New Win10 beta build lets you send SMS messages from your PC

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People kicking the tires on the new “Your Phone” app are starting to publish articles about the ability to run normal SMS messages through your Win10
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lurks about, GreatAndPowerfulTech, ch100, HiFlyer, Elly

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Re:  Chrome Browser Extensions.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/browser-extensions-are-they-worth-the-risk/

Extract:

“Popular file-sharing site Mega.nz is warning users that cybercriminals hacked its browser extension for Google Chrome so that usernames and passwords submitted through the browser were copied and forwarded to a rogue server in Ukraine.”

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I’ve been doing that for years from my Mac/iPhone. Ho-Hum.

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Microfix, woody

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I’ve been doing this for years (since 2014) on my KDE Linux distribution with my Android phones using KDE Connect.

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Not being able to revoke optional permission for any extension is another annoying thing about Chrome which could probably make it a better browser.

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New Win10 beta build lets you send SMS messages from your PC

Which of course requires a complete OS download and install?

Why not just drop the “utility” in the store and alert subscribers about a new “feature”?

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BobbyB, lurks about, GreatAndPowerfulTech, Seattle27

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Point well taken. This is why we need new versions of Windows every six months, right?

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BobbyB, lurks about, GreatAndPowerfulTech, fk5353, WildBill

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As a matter of fact, why not have all the UWP Apps reside in the Store, let the users decide which ones they want to download, and just deliver an Operating System without all the BLOAT?

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lurks about, Bill C., Elly, fk5353, David F, WildBill, Seattle27, JSTechGeek

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Remember or know nLite?

My wish scenario for Windows OS download/install:

– Login to your MS account.

– Select Windows functions, features and settings to your likings a’la nLite.

– Once done, click Download ISO and – Voila! Your very own customized and trimmed Windows OS!

Updates offered through WU will of course reflect your account settings.

New fetaures will be available in store and if you subscribed to news, you’ll get an email for download offers.

…

But of course it’s much more fun to get a fully blown download with each and everything twice a year. What else would you spend your time on besides playing with and nursing your new OS?

Sigh.

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Great! This looks really promising! When they next upgrade it to include a paging app I’ll get Win 10 in a heartbeat.

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

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The next build will add vibration capability!

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I thought the phone app could have sent short & multimedia messages, even through a Bluetooth connection many builds ago.

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woody wrote:

People kicking the tires on the new “Your Phone” app are starting to publish articles about the ability to run normal SMS messages through your Win10[See the full post at: New Win10 beta build lets you send SMS messages from your PC]

Yet another reason not to care about Windows 10.

GaryK

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Google’s Hangouts web app and Android app have been doing that for years, but when M$ does it, it’s news.

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HiFlyer

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So W10 now wants in on your sms?
Whats next? your phone calls?
And screen capture and recordings?
Full service! Totally captured!

If we learning anything fro kookle-utub-business model
first its free then there is subscription
then they move to ideology screening… then the lucky one will appear on the news (or not)

back to fishing for better dreams

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HiFlyer

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Besides Chrome, MightyText has extensions/”desktop apps”/”web apps” for Firefox (my fave), Safari, Opera, & IE. IE 11?! So why couldn’t MT develop an extension for Edge? Riiight… Edge extensions are in the Microsoft Store & MT probably didn’t want to pay for Store access. Plus, Microsoft wanted to showcase a new Feature in the Win10 OS. More like a new Bug if it doesn’t work…

Bought a refurbished Windows 10 64-bit, currently updated to 22H2. Have broke the AC adapter cord going to the 8.1 machine, but before that, coaxed it into charging. Need to buy new adapter if wish to continue using it.
Wild Bill Rides Again...

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Most innovative.

/sarc off

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Yawn, with various browser extensions, etc. I seriously doubt those who want this capability do not already have it. Personally, I do not want it. The suggestion that should be app as with many of the W10 ‘features’ is actually spot on.

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Amazing. Maybe one day we could even make a phonecall via Windows. Now I understand we have so many updates and upgrades to add hightech new options that require very necessary  optimized code multiple times per month. Sigh. Couldn’t they have achieved this within such an amazing fantastic app from the mighty popular Windows Store? Windows gets better and better every release. We have to reinstall our os more then once per year to get groovy features like semi-transparant Windows, Telemetry to satisfy The Makers, getting for free (yes, free, yippee) useless un-unstallable apps, free ads, a browser that no one needs and more great stuff. Way to go. By the way, macOS could send sms’es (who still uses that form of communication anyways nowadays btw…) a long time ago. Heck, it could even sync agenda’s over multiple devices and communicate by voice and video. So yeah, this new sms-feature really shows off the innovative character of Windows.

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Outstanding! so now I can lug a laptop around instead of a pocket sized mobile phone that has better battery life..

[rant on] Bit of advice for MS, give up the mobile phone market and concentrate on delivering a stable, bloat free, patch-working OS [rant off]

Windows - commercial by definition and now function...

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