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Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Delouise Fairworthy
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Date: January 12, 2016 09:23PM
that's right you have to now upgrade to ... damn i dunno. pick any version your incompatible with what your after, eventually, these days
"with the man advantages of symbol versioning certain things had to be let go", they said
what advantages? i have yet to see a single one proven !! carnage of code and working binaries, new binaries that are more short lived and "distro tainted" than ever
that's just the thing, they dont say what the advantages are because: theyre lying ... and it's not just microsoft doing it anymore (unsure if they are i assume so) it's the people who swore they were fighting against it that became some of the worst (ie, google)
"with the man advantages of symbol versioning certain things had to be let go", they said
what advantages? i have yet to see a single one proven !! carnage of code and working binaries, new binaries that are more short lived and "distro tainted" than ever
that's just the thing, they dont say what the advantages are because: theyre lying ... and it's not just microsoft doing it anymore (unsure if they are i assume so) it's the people who swore they were fighting against it that became some of the worst (ie, google)
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Greybeard
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Date: January 12, 2016 09:30PM
Yeah, yeah. You're not necessarily wrong about it not being better, but the real impetus doesn't need to be anything evil--it's the support matrix. As the number of current releases and current versions of other things multiply, the number of combinations that need to be supported grows quasi-exponentially ("quasi" because of course Windows 10 doesn't need to support IE 8, for example).
So there's a lot of internal incentive to cut things off and say "Enough!", especially when the upgrade is free. And the developers honestly *do* think the newer versions are an improvement--they may be wrong for thee and me (cf. Firefox, which I'm tightly wedded to by years of use, but which is becoming flakier with every release), but in terms of having fixed known bugs and added features (some of which the users hate, but which someone in the product chain loved!), they are "better".
Just sayin' that Hanlon's Razor applies here, as it so often does.
So there's a lot of internal incentive to cut things off and say "Enough!", especially when the upgrade is free. And the developers honestly *do* think the newer versions are an improvement--they may be wrong for thee and me (cf. Firefox, which I'm tightly wedded to by years of use, but which is becoming flakier with every release), but in terms of having fixed known bugs and added features (some of which the users hate, but which someone in the product chain loved!), they are "better".
Just sayin' that Hanlon's Razor applies here, as it so often does.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
niggar
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Date: January 12, 2016 10:05PM
Who the hell uses Internet Explorer nowadays (but seriously, IE10, the newest of these browsers dates back to 2012. It's time move on)
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Intel inside
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Date: January 12, 2016 10:22PM
Fucking hate Windows 8. Loaded Windows 10 to my laptop. So far so good.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
hv4Lp
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Date: January 12, 2016 10:49PM
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Software developer
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Date: January 13, 2016 05:11AM
If you are using anything Microsoft you are beyond help.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
January 9
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Date: January 13, 2016 07:10AM
Window 8 mainstream support ends in January 9, 2018, not 2016.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
LetsRock
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Date: January 13, 2016 09:39AM
Software developer Wrote:
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> If you are using anything Microsoft you are beyond
> help.
Macs are for hippys and homos.
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> If you are using anything Microsoft you are beyond
> help.
Macs are for hippys and homos.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
pedant
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Date: January 13, 2016 10:06AM
January 9 Wrote:
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> Window 8 mainstream support ends in January 9,
> 2018, not 2016.
Windows 8.1 mainstream support ends January 9, 2018. Windows 8.0 and variants' service pack support ended January 12 2016.
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> Window 8 mainstream support ends in January 9,
> 2018, not 2016.
Windows 8.1 mainstream support ends January 9, 2018. Windows 8.0 and variants' service pack support ended January 12 2016.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
No need to panic
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Date: January 13, 2016 10:27AM
Windows 8 was bad. Windows 10 has so far been better. Meanwhile, support for Windows XP ended on April 8, 2014. My XP box still works fine. I have a box with Windows 98-SE on it also. No problems there either.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
iLester
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Date: January 13, 2016 10:36AM
Windows 10 will uninstall software without letting you know. I noticed it eliminated CCleaner from my system when Windows 10 updated over January 1 weekend. I've heard of it removing other software.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
kev
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Date: January 13, 2016 10:42AM
Isn't windows 10 upgrade free still? If so I'll be happy to upgrade from W7 and take my free version of 10. Isn't that the whole point, move away from old versions so Microsoft can do a better job of supporting the latest OS.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
win8
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Date: January 13, 2016 11:26AM
Any dumbass who is still using Win8 on their PC deserves to have their hard drive melt...mobile devices are an exception though.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Bill.N.
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Date: January 13, 2016 12:59PM
For the benefit of us old troglodytes, please explain what it is about these newer programs that makes a significant improvement for those of us who just use computers for basic services.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Campus Cupcake
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Date: January 13, 2016 02:00PM
Bill.N. Wrote:
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> For the benefit of us old troglodytes, please
> explain what it is about these newer programs that
> makes a significant improvement for those of us
> who just use computers for basic services.
They can download gay kiddie porn a whole lot faster now.
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> For the benefit of us old troglodytes, please
> explain what it is about these newer programs that
> makes a significant improvement for those of us
> who just use computers for basic services.
They can download gay kiddie porn a whole lot faster now.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Software developer
()
Date: January 13, 2016 02:05PM
LetsRock Wrote:
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> Software developer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If you are using anything Microsoft you are
> beyond
> > help.
>
>
> Macs are for hippys and homos.
Oh God! Apple is even worse than microsoft. You must be like 60 or older.
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> Software developer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If you are using anything Microsoft you are
> beyond
> > help.
>
>
> Macs are for hippys and homos.
Oh God! Apple is even worse than microsoft. You must be like 60 or older.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Greybeard
()
Date: January 13, 2016 09:05PM
Bill.N. Wrote:
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> For the benefit of us old troglodytes, please
> explain what it is about these newer programs that
> makes a significant improvement for those of us
> who just use computers for basic services.
Functionally, not much--in fact, user interface changes are often a step backward.
However, with the porous nature of Windows, being on a supported version is important in terms of security. Unless you never do anything that matters on your PC, you want to be on version with all security patches. Sad but there it is.
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> For the benefit of us old troglodytes, please
> explain what it is about these newer programs that
> makes a significant improvement for those of us
> who just use computers for basic services.
Functionally, not much--in fact, user interface changes are often a step backward.
However, with the porous nature of Windows, being on a supported version is important in terms of security. Unless you never do anything that matters on your PC, you want to be on version with all security patches. Sad but there it is.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Alexander Smith
()
Date: January 15, 2016 03:02AM
LetsRock Wrote:
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> Software developer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If you are using anything Microsoft you are
> beyond
> > help.
>
>
> Macs are for hippys and homos.
+1 couldn't have said it better my self.
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> Software developer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > If you are using anything Microsoft you are
> beyond
> > help.
>
>
> Macs are for hippys and homos.
+1 couldn't have said it better my self.
Re: Windows 8 along with Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 and 10 are now officially unsupported by Microsoft.
Posted by:
Alexander Smith
()
Date: January 15, 2016 03:07AM
kev Wrote:
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> Isn't windows 10 upgrade free still? If so I'll be
> happy to upgrade from W7 and take my free version
> of 10. Isn't that the whole point, move away from
> old versions so Microsoft can do a better job of
> supporting the latest OS.
The fact that Windows 8 and 10 are so similar makes them both extremely poor operating systems for business. Windows 98 SE, XP, and 7 are all time-tested, proven OS's. 7 is by far my personal choice for business, but if I had to use XP (which I still do for some programs) I would be perfectly happy.
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> Isn't windows 10 upgrade free still? If so I'll be
> happy to upgrade from W7 and take my free version
> of 10. Isn't that the whole point, move away from
> old versions so Microsoft can do a better job of
> supporting the latest OS.
The fact that Windows 8 and 10 are so similar makes them both extremely poor operating systems for business. Windows 98 SE, XP, and 7 are all time-tested, proven OS's. 7 is by far my personal choice for business, but if I had to use XP (which I still do for some programs) I would be perfectly happy.