Free Software Foundation Demands Windows 7 "Upcycle."

[Wapistan]

I mean windows XP and even 2000 is still supported in some cases because they are used in government services. I like this idea, because people like windows 7 more than 10, however, Microsoft isn't a charity, so there is no chance that Win7 will become open-source.

[The New California Republic]

Because it is bloated with things that I don't want that fill up my hard drive, using up my bandwidth constantly updating themselves, yet can't remove.

You can remove them.

Edge is shit.

Is it? It's built on Chrome now. I use Edge for work and it's not that bad.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Because it is bloated with things that I don't want that fill up my hard drive, using up my bandwidth constantly updating themselves, yet can't remove.

You can remove them.

You can remove some of them. In my experience they have a tendency to reappear.

All the Xbox stuff for example. I don't play games, I don't want it, I don't want it constantly trying to stream god knows what. I remove it with powershell and it comes back at the next major update.

Edge should not be bundled, it should not be an essential part of the OS. None of this shit, Cortana whatever, should be so embedded in the operating system's fucked up compartmentalisation that it can't be removed and replaced with an app of my choice.

[The Black Forrest]

You can remove them.

You can remove some of them. In my experience they have a tendency to reappear.

All the Xbox stuff for example. I don't play games, I don't want it, I don't want it constantly trying to stream god knows what. I remove it with powershell and it comes back at the next major update.

Edge should not be bundled, it should not be an essential part of the OS. None of this shit, Cortana whatever, should be so embedded in the operating system's fucked up compartmentalisation that it can't be removed and replaced with an app of my choice.

Yea that’s a crappy installer. Microsoft is known for that. That’s why we had images and cleaned them after a major upgrade.

[The New California Republic]

You can remove them.

You can remove some of them. In my experience they have a tendency to reappear.

All the Xbox stuff for example. I don't play games, I don't want it, I don't want it constantly trying to stream god knows what. I remove it with powershell and it comes back at the next major update.

There is a fix for that too.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

I'm going to stop talking about Windows 10 because even just talking about it makes me angry.

[Esternial]

You can remove some of them. In my experience they have a tendency to reappear.

All the Xbox stuff for example. I don't play games, I don't want it, I don't want it constantly trying to stream god knows what. I remove it with powershell and it comes back at the next major update.

There is a fix for that too.

If you're really OCD about your setup, yes.

The only setups I want to know exactly what is running on it and want to get rid of anything I don't need are the UNIX servers my team maintains. As long as I can run Steam, VirtualBox and Anaconda, I don't care what else my Windows OS has installed and I just ignore any of its please or attempts to "make my life easier".

Before anyone tries to argue a case of having a clean environment everywhere, my Gmail unread mail counter is currently on 6773. I'm a lost cause.

[The New California Republic]

There is a fix for that too.

If you're really OCD about your setup, yes.

The only setups I want to know exactly what is running on it and want to get rid of anything I don't need are the UNIX servers my team maintains. As long as I can run Steam, VirtualBox and Anaconda, I don't care what else my Windows OS has installed and I just ignore any of its please or attempts to "make my life easier".

Before anyone tries to argue a case of having a clean environment everywhere, my Gmail unread mail counter is currently on 6773. I'm a lost cause.

I'm in the Windows Insider Program that tests the alpha builds of Windows 10, so I need to be persnickety about my setup.

[The Holy Therns]

persnickety

Nice word. I need to remember it.

[The Reformed American Republic]

If you're really OCD about your setup, yes.

The only setups I want to know exactly what is running on it and want to get rid of anything I don't need are the UNIX servers my team maintains. As long as I can run Steam, VirtualBox and Anaconda, I don't care what else my Windows OS has installed and I just ignore any of its please or attempts to "make my life easier".

Before anyone tries to argue a case of having a clean environment everywhere, my Gmail unread mail counter is currently on 6773. I'm a lost cause.

I'm in the Windows Insider Program that tests the alpha builds of Windows 10, so I need to be persnickety about my setup.

What motivated you to become an alpha tester?

[The New California Republic]

I'm in the Windows Insider Program that tests the alpha builds of Windows 10, so I need to be persnickety about my setup.

What motivated you to become an alpha tester?

I like seeing all the new features before release, even if they are rough round the edges. For example the DNS over HTTPS feature was rolled out to the preview builds long before implementation into release builds. Plus it's good to fix stuff. I've seen a hell of a lot of bugs exposed in the testing of the preview builds so they didn't sneak into the release builds.

[Ethel mermania]

What motivated you to become an alpha tester?

I like seeing all the new features before release, even if they are rough round the edges. For example the DNS over HTTPS feature was rolled out to the preview builds long before implementation into release builds. Plus it's good to fix stuff. I've seen a hell of a lot of bugs exposed in the testing of the preview builds so they didn't sneak into the release builds.

Tell them to put telnet and an ssh client back into the stupid thing.

[The Black Forrest]

I like seeing all the new features before release, even if they are rough round the edges. For example the DNS over HTTPS feature was rolled out to the preview builds long before implementation into release builds. Plus it's good to fix stuff. I've seen a hell of a lot of bugs exposed in the testing of the preview builds so they didn't sneak into the release builds.

Tell them to put telnet and an ssh client back into the stupid thing.

Telnet? Old man. That’s a security hole.

[Ethel mermania]

Tell them to put telnet and an ssh client back into the stupid thing.

Telnet? Old man. That’s a security hole.

30 year old PLC's don't support ssh.

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Microsoft should comply. Additionally, they should give up Windows 8 to be an OS that bad people are punished with by being forced to use.

[Herador]

Just use TempleOS, jeez.

Didn’t that die when the creator died?

God's Temple can never die.

[The Reformed American Republic]

What motivated you to become an alpha tester?

I like seeing all the new features before release, even if they are rough round the edges. For example the DNS over HTTPS feature was rolled out to the preview builds long before implementation into release builds. Plus it's good to fix stuff. I've seen a hell of a lot of bugs exposed in the testing of the preview builds so they didn't sneak into the release builds.

I would have also joined, but I don't want Microsoft spying on me even more than it already does.

[The Blaatschapen]

I like seeing all the new features before release, even if they are rough round the edges. For example the DNS over HTTPS feature was rolled out to the preview builds long before implementation into release builds. Plus it's good to fix stuff. I've seen a hell of a lot of bugs exposed in the testing of the preview builds so they didn't sneak into the release builds.

I would have also joined, but I don't want Microsoft spying on me even more than it already does.

My computer came with a 5G chip

Wait...I am doing it wrong,aren't I?

[Tornado Queendom]

Not gonna happen.

In terms of OSes, Microsoft Windows has a very strong selling point of backwards compatibility. Windows 7, Windows 10, yes, even Vista, has a very strong feature in being able to run programs that were designed to run on older versions of Windows. It's why they skipped Windows 9, because many a program checked if it was running on "windows 9*" with the * being 5 or 8 (windows 95 or windows 98).

By releasing pretty much all relevant backwards compatibility code, they'd lose a key selling point of Windows.

They're not gonna do that.

Even if backwards compatibility were removed, it would compete with Windows 10. That enough makes this a pipe dream. They also hated windows 7 when it came out ironically enough, making this demand even dumber.

There's always open sourcing Windows 95

[The Reformed American Republic]

Even if backwards compatibility were removed, it would compete with Windows 10. That enough makes this a pipe dream. They also hated windows 7 when it came out ironically enough, making this demand even dumber.

There's always open sourcing Windows 95

That's still unlikely and even if it wasn't, it would probably be too outdated to work with.

[Tornado Queendom]

There's always open sourcing Windows 95

That's still unlikely and even if it wasn't, it would probably be too outdated to work with.

Microsoft has open sourced multiple projects of theirs. If not Windows, then maybe DOS.
As for the Outdated thing, maybe someone can get it to work with FreeDOS or Linux, or get some modern Windows apps working on it. It's not gonna seriously compete with Windows 10, so why not?

[Eahland]

Telnet? Old man. That’s a security hole.

30 year old PLC's don't support ssh.

And it's sometimes useful to be able to telnet to port 25 or 80 and talk SMTP or HTTP directly to the server.