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Microsoft on Thursday began blocking rival browsers and search providers from using Windows 10's Cortana search box, the operating system's prime search real estate.
While Gavin didn't name names, Mozilla's Firefox modified Windows 10 so that when that browser was made the operating system's default, Firefox's selected search provider generated results from in-Cortana queries, with the ensuing pages appearing in Firefox, not Edge. Other browsers, such as Google's Chrome, did not go that far, but third-party extensions available in the Chrome Web Store did.
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She's so tough she won't take 'yes' for an answer.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by ShadowSystems on Saturday April 30 2016, @05:26AM
My current copy of Win7Pro64 will be my last, my next machine will either come from someone like System76 or Apple.
If I'm going to have to relearn everything to "upgrade" (makes cat gagging noises with a finger in the mouth) to Windows 10, then I'll do myself a favor & relearn an OS that doesn't spy on my every move, scrape my system for every file I've got, phone home to Redmond to tell them about it, ignore my option settings with every forced update, and generally tells me to thank my lucky stars they're ONLY kicking me repeatedly in the balls for the priveledge of using their OS.
I've had enough of going through every. single. update. that comes down the Windows Update pipe, making sure it's not a Win10 trojan in disguise, and praying like hell that one doesn't get in anyway. I use GWX Control Panel to try & be safe, but once MS figures out how to disable that too, I'm screwed.
I *can't* upgrade to Win10, not unless I want to shell out for a whole new computer (this one doesn't make the cut), want to buy a brand new copy of the most bleeding edge version of my Screen Reader, buy all new copies of my software since it probably won't work under the new OS, and spend how ever long to tweak everything back into something that lets me Get Shit Done.
If I've got to drop two to three grand on the upgrade process, then I might as well go to SUSE for a support contract, let them configure me a laptop from System76 to include Orca, and relearn everything all over again, or go to Apple & spend the cash on an OS that *includes* a Screen Reader at it's core so as to be maximly Accessible from the get-go.
MS wonders why I hate them? Their "free upgrade" is going to cost me a couple thousand bucks if I stick with them, or the same amount to switch to someone else that DOESN'T treat me like crap.
Hmmmm... I wonder which I'll choose?
*Makes a Rude Gesture at MSHQ with both hands, flippers, wings, tentacles, testicles, noodley bits, & everything prehensil*
I've had it. I'm done. I'll be upgrading alright, right the hell off the Microsoft treadmill.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 30 2016, @05:55AM
Now would be a really good time to get into VirtualBox or some other similar client virtualization software package. At some point you might want to P-to-V your current system and run it as a VM under Linux.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Saturday April 30 2016, @06:44PM
I'd love to except that my Screen Reader Environment (SRE) is notoriously crap with anything resembling a CLI.
The update in the CLI window doesn't trigger the SRE to read the newly added data, so the only way I have to find it out is to force the SRE to reread the *entire screen*.
Each. And. Every. Time. For. Each. And. Every. Command.
It quickly gets to be a migraine in the making to deal with anything CLI, or that works like a CLI window.
Which is what most VM's do for Windows.
The SRE can read the screen, but whatever happens inside the VM window doesn't trigger the SRE to read it.
So for everything I do under the VM window, I get to manually trigger the SRE to read the entire screen.
For each & every thing I might do in the VM.
There ARE ways to "fix" this & cause the SRE to read such CLI/VM windows properly, but implimenting them then causes the SRE not to react to "normal" windows (EG browser, Outlook, any other program) as if it were going bonkers.
Stuttering, skipping, auto rereading bits of text it JUST got through speaking, all sorts of behavior that would ALSO be a migraine in the making.
I'd be damned if I did, I'm damned if I don't, and it's all because of how MS implimented the CLI environment to SRE's.
Had they coded it like they did everything else, then the CLI window would READ like every other window as far as the SRE is concerned.
Instead MS did something fundamentally brain dead, rendered the CLI window a total SNAFUBAR, & left users of SRE's to "just ask a Sighted Person".
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I'd love to migrate my current physical machine into a VM then move the VM to a Linux box.
Unfortunately that would require Windows not to be a pain in the butt AND it would require a Linux distro that talked to me from the moment it powered on.
Think Vinux, Sonar, or even SUSE +Orca.
Except that the time I bought a Netbook from the Vinux project (both to support them AND to try & migrate to Linux), the Netbook stopped talking just shortly after power on.
Went round & round, back & forth, trying this & that, having to get a Sighted Person to try stuff, all to no avail.
I later sold the Netbook to someone else & washed my hands of the deal.
I don't blame the Vinux folks, but neither do I consider it ready for prime time.
I tried Adrienne Knoppix, Sonar, & other talking distros, but something invariably goes kablooey & leaves me in the lurch.
Maybe it stops believing the audio subsystem is actually there, maybe it thinks FULL VOLUME is ok to trigger at random, or maybe it hangs on boot & refuses to go any farther.
Since there's no pre-POST Screen Reader Environment (it needs the OS to load it first), I have no way of interacting with anything.
Boot menu? Can't hear it, no options spoken, so I don't even know it's there.
Boot problem? No SRE means I don't even know there MIGHT be one until the system has failed to boot after $X minutes.
So until/unless the SRE starts speaking, I *can't* interact with the computer.
Which means no fiddling with a distro to give it a run if it fails to even load properly.
"What went wrong?" Damned if I know, it never booted.
"Was there an error message?" What part of 'never booted' can I expand upon? The SRE never triggered & I can't interact with the machine until it does. No SRE, no boot, no deal.
So I'd have to get a computer that someone else proffessionally set up to speak from boot, made sure it spoke with the VM active, and then did all the fiddlybits to turn my current Windows into a VM, move it over, & bring it up to make sure there are no kinks.
Because without that SRE working perfectly, I have no way of fixing what's wrong.
=-(
Taking it to a LUG & asking for help would be great...
If I didn't live in a cow town outside of SF/SJ Bay Area.
Either I travel hours to go to them (I'll just hop in my car & drive by braille!), or THEY have to commute to me.
Because this town seems to have the collective tech know-how of a cow.
*HeadDesks repeatedly*
Migraine. Migraine. Migraine...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:24PM
A little late, but I was using GWX control panel until last week, when my system tried to apply an update to GWXUI.dll, which caused a "Fatal error" on boot that I couldn't roll back or get out of. Had to restore the system image.
But I'm with you: never again will my home use a Windows system until Microsoft changes its course. I'm not holding my breath, but moving to CentOS and PC-BSD.