"giving 3rd party devs something to play with"
If they see potential customers returning them they'll probably return their own and more on to something else.
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My point is that I put the watch on when I get up and it stays there, weighting the square root of damn-all on my wrist, until I go to bed - and even then it's on the bedside table. And I don't think it's had a battery changed since I got it several years ago.
But the phone is, comparatively, a big lump to carry about, quite often with a flat battery when I need it. And I locate it, assuming it still has a charge and is within earshot, not from the watch but by ringing it from one of the DECT landline extensions.
I've got a stop and alarm watch right here on my wrist - don't need to scrabble in the back of a drawer for one. I can't remember exactly what it cost. It must have been more than a tenner but it's a cheap Casio.
It's like saying that OS/2 or Windows "is A Unix" by virtue of their compatibility layer.
I was wondering about the reverse of that prompted by the end of W10.
It would be possible, if there were sufficiently free space available, for a Linux installer to compact and shrink an NTFS partition and create a new partition into which to install a bootable Linux. The user's data files could be linked in to the new home directory.
But would it be possible to retain in place any Windows applications that couldn't be substituted, run them via Wine and reassure them that they were still on the same Windows machine on which they'd been registered?
The media could stamp on it by simply refusing to publish such statements without further questions being answered - such as "Well you didn't that time, did you?". Or "But you said that last time and the time before, didn't you?" to serial offenders.
"Because you have something very wrong with your computer. Mine goes from powered off to Windows login screen in roughly 1 minute."
I just switched mine off and restarted. 26 seconds to login screen. A few seconds extra to KeePass prompting for its password with the full desktop displayed a second or so later, WiFi being established in the background. Admittedly no VPN to start. A minute would be about the time from switch-on to getting KeePass and email logged in.
8 × Intel® Core™ i5-1035G1 CPU @ 1.00GHz, 16Gb
"Show me a press release, sent out by the company's official channels, that makes this claim. Is there any official statement on the MS website that claims Windows 10 would be the final version ever?"
Where are the press releases or official statements contradicting the statement that one of their employees.made. Perhaps he was being over-enthusiastic. Maybe he hadn't got the message that marketing might find that concept embarrassing. Maybe it there was an intent to make it a subscription service but he hadn't been told not to blab about it. Whatever, MS seem to have beenhappy to let it stand uncontradicted when it was widely reported.
"It still is Windows 10. The 11 designation is just a marketing name."
And thus utterly cynical, especially the inflated H/W requirement.
Learning new things helps prevent things like dementia in old age and is vastly better and more interesting than wasting time having to re-learn old things because some misanthropic martetroids decide that everything has to be changed in their new version because otherwise they wouldn't have a new version to sell.
If Microsoft want to learn how to make a good start menu they should look at KDE. The menu choices can be ordered by the user into whatever sub-menus make best sense to them and their use case and there are three options for how to present them. Nobody needs to be unhappy.
1. My last W2K lives on as a VM for the rare occasions when I need something from it. In fact I had it briefly running this morning looking for an old file. It looks a lot better than any of its successors.
2. I remember the 1950s. I was there. It would take a long time to do a detailed comparison so I won't. It was a time of hopes and promises to a large extent unfulfilled despite a lot of unexpected goodies that emerged later.
3. I've not only lived to reach 70, I'll soon be leaving my 70s behind. I don't fell anything like 100.
3. If, like me, you became a jazz fan you PDQ acquired a lot of black* musical heroes
4. There's one -ism that seems to be not only acceptable but almost compulsory today and that's ageism.
* Apologies to any professional offence-takers out there. I can't be arsed to keep up with you and I doubt any of you ever listen to Louis, the Duke, the Count, Ella, Sassy or the rest. On second thoughts, no apologies.
We know what it's trained on. Everything that can be scraped uncritically from the internet and the contents of every account on cloud services run but the usual suspects. Given that will already include its own output, and increasingly so as time goes on it's clearly going to develop by eating its own dog-shit.
"It was the same basic concept as the toolbar system it replaced."
So why inflict a change on the users? (see below) And drop-down menus disappear when you've finished with them, the ribbon just sits there occupying more vertical space from what I can see so it's not a good way to make use of screens shallower in relation to their width.
"Besides, if you work smarter instead of harder, you can create your own custom tab and populate it with all the commands you frequently use, so then you almost never have to change tabs. Maybe 10-15 minutes of effort up front saves you a lot more on the back end over time."
An IT pro or power user might well. At the other end of the spectrum it'd probably take a day and end up in a worse situation. All for something that was never necessary except for one reason:
Having been forced into a corner where they had to stop breaking old versions of Office every time a user got sent an older file and, being faced with OO & LO who could read an XML as well as anyone else, they had to put new users in a position where they might not understand the old-style interface. Stuff the existing users, as ever with their hostages, they had to like it or lump it.
"We're also talking about chips that are over a decade old. I'm all for using older hardware that's still good, but you have to balance that against a developer wanting to be able to use more recent functionality."
I have relatives running much older hardware than you'd expect. One is a laptop still running on W7. The other is a tower box probably from the same era if not older.
That is on Linux largely because she got hit with early ransomware. Bless the innocent little lambs, they just wrote out the encrypted files and dust deleted the real ones, still there to be recovered but we took no risks, I partitioned the disk and installed Zorin. The only problem was the vast number of jpegs recovered, all the little bullets and buttons from the browser cache. I think she's in her late 80s now, wasn't going to bother getting a new computer then and certainly isn't now.
It looks as if it might be prudent to wait a bit for a second generation of those Alzheimer's drugs. It's not just the cost of the drugs themselves, they also need early diagnosis, have to be given by monthly infusion and the patients monitored for potentially fatal side-effects.
"How are services supposed to deal with a proble that is actually caused by something they don't have ANY control over like, for example, telcom providers reusing numbers?"
The choice of whether or not to use phone number or any other external provider as identity was entirely in their control.