Re:Hardening Windows 10 with zero-day exploit mitigations
by tdkl on Sunday January 15, 2017 @02:09PM
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>Why should Microsoft cater to people who want to boot Linux?
They don't need to cater to them, they need to NOT block them from doing so, because they're a monopoly in this space.
Re:Hardening Windows 10 with zero-day exploit mitigations
by WayneBro on Sunday January 15, 2017 @02:13PM
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Exactly. They are not blocking anybody from dual booting here. They simply not supporting this one configuration that he is running.
Re:Hardening Windows 10 with zero-day exploit mitigations
by tornadoboy55 on Sunday January 15, 2017 @04:59PM
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Which is kind of silly since Apple (notorious for 'my way or the highway') officially supports dual-booting Windows.
Re:Hardening Windows 10 with zero-day exploit mitigations
by WayneBro on Monday January 16, 2017 @11:26AM
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Apple needs Windows because next to nobody depends on Mac OS X to do anything. Meanwhile, 90% of the world uses Windows.
Microsoft doesn't need Linux desktop barely anybody runs it.
Re:Hardening Windows 10 with zero-day exploit mitigations
by tornadoboy55 on Monday January 16, 2017 @02:38PM
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> Apple needs Windows because next to nobody depends on Mac OS X to do anything.
Photographers, musicians, software developers, small businesses, students.. but except those none, sure..
Furthermore, if you rarely booted Linux or your Mac - you'd have a lot of update problems with them too. In my experience, Linux Mint will literally shit all over itself when it tries to update, if you haven't constantly kept it up to date for some reason.
With Apple, if you haven't updated in a while you might be in for a good 30-60 minutes of fighting with their updater to work properly. Besides that, Apple does weird shit with hardware during updates because of the extreme measures that they go to in order to keep competitors out. That's why there has been a plague of issues with 3rd party (and even 1st part) hardware dying during OS X updates - https://www.google.com/search?q=os+x+mouse+not+working+after...
Apple also delivers silent updates - https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+silent+updates
EDIT: Also, your story conflicts itself. Is it "every single patch Tuesday" or is it "I rarely boot Windows 10"?
Anyway, you should just fix your configuration to one that is supported by Microsoft. Would you run a hardware configuration that isn't supported by your Linux distro and then complain about it when it didn't work? No, you would not. And if your reply is that "I'd fix it myself..." - no you probably wouldn't. If you're one of the rare few who actually would, then you're spending the most precious resource that you have in order to do it - your time. In that case - I hope you enjoy doing it! Me? Like many people, I'll take convenience any day over ultimate flexibility.