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https://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-ditch-the-ads-in-the-windows-10-creators-update/

Share Dialog Ads

With the Creators Update, Microsoft added a new Share pane to File Explorer. By default, you are not just shown your own list of installed apps, but also suggested apps that Microsoft thinks you might be interested in grabbing from the Windows Store.

https://betanews.com/2021/09/04/microsoft-crowbars-ads-into-windows-11-and-breaks-the-start-menu-and-taskbar/

Microsoft is hardly a stranger to making controversial decisions with Windows, and it has previously been accused of taking liberties by using the operating system to advertise its other products and services. Windows 11 may not even been officially released yet, but the company seems to have learned nothing and has started injecting ads into the latest version of its operating system.

https://www.onmsft.com/news/windows-11-optional-update-search-highlights

For those unfamiliar, search highlights is a feature for the Windows 11 search box. It will show you notable and interesting moments of what’s special about each day of the year. You’ll see things like holidays, anniversaries, and educational moments in time in your region. That sometimes means seeing a Google doodle-like animation and image in the search box area

of course let no forgot the ads for w10 on windows 7

 

 

 

James Bond 007 wrote:

I don’t care about the so-called “security” as I am strongly convinced it is blown out of proportion regarding most people

You’re wasting your time fixing 97 percent of vulnerabilities

According to new research only three percent of ‘critical’ code vulnerabilities are attackable, which means developers should be able to better prioritize efforts and significantly reduce their workload.

The study from automated security testing firm ShiftLeft finds that focusing on the three percent allows teams to greatly speed up and simplify efforts. ShiftLeft saw a 37 percent improvement from last year in mean time to remediate new vulnerabilities with a median scan time of 1 minute 30 seconds…

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Cybertooth

HP Dev One Pop!_OS Linux laptop (Unboxing)

HP Dev One Pop!_OS Linux laptop [Review]

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Microfix

And it begans

 

betanews.com/2022/02/26/microsoft-confirms-recent-windows-updates-cause-problems-establishing-netlogon-secure-channel-connections/

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/02/21/the-next-final-version-of-windows-12-may-already-be-in-development/

This joke on Twitter made a lot of waves.

Ghacks hasn’t still updated his post.

When Microsoft unveiled the Windows 10 operating system, it stated that Windows 10 would be the last and final version of Windows. Last year, Microsoft released Windows 11 to the public, and rumors suggest that the company is already working on Windows 12..

Windows 12 will be a very different operating system according to the information that has been revealed so far.

Microsoft plans to drop part of the old foundation of Windows that is part of all versions of the operating system, including Windows 11.
Windows 12 will require a Microsoft Account for Home and Pro users.
The security chip Microsoft Pluton will be a requirement.
TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot will play a larger role.
Parts and bits of Windows 10X will be used…

Windows devices with Pluton will use the Pluton security processor to protect credentials, user identities, encryption keys, and personal data. None of this information can be removed from Pluton even if an attacker has installed malware or has complete physical possession of the PC…

Without an option to disable Pluton, the device’s hardware would be locked and users could not install other operating systems, e.g., a Linux distribution, on the device..

https://mobile.twitter.com/Daniel_Rubino/status/1495475040711761926

https://betanews.com/2022/02/21/you-may-have-just-installed-windows-11-but-microsoft-could-be-readying-windows-12/

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Fred

The author of the betanews article must be desperate to find something to write about.

First, if you don’t like FF, use another browser, there are other 3rd party browsers that run well on Mint.

Second, If you don’t like Google as your search engine, change it.

Third, has he contributed any money to Mint to support it and thereby help ensure it’s viability?

I don’t consider myself to be much of a techie, but even I can install other browsers and set default search engines in them. I’d much rather give money to Mint than MS

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SueW, Bill C., Microfix, Charlie, Fred

Linux Mint signs a partnership with Mozilla

Mozilla develops two of the most important software applications in our distribution:

The Firefox Web Browser
The Thunderbird Email and Calendar application..

Firefox will continue to be distributed as .deb packages through the official Linux Mint repositories. Its configuration and the way it is built is changing to make the Linux Mint version of Firefox much more similar (almost identical in fact) to the version which is distributed by Mozilla.

In the past Linux Mint used its own default settings and configured Firefox in a specific way. Most of this configuration is abandoned to go back to Mozilla defaults.

The default start page no longer points to https://www.linuxmint.com/start/
The default search engines no longer include Linux Mint search partners (Yahoo, DuckDuckGo…) but Mozilla search partners (Google, Amazon, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ebay…)
The default configuration switches from Mint defaults to Mozilla defaults.
Firefox no longer includes code changes or patches from Linux Mint, Debian or Ubuntu…

Another way to look at this partnership :

Linux Mint sells out for Mozilla money — Google becomes default search in Firefox

..Maybe you instead went with Linux Mint because its developers are not beholden to anyone. Well, if that is the case, I have some bad news. You see, Linux Mint has officially sold out! Sadly, the developers of the Ubuntu-based operating system have agreed to accept an undisclosed amount of money from Mozilla in exchange for making significant changes to Linux Mint. This includes removal of modifications to Firefox and a big change for search…

I looked at OpenShell. In two independent reviews, OpenShell is much less capable than either Start11 or StartAllBack. While it’s free, there’s an element of getting what you pay for.

Tom’s Hardware
BetaNews.com

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gwt10, Cybertooth

Windows 12 is everything Windows 11 should be

..While we’re still getting used to Windows 11, concept creator Addy Visuals has put his creative abilities into imagining what the successor might look like, and his vision of Windows 12 is a sight to behold.

Highlights of the video, which you can watch below, include a new taskbar and Start menu which is shown both centered and on the left-hand side, which is where many people would argue it belongs…

As I get old the patch issues blur and I forget some of the issues.  Microsoft withdraws AMD driver that causes INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error in Windows 10 (betanews.com)  You talking about that?  They do react when partitions aren’t big enough, but typically patches don’t move existing partitions.  That’s a “under the OS” kind of thing that patches don’t touch.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

Release Notes : Firefox 90.0

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/90.0/

Firefox 90 introduces background updates to Windows, tightens security elsewhere

https://betanews.com/2021/06/30/the-windows-11-release-date-is-almost-certainly-in-october/

Rumors and leaks suggest that the launch date for Windows 11 will be in October this year, specifically October 20. Of course, Microsoft has not yet confirmed this, but all evidence is pointing towards this date being correct.

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Pepsiboy, Cybertooth

Betanews.com presents a list of Windows 10 features they say are deprecated or removed in Windows 11.

Two changes that caught my eye (others may focus on different items) are, for the Start menu:

Named groups and folders of apps are no longer supported and the layout is not currently resizable

and for the taskbar:

Alignment to the bottom of the screen is the only location allowed

The second of these is self-explanatory, but I wonder what exactly it means to say that “named groups and folders of apps are no longer supported”.

 

Keep Running Windows 7 Safely for Years to Come  
Make Windows 10 look and work like Windows 7

IE11 is retired in this build. Iexplore.exe is still present but now opens Edge.

https://betanews.com/2021/05/21/windows-10-build-21387-kills-internet-explorer/

Here are all the features Microsoft removed or deprecated in Windows 10 May 2021 Update (21H1)

XDDM-based remote display driver
Microsoft Edge
Personalization roaming
Windows Management Instrumentation Command line (WMIC) tool ..