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posted by cmn32480 on Friday April 29 2016, @11:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the inconvenient-timing-for-a-new-os dept.

El Reg reports

Microsoft's relentless Windows 10 nagware has interrupted a live TV weather forecast, urging meteorologist Metinka Slater to upgrade.

The operating system suddenly popped up a box on screen insisting the station's computer be upgraded to the latest version--while Slater was on air describing thunderstorms rolling through Iowa, USA.

The cyber-badgering blatted over her doppler weather radar, which was being broadcast on KCCI 8 News [April 27].

"Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10. Gosh, what should I do?" Slater asked sarcastically.

So, do you know of a case of MSFT update pushiness that rivals this?


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  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:37PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:37PM (#339471) Journal

    Windows ME was Microsoft's first real dog of an OS,

    Says the person who obviously never used MS-DOS...

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday April 30 2016, @05:44PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Saturday April 30 2016, @05:44PM (#339541) Journal

    I used MS-DOS, starting with version 3.3, with the 33M limit on partition sizes. The main advance for MS-DOS version 4 was removing that partition limit, but otherwise it was rather bloated compared to 3.3. Version 5 was fairly nice, cleaned up some of the bloat in version 4. I also used Apple DOS 3.2 and 3.3 on the Apple II, and one of the big differences was that MS-DOS supported a directory structure, while Apple DOS did not. Had to use Apple's ProDOS to get directories. Also, Apple DOS was slow thanks to some brain dead coding in which data was read into a buffer and then copied to a final location, taking just long enough that the next sector had rotated past the head and the system would wait for it to do a full revolution. Aftermarket DOSes fixed that. I don't know if MS ever made that mistake, but I think not. The #1 spot for slowest disk access is the Commodore. So in comparison to those, MS-DOS was pretty good.

    Yes, they were severely limited, they really were _Disk_ Operating Systems, not full operating systems. They didn't have virtual memory or task switching and they let programs do pretty much anything to the system, including accidentally trashing the copy of DOS loaded into RAM. They didn't run a GUI, didn't even have drivers for video or audio. They were really only drivers for disk drives. Calling them an operating system was a stretch. Even the file system MS-DOS used, FAT, was limited and inefficient, no journaling of course, but then ext2 didn't have that either. I mean, dang, Apple DOS didn't even have a built in "copy" command to copy files! Had to use a file utility (FID) to make a copy. The point of FAT and DOS is that they are simple and don't take lots of memory, and on that they were fairly successful. What do you expect on a computer that has only 1M or even just 640K RAM and bad (80286) or no (8086) protected mode?