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Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by shkkmo on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:18AM (#28452982)
You mean the same windows 10 that I never bother to boot into because every time I do various services decide to do so many indexing and updating tasks that it pegs the hard drive at 100% for hours?

I should be able to launch windows every couple of months without having to wait so long to do anything that I forget why I even booted into windows in the first place.

Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by paranoidrobot on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:54AM (#28453184)
No, I think they mean the stable Windows 10 that pushes Xbox, Skype, Microsoft Office, SkyDrive, and Candy Crush onto you.

The one that "helpfully" resets default applications and privacy settings to the ones Microsoft wants you to use, and then whines at you (or gives vague threats) when you do choose something else.

The one that turned logging in from pretty much an instant thing to a random wait while you get a "We're just setting things up for you" message on a pulsing background, and not-at-all-reassuring messages that "All your files are right where you left them".

Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by SunlightEdge on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:20AM (#28454109)
My spider senses are detecting sarcasm.
Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by fctorial on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:57AM (#28453948)
windows education edition doesn't have ads, or candy crush.
Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by paranoidrobot on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:52AM (#28455022)
That's of limited help.

It doesn't apply to anyone who's not eligible for that edition, isn't aware of it's existence, is just using the version that came with their device, or needs some specific feature in the 'Pro' variants (or whatever it's called now).

I remember having to bump up an edition from Home to get Bitlocker support for full-disk-encryption and something else.

e: While I've now migrated off Windows for a few years now, I still occasionally have to help family members who're wondering why X or Y no longer works, because MS decided to reset preferences.

Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by fctorial on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:03PM (#28463032)
There is an education variant of every windows version. Home education, pro education etc.
Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by paranoidrobot on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:50PM (#28464040)
Fine, okay, but what's the eligibility criteria?

As far as I can tell you have to go through an Academic Licensing service, which would immediately tell me to go away since I'm not a school/university/whatever.

It's simply not available to most people.

Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by dexwiz on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:41AM (#28453108)
This drives me insane. I try to boot up and play a game, only to find my FPS cut in half due to some background d operation that Windows has determined critical. But not critical enough to tell me beforehand.
Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by thomastjeffery on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:36PM (#28461955)
Not to mention the fake fullscreen mode that is actually windowed borderless with the compositor disabled.

You used to be able to "disable fullscreen optimizations" in properties to get real exclusive fullscreen mode, but now you have to edit a registry entry for that binary, and even that doesn't work most of the time.

I have this beautiful 144hz monitor for a reason: latency sucks.

Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by nicbou on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:29AM (#28453766)
Same. Windows is literally just a Fortnite OS, and it manages to mess up often enough to be a problem.
Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by Hithredin on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:38AM (#28453824)
All mainstream games targetting a reliable OS (Linux?) will be coming soon if they continue this way.
Re:Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Win... by peakaboo on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:23AM (#28453366)
No, it's not your computer if you run Windows on it.

The only way for you to get control over your computer is to run Linux, and today that's very easy.