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What Trump is doing right now is called flooding, I learned. Bombard your opponents with an endless stream of decrees and laws so your opponents don’t know where to start reacting.
I’m glad not being American – your life’s going to be expensive the coming years…

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wavy, Andy M, NaNoNyMouse, Alex5723

You end the article with “And what about the future?”. That’s something I would like to know for a long time. I’ve been searching for ‘Windows roadmap’ and it shows up some maps, but they are old. So I asked Copilot. It shows a list of features. No Big Plan. Strange. There must be a plan? Or is Microsoft flying by the seat of their pants?

I think I would call it a rental, as in renting a car for a defined period. If the rental period expires and you like to rent it longer, you’ll have to fill out the forms again.

IMO the problem with subscription is the lack of incentive. With everybody on subscription, then there’s no longer a need to improve the product – you’ll get paid anyway. We see this with Autodesk products. The then CEO of Autodesk admired the Adobe subscription model and decided to use it for Autodesk as well. So perpetual licenses have vanished years ago. And so did product improvements. Revit is the product for the AEC industry and it leaves lots of room for improvement. For the last five years, those improvements where like dribbles, as Susan Bradley calls them. This lead a bunch of big users to unite and write an open letter to Autodesk to raise their concern about the lack of improvement, while subscription fees are going up.

It would’nt surprise me if the Adobe’s etc. are going to strip down features and / or put those features in an add-on subscription. A bit like BMW did – you want a heated seat? Subscription!

The GPO setting “Admin-Controlled Migration to New Outlook” can be found under:

User Configuration\ Administrative Templates\ Microsoft Outlook 2016\ Outlook Options\ Other\

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You skipped WinFS? You know, the all new file system to replace NTFS in Windows Vista. And the main reason why Vista was delayed, delayed, delayed and in the end hit the market without WinFS. At the time, WinFS was the next best thing according to Microsoft. But for some reason, they didn’t put it on the back burner to be introduced in a later version of Windows – it was simply scrapped? I wonder why, after spending so much money…

As for the video driver, a bit of history. In the early days of Windows NT, Microsoft had decided drivers should not be a part of the kernel. Smart move; keeping Windows from crashing due to a rogue driver. The drawback: lack of speed, especially for video. So as a compromise, the videodriver entered the kernel. See MS Windows NT Kernel-mode User and GDI White Paper | Microsoft Learn

We use the Epson ET-16600, specifically because it’s one of the few inkjet’s capable of handling A3 size paper. You can replace the print heads as well. We once had a HP printer for which we could also swap the printer heads. But you probably guessed it – the print heads for the HP cost about three quarter of a new printer. Don’t know what new print heads for the Epson do, but it’s probably expensive as well…

Folder Redirection?
See https://www.windowscentral.com/how-move-default-user-folders-new-drive-windows-10

Haven’t tested the latest version of WinDirStat yet, but the old version was slooooooooooooooooooooooow compared to Wiztree….

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rc primak

One of the things we encountered using Excel 2019 is the inability to work on files with multiple persons. We happened to have some pretty large files stored on a Sharepoint (OneDrive) server and we needed those files to be editable for multiple persons / companies at the same time. The perpetual Excel 2019 won’t do that, so we had to subscribe to Office 365 Standard for that piece of functionality. That was a bit of a bummer.

See this: Microsoft extends application compatibility promise to Windows 11 – Microsoft Community Hub

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Alex5723

I guess you can test it in a Virtual Machine?

I’ve seen posts in the Autodesk forums about KB5043178 screwing up Autodesk Revit.

Cool! That Lock screen picture is taken near my home town in The Netherlands 🙂

As for Office – the ‘Insert link’ dialog aggravates me – even in the latest Office version, this dialog is still the one introduced in Office ’97.

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Will Fastie

Also be aware of the upcoming changes to certificate-based authentication on Windows domain controllers, as noted in KB5014754. And note the additional steps needed in KB5037754 relating to PAC validation changes (CVE-2024-26248 and CVE-2024-29056).

This has me puzzled a bit. KB5037754 says:

Updates released on or after October 15, 2024, will move all Windows domain controllers and clients in the environment to Enforced mode by changing the registry subkey settings to PacSignatureValidationLevel=3 and CrossDomainFilteringLevel=4, enforcing the secure behavior by default.

So we don’t have to take action – the October updates will do it for us?