Win 10s interesting?
I don't think so. Why would anyone want a crippled version of Win10?
What are these machines with enough CPU and screen but less RAM and storage than an $100 Android tablet?
Citrix has released a version of its Receiver app for Windows 10 S, and in so doing made Microsoft's lightweight cut of Windows for schools a bit more interesting. Microsoft offered the world Windows 10 S in May 2017 and recommended it to schools on the basis that it can only install apps from the Windows Store. That plan was …
It works for Microsoft, too - shame it doesn't work for the users, or developers.
The only thing Windows has over other systems is the software. Get rid of that, and there's absolutely no point in using it.
Seriously, spend an hour on your computer not using any software you didn't get from the store and see how fucked you are.
Funny how you compare a desktop OS to a mobile, however. Quite telling, actually.
"The store only model seems to work for Apple / Google"
in Android, you can EASILY switch off the "feature" that restricts you to "store only" [cr]apps.
not sure about iOS.
And the "feature" in Win-10-nic S (which stands for something that starts with an 'S') apparently can NOT be shut off, deliberately, by design. Which makes it S. I guess it's full of S.
Has anything tried this edition? It's a fucking joke! Every single reason to use Windows is disabled. And lets face it, those reasons are decreasing.
Can't do anything on it. You can only download apps from the store, that have been vetted by Microsoft. You're stuck with Edge and bing.
You might as well get a Chromebook - at least you wont get the maintenance nightmare of Windows.
" You're stuck with Edge "
Which is faster than Chrome and now has Ublock Origin and Ghostery available.
"and bing"
Which gives far cleaner results than Google that are not full of SEO crap and disguised adverts!
"You might as well get a Chromebook - at least you wont get the maintenance nightmare of Windows."
Have you seen how many patches Google have released for Chrome OS?! And - erm - just like Windows 10 most require a reboot and a long wait!
The maintenance of Windows that i get annoyed with (and what i think they are talking about) is not just about patches! Its about the endless baby sitting of the OS, Windows just breaks by its self. It can be working fine one day then go to use it the next and it just throws up errors.
Went to play a game last month that had been working fine, nothing had changed, hit the Play button and Windows would start the shut down sequence.
Few days later went to run a regularly used app , DLL's were 'missing' .
Then on top of that crap you have to sit there and wait while updates update your updatings.
"Far less than Windows 10"
I think you mean far *fewer* ? Are you one of the less intelligent posters or one of the few intelligent posters?!
"(even though Chrome OS has been out longer)"
But one is an enterprise grade fully featured OS and the other is a basically a browser kiosk!
"*Refer cvedetails.com"
50 in Chrome OS itself and well over 1500 in the Chrome Browser!
Windows 10 is on 483 and the Edge browser is on 334.
"I think you mean far *fewer* ? Are you one of the less intelligent posters or one of the few intelligent posters?!"
Fair point, but ad hominem does not bring credibility to a debate.
"Far less than Windows 10"
I think you mean far *fewer* ? Are you one of the less intelligent posters or one of the few intelligent posters?!
"But one is an enterprise grade fully featured OS and the other is a basically a browser kiosk!"
We are talking about Windows 10S remember, which is also just a browser kiosk with a store. Except one with a worse track record.
"50 in Chrome OS itself and well over 1500 in the Chrome Browser!"
Over eight years for Chrome, versus just over two for Edge. If we compare directly over the last two complete years of release to keep this relevant, we see 325 for Chrome and 307 for Edge (i.e. similar).
Of the 307 vulns for Edge, 63% involved code execution compared to 6% for Chrome. Ouch! Guess which one usually holds up better at pwn2own? (hint: not Edge).
And for the record, I'm not a big Chrome user either.
>> " You're stuck with Edge "
> Which is faster than Chrome
Doesn't support assistive technology like screenreaders etc though - bit of problem for education users. In the US it's illegal to spend Federal Funds on inaccessible tech and in the UK, education establishments which don't provide accessible tech are liable to prosecution under SENDA.
When pointed out to MS, rather than fix accessibility in S and Edge, they provided a free upgrade route from S to Windows Pro for assistive tech users - so you can install an accessible web browser like Firefox or Chrome and use NVDA, JAWS etc.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4032817/windows-10-s-assistive-technology-faq
Edge is slow for me, on actual sites. 4% of web users may disagree. And it uses the same shitty core as IE - as proven by every patch/vulnerability for either one usually applies to the other. But, as long as it downloads Firefox I'm happy.
and I'm sorry, but Windows isn't even close to the ease of maintenance of a chromebook. You obviously haven't used one. Stick the windows logo on it, and you'll love it.
Worked in a school for a couple of years, any OS properly locked down prevents kids installing stuff. All locking it to the Windows store does it create a captive market.
The kids trying to circumvent group policy and scripts etc was part of the fun of working there, I probably learnt more whilst combatting the kids constant attempts to get around our proxy, us VPNs and install various applications from their home burnt disks than I did from 10 years working elsewhere. It was great!
In brief More than half of the 24.6 billion stolen credential pairs available for sale on the dark web were exposed in the past year, the Digital Shadows Research Team has found.
Data recorded from last year reflected a 64 percent increase over 2020's total (Digital Shadows publishes the data every two years), which is a significant slowdown compared to the two years preceding 2020. Between 2018 and the year the pandemic broke out, the number of credentials for sale shot up by 300 percent, the report said.
Of the 24.6 billion credentials for sale, 6.7 billion of the pairs are unique, an increase of 1.7 billion over two years. This represents a 34 percent increase from 2020.
Updated Microsoft's latest set of Windows patches are causing problems for users.
Windows 10 and 11 are affected, with both experiencing similar issues (although the latter seems to be suffering a little more).
KB5014697, released on June 14 for Windows 11, addresses a number of issues, but the known issues list has also been growing. Some .NET Framework 3.5 apps might fail to open (if using Windows Communication Foundation or Windows Workflow component) and the Wi-Fi hotspot features appears broken.
If Windows Autopatch arrives in July as planned, some of you will be able to say goodbye to Patch Tuesday.
Windows Autopatch formed part of Microsoft's April announcements on updates to the company's Windows-in-the-cloud product. The tech was in public preview since May.
Aimed at enterprise users running Windows 10 and 11, Autopatch can, in theory, be used to replace the traditional Patch Tuesday to which administrators have become accustomed over the years. A small set of devices will get the patches first before Autopatch moves on to gradually larger sets, gated by checks to ensure that nothing breaks.
Research by Citrix shows business leaders don't entirely trust their employees when it comes to hybrid work.
The report, dubbed "Work rebalanced" [PDF] was drawn from the views of 900 business leaders and 1,800 employees across the globe, including in the US, the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and the Netherlands.
Citrix has made deals with cloud providers to sell its Desktop as a Service (Daas) platform, providing enterprises with a choice of host for its virtual desktop products.
The latest partnership is with Google Cloud, while a similar arrangement was announced with Microsoft's Azure in April.
The remote access pioneer has made available two new Citrix DaaS products that can be purchased by customers in the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Microsoft has pulled the plug on support for .NET 5 and the Pro and Home versions of Windows 10 20H2.
.NET 5 is not to be confused with the venerable .NET Framework, which will linger on until its parent OS breathes its last.
.NET Framework 3.51 SP1, for example, will carry on until the beginning of 2029 – over 20 years since it first emerged.
Microsoft has taken another step toward the final eradication of the venerable SMB1 protocol with plans to disable it by default in all editions of Windows 11.
As is the company's wont, Dev Channel Windows Insiders will first have the protocol not installed for all editions. This will then be the default for the next major release of Windows 11, expected later this year. In-place upgrades, where SMB1 was already in use, aren't affected and administrators that really need it can deliberately pop it back on.
So 2022 will be the year when there will be no fresh installs of Windows 11 that has the aged protocol installed by default.
Windows 10 – as we pointed out last week – still rules Microsoft's user base, as now evidenced by the latest arrival of Windows 10 IoT Enterprise on NXP hardware.
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is very much the full-fat version of Windows 10, including full application compatibility and developer access to .NET tools, WinForms, WPF, UWP, and WinUI.
It differs from Windows 10 IoT Core, which is aimed at even smaller devices and supports just UWP in terms of app architecture.
Desktop Tourism Rightly or wrongly, Huawei has acquired a reputation for being a risky proposition, security-wise. It almost beggars belief, then, that the Chinese goliath's flagship Matebook X Pro laptop contains a literal hidden webcam secreted under a fake function key on the top row of its keyboard.
Touch the key and it clicks lightly, then springs up to reveal the camera.
It's a terrible place for the camera because when the laptop is flat on a desk and close enough to type on, the view it affords would probably please an ear, nose, and throat surgeon conducting a remote examination. Needless to say, that angle is not going to show your best side during a Zoom or Teams session. And you can't change the angle without moving the entire laptop into odd positions or placing it too far away to type.
The growth of Microsoft's flagship operating system, Windows 11, appears to be slowing if figures from AdDuplex are to be believed.
Instead, Windows 10 continues to dominate, an indicator that either users are not upgrading or – and this is probably more likely – Microsoft's stringent hardware compatibility requirements are keeping the operating system off users' PCs.
After a relatively healthy start to the year, Windows 11 only managed to grow its share of the systems surveyed by AdDuplex by a paltry 19.3 to 19.4 percent. Its Windows 10 equivalent, 21H2, continued to comfortably romp ahead, increasing from 21 percent at the end of February to 28.5 percent in March.
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