Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.
Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:19PM
but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use.
Only slightly off topic, don't forget the hardware with your "solution".
I have an old win-xp only eprom programmer that runs under wine but wine doesn't USB pass thru well enough, or fast enough, or at all, such that I can run a XP image with the burner software. To say eprom programming is sensitive to timing would be an understatement. It would probably be easier to run a CNC controller LOL.
My wife tossed out a fairly nice dedicated film negative scanner because of no mac drivers and no modern windows drivers. A pity. Of course she scanned all her film so no major loss, but ...
Fancied up enough virtualization might be good enough for software problems too.
I really don't care if XP, or even 95, is vulnerable if you surf random websites... all I want to do is burn this eprom image on that piece of silicon, I promise to never even start up MSIE. Just one app I wanna use, just that one app...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jimshatt on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:28PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 22 2015, @01:33AM
We believed that to be true at one time. For that reason, programs were developed to slipstream updates and drivers into the installation media, and to strip out unwanted portions of the OS.
http://www.nliteos.com/ [nliteos.com]
Remove IE from the installation media, and it can never start up once it's installed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @04:29AM
Have you tried to contact other folks who use that app?
Perhaps the lot of you could form a cooperative/user group.
Once organized, you might contact the WINE|ReactOS developers and mention to them that you've put a bounty [google.com] on getting that app running without any MICROS~1 code.
-- gewg_