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Just reading “how to geeks” birthday list of all the changes we’ve seen. So, what’s your favorite change you’ve seen? What’s the biggest change you d
[See the full post at: Patch Lady – wow Windows 10 is four years old]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Going over the new ‘best’ 15 features in 4 years ! I didn’t find anything productive or anything that fixed users frustration with Windows 10.
Personal favorites:
The first one is probably the most important. The latter two have better third party alternatives, and should’ve been built into the base release four years ago.
Like: More control over updates, compared to launch
Dislike: Less control over updates, compared to every other version of Windows
“wow Windows 10 is four years old”
Will the beta be over soon?
GaryK
Microsoft are still not going to push many beyond Windows 7, or even Windows 8.1 with a third party product to turn all that TIFKAM madness off. It’s a control issue that MS has and plenty of PC/Laptop users that do not like that control over their systems in Microsoft’s hands.
It’s 4 years on and it’s only been by attrition that Windows 10 has barely gained the larger part of the Windows OS versions market share. And Windows 7 is still installed on a very significant number of systems even going on 7+ years after Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 were introduced.
MS broke the UI with Windows 8 and never really fixed that completely with Windows 8.1 and folks needing third party software to make things more manageable for 8.1 and with Windows 10 and all that spyware as as feature and forced cloud integration and forced updates that more often than not break things and cost users time and money. So there is third party privacy software for Windows 10 and that should be giving the folks in Redmond some idea of why there is so many still avoiding their latest OS offerings if possible.
Stability has gone out the door with Windows 10 and many are still waiting for some consumer variant of Windows 10 that will bring stability rather than feature creep madness.
Not many more folks are going to be wanting any forced cloud sign in when they log onto their PCs/Laptops and the lack of privacy from having their productive desktop application ecosystem turned into a Smartphone like metrics gathering non productive ecosystem.
It’s that eternal game of settings Whack-A-Mole that’s keeping even more away from Windows 10 and some away from needed security only updates on windows 7 and probably 8.1 as well.
Some have no plans for moving beyond Windows 7 even after it’s EOL in 2020 on the consumer side while the lucky Enterprise/Volume Licensing customers will get the option of purchasing extended Windows 7 security updates until 2023 and having less overall headaches from Windows 10 over that 3 year period. And $350 over 3 years for extended windows 7 support until 2023 is a bargain compared to that Windows 10 breakage and time consuming fixing required.
Microsoft has very little remaining time to get its latest OS working properly for the majority of folks and their PCs/Laptops working for the end users and not for the folks in Redmond. It’s not helping hardware sales to have Windows 7 and 8.1 unsupported on the latest few years of new processor offerings while the Linux Kernel based OS distros have no artificial impediments placed in the way for supporting the latest PC/Laptop and mobile processors/processor features.
I have completely skipped this months(July 2019) “security only” Windows 7 patches as they are not Security Only and hopefully Aug 2019 will be different as I’ll skip that as well if any Security Only patches get any nefarious extras that are not security related. I’ve got one laptop with a Windows 8 Pro license that’s been running Windows 7 Pro via downgrade rights and that laptop is getting a new SSD to replace the spinning rust and Windows 8 pro installed from the Recovery DVDs and an in place upgrade to Windows 8.1 and any security only updates that are telemetry free. And Maybe by 2023 Microsoft will get a clue.
The loss of Control Over Windows Update still the biggest dislike
I have no idea how long this particular feature has been around, but I really like the on-screen keyboard, and here’s why:
Sometimes I remote into a machine, and from there I remote into yet another machine. If I want to either change my password on one of the remote machines or log off of one of the remote machines, the on-screen keyboard lets me make sure that I am hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL on the correct machine.
Here’s how it works:
* I load the on-screen keyboard on the desired remote machine.
* I hold CTRL and ALT on my physical keyboard, and click DEL on the on-screen keyboard.
Because I launched the on-screen keyboard on the desired remote machine, I can be sure that my CTRL-ALT-DEL will apply to that remote machine.
CTRL-ALT-END is supposed to work, but that’s only if you have only one remote machine running – if this is the case, CTRL-ALT-END will bring up the change-password menu on the remote machine. But once you have remoted into the 2nd machine, all bets are off.
On every remote computer that I access, I have put a shortcut to the on-screen keyboard on the task bar. Therefore, it’s just one easy click and I’ve got me an on-screen keyboard on the desired remote computer.
Works like a champ; you should try it sometime!
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