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We’ll all eventually be forced to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
Oh, I’m not so sure about that. When my Win 10 22H2 system reaches EOL I’ll probably do the same thing I did with an older system when Vista reached EOL. Install Linux Mint!
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but I actually used it just the other day (because, corresponding with government agencies who still live in the age of quills and vellum)
Snail mail moves at the speed of light compared to the pace at which government agencies respond to the correspondence they receive.
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I use Wordpad for composing correspondence required to be delivered by the postal service. It is more than adequate for such tasks. I’m certainly unwilling to pay for Office to meet these simple and infrequent needs. And if I need something more powerful than Wordpad I turn to LibreOffice portable.
Sorry Microsoft, you lose. Removing Wordpad from Windows 10 22H2 will not bring me into the Office user base.
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At the risk of opening a can of worms, shouldn’t the timestamp be the actual time the file was written, not UTC and hope the OS/app understands?
Microsoft documents and discusses the file times used for the NTFS and FAT file systems at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/file-times
That documentation says “The NTFS file system stores time values in UTC format, so they are not affected by changes in time zone or daylight saving time.”
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7Zip…are free, much faster and can create RAR, ZIP.. files too.
Unless the https://www.7-zip.org home page is outdated it states that 7-zip only unpacks RAR archives.
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Windows 8.1 reached EOL and is out of support. IMHO reporting this to Microsoft would be a waste of time. I doubt that any attention would be given to such a report.
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Some more strange behavior today on Win7 and Win8. Unlike the recent past, on Win7 MSE automatically updated signatures to the most recent ones. A glimmer of hope appeared so I fired up Win 8.1 hoping for the same but it was not to be.
Instead, on Win 8.1, Windows Defender behaved even more strangely than it has in the past. This time, instead of the expected failure to update signatures through the UI, my update attempts simply returned without error and indicated no updates were needed even though the signatures were several days old. Then I ran MpCmdRun to update signatures from a command prompt and got the same result — no updates needed. Manually downloading and running the signature update from the Microsoft website succeeded in updating on Win 8.1
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The method that I have chosen to ensure 100% security and privacy while fulfilling my civic duty is to read a book while waiting.
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Same here. I have some old VMs with Win7 SP1 and Win 8.1 installed. Up until recently I was able to update MSE on Win7 and Defender on Win 8.1 through the available user interfaces for both. However, now updates through the user interfaces for both fail with error code 0x80072f8f. Manually downloading signature updates followed by installation succeeds on both.
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Please stop comparing code-signing to extortion. While no security mechanism is absolutely fool proof code-signing does serve a valid purpose.
I don’t take issue with complaints that a more expensive certificate needs to be purchased in order to get instant reputation that will be recognized by Microsoft’s smartscreen.
But that doesn’t invalidate the usefulness of code-signing in general.
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Too bad the government doesn’t refrain from devoting resources to creating mandates over the most mundane aspects of our lives. Incandescent light bulbs, low-flow toilets, gas stoves, etc. We would all be better off if taxpayer dollars went to important things like real infrastructure needs (e.g., deteriorating roads and bridges).
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