Posts by navarac

Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs

Re: which "are the fastest, most intelligent and most secure PCs ever built… "

Until the next big shiny crap is discovered/invented. A couple of years ago it was Hololens. A few years time we'll be thinking of AI in the vein as that of Zune etc.

Wrong Manpower

If Microsoft concentrated on manpower for testing their inane crap and getting it right, they wouldn't need the manpower to bribe resellers to flog it all. These corporations all live in their own little bubble. They have so much cash, they forget everyone else is struggling to make ends meet (and that goes for businesses as well as consumers).

Bing Wallpaper app, now in Windows Store, accused of cookie shenanigans

Corporate

Before I retired, the wallpaper on our Company PCs was an authorised Company logo. Nothing else allowed. As someone else mentioned, who the fuck needs an App to sort your wallpaper anyway?

Microsoft hits back at claims it slurps your Word, Excel files to train AI models

Lawyer Speak

Unfortunately, most of Microsoft's communications are in Corporate Lawyer Speak. In other words, Weasel worded gobbledegook which could mean anything when taken to court. I have lost trust in Microsoft, and have ditched all of their products. Most Big Tech has gone, or is going, in the same direction.

Yet Another Reason ...

... to consider your continued use of Microsoft Products?

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

Killer App

Recall is the killer app that could killed the use of MSFT products - totally and full-stop. You are nuts to even consider having this on a PC connected to the Internet. It is just asking for trouble.

Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview

Recall promotion.

They probably have deliberately fucked this up so "marketing|" will hope people will use Recall , which we are told takes screen shots (photos) and converts it using OCR to store data. Just another reason to dump Microsoft products. "You know it makes sense!"

Now’s your chance to try Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall ... maybe

Re: Dear Microshaft

I know I'm only one person, and I know others cannot follow suit for many reasons, but.....

I have used Dos and Windows since the dawn of the PC. I have been fairly happy most of the time (don't mention Windows 8) just getting on with tasks needed. However, Windows 11, and especially Recall, has made me dump "everything" produced by Microsoft. Sad really, but since moving to another OS (not fruit flavoured), I don't feel that I am being ripped off, gouged and generally annoyed anymore. Unfortunately the likes of Google needs to be dumped, all Social Media as well, and as for the Ads on YT; don't even get me started. The whole technology industry has got totally out of hand, driven by idiots who are chasing the last bit of cash in the universe, and stuff the consequences.

Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11

Encouragement

The only encouragement to upgrade to Windows 11 that Microsoft encouraged me to do, was come of Windows altogether. I moved to Linux Mint in 2020 and feel really sorry for those stuck with using Windows of any sort, other than in a building!!

Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC

Re: Brought to you by Microsoft's DOA department.

and the Studio large monitor.....

Flash in the Pan

Yet another Microsoft Flash in the Pan. Like RT, Hololens, Zune, etc etc.

Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview

Even more Marketing BS from SatNad and his idiot serfs.

Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals

Downhill?

Since Windows 2000, it has all been downhill. Windows and Microsoft has generally been trying to insert itself between you and the apps you need, and buggering up the day.

Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price

The Ultimate Answer..

All we will get out of Copilot is the answer that Deep Thought gave us....42.

Microsoft Exchange update fixes security flaws, breaks other stuff

Re: Channels

>>>What are these 'channels' you speak of?<<<

UK TV Channels! Back as a kid we had 2 channels, ON (BBCtv) and OFF. In 1955, Commercial TV came along aka ITV. Then we had 2 channels PLUS OFF. Glorious days when the TV went off air about 10pm and for God's Hour between about 6pm and 7pm on Sundays. TV (Tele) didn't start broadcasting much before 5pm for kids TV programmes.

Asda security chief replaced, retailer sheds jobs during Walmart tech divorce

Private Equaty Financing.

Par for the course when you get Private Equity Financing scammers/scrapers involved, with petrol pump "entrepreneurs"/market traders getting too big for their boots.. ASDA will collapse up in a mess of debt-ridden tears.

AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them

No thanks

Just NO - no thanks shysters..

Admins can give thanks this November for dollops of Microsoft patches

Re: Selecting a file

>>>I can't imagine turkeys being exported to Britain...<<<

This sort of comment just shows up the average Americans knowledge of anything outside a radius of a Gnat's perception.

Clues to Windows Intelligence found in Windows 11 builds

Branding

Microsoft has always had a problem naming stuff. There is definitely no Intelligence in that department.

Australia tells tots: No TikTok till you're 16... or X, Instagram and Facebook

Just ban Social Media. They are rapacious for our data.

Microsoft rolls out AI-enabled Notepad to Windows Insiders

Re: Another Intern Job?

BUT.... it is from Nadella down that directs the "interns/kids". Nadella is like a child grabbing a new toy. Hololens - failure mostly, is an example, and I cannot see AI being generally useful/against cost, in the long run. The "interns" are only doing what they are told to do by, ultimately, Nadella.

Another Intern Job?

About time Nadella got rid of the kids and Interns, and got the adults back, especially in Marketing. Oh, wait! Microshit has no adults left in the company! Or perhaps the whole joint is run by AI?

Microsoft has reached $1M giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing

Scam

Just another online Scam to get more details from more people. FFS give it up Microshit- you've lost the plot.

Windows 11 continues to creep up behind Windows 10

Re: campaigners are warning that millions of perfectly good PCs could become landfill fodder

Nicely worded :-)

Instead, think of all those lovely Linux capable machines flooding the market!

Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30

Ruuning scared?

So, Microsoft have finally woken up to the fact that their "scam" (in cahoots with hardware manufacturers) to require new PCs for W11, is still at a crawl. I could understand if a new PC was needed to run the OS, but it isn't. W11 is still W10 with a new coat of lipstick on the pig that is Windows. W11 runs perfectly well on "reasonably" older hardware. and most people, especially consumers, aren't falling for the arbitrary requirement to spend £/$ 1000+ for no legitimate reason. Marketing is running roughshod over sense, but most marketeers do, don't they?

Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears

Refuelling.

So you're OK "refuelling" an EV, as long as you don't live in a block of flats (apartment block) or a street with no off street parking. A lot of people have no hope of using EVs as the infrastructure is abysmal (here in the UK at least)..

Is Microsoft's AI Copilot? CoPilot? Co-pilot? MVP creates site to help get it right

Naming problem....

Product naming problems are Microsoft's own making. Their track record naming stuff is abysmal. Just one example, how many Outlooks do they need, FFS? Their marketing Dept needs a shot up the backside.

The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source

Re: Protection is vital

Trouble is, Greedy Corporations are rapacious and couldn't give a shit about anything, but profit. Open Washing is just a euphemism for theft IMO. So called "AI" is a great vehicle for these corporations to rip-off everything and everybody.

Nvidia CEO whines Europeans aren’t buying enough GPUs

Huang

What a shame! My heart bleeds for you, Huang. Sort your prices out.

Microsoft says its Copilot AI agents set to tackle employee tasks in November

Bedlam

I think Microsoft is a satellite department of the old "Bethlehem Hospital" in London - aka Bedlam. The inhabitants are all mental.

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

Google kills the Interwebs

I'll just go on with Brave on Linux for now, but if I get flooded with ads, I'll abandon shit !

Note to Google/Mozilla: I ignore ads and don't react to them, so just F-off and destroy it all.

Windows 11 user hurt by the KB5043145 update? Microsoft offers a way out

....and, of course, advertising crap.

Windows 11 24H2 disk space hoarding a 'reporting error'

Just to prove again...

....that Microsoft Windows 11 is not fit for purpose, or at least, Microsoft's pre-release checks aren't. And of course they don't read issues in the Feedback Hub. Total Numpties.

Keir Starmer tells regulators to chill as Microsoft exec takes wheel of advisory council

Re: "All your Cabinet Ministers are belong to M$FT."

Meanwhile, Diabetics cannot get it for love or money.

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete

Storage

Perhaps Microsoft is now encouraging the purchase of large drives now that they are having trouble convincing people to buy new W11 compliant hardware? Obviously in cahoots with SSD manufacturers as well now, me thinks LOL

Microsoft cleans up hot mess of Patch Tuesday preview

Re: A year without bad updates would be nice...

A bit difficult when it seems that Microsoft is run by a bunch of Interns and Amateurs these last few years.

Happy birthday, Putin – you've been pwned

Re: Msg to Chris Williams

You need to read the article again! Nowhere in the article is America mentioned.

Amusing

The Russian responses and comments are just so amusing. It all smacks of hypocrisy and BS, as usual.

Windows 11 migration? Upgrade engine revs up, enterprises have no choice

Re: Big if

Linux might not be "the obvious solution to all IT woes". It is, however, a viable alternative for a lot of users, especially SMB's. I gave being hostage to Microsoft as soon as I saw the mess that is Windows 11 from the start, and it has not got any better.

I feel truly sorry for those compelled to use Windows, for whatever reason and in whatever environment. As "David Austen" comments, there is going to be lot of usable second-hand kit about next year for us Linux users.

Saying goodbye to the tech dreams Microsoft abandoned with Windows 11 24H2

Throwing in the towel

Microsoft is throwing in the towel on a lot of stuff. Perhaps they have realised that they can make more cash with all the embedded Ads?

Re: Great idea, Redmond

Yep, I moved to Libre Office on Windows to get away from an extortionate Perpetual Licence fee, and then the scourge of the subscription. Once I moved fully to Linux in 2020, the transition was not a problem regarding an "Office" type program. Not that it was much of a problem overall.

Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI

BSOD

....and 24H2 comes with it own BSOD.

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster

Rinse and Repeat

Microsoft updates seem to follow this path far too often. All responsible need to be fired, unless they are all Interns, of course. The buck stops with you Nadella. Stop dripping on about AI/Copilot/adverts etc, and fix the root of the OS.

Recall the Recall recall? Microsoft thinks it can make that Windows feature palatable

Bye-bye Microsoft.

Thank goodness I dumped Microsoft (Windows) at the start of the Pandemic, when I had time to immerse myself in Linux. Who's to say an update to Windows won't "accidentally" turn on this crap? It has happened multiple times before. Apart from that, it is a massive Malware target that even at this minute, Nefarious State Actors and Script kiddies are working out how to monetise it. No OS is totally immune, but Windows is a really leaky bucket.

Admins using Windows Server Update Services up in arms as Microsoft deprecates feature

Interns

Microshit is being run by interns in the mad house. The "cuckoo nest" is alive and well, and there are more than one flying over it.

AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that

An AI advert has lately appeared on UK TV, "starring" Idris Elba. It extolls the virtue of AI, but there is no use-case given. Despite using computers since the Spectrum days, I have no idea what he is trying to sell. What the general population thinks is anyone's guess!

LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

And some MS-shills still think MSFT won't use our data from "Recall"? Think again.

Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App

Names

Microshit (now there's a name) must employ people totally without sense to name things. Oh, yes. It is the Mis-marketing department. They must sit around all day dreaming up this crap. They would have had a chapter all to themselves in the late Douglas Adam HHTG series, along with the telephone sanitisers, if Adams had come across them.!

Telcos scolded for unwanted erection of utility poles in race to wire up Britain

Re: Like any other superhighway

You have to remember that in the 1950s. there was probably only one or two houses in a street of 100, that had a phone. Most of us had to walk down to the corner, use a phone box and press button A to connect, or press button B to get your 4d (fourpence) back!. As kids we always tried Button B when we passed a phone box! It was surprising how many left their 4d behind.