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” ) played so nice together, and I must have used them for at least 5years in the early ‘90s before being forced to upgrade.
Trying to migrate a small catalog of office furniture our company was still building at the time to the Microsoft Office* suite was a joy I’m glad I only had to endure the once.
With the combination of aging production equipment, AutoCAD and industry specific software, our woodworking business was at one time running 10PCs on everything from ‘98 to Win10 in a rather cantankerous environment.
*other than that issue, the integrated suite wasn’t particularly painful.
” ) played so nice together, and I must have used them for at least 5years in the early ‘90s before being forced to upgrade. Trying to migrate a small catalog of office furniture our company was still building at the time to the Microsoft Office* suite was a joy I’m glad I only had to endure the once.
With the combination of aging production equipment, AutoCAD and industry specific software, our woodworking business was at one time running 10PCs on everything from ‘98 to Win10 in a rather cantankerous environment.
*other than that issue, the integrated suite wasn’t particularly painful.
The most annoying "feature" in Win 10 is randomly losing focus on the current window. From time to time, while busy typing something in a window (be it Notepad, Word, and email or an URL in the browser), Win decides to move the focus to the background, so you find yourself typing on the walls. The only workaround I found was to always maximize the current window, which of course is an annoyance in itself.
ferret - WP, QuattroPro and Autosketch (“now works with Win3.1 and ‘98
Borland also had a graphics program, and wasn't Q-Basic one of theirs as well?
Meanwhile, back at the Mustang Ranch, Warren Buffet has resigned as a Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Isn't that solved in 21H1?
BTW I see quite some W10 pc's of which the OS is several versions behind because the user always postpones the installation
My W10 is up to date and as far as I can tell I am still experiencing the issue. Anyways, several years of torture until it was fixed were long enough to hate Win 10 with a passion.
More pleasures of Windows.
Microsoft admits “the code that contains the vulnerability is in all versions of Windows,”
Microsoft warns of critical Windows ‘PrintNightmare’ vulnerability - The Verge
Microsoft admits “the code that contains the vulnerability is in all versions of Windows,”
Microsoft warns of critical Windows ‘PrintNightmare’ vulnerability - The Verge
Oh my goodness.
Microsoft’s emergency patch fails to fix critical “PrintNightmare” vulnerability | Ars Technica
"Microsoft said the update “fully addresses the public vulnerability.” But on Wednesday—a little more
than 12 hours after the release—a researcher showed how exploits could bypass the patch.
“Dealing with strings & filenames is hard,”
Benjamin Delpy, a developer of the hacking and network utility Mimikatz and other software, wrote on Twitter."
Microsoft’s emergency patch fails to fix critical “PrintNightmare” vulnerability | Ars Technica
"Microsoft said the update “fully addresses the public vulnerability.” But on Wednesday—a little more
than 12 hours after the release—a researcher showed how exploits could bypass the patch.
“Dealing with strings & filenames is hard,”
Benjamin Delpy, a developer of the hacking and network utility Mimikatz and other software, wrote on Twitter."
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The uk government forced standardization of the railways, others ensured driving rules and signs became unifies across Europe, clocks were synchronized, global mobile phone protocols agreed to, etc. It’s time perhaps that a standardized approach to OS be established so that everyone around the globe can work with interchangeable tools instead of the mess, waste and inefficiency we have to put up with.
What is frustrating with Windows is you just get used to where everything is and then they go and change it !
As a developer I get new windows early and have Win 11 on my pc and they have changed things around again !
I have used pc's since 1985 and always found them slow and complicated.
Its only with my last hardware upgrade I found my pc is now acceptable speed wise. Probably a good thing because most processor upgrades now are more cores.
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OS’s are like DNA, bloated with evolutionary junk.
It’s a racket, you buy a computer and it’s fast, then they patch all the gaping holes in the OS until it’s as slow as a slug so you buy a new computer which requires a new version OS and off it goes again!
I write a lot of software and most of it doesnt benefit from multiple cores.
I find the same using Node JS for ecommerce websites, some things must happen first and I have to await them. Like getting data from a database. Sort of loses the benefit of concurrency.
Of course some things do work better with multiple cores.
