Posts by AllieNeko

Sorry, kids. Microsoft is turning Minecraft into an 'educational tool'

Re: Hmmm... Call me a cynic.

"I will be the first to guess, it will only work on windows 10. So that school have to have windows 10. Just gonna' put that out there. When schools can't afford jack because of govt cuts."

Schools don't have to pay anything to upgrade, or downgrade, it's all covered under the campus site licence agreements. Which are, I will note, incredibly inexpensive for schools. Gotta get kids hooked while they're young and all, LOL.

That said I think computing in education needs to move a huge step back from such high level, abstract things as Minecraft and Windows. The Raspberry Pi is a huge step in the right direction, and needs to get pushed in education, along with other tools to teach the basic building blocks of computing.

"I hate how children will leave school, with a microsoft cloud account by default... which presumably will start asking for cash somewhere down the line, or face their childhood classroom experiences and work... wiped."

While I'm no fan of the commercialisation seen in schools, the Microsoft Cloud accounts they have at school are free for as long as they get to keep them (for many uni students, that's for life), and are essentially the same as a corporate account - they're on the school's domain, and use the education version of Microsoft's cloud platform, which is quite similar what is sold for enterprise. Their school account won't magically start requiring money to access. Some push may happen, on a school level, toward paid Microsoft services down the line, but it'd be a totally separate account.

Microsoft herds biz users to Windows 10 by denying support for Win 7 and 8 on new CPUs

Re: I just don't get the Windows 10 hate

"Maybe you (and most of the rest of the meejah) didn't notice, but there is actually more than one credible Linux to choose from. Even if Ubuntu isn't one of them any more, for the reason you mention and maybe others, there are still alternatives which don't have the same challenges."

Did you read where I said "mainstream"? I love Fedora, personally. But to MOST people who aren't in a tech field Linux = Ubuntu.

Re: I just don't get the Windows 10 hate

Who do you think treats you better? Apple no longer supports ANY old version of OS X after new hardware comes out. Buy a Mac introduced after El Capitan came out, and Yosemite won't boot on it. Just the way it is. Microsoft's saying that maybe, just maybe, there will be limited driver support for the next generation of Intel CPUs on an OS that came out SIX YEARS AGO.

Don't like Apple? Well, how well is modern hardware supported on ANY Linux distro released in 2009?

Microsoft has the longest support timelines of anyone in the industry, yet is somehow made out the bad guy when they end support? That is what's completely illogical to me.

There's plenty to hate about Microsoft, but this idea that they have short support lives for their OS is just bizarre, as is the idea that Windows 10 is a bad OS (it's amazing... and I used to really dislike Windows...). It's fast, light, finally gets things like colour management and display scaling handled properly. And it looks darn good. Privacy? Damn, maybe, but that's everyone - even mainstream Linux. Ubuntu sends all your searches to Amazon...

I just don't get the Windows 10 hate

Have people actually used Windows 10? It's fantastic. I have been a Mac user for years, and just got a Surface Pro 4. It's what computing should be. I've deployed Windows 10 at work, as well... with a great deal of success. It's a fantastic OS, and I'm sure no Microsoft fanboy.