how you got rid of the upper right-hand
window border weirdness where there is only the thinnest line, if you
can grab it, for resizing the window. That nonsense started right after
Windows XP.


I have no problem grabbing any corner of a window and resizing it. Oh!
If you mean a maximized window, yes. I can't ever remember in any
Windows version being able to grab a corner of a maximized window. You
first have to "Restore Down" so the window is not occupying the entire
display. Always been that way as far as I can remember.

Apart from destroying the Windows' look and feel... One of the silliest
things Microsoft has done I believe beginning with Windows XP is to put
a border around maximized windows that interferes with effortless
clicking on the scrollbar. Nowadays it's all mixed up. Some programs
include that border and some don't. Consistency is lost.


Not seeing what you're describing.

One nice thing about W10 is that you can mouse wheel scroll a window
that does not have focus.

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