Posts by TonySomerset 13 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Apr 2015
So much about MS is totally wrong. I do not need a nursemaid. I do not need that phantom hand constasntlyt changing things behind my back or stuff my machine with completely unwanted gizzmoes. But it is very had to turn off MS after decades of building dependent software that I need and want to use daily to survive. Elsewhere it would be ranked as blackmail or extortion, in the IT world as it is just shrugged off as "normal".
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Our online presence and identity is so open to abuse with current "verification" so an digital ID is probably inevitable at some point. However there is absolutely no trust that the Government can restrain itself, restricting exactly who, when and for what reason any of its departments can access that data. Worse still the creation and retention of such vital data is irresistibly wide open to data mining and monetisation. It has to be a parliament defined and restricted independent organisation with robust rules as to what data is required and the who when and what can access it, all again prescribed by Parliament.
It is not just AI being oversold. Cloud storage is way over hyped. Consider 8B people rising to 10B with ALL their IT data (and all their selfies) stored in the cloud - for ever! Data farms cannot grow that big, fact. Someone somewhere will start to decide which of your personal data is trivial and can be deleted, almost certainly without your prior consent. So where to go now for your precious memories?
Spot on. Yes please on so many of your top ten. However I am only an simple PC user but if only:
PC supported me in the way that I actually work.
Offered a simple hierarchy of on/off/uninstall of all support features.
An icon to search in any open App without having to go find Find.
Recognised that I didnt want my PC to be cloud based.
If I chose to have anniversary reminder they were in my local time and I could choose who to or not be reminded on and able to correct data errors
Gave me back by purchased Apps without forcing an annual subscription. When my skills increase then the option to buy the upgraded features.
A PC that worked consistently without changing its settings without my prior approval.
A responsive OS provider that listened then responded to user problems and invited feedback.
Kept my data secure on my machine without sharing to some inner circle.
Didnt require me to link up all my various 'hats' that i use for varying aspects of my work.
A PC that knew me and I didnt have to prove at every step that I was still that same person using for all these past years.
Is that too much to ask?
Window11 is several steps far too far. MS increasingly want to funnel and control your access and usage of what it offers to you. Plus hoovering up behind the scenes all of your traffic, connections and contents to exploit and monetise.
NO THANK YOU.
Win10 is already too far down that road. When they, MS, pulls the plug I will be going OpenSource -Zorus calls.
Fallible humans set the teaching tasks and fallible humans decide whether a 'good' outcome should be rewarded. So it is just humans training for human responses albeit a couple paces removed. Except no group of humans can simulate the real world interactions of the whole world of humans.
Just had a Windows auto update and after login faced with blackscreen and message device not found, yet again, Outlook hanging. Same procedure, switch off router, reboot then power off, switch router on, then reboot again. Simple. So our thanks to MS for making our lives so exciting, stressful and saving us from having to do real work.
First off, all power lines should be buried.
Second this is an awful bad design. It looks heavy and is very static. Compare it to the narrow V design, at least that had a degree of grace. This is going to impose on the landscape, no matter what colour chosen to 'blend in'. Has anyone with any design skills looked at this!
At least the old pylons were by design airy, light and insubstantial within the landscape.
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