Johnno72 wrote:
Regarding MS Paint, you can still run this on Windows 10 with a very simple work around. Paint 3D has been nothing but a joke, the same as earlier versions of 8.x with that Vista retained cartoonish looking software.
paint is lacking in terms of edits if we were to compare to say paintshop pro. however for simple edits it's perfectly fine. but more and more these days, for stuff i share online i'm using imgur's own emded image editting such as crop and resize. i saw the demo about 3d paint, it has some interesting stuff like 3d modeling, also can use other peoples 3d models they made, but that said they should have a ms paint mode primarily, then this 3d mode as an alternate mode you can switch to or use optionally.
Johnno72 wrote:
Outlook Express has been pulled so it can be sold as a separate entity from Windows, all about profits.
haven't used this for a long time. even gmail is now getting pushback from alternatives like protonmail and tutanota which have greater emphasis on privacy.
Johnno72 wrote:
Macrium Reflect is a great imaging package, it does it well and it does it properly allowing full restoration when required. I am moving to Macrium Workstation so as I can obtain the G-F-S scheme that I want and require.
i saw a video since toxic mentioned it. does seem very feature rich, but someone with my limited technical skills would find so much settings a bit daunting and tedious. i compared it against aomei backupper which seems to cut out much of the configurations needed.
ultimately which has the better result i can't say
they removed so much yet they kept around the bloatware like minecraft, candy crush, bubble witch 3 saga, march of empires, xbox (i'm in the playstation camp .....) .... also that windows start was flooded with all that junk that i removed 1 by 1 manually.
essentially their removing stuff that got redundant or got superseded by something else from what i can see. and data collection became a smudge more transparent probably due to some pressure from the EU perhaps. but the sad thing is, they worded it in the way data collection as of this release being made transparent. that does not say anything about what was and still is being collected prior to that fall creator update. also people said you can't fully shut off these crazy telemetries either, so what good is that?
The EDRi European digital rights group summed up their view at the time thus:
…one can say that Microsoft basically grants itself very broad rights to collect everything you do, say and write with and on your devices in order to sell more targeted advertising or to sell your data to third parties. The company appears to be granting itself the right to share your data either with your consent “or as necessary”.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/21/windo ... watchdogs/
that said we already knew they were up to no good, even going as far as using keyloggers unbeknownst to the user. this is why i use anti keylogger
(can't even trust the os you use woot!)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/ ... s-one.html
it's gotten so bad that they even released a special windows 10 just for the chinese just to tap into that market. may as well be ms admitting their doing dodgy stuff
lel
Microsoft and the Chinese government's relationship in the past hasn't been the best. That rocky past makes the news that the pair have worked together on a version of Windows 10 for government computers all the more interesting. It's based on Windows 10 Enterprise, but with a few tweaks. "The China Government Edition will use these manageability features to remove features that are not needed by Chinese government employees like OneDrive, to manage telemetry and updates, and to enable the government to use its own encryption algorithms within its computer systems," executive vice president Terry Myerson writes on the Windows 10 Blog.
It wasn't an easy process. "Over the last two years, we have earnestly cooperated with the Chinese government on the security review," Myerson says. The fruits of that labor will go into place at the China Customs agency, the City of Shanghai, and Westone Information Technology. What's more, Lenovo will be among the first OEMs to preinstall the government's operating system on new hardware in the region.
Back in 2014, China banned Windows 8 installs on government computers because it feared major security risks. China had been pushing its forked version of Linux in the wake of that.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/23/win ... t-edition/
when xp went eol people were forced to update. also dx12 is exclusive to windows 10 onward. even people on win 7 who thought they were safe weren't really
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2978239/ ... storm.html
if i had to compare google to microsoft it would be, google is that guy waiting on the public street just outside your home for you to use or not use, though he provides a useful service at the expense of your privacy. Ms on the other hand is the wolf inside your house (no holds barred) no escape unless you decide to move to the next neighbourhood (linux, mac os)
weird thing is google got sued billions by EU for rigging the search results for marketing (they ** of website designers because their SEOs meant squat if they didn't pay google to cheat). whereas i hadn't seen anything done to ms just yet
/end rant
anyway topic is about upcoming win 10, so time for backup to qnap in prep for that using either the guide i made or some other method you know of
eta soon. just got off topic because these changes it's just a joke of what we truly expect from an OS, so sorry about that
interesting article here if anyone interested
https://www.slashgear.com/privacy-shoul ... -15467615/
PS: In a forum like this, we try to keep comments short. Doing that, and being precise in your writing can be very difficult, and I admit that I am not a very good writer so bear with me >_<: