@Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse -- Re: 3 things Sweden is famous for...
Look what you went and made me do! - - - - ->
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1) Enormous amounts of margin and padding, resulting in a crapload of white space everywhere. Pick any Win10 modern config page; over half is blank. If you have five radio buttons, you need to scroll to get at the fifth. My screen has easily twice the area of the one on which I used to run Windows 7 and four times the pixels - and yet, when I open a system configuration page, it somehow manages to show me less information.
Well, that's because the ADHD-addled "marketing genius" Millennials (and up-n-coming Gen Z'ers) simply can't handle the information density that a normal person could. When confronted with that, they go catatonic, which the Micros~1 manager class considers to be "unproductive".
The thing is that the developers could quite easily put their "new, improved" interface as the default; and then allow everybody else disagreeing that using a mobile phone interface designed for a 8" screen on a pair of 24" screens is an improvement could perhaps select "classic" from a menu and just use something akin to the interface that looks and feels familiar to people who used NT4, 95, 98, ME, 2k, XP and Win7.
Oh, no, that would never do. Because, you see, the "telemetry" slurped from all the many millions of poor sods using Windows Windows users would unambiguously tell the little darlings who came up with this tripe that they don't know everything, that they're not always right, and their opus dei has been REJECTED! The carnage from their heads exploding would be horrendous.
Monitoring the output sounds like an ideal application for one of these AI programs. IF the image does not change much if at all AND IF the audio is silent/single tone/ repeated cycle of test tones THEN email admin?
Yup. That's state-of-the-art AI, then....
Hmmm...can't you simply SIGINT or raise an interrupt known to shut down the beast?
There was a point in a past lifetime where I needed to crash an embedded program if all hell broke loose unexpectedly, so I simply divided 0 by 0. The code reviewers never quite got their arms around that, even with full commenting. So I reverted to calling a trap instruction that would crash the program.
It was a while ago, and recollection is faulty, but I might have called the trap instruction that fielded division by zero...
Windows is going to be with us, for ever and ever, as [smoothly, unnoticeably, rotfl] self-upgradable service. waas or something
waas == "Windows, as always, shit"
Microsoft has reimagined each part of the process, to simplify the lives of IT pros and maintain a consistent Windows 10 experience for its customers.
Well, that explains why "Windows 11", because if they were to make this release under the Windows 10 moniker, that would lend the lie to this statement.
Not that anyone really believes Micros~1 doesn't lie...
OK all the snark about FOSS, Linux, etc. is all well and good (and even expected, these are the El Reg forums, after all). And I actually do have Linux on my main machine. But my music machine requires Windows (well, the machine itself by no means requires Windows, but the applications that run on it certainly do). It is an 8th gen i5, and so may well be in the crosshairs of a Micros~1 forced-march into their revenue stream.
So let me rephrase Tom Chiverton 1's original question:
How do I opt users who must remain Windows users (may ghod have mercy on their souls) out of this "upgrade"?
Easy on the snark, and heavy on factual, useful info, please...
Look. All the "Marketing Geniuses" (oxymoron alert!) and GUI "Designers" (probable oxymoron alert) Micros~1 hires these days are are classic ADHD-addled Millennials (and possibly some Gen Z'ers fresh outta school) who:
1) Think they are ghod's gift to the world
2) Think every thought that passes through their minds is The One True Way, and must therefore be right
3) Were born with silver smartphones in their mouths, so that is all they know (see also item 2)
So, they must make everything they encounter look like a cell phone interface...it is inconceivable to them that anything else could possibly exist.
Almost forgot: 2a) Anything that happened before the were born doesn't exist, and therefore isn't real. (I actually had a Millennial tell me that once... and it was clear they believed it!)
Wait until it will be mandatory to have a phone with you at all times, like a tag.
George O. would have never, even in his wildest dystopian nightmare, ever thought that the proles would be convinced to spend their own hard-earned money to purchase their own telescreens.
With this change I am scrambling to implement an ugly window.parent.postMessage
workaround because chunks of our web app are now broken for our tens of thousands of users."
Well, perhaps cross-origin iframes were not such a good idea (read: convenient hack) in the first place?
Reminds me of the hue and cry that accompanied the removal of the ALTER verb from Cobol-80. (For those of you are not Boomers, Cobol's ALTER verb allowed one to write self-modifying code; a practice that ranks right up there with the indiscriminate use of GOTO1 in the level of disdain.)
1Well, for languages that are block structured, anyway. Not much you can do in Fortran IV without it, to be sure, but for C...
It can be helpful to google "test credit card numbers" if you think that you're losing them and offer them one of them so they can take "payment" for their "services". A test card number is intended for verifying integrations work correctly and when used will appear to work properly and produce a confirmation report as if it works, but won't process a payment. ;)
Ooooh! That's gooood! That's very good!!
Your assertions regarding AT&T are off by more than a bit.
The breakup into the 7 RBOCs allowed such innovations as allowing one to connect his/her own phone sets to the network. Which included the ability to connect cute little things known as modems -- remember them? -- to the network as well. This provided the incentive for manufacturers to create devices of higher capabilities than the 1200 bps boxes (and even slower 300bps acoustic couplers) that the original Bell system would limit one to; in short order 19200 bps modems became commonplace, and at very reasonable prices as well.
Independent service providers were allowed to connect to the network to provide long distance service at cheaper rates. Remember MCI? These service providers were also allowed to provide additional services not available from Bell. MCI, for example, provided the first commercially available e-mail service that interfaced the fledgling internet with the phone system. T1, then T3, and higher, data services were made available to the hoi polloi laying the groundwork for broadband communications as we know it today.
All this happenned long before "wireless", and certainly would have had to have happened before "wireless" could become a thing.
Were all these things "improvements in service"? YMMV, but for those of us who were there (and who lived through the growing pains), would have to refute your assertion that "The quality of service did not improve much", and say ," Hell, yes it did!"
Once you get to task manager and kill it off things progress bit better.
Yes. That.
Why in the living name of Fuck is there an [X] button in the upper right hand corner if it doesn't actually exit the application? It just sort of mangles into a state of spyware stasis...from which you can neither resurrect it nor nuke it from orbit.
Well OK, you can nuke it from orbit with the help of the task manager, which I'm sure Micros~1 will disable in in Win11. SysInternals FTW!