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Windows 10 does disable some third-party security software, Microsoft has admitted, but because of compatibility – not competitive – issues.
Redmond is currently being sued by security house Kaspersky Lab in the EU, Germany and Russia over alleged anti-competitive behavior because it bundles the Windows Defender security suite into its latest operating system. Kaspersky (and others) claim Microsoft is up to its Internet Explorer shenanigans again, but that's not so, said the operating system giant.
"Microsoft's application compatibility teams found that roughly 95 per cent of Windows 10 PCs had an antivirus application installed that was already compatible with Windows 10 Creators Update," said Rob Lefferts, director of security in the Windows and Devices group.
Source: The Register
Archive article: Archive.org
(Score: 2) by Soylentbob on Thursday June 22 2017, @07:30AM (7 children)
In a surprising turn of events an entity accused of wrong behaviour claims it is not so. This changes everything, all claims are immediately retracted, lets celebrate the accused.
Basically most news concerning Microsoft is valid breaking news. NT 3.5 broke a lot of Win95/ME software, NT4 broke lots of NT3.5 software, ... ... Win 8.0 broke user experience, Win 10 broke Win 8, WP8 broke Nokia, and when I need to work with that crap, after a couple of minutes I feel close to a breakdown. And the Windows VM I have also broke a couple of times.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday June 22 2017, @08:38AM
Well said, and so far so good.
"NT 3.5 broke a lot of Win95/ME software"
But now I'm cringing. Ok, that's true. But that was also expected, and not, in and of itself, anything to criticize.
95/98/ME (I prefer to think of this as 98SE, remember the best don't dwell on the rest) supported several APIs that NT did not. So of course there was no guarantee of binary compatibility.
"NT4 broke lots of NT3.5 software"
Did it? I don't doubt it did but I'm fuzzy on the details at first glance.
My personal experience was that NT3.5 was still unreliable and by the time 4.0 came out I had found a new job where I didn't have to worry about it anymore.
"Win 8.0 broke user experience"
Again, true, but holy wtf batman?!?! Like that's the first time? What the hell else do you expect? They don't like to give standards and when they do, they don't follow them. Ever since they 'invented'^w dug windows 1.0 source code out of that dumpster they've been breaking UI standards as quickly as they could invent them.
"Win 10 broke Win 8"
Nope. Win10 *partially* fixed Win8.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 22 2017, @09:35AM (5 children)
You missed Win95 broke MSDOS/Win3.11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Soylentbob on Thursday June 22 2017, @11:47AM (1 child)
Not really :-) Basically Windows broke so many times, for so many reasons and with so many casualties in my experience that a complete list is not practical. Actually, a shorter list should have been sufficient to make my point, or a link to some external summary. I don't have the time to search for a good one, but here [bing.com] should be some hidden gems.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 22 2017, @12:15PM
After a lot if "Windows 10 broke my PC" links, in the "related searches for Windows broke my", there this pearl: "tenant broke window". Yeah, right, related indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 22 2017, @05:57PM (2 children)
It might be easier if we list the things Win95 didn't break.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 22 2017, @08:18PM (1 child)
You're right. Here they are:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 3, Funny) by Snow on Thursday June 22 2017, @09:58PM
C'mon now. The two most important applications worked fine - winmine.exe and sol.exe