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Speaking to Windows Weekly, Microsoft Marketing chief Chris Capossela explained that users who choose Windows 7 do so “at your own risk, at your own peril” and he revealed Microsoft has concerns about its future software and hardware compatibility, security and more.
[...] There’s only one problem with Capossela’s statements: they are complete rubbish. Windows 7 is no less secure than Windows 10 (it will be supported until 2020) and no less compatible with new hardware and software. In fact its far greater market share means it is developers’ priority and has greater compatibility with legacy programmes and peripherals. If Fallout 4 won’t run on your Windows 7 computer, it will be upgrading your components not installing Windows 10 which fixes that.
As for fragmentation, the only issue that creates is for Microsoft and its target of getting one billion devices running Windows 10 within 2-3 years of release.
Original article from Forbes. Article is behind annoying ads and JavaScript.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Monday January 04 2016, @10:29PM
Hmmm, I had no such problems.
Running Chromium on Manjaro with Ublock Origin, the Forbes site stopped on the continue to site page, and one click later I was at the page (with 23 blocked trackers and ads indicated by Ublock.
So I went to the link "xpda" mentioned, and I arrived instantly at the networkworld site with 24 blocked ads/trackers.
It seems the Forbes site uses some sort of algorithm to determine who it is going to pick on today.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by xpda on Monday January 04 2016, @10:41PM
I went to the networkworld link and only had one address blocked by uBLock Origin. Then I thought to enable JavaScript: 40 blocked.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday January 05 2016, @12:20AM
You must be using the default settings for Ublock Origin.
You should step to Third party filters tab and turn on everything in the first group except the expirimental,
Then for Ads, everything except the tirst and 4th
In Privacy all bur first and play with third.
Malware - pick the defaults.
Also under Social, I run some of Fanboy's filters, just to get rid of the stupid facebook buttons.
Ublock was never really meant to be run out of the box. You are supposed to expiriment with it a bit.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by xpda on Tuesday January 05 2016, @03:56AM
I only use the uBlock filters (except Experimental), and a bunch under "my filters" including cosmetic filters. The eyedropper tool is really handy for Facebook ads, flyovers, and animated slideshows.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:20AM
And that's why Ublock doesn't work for you.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by xpda on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:51AM
Actually, it works great! I am happy to get a blank page on Forbes in exchange for a readable web.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Monday January 04 2016, @10:54PM
Hmmm, I had no such problems.
Running Chromium on Manjaro with Ublock Origin, the Forbes site stopped on the continue to site page, and one click later I was at the page (with 23 blocked trackers and ads indicated by Ublock.
I think you missed the line at the end where I said I had Chromium in incognito, which turned out to be the cause of the infinite loop. Viewing the page outside of icnognito worked as expected, with a nag and then continue. I only rarely use Chromium for misbehaving pages and the like, so all it has is adblock. Made it pretty easy to figure out that Incognito mode was breaking the site further and turning it off confirmed it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 04 2016, @11:51PM
Oftentimes, a site refuses to cooperate with me. I just go into a VM, and C/P the address into an unprotected browser. It loads, I read, I close the browser, and delete cookies and crap. I don't do it very often, but now and then, I feel a need to read the article. Usually I come away wondering why I bothered.