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on Wednesday October 21 2015, @09:08PM
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.
from the we-put-a-man-on-the-moon,-but-we-wont-do-that dept.
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?
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 22 2015, @11:58AM
My bet is they had a lot of VB5/6 code. Recent security changes like don't foolishly write to the program files directory, UAC, and graphical changes are what cripples them. Though, some simple tweaks can fix most or all of those problems. Though, drivers and real hardware like PCI cards are your achilles heel. I have CNC systems that will not run on any Windows after XP. They used a realtime subsystem from Ardence that was tied to 2k/XP architecture. So those stay XP or 2k and are isolated from the network.