Microsoft, you shouldn't have: Festive Windows 10 Insiders build about as exciting as new socks With less than two weeks to go before Christmas, Microsoft has lobbed a fresh build of next year's Windows 10 down the chimney. Insiders hoping for shiny new toys to play with will, however, be disappointed to find the computing equivalent of a fresh pair of socks. The 18298 build of Windows 10 is extremely light on new …
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>How is that better than having multiple explorer windows open?
It's a lot less clicking and mouse movements, having used both I know which I prefer.
There are alternatives to Finder such as 'Commander One' but Windows Explorer is so embedded into the whole OS replacing it is next to impossible.
Besides if this was easy I'm sure that MS would go out of its way to make it impossible or at least very difficult to do. (just my opinion though)
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Engineers are prone to "creeping featurism" - either "improving" existing things or adding "useful" new things.
In the 1970s it was not unusual to see development people replaced by promotions/defections about every 18 months. At which point someone new would "fix" something they thought looked wrong. Thus recreating a problem which had been solved by an earlier team. It wasn't long before "If it ain't broke - don't fix it" became the watchword.
In one case there were two development teams responsible for alternate O/S releases. On installing the new release one had to be aware that the asynchronous terminal settings of the main console would flip between their two different preferences for bit rate etc.
[Quote] They've been building Windows for over a quarter of a century, and it isn't finished yet? [/Quote]
So you thought the deep knowledge on how to configure the underlying DOS system would keep your job safe?
And using more than 16 MB of memory is just a waste of resources?
You gotta be strong now: Things and conditions develop. Different from what you were thinking. Sometimes.
yeah, they should change the icon for windows to an "under construction" sign...
/me runs away seeing as so many web sites used to do that to the point where it became a trope to be ridiculed...
/me also points out that anything with any COLOR in it would be an improvement over that 'monochromatic' white on 'whatever background' 2D FLATTY 'windows at an angle' icon is...
" there's currently a user's laptop on the bench that's been running Windows Update for 9 days solid"
you should put a web cam on it, and a page that snapshots it, maybe a web page called "the daily windows update", etc.. Have some fun, let us all get a nice big 'schadenfruede' laugh over it, etc.. Or maybe you could make a time-lapse youtube video with a running timestamp (and ambient room light indicating day/night) so that people can see just how sllloooooww it's going. Heh.
Well Notepad++ and Notepad are something completely different. Notepad has it's use for just being a "paste buffer" that can also strip format information from your data.
I've looked at Notepad++, and I see little reason to use it. It seems to lack a unifying vision. It just looks like a lot of non orthogonal features added to a simple word processor. It fullfills most prejudices people have about Windows software.
"I've looked at Notepad++, and I see little reason to use it."
I see a reason to use it, but not as a blanket replacement for Notepad. As you say, Notepad++ and Notepad are different programs that address different needs. I always have a need for a very minimal editor with the fewest features possible. In Windows, that's Notepad and I love it for that. It's one of the applications I use the most.
Notepad++ is better when you need a "word processor lite" or an editor that understands code (and you don't want to fire up a full-featured one).
yeah fixing some of the more 'irritating features' of Notepad _IS_ an improvement. As long as it doesn't go all UWP on us.
assuming UTF-8 (without a control char seq saying 'I am UTF-8 format') is a good start. So is that irritating prompt to 'create a new file' if you enter a non-existent file name on the command line... [maybe just the ability to turn that on/off in case someone WANTS that?]
Fix that and line endings and it should be good to go. Now how about a back-port for 7?
'"Stupid flat look" - aesthetics is a choice, i actually like the way win 10 looks'
OK. that's YOUR choice. Why can't _I_ have *MY* choice???
answer: because a handful of ARROGANT SMUG 'we know better than YOU what YOU should have' types RE-WROTE THE [profanities] UI to be ALL 2D FLATSO AND FLUGLY, that's why!!!!
And they forgot that THE CUSTOMER (me) is ALWAYS right, and should be GIVING ME (the customer) _WHAT_ _I_ _WANT_ !!!
It's idiot programmers who are responsible for prepending BOMs onto JSON payloads, not the framework. By default, the .Net Utf8Encoding class does not emit a BOM - you've got to explicitly request that behaviour. It's been that way since the start (.Net Version 1.1 doc here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.utf8encoding?view=netframework-1.1)
But the JSON parsers are, strictly speaking, broken too. The JSON specification does not define a byte encoding (no, read it again: "a sequence of Unicode code points". Code points are not byte values), so parsers that accept only untagged UTF-8 are in error.
"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you produce" is always the best approach.
The 18298 build of Windows 10 is extremely light on new features,
This is pure FUD.
As you can see if you read any reputable news outlet this build includes MAJOR updates to Notepad.
It has a status bar.
Bus as usual, the pro Apple lobby has to repeatedly bash MS. (or as you probably type it, M4).
<sigh>
Ah the days of selecting what you features installed during the build I do miss those. I even miss them on the linux builds, can't remember the last time I got to pick my packages during install probably about five years ago at a guess.
What is wrong with letting the tech savvy have a proper advanced install option?
If they can also squash the damn bug with RDP wherein if you put in your password wrong in the prompt to connect to the remote computer, the dialog that tells you that you've fat fingered it should not get dumped to the back of the line for focus... Same with the RDP window itself, for that matter....
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