Posts by RyokuMas

Re: Sounds good

Yeah, I'd love to see it...

.. if only because a forced update mechanism might shut up the GoogleSheep on here every time someone posts an article remotely related to Windows 10...

Re: Can we even officially read it yet?

"The vast majority of internet users have voted. Mostly by not changing their default search engine..."

Nooo, most people just go with the default, not realising what it entails. As Microsoft before them with IE, so Google should be forced to alert people that there are alternate search engines on first use of search, provide information on the ramifications of each possibility and allow a choice.

But no. Especially while we have so many people in the tech sphere who are so mired in the past (ie: the browser wars) and still have a chip on their shoulders toward Microsoft that they cannot see what has happened with Google - or choose not to.

Re: "... stable volume in 2018"

You mean the next proprietary operating system from the next would-be monopoly?

Pot, kettle...

Re: Don't forget

Adverts... yeah, they're irritating. But this has the potential to be way more sinister...

This will only serve to increase the already huge pool of data Google collects on everyone whenever possible for behavioral analysis... so instead of the blatent, in-your-face pesky bits of irritation that we all know and loathe, I would expect something a lot more subtle - your VR world slowly being adapted and morphed to influence you into buying.

The world according to Google... <shudder> hell awaits...

Re: Sounds like a GREAT idea!

Google should take control of as much as possible and require manufacturers to leave the updatres to security etc to Google

You mean start acting even more like Microsoft?

Re: Because they are dying and know it.

More likely because people are waking up to the fact that Alphabet/Google has become more evil and far-reaching than Microsoft ever was - websearch, email, mobile devices, spy-glasses (binned, thankfully), and with self-driving cars to track your movements, their own fibre network (to better track your web activity) and balloon based connectivity (with traffic tracking and spy cameras? I wouldn't put it past them, given their previous record for sly wifi slurping) in the pipeline.

So there is a gap in the market, created when Google abandoned all pretenses of doing no evil, for someone to stand up for the users - and Microsoft are desperate for it to be them.

Too bad that their prior reputation still haunts them (I guess even after 20 years, there are still those mired in the past)... and the current Win-10 telemetry issue is not their cause...

People may start to like you...

Not acting like the Microsoft of 20 years ago would probably help a lot, too...

Re: IE must die

"Teh article is not about ie..."

... as if that's going to stop the "because it's Microsoft" brigade from taking a swipe...

Re: What will make this work

God, I hope not. The telemetry in Windows 10 alone is bad enough without adding Google's big brother to it.

Re: Do no evil?

To be fair, this is the day on which Alphabet should issue a statement saying that they still stand by the pledge to "do no evil"...

Re: Fantastic

Well, they just added Xbox One support, so the signs are positive...

Re: And who put *GOOGLE* in charge?

Yup, these days Google definitely head up my "do not trust" list...

... shortly followed by Microsoft and Apple.

Re: Excuse me?

To be fair, I have had to reinstall Windows a few times when things when horribly wrong - but that was back in the dark days of XP, never had that problem since Win7.

But these days, with Android and Google, I can't help but get the feeling of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"

Re: Damn

"What am I doing wrong?"

Running FB Purity?

Re: Banking Apps

To be fair, most apps on any platform are fart apps...

Re: Cause for serious concern

"Things are beginning to look just a little unsafe for the common folk."

If telemetry and tracking for the common folk is your worry, then things have been pretty unsafe for over a decade.

Re: Well

Given that you* trot out the exact same "joke" every time there's a Windows Phone related article, I would wager that even a Firefox OS developer would earn a better living that you would as a stand-up comedian.

* I'm guessing that this is the same person posting as an AC every time. I don't hold much hope for humanity if it's actually two or more people who are this banal...

Nope...

"Given the ubiquity of smart 'phones running Android could this be the breakthrough that Linux deserves?"

You'd just be trading one monopoly for another, save the new world order would be at the mercy of the carriers to ensure security updates hit the hardware...

Re: I'll bet...

"Even though it is obvious you are a troll..."

The A/C, the original poster, or both?

And before the Amiga...

... was the Atari ST

zero security issues to date

To be fair, security by obscurity is no security at all - if the platform gained more traction, it would be more heavily targeted.

But at the moment, why make the effort when smartphone OS with the biggest market share (by a long way) is also the easiest to break into?

Re: Do no Evil

Why do you think they came up with Alphabet as an umbrella company? Neatly gets round the whole Google - "do no evil" oxymoron

Re: The answer is easy, the devil is in the details

"Put the onus back on Google."

So basically, you're proposing to have one single giant corporate entity responsible for updating and maintaining the OS across a suite of devices from various hardware manufacturers?

... because that's oh-so-popular with Microsoft, Windows and PCs, isn't it?