Posts by navarac

UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions

....and of course, this time being Labour, it will benefit the working man in the street - - - NOT.

Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds

A very l o n g wait

<< Hopefully, the lessons learned from shoehorning Windows 11 into a portable gaming device will turn up in future versions of Microsoft's flagship operating system >>

I'm not holding my breath!

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates

Re: It's CLEAR that when they let the DEVs egos get in the way, the end user's get the shaft

<< I think that it's the "Coloured Pencil department" that is the problem, not the Devs. <<

Devs; what Devs? Mainly the Interns in the Coloured Pencil Dept, usually with their pencils up in the darkness!

Musk and Trump take slap fight public as bromance ends

Kindergarten

Two toddlers in the kindergarten. I cannot believe the moronic Americans who voted in this "Putinista" to the White House. And now Trump is sending troops to California. What an autocratic mental case.

Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU

<< EU forcing Microsoft to separate the IE browser from the operating system...>>

That didn't work anyway, like the cookie banner as well. Your "average" Windows user got pissed off with having to choose a browser multiple times. Like all pop-ups, it gets annoying.

LinkedIn CEO takes on second gig to lead Microsoft Office and M365 Copilot

Not Office!

Obviously Ryan Roslansky doesn't have clue about what he is talking about, unless Microshaft has re-renamed Microsoft 365 back to Microsoft Office again. Either that or he has caught the Microshaft disease of not knowing how to explain something succinctly. More likely both!

Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options

Again

So the Interns (aka school kids) have been let loose on stuff, because they've fired more adults again. Brain dead idiots!

More layoffs at Microsoft as axe falls in Washington

Re: Whoa …..

Don't hold your breath!

US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media

US Free Speech?

<< Marco Rubio said free speech is among the most cherished rights enjoyed by Americans, >>

Unless you are criticising that idiot Trump and his Gangster cronies, of course.

Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box

Re: Some Of This Sounds Like Heavy Lifting!

<< May I suggest asking around for Windows users who are replacing their hardware >>

I reckon come October (2025) there will be a good number of Windows 10 (non-W11 capable) machines available. I would not be surprised if some entrepreneur didn't buy a ton, install Linux on them, and try to make a killing.

Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative

Re: No great loss

<< Everything has it's place, >>

True, but it is a sad soul that uses Microshafts crap these days. YMMV, which it seems to.

Re: No great loss

Bing? Does anyone actually use that pile of crap? Really?

German court parks four Volkswagen execs in jail over Dieselgate scandal

Legacy

I still wouldn't look at a Volkswagen vehicle.

Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz

Bring it on

<< forcing AI companies to ask for the permission of copyright holders before using their content would destroy the AI industry overnight. >>

Great, bring it on.

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

Re: "Ignorance is strength"

1984 by George Orwell etc. Nice Big Brother avatar BTW.

Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond

Re: notepad++ to the rescue

<< seems this next Microsoft "shove AI everywhere" shouldn't affect me >>

Not until there is AI embedded in every icon!

Mad

The AI mAnIa has got out of control. At this rate you'll need a minimum of 8TB storage just to install the bloated OS. Just keep the interns away from it, FFS.

Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'

Poor old Trump

Just a bad case of Putin envy. Both cut from the same cloth.

Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM

Re: Nanny security

<< And flag Windows 11 clients as potentially insecure due to Total Recall. >>

More like 'Windows IS insecure'. Even updates = malware at times.

Lenovo thought it could surf geopolitics, until Trump's sudden tariff changes

Re: Move production to the US…

Producing stuff in the US will jack the price up even more than tarriffs, due to US v Asian wages. Personally, I'd stop doing business with the US. Only thing they are good for is stabbing people in the back.

Latest patch leaves some Windows 10 machines stuck in recovery loops

Surprised

I am really, REALLY, surprised that people put up with this shenanigans anymore. It is every week at least that this shit happens. I mean, either Microsoft should stop the faffing about and try and de-bug the crap out of Windows, or customers (victims?) should seriously consider alternatives. I wonder shareholders don't push for Nadella's P45 (firing for our US cousins).

Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits

If you need a reason....

If anyone really needs a reason to think again about using this avaricious American company, this must it. After all the profit they made in the last quarter, a little bit of charity would not hurt, or perhaps their AI vision is beginning to crumble and Nadella is running scared of his bonus crashing as well? Talk about luring the vulnerable into a corner for profit.

Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard

Software Engineers laid off

Here's an idea for the shareholders. Instead of laying off software engineers, how about laying off the Hype-AI Dept; i.e. AI-Nadella, Marketing, and BS advertising sales execs. That might get back to some semblance of normality. Perhaps it's because they don't even pretend to be a software company. "MicroSoft" should be renamed "MegaBsAI".

Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters

Fines

Any possible fines over this should be so punitive that it actually makes Microsoft's eyes water.

Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

Re: Hubble Telescope.......

<< internet connection has been one of the first configurations in OS install >

Way back when I had a 486 PC, (or 286 and 396), the word "internet" was not in the vocabulary!! Maybe BBS, Prestel or MicroLinlk, but not internet or web. Happy days, as they say.

Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

Re: Microsoft Monopoly Must End

<< Microsoft supports OS for 10 years of the date of launch. Sometimes they even exceed these terms (see winXP). Win10 in that respect is no different than Win 8.1, Win7, Win Vista, WinXP and Win2000 before it.... >>

That doesn't mean that because they've got away with before, it is the right thing to do - again. These days of environmental awareness, at least outside the US, should shake some sense into Microsoft. I don't see it happening, though.

Re: Reasons not to upgrade to Windows 12

<< Adobe got to the point where basically everyone who wanted Creative Suite had it. >>

The worst Adobe scam of all? Charging a subscription cancellation fee. AKA Extortion with menaces!

<< writing good well tested software >>

Testing? Really? Since when has Microsoft tested stuff? Not for years!

Re: Reasons not to upgrade to Windows 12

<< I was using insiders releases of Windows for years... >>

At first I thought I was reading something I'd written!! Insider's Builds under Gabe Aul were great. Then Donna S ( a fashionista!) took over. A/B Testing was a camels back straw, a lot of builds had nothing in them ( A/B.../Z testing). Feedback was ignored and it all got a sob story. Windows 10 was my last Windows ever, Windows 11 has been banned and with the pathetic state of 24H2; I'm glad. 2020 saw Microsoft Windows given the "diskpart" treatment and I'm so thankful when I read the articles on this site. Windows 12 will be more of the same, and with luck, Windows 13 (they'll give that title a miss I'm sure) will be its total demise.

Microsoft has lost the plot. Windows is no longer an OS; it is an all-in-one Microshaft advertising, money grabbing, mega-app, built by interns and not fit for purpose anymore.

To repeat the comment above by "tracker1": Most people not playing games with invasive anti cheat or locked into Adobe products are fine on Linux.

30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff

Windows 13

So: AI+ Windows+AI+Word+AI+Excel+AI+Powerpoint+AI+Copilot+AI=Windows 13/AI.

I'll say it again - Microshaft has lost the plot and Nadella has lost his marbles.

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI

Fusion of Nuclear and AI

Is Nadella (as CEO) and Microsoft that absolutely fucking MAD? The AI train needs stopping right now.

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

Re: Settings

<< No, of course now is "let's make it AI based!!!" >>

Because that brain dead idiot Satya Nadella, has only the letters A and I stuck in his pathetic brain. The rest of the alphabet, he's forgotten. These 2 letters MUST be shoe-horned into every line of code that the Interns he employs, writes. It will all end in tears, I reckon.

Re: Start menu?

Changing it again? Change for change sake to please Windows' latest intern intake! Obviously people have found their way around the nightmare that is the current system. More lipstick on the pig, then. That should confuse everyone even better than beofre.

Windows 11 24H2 now 'broadly available' ... complete with yet another 'known issue'

Re: Everyone should sit this one out

<< Maybe i'll wait for 25H2

It'll be more of the same. That is if they every get over 24H2. By the time they fix it, it'll be 2030 or so!

Known Issue

The known issue is Windows! If the issue is known, why release it? Just total incompetence as usual. Microsoft totally lost the plot long ago with Windows 8, and has gone from bad to worse ever since.

Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers

Re: Why trust Microsoft ?

I certainly never have nor never will trust Microsoft with PC or Data security. They are too busy trying to squeeze the last buck out of everyone to bother with that.

Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race

Re: One way of avoiding Trump's tariffs ...

Why doesn't everyone just boycott the Yanks. An egotistical twat that can post pictures of himself as the Pope, can only be fit for the mental asylum.

Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

Even more relevant

<< Back when the consumer internet was young, there were concerns about US-based private companies dominating applications and data. >>

Now we have a dictator in Trumpistan, this sentence is even more relevant.

Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot

Why?

There has to be a suspect reason, maybe to load AI/Copilot shit first, before you can stop it. Is Microsoft's telemetry showing more users using LO now, then? Strange; because Microsoft's uneducated lot when it comes to explaining stuff, wouldn't know how to process words in the first place!

Windows profanity filter finally gets a ******* off switch

Credit where it's due

During my sad days using Windows and being an "insider" in Microsoft's listening properly to feedback days, I always found Jennifer Gentlemen to be a sensible, knowledgeable and helpful lady. But then I think she is Canadian. Been there 16+ years, I think.

Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025

Pay extra Non disruptive patches.

Flawed updates is the plan all along, then, to squeeze more cash out the gullible users? Perhaps Microsoft should just make non-disruptive patches in the first place, full stop.

Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction

Re: Windows and I...

I started using Linux Mint on a spare laptop at the start of the Pandemic, when I had more time to myself! After about 3 months I found I was using Linux far more than Windows, and by 6 months I was hardly using Windows except for the odd game. 6 years on and the Windows PCs (3) have all been long purged of the scam that is Windows. I feel Windows is no longer an OS. It is a marketing vehicle to extract more and more cash and data out of its users. It has become a "Total App" and has no place on my systems. With Linux, I spend no time fighting a Windows system that every week installs a flawed update, or an unwanted bloat package gets added. My commiserations to those poor souls who have to suffer Windows, as it seems to get worse and worse each and every weekly "update" (update in quotes as it is anything but). Obviously Microsoft is totally deaf to its users.

AI training license will allow LLM builders to pay for content they consume

Ignored

So AI behemoths will ignore licences in the same way that they ignore the EUs GDPR, or any other national/international rules and legislation. Many/most being US companies, they just don't give a fuck about anyone else. Gangsters and shysters the lot of them.

Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted

Re: CoPilot reminds me of the Windows 10 forced upgrade

<< ...the Windows 10 forced upgrade you mentioned above was when- around a decade ago- it reached the point of explicit disregard for and downright abusive behaviour towards the end users.... >>

...and when I started seriously thinking about a move to Linux. By the pandemic, the "covid" that is Microsoft, had been totally purged. Now it is just an unpleasant memory.

Typical

Typical of Microsoft's Dark Patterns. Microsoft are desperate for people to use their expensive infrastructure, otherwise Nadella will be on his way back to India! Thankfully it is not on my PCs, all running "another OS".

Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back

Re: Tech bros gonna tech bro

Tech bros- more like a couple of gangsters in Trumps gang. They are all the modern day "Al Capone" and his crooks.

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

In Bed with the Devil

All of these American tech Companies are running the same Scam. All put the fear of the Devil into their customers (sorry gullible users) to lock them into their (non)eco-systems.

How to stay on Windows 10 instead of installing Linux

Just use some time and go for Linux, and get off the scamming merry-go-round that is Microsoft. It saves getting ulcers everyday or so that Windows gets fucked up yet again.