The dribble impact

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Just a reminder that lately Microsoft has been into dribbles. Case in point – several folks in my office finally got the “feature” where the menu in O
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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several folks in my office finally got the “feature” where the menu in Outlook moves from the bottom of your Outlook to the top left

Don’t you have central PC management so that won’t happen ?

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I had everyone on slow channel and honestly didn’t realize that was a change that was coming even to the slow channel. You can only control what you are aware of is going to happen and I missed that one.

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Susan Bradley wrote:

We were joking that Microsoft must be ensuring our brains stay active by moving the icons around the screen.

Nope. MS is doing busy work for their workers and focusing on GUI changes rather than security. Most of MS employees are not capable of security. This is why MS makes them do GUI changes. If MS had employees that could do security, the OS would be less of a security risk. Thanks to some of those GUI change, it is now easier to break into the OS with either remote or physical access to the computer.

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The other dribble I haven’t seen is the “badging” or reminders to sign in with a local Microsoft account.

MS is doing that for easier spying and tracking of users. Plus it will allow more data gathering of users and selling the data when the Windows OS is in the cloud and released as Windows 12. These is the many reason they are doing that.

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Alex5723 wrote:

Don’t you have central PC management so that won’t happen ?

I have a question about Alex 5723’s posting.  I’m not familiar with “central PC  Management”, so I did a bit of a google search (both on the web and on this site), and I’m still not sure what is meant by this.  Could someone please provide a link to further reading about it and how it can be installed on one’s computer?

Susan Bradley wrote:

I had everyone on slow channel and honestly didn’t realize that was a change that was coming even to the slow channel.

Likewise, I’m not familiar with Susan Bradley’s terminology “the slow channel”.  Again, I did a bit of a google search, and I’m still not sure what it means.  Could someone please explain what it means, and especially what it means to put everyone on “the slow channel”?

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It means I’m in a domain and I can control settings on everyone’s computers.

Traditional domain = active directory and group policy.

Cloud only = Windows intune.

It’s not something that’s offered to consumers.

As to slow channel, that’s something that’s offered to many Microsoft 365 users.

Topic: 7000001 Changing Microsoft 365 click to run to slower patching channel @ AskWoody

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IMO it’s a shame that Microsoft has chosen not to ‘dribble’ easy and effective local network sharing between consumer devices.

IMO it’s been a struggle since Windows 7 and/or the demise of SMB1.

I guess it doesn’t suit Microsoft’s purposes when it has a product like OneDrive to promote.

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Rick Corbett wrote:

IMO it’s a shame that Microsoft has chosen not to ‘dribble’ easy and effective local network sharing between consumer devices. IMO it’s been a struggle since Windows 7 and/or the demise of SMB1.

I haven’t had any issues with local network sharing between my devices.  My NAS is readily available.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We were all once "Average Users". We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems, we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

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Remind me to do an article about network sharing.  It used to be much easier.  Now you have to often change permissions, ensure users are just so.  I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that it’s harder than it was.

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Re: 855 posts and counting
A classic list of comments. After reading a few of the latest, so glad to know I’m not alone.

Related topic: I fumbled around getting rid of one change, a redundant left vertical ribbon bar taking up valuable screen space

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Rick Corbett wrote:

IMO it’s been a struggle since Windows 7 and/or the demise of SMB1.

Yup, I’ve given up getting my two W10 Pro systems to share BOTH ways. Getting a Linux box to talk to W7 was easier.

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