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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by jakobdabo on Monday July 03, 2017 @01:13PM (#14689826)
Completely unrelated, but am I the only with an impression that MS has switched Windows into a rolling release OS (like Gentoo or Arch) with infinite updates of Windows 10? This would be a genius move to solve the issue of the users remaining on the old unmaintained release like it was with XP, and like it is now with 7.
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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by Volundr on Monday July 03, 2017 @01:16PM (#14689860)
That's more or less the plan: https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by shostack on Monday July 03, 2017 @05:06PM (#14691388)
Yes, full lockdown and a subscription for anything useful is the new model. Hope you like it.
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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by ctrlaltdestroy on Monday July 03, 2017 @01:30PM (#14689973)
Yes. Windows 10 would be the last OS from MS. I think they confirmed it.
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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by nix0n on Monday July 03, 2017 @01:15PM (#14689851)
MS has officially confirmed this.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...

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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by copperx on Monday July 03, 2017 @02:47PM (#14690486)
Just like OS X (10). It's like everybody is afraid to go to 11.

To be fair, software is a recent human endeavor, and except for Emacs, I'm not familiar with software versions over 10.

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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by ken on Monday July 03, 2017 @05:13PM (#14691449)
In operating systems, FreeBSD, HP/UX, and Solaris are all on version 11. iOS 11 is in beta now.

In databases, Oracle and Informix are both on version 12.

I think the lack of high version numbers is not necessarily paranoia, but simply that there isn't much software that's old enough yet.

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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by codewithcheese on Monday July 03, 2017 @03:42PM (#14690840)
I'll bite. Chrome, Firefox, plenty Adobe products.
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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by dingo_bat on Monday July 03, 2017 @11:27PM (#14693321)
Chrome is in its 50s :D
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Re:Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ra... by floatboth on Monday July 03, 2017 @04:56PM (#14691308)
Plenty of Spinal Tap reference opportunities in going to 11 though. The iOS 11 presentation did just that :)
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