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Tag: Windows

  • Continuum gives Windows 10 a shot on all screens

    Gizmodo reporting on Microsoft’s Windows 10 feature Continuum:

    You can use Bluetooth to run your apps on your phone, but view and use them on a nearby screen and keyboard. […] In this vision of the future your phone is, perhaps, your only device. You can pair it with a Bluetooth keyboard, mouse, or screen whenever you need to—but the apps and the functionality of the software will always look the same.

    The Windows 10 interface adapts to the kind of screen you’re displaying on, so small touchscreens get bigger tap areas, and so on. It’s a good idea in theory, but the risk is that everything will end up being half-baked.

  • Lenovo owns up to the Superfish fiasco

    Lenovo fucked up recently, with evil adware software on their computers. First they defended the software, called Superfish, but as the media frenzy built, they’ve taken a different approach. The US Lenovo Twitter account has apologized, and links to this support document, which explains how you uninstall Superfish. It’s a refreshingly prompt response to heir fuck-up, one that should be commended, but obviously the software shouldn’t have been installed in the first place, and customers are calling for heads to roll. Hopefully this whole thing will make others look closer at what’s installed per default on their Windows computers, because that’s more often than not a cesspool of bloatware at best, and spyware at its worst.

  • Of course you can work from a Windows tablet

    Sean Buckley, writing for Gizmodo:

    It started as an offhand brag, but turned into a dare. I was telling my Gizmodo colleagues why I loved my Windows 8 tablet: it’s fast, it’s cheap, it’s a fully fledged PC. Hell, I said, I could probably hook it up to a monitor and use it as my workhorse for a week.

    Now I’m doing just that. It’s not as bad as you’d think.

    There’s no reason why this wouldn’t work, even though it’s no Surface, but still an interesting read for tablet curious people.

  • Windows 7 is no longer supported (sort of)

    Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows 7. Well, almost, because you’ll still get security updates, just nothing else. In the words of Vox, of all places:

    After 2020, Windows 7 users are expected to be totally on their own. Microsoft won’t provide support even if you want to pay for it. And if hackers find a vulnerability in the software, Microsoft won’t necessarily fix it.

    That’s quite a commitment. Microsoft are nice that way, so give thanks by not swearing too much the next time your computer reboots on you for no reason other than it thinks that you really need to install the latest Windows update…

  • Then And Now

    Bill Gates thinks that iPad and Android tablet owners are frustrated. It’s primarily the lack of keyboard and Microsoft Office that’re to blame, the Microsoft chairman thinks. And thus there’s a bright future for the Surface line, because that’s essentially a laptop with tablet form factor, and that’s what consumers really want.

    Bill Gates obviously lives in an alternate reality, in which Windows 8 is a success and people really just want to use Windows with their greasy fingers.

    I’m afraid that’s not the case in the real world. The reboot of Windows 8 should be evidence enough of that.

    Surface Pro, pretty in pink
    The Microsoft Surface Pro, pretty in pink

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  • Google sparkar ut Windows, det är något att oroa sig över

    Läser att Google inte vill att sina anställda ska köra Windows längre, säkerheten påstås vara anledningen – detta trots att det stup i kvarten dyker upp rapporter om att Microsofts operativsystem står sig utmärkt i relation till OS X och Linux trots allt. Må så vara hur det vill med det, men vad som förvånar mig mer är att ingen reagerar på det här draget, och varför det är dåligt för merparten av datoranvändarna världen över?

    Hur kan det vara dåligt att Google sparkar ut Windows?

    Jag är ingen Microsoft-kramare, faktum är att jag kör Apples OS X på mina Macar av nödvärn och speldatorn rullar Vista bara för att det är där spelen finns. Helst av allt skulle jag köra open source hela vägen, det finns utmärkta Linux-distributioner idag, men tyvärr är den världen för långt efter i min bransch. (more…)

  • Lura dvd-regionen, Leoparden i oktober, och det är osmart att hylla nazistiska familjevärderingar

    Lite helgläsning. En annan skall hjälpa en god vän med hemsidesuppdateringar större delen av dagen, och sedan äta en god middag, lyssna på musik samt ha det bra. (more…)