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posted by martyb on Friday March 31 2017, @03:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the One-Less-Complication dept.

In an enterprise environment where I control the apps that I install for my users, what are the ramifications of removing the Windows store and all of its apps from my Windows 10 setups?


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by aristarchus on Friday March 31 2017, @06:32AM (4 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Friday March 31 2017, @06:32AM (#486963) Journal

    They screwed me over pre-1995. I will never forget. Microsoft must die! And not just die, but die in ignomy! They have single-handedly set back computing by at least two, no, three, decades. They have sold their users to the advertisers and the powers that be, with telemetry and deep anal probes, to the point that Hairyfeet, of the "Hairyfeet Challenge", no longer offers the Hairyfooted challenge, but has retreated to a bunker somewhat south of Redmond to await the coming apocalypse, with his rat-dog, "Smuchkins". True story! But I have to say, Microsoft, from the depths of Hell, I spit at thee! From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!! It is all due to thee, that I can never buy coffee at Starbucks, or look at St. Elmo's fire again!

    Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

    But more appropriate:

    All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby-Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

    Ah, Melville! They do not make Americans like him any more! Now all American can produce is buffuons and bobbins! And Micro$ert Winders. Call me, Bob, Microsoft Bob. Do you know what happens when you totally screw up in the Microsoft organization, like what happened with Microsoft Bob? You have to marry Bill Gates! So sad, but a real motivator!

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday March 31 2017, @06:46AM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday March 31 2017, @06:46AM (#486967) Homepage
    Rant much? For those needing a TL;DR: "The real WTF in the 2010s is MS Windows!"
    --
    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
    • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday March 31 2017, @06:56AM (2 children)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Friday March 31 2017, @06:56AM (#486970) Journal

      No, not enough rant! Do not rile Quakers on the high-seas! Nothing good comes of it, but blood and toil, and blue screams of death!

      You, perchance, think me not serious? Avast, you newbie! We seek the White Whale! A Linux harpoon to the heart of the beast! A breaking of the Windows of its store, don't you think? Only once we have got the beast's attention will it attempt to ram us! All hands on deck! Prepare the APIs and the zero-day attacks! Wait until you see the heart of the whale! Throw, Ismael! Throw, Queeqeg! Good arms of harpooners all! This will be, in God's good grace, the Year of the Linux Desktop.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:34AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 31 2017, @08:34AM (#486984)

        No, not enough rant! Do not rile Quakers on the high-seas! Nothing good comes of it, but blood and toil, and blue screens of death!

        There, FTFY.

        • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday March 31 2017, @08:56AM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Friday March 31 2017, @08:56AM (#486991) Journal

          Never been on the high seas, have we, matey? Thanks for the effort, but it is "screams". Something like, "In Space, since it is a near vacuum, no one can hear you scream, especially if you are running Microsoft."

          Bill, open the Pod bay doors, Bill.

          I'm sorry, Dave, I caN not

          ^%$&^*(PROGRAM HAS ATTEMPTED ILLEGAL OPERATION *^(**0 There has been an undetectable error. To continue, press any key, or press any other key. To stop imminent Blue Screams of Death, hit ctl-alt-del-die simultaneously in a parallel dimension an d sto p u sing the Mi cro s of t S t o re. Y o u ha v e b e e n w a r n e d .

          My god, it's full of money!