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Microsoft Warns Windows 7 Has Serious Problems

posted by n1 on Monday January 04 2016, @09:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the own-worst-enemy dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:36PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:36PM (#285140) Journal

    A lot of stories these days are sourced from the Soylent rss-bot [sylnt.us]. Forbes starting showing up a lot a month ago or so, but there are other sources there, too. Check 'em out. If you see something good, copy & paste representative paragraphs in <blockquote> </blockquote> tags, put a title & category on it, and submit it. You can do more than that, of course, but doing the aforementioned is easy and takes under 5 minutes.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:51PM (#285203)

    also "drupal" has a built-in RSS-feed FETCHER (it has a built-in RSS feed MAKER too).

    just find some atom/RSS link on some newsworthy website, example: http://feeds.reuters.com/ReutersPictures [reuters.com]
    put that link into drupal and set it to reload and drupal-fy the data.

    (here is reuters RSS category overview link: http://www.reuters.com/tools/rss) [reuters.com]

    of course you never know if somebody hijacks the RSS-feed providing website and then "makes the RSS data
    go bad" in the mouth of unsuspecting drupal ^_^"