Delivering amazing features at a quick pace

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Just saw this tweet from @tfwboredom. Well put.
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New!  Improved!  Smoother taste & less filling!

Fortunately, M$ have hundreds of millions of [unpaid] beta-testers strategically located around the world.

Such a deal!

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It’s like if Ferrari sacked all their test drivers and let the testing be done by average Giovanni and Maria instead. Surely the cars would be driving straight, turning and breaking but wouldn’t be as good as they’re supposed to be.

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Faith in technology now closely resembles “Faith in Progress” in the Fifties.

Anyone remember urban renewal?

 

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Yes, well put indeed. I think if you ask most people using technology it’s most important to have stability then anything else. Especially when you count on it so much in your daily life.  Personally I would rather have Windows OS separate from everything else. Allow me to choose what apps I have and use, allow me to stay with what works for me. The OS should be only a conduit for what everything works through. Not a all things to all people forced out every six months and fixed for 5 months. One size fits all only works for a small percent and the rest it never fits just right.

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Not a all things to all people

@jescott418 exactly right I have often maintained that theres way too much in there for its own good. Just extract the files of an install image/.iso and theres a myriad of features, apps, Progs, folders etc and thats just the setup lol
Since about Vista all you need is just one of those thousands of files the infamous install.wim, before, if memory serves me right, it was just the 1386 folder before.
I would seriously like to see one new feature per release that has actually been worked on and perfected, or as close to perfection as M$ can possibly get.
Way to much of the hussle a “half Baked” feature to market and all the attendant problems that go with it.
The Penguin crowd aka Linux users dont seem to have that problem. Of course Linus Torvalds creation is a bit rough around the edges, not always user friendly but whats in there is rock steady and stable. Yeah its not always easy to slap in a machine and go. I seem to remeber getting to grips with the ATI\Raedon xpress 200 grapics card which doesent work apparently (sheesh now they tell me!) Linux all in all is awsome not because its free, although a bonus, but that its develpment has truely done “more with less” Something M$ may want take on board with its corperate model.
Apple is another one not a scintilating product but stable. You can slap Windows 10-7 on it no problem via “Boot Camp” but have you tried putting Mac “El Capitan” on an Intel PC? apparently it can be done but its not easy and I have only seen one and it was a bit of a mess.
As an aside I see the Munich city council ditched the poor old Penguin and moved to the “dark side” (Win10) after 15 years they will be sorry as well as costing quite a few Euro’s.

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BobbyB wrote:

As an aside I see the Munich city council ditched the poor old Penguin and moved to the “dark side” (Win10) after 15 years they will be sorry as well as costing quite a few Euro’s.

That surely has NOTHING to do with MS’s German HQ moving to Munich (think jobs + taxes), Accenture (Microsoft Alliance Partner of the Year) doing the IT audit and current Munich mayor being strongly pro-MS:

https://www.cio.com/article/3173073/open-source-tools/making-munich-microsoft-again.html

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radosuaf wrote:

BobbyB wrote:

As an aside I see the Munich city council ditched the poor old Penguin and moved to the “dark side” (Win10) after 15 years they will be sorry as well as costing quite a few Euro’s.

That surely has NOTHING to do with MS’s German HQ moving to Munich (think jobs + taxes), Accenture (Microsoft Alliance Partner of the Year) doing the IT audit and current Munich mayor being strongly pro-MS: https://www.cio.com/article/3173073/open-source-tools/making-munich-microsoft-again.html

FTM (Follow The Money)

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Well they wont have far to go for Tech support lol heck they may even get it fixed the same day, Ohh wait this is M$ right maybe the week after lol

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Just a thought why dont M$ move back to the good old days Win9X, Win2K, XP??

where during set up you got to pick and choose what features you wanted installed from the get go. Not the pitiful selection of options they used to offer but an in depth list. You can already customise some of the privacy options or skip and set later which I normally do before connecting to a network etc

You actually can using DISM and Windows SIM before deployment as a way to enable disable errant features, but its a minefield definately not for the average user and I try and limit my use of it to “once in a Blue Moon”

Pretty much for Home use I use SYSPEP for creating recovery media so you can slap it in and “be off to the races” in less than hour. In the case of very rare crashes, mercifully I seldom\never have to use them these days but its a good standby. An hour or two’s planning can literally save multiple hours afterwards.

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Post #148248  “… SYSPEP for creating recovery media so you can slap it in and “be off to the races” in less than hour.”

SYSPREP?

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Why do they keep releasing new versions of Windows 10 in order to “add features” to it. They have the app store (Microsoft Store), why don’t they just make it available to download from the store if it is merely a feature? If I want their calendar I’ll download it from the store, if I want Cortana, I’ll download it from the store. If I want to participate in their telemetry, I’ll download it from the store. These all should be optional not forced down our throats. Oh and we wouldn’t have to “reinstall” Windows 10 every six months…pathetic really.

 

 

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Might be because they are too deeply integrated with the OS. That always have been my gripe with Windows even in the days where IE was integrated into 98. I would much prefer a clean separation between the OS and apps or services. The apps from the store should be more constrained in theory, but MS can put whatever they want there and circumvent their own security probably for some special apps. But the problem is if you have a lot of integrated features that can be expected by some apps, allowing a huge variety of installations with or without a certain combination of apps can make things difficult for the software who rely on this integration. Some people love that kind of integration. I hate it. I prefer to control what data each app has access to and not share my browsing history or my list of contacts to every flash light or calculator app. Your mileage might vary.

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