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Microsoft now rolling out Windows 11 to more eligible devices:
Microsoft is now rolling out the Windows 11 upgrade to more eligible Windows devices as part of a phased rollout designed to deliver a smooth upgrade experience.
"The availability of Windows 11 has been increased and we are leveraging our latest generation machine learning model to offer the upgrade to an expanded set of eligible devices," Microsoft said in an update to the Windows health dashboard.
[...] Windows 10 users can upgrade to Windows 11 via Windows Update as long as their computers come with compatible hardware.
To install Windows 11 on eligible devices, they also need to run Windows 10 2004 and later and have installed at least the September 2021 updates.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday October 29 2021, @10:03PM (3 children)
Now I'm itching to do a raw XP install, partly because I can use it for several things (long story), and partly to confirm what I think I remember.
\Windows\system32\Macromed is where I remember the default Flash stuff being, which obviously inherits from legacy MacroMedia before Adobe engulfed them.
More than once I remember some kind of updater or system cleaner utility nagging about removing the default Windows Flash player, how it was antiquated and insecure.
Same with the MS Java VM.
But again, it's been years, and I've been through hell and back, so memory is fuzzy on some of this stuff... I'll have to try it... I might even have a disk with a raw install. I need to inventory hard disks anyway...
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday October 29 2021, @10:27PM (2 children)
[goes to look, since preferring not to chronically wish to punch my monitor, I still use XP for everyday]
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash
Weirdly, it's in there, and on restart whines about doing an update (hmm, here's an item in mms.cfg that might fix that), but it doesn't seem to be installed as a plugin anywhere. From the matching folder date, looks like it was dropped there when I installed CS2.
Inventorying HDs is a good way to get stuck playing with all the old shit you rediscover on those old HDs. :D
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday October 30 2021, @02:18AM (1 child)
Thanks for checkin'.
Oh, but but but, you're a risk to world peace, global warming, data integrity of the planet, and a list of things I don't feel like typing. Or so goes the typical commentary from the peanut gallery. My feeling is I'd rather have a well-developed, bug-fixed OS. Imagine if someone kept refining something until it was really good. Okay, a guy can dream, right? But seriously, the number of updates for 7, then 8, then 10, increases with each Windows version. Speculation I admit, but my hunch is there are far more bugs the newer it is. More push to get more "features" pushed in, the whole boondoggle pushed out the door, and by cheaper and cheaper developers. Bug testers? Well that'd be you and me.
I have several machines with XP still on them, and they're fine for many things. I might be wrong about this, but AFAIK, much of the "insecurity" is 1) exploited bugs in newer Windows versions, and 2) web / javascript / webassembly evil that won't run on older XP-age browsers anyway.
I'm typing this on a chrome variant (Vivaldi) on Win7. I was reluctant to run 7, but after much tweaking and tuning, it's okay.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday October 30 2021, @02:42AM
Terrible, right?? retrobates like us are going to bring down the entire intertubes!!
This was pointed out by someone in the computer security field a number of years ago: Hackers are not coding super-geniuses. So how do they find all these Windows holes and exploits? After all they don't have the source code, and it's really not practical to disassemble millions of lines of code (Win95 was something like 15M lines, gods know what Win10 is).
A: Reverse-engineer the security patches, since each and every one points directly at a specific vulnerability. Then target that specific weakness, and rely on those PCs not yet updated to provide your victims.
So... no more patches means a sharp drop-off in the number of hacks and exploits, with the only real exceptions being those common to all species of Windows. (When did you last hear of an exploit that targets Win2K or Win98? or even XP??)
And yeah, there's a lot to be said for a mature OS that doesn't go upending the applecart and discovering whole new cans of worms. I was happy with XP and would never have willingly switched. Win7 was tolerable but doesn't have the stability I'm used to (it tends to fall over after a few months, while my XP boxen measure uptimes in years). Win10 is stable but the Brutalist interface has driven me off to PCLinuxOS, which now resides on any newer boxen that won't play nice with XP64.
But since it's taking me forever to switch over (I hate moving computer) to the New! Improved!! XP64 box, today I'm typing on the XP32 box and some random version of SeaMonkey. I really need to turn this'un into a VM and just move the whole damn thing. There's a tool for that, if I can remember what it's called!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.