MS has NOT MET A SINGLE INTERIM GOAL since the project started.


. is this who you want to be locked into for the rest of your life?
     


Ohh, the parallels between those facts and the economy.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-10-auto-schedules-updates,31802.html

Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Upgrades



Windows 10 has been with us for a little over eight months now, which means there are only about four months remaining to get a free upgrade from an older Windows operating system. As the clock counts down, Microsoft has begun to auto-schedule PCs to upgrade to Windows 10 with or without consent from end users.

When Microsoft created Windows 10, it tied in numerous monitoring and data collection tools. The operating system is capable of gathering your search history, web usage, Windows Store usage, details of what applications you use, voice recordings, emails, geographic information and just about anything else that is on your PC. This information is gathered in part for improving Windows-based services, but it is also used for market research and advertising purposes.

Because each user on Windows 10 increases the amount of advertising information available to Microsoft, which in turn enables Microsoft to earn more revenue from selling this data, it is not surprising that Microsoft wants everyone to use its new OS. This lead to Microsoft offering Windows 10 as a free upgrade to both Windows 7 and Windows 8, as users of either OS were unlikely to want to pay for a new OS on an already relatively new PC.

Still, there were numerous users that opted to stick with their older Windows OSes, but they were still subject to  annoying pop-ups trying to get you to move to Windows 10. Even after you close the pop-up, it returns after a few short hours, relentlessly probing you to upgrade.

Now, as we near the end of the free upgrade period, Microsoft’s malware-like upgrade system is becoming even more intrusive by autoscheduling upgrades to Windows 10. I noticed that the Windows 10 upgrade reminder pop-up on a Windows 7 PC was no longer asking me to upgrade; instead, it’s now informing me that it has already scheduled an update for May 17.


So, they will do you willy nilly, huh?

so far my PC has said noffink about an upgrade
so far it continues to function
wonder how long that's gonna last?

thanks for that report
I'd still probably just go android though, since I am in no way a power user
oh BTW, anyone know of a good 'first person shooter' for PC? sometimes the net just ain't enough
(apologies for thread jack)

http://liliputing.com/2016/05/nxpfreescales-64-bit-mx-8-chips-finally-coming....

http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/05/17/nxp-unveiled-i-mx-8-multisensory-enabl...



NXP is a company that does electronic packages for cars.   This is a large business with strong and growing requirements as we swing towards self parking, self driving as required sales features in new cars.

NXP bought up Freescale as they were using their chipsets a lot but NXP wanted additional features put into the chips to suit their in-dash uses and to expand out into multiple sensors and cameras out all over the car.   Lots more video and camera and sensors of various types.  Freescale was willing but lacked the funding -- now that NXP owns them they don't lack funding but are now using most of their foundry allocations up internally.

Now NXP/Freescale has built them a monster 10 core ARM A72 to do all the neat stuff the car makers currently want.

Makes cell phones and computers look sorta easy, doesn't it?    Now you get a feel for why ARM designed the A72 deca-core monster designs -- automotive was a big needs area.   Now that both Freescale and Mediatek have the 10 core chips in production, you can expect to see more and different products coming out that are using the 10 core monster ARM processors instead of Intel chipsets.

And you also see why Intel has retreated from these industries back towards the datacenter world (especially after Ford fired them and Microsoft for costing Ford a bunch of JD Powers consumer satisfaction points for "very difficult to use" dash packages ..... )

ARM processors running Linux (a skinned version of Android)  ......   that  Google type self-driving stuff is coming to see you from everywhere.

http://liliputing.com/2016/05/yep-google-play-store-coming-chrome-os.html

Yep, the Google Play Store is coming to Chrome OS (on modern touch screen Chromebooks first) in June of this year

If you are a Chrome centric sort of person, this completes the fusion of the OS's with it all taking place on your Chromebook as a backbone.   You now have your full on-line world AND the full local install world of Android Play Store apps.

You also can Crouton all of Linux Ubuntu and Mint on your same machine, treating Ubuntu or Mint as Chrome App tabs that can do a whole lot more as local loaded software.

This move gets a full year to mature and to jell together to see what sort of acceptance it grows against the existing Windows laptop populations.  Then the Android half will rise up to meet it.

Yes, the Android half is yet to come.   Chrome OS picking up all of the Play Stores is just step 1-A of the whole total Google fusion plan, the next move is the next year's Android O (not N but O).  This will be an Android that will have all the Jide type functions built in to Android itself, giving you a full functioning windowing taskbar'd type OS out of Android.  

Plus the phone/pc thing will be naturally occurring as the phones will all have 3-4 gigs of memory and lots & lots of processor power to drive the whole shebang while showing it on a big monitor and a real keyboard and mouse.

Now it will be all there and THEN it is time to trim off the excess and start to refine and polish the merged systems ......  completely according to where the customer base wants to drive it.


Thought ..... if Oracle wins their current anti-Java suit against Google, the fused stuff will just be more Chrome based in order to comply with ditching any Java taint remaining in Android.  

If not, then not.

http://lpxshow.com/lpx-episode-9-funeral-for-an-atom-processor/

Here is a group of futurists discussing where computing stuff is going in the next 3 years.    Intel is dropping out of the mix on the low end, Nvidia moving over to automotive, Qualcomm losing a lot of ground to Mediatek and Allwinner and Rockchip -- these are the sorts of things that tend to affect the industry rolling into the next few years.

Cars are very very big right now and Intel isn't there at all -- Nvidia owns it right now.   The smarter companies are finding new expanding niches to roll their research dollars into so they are the ground floor "owners" of that area as it begins erupting into exponential growth.

Another item of huge expansion is big rack space Internet supporters -- the biggest rack space companies are now designing and building their own specialty chipsets to cut energy and cooling and still gain massive amounts of speed by being built specifically to run their particular software and application.    

As Intel attempts to roll into this space as their safe haven, they are finding their biggest potential customers (Google and Facebook) really don't need them at all any more because they both build their own chipsets now.  

And theirs is 100% ARM RISC derived customized designs supporting customized to fit cut down very fast Linux softwares.    Hardware and software were designed at the same time to do that one job just as efficiently and quickly as possible.

CISC and Intel x86 simply need not apply -- way too fat slow and porky.   "Generic" do anything x86 simply isn't what is needed in rackspace any more.   Intel hasn't figured this out yet ..... and having made their move to the data center and abandoning low end PC as uncontested leaves them middle to upper PC space as their only sales outlet.

And, please remember those 10 core A72 chipsets and the Apple A-10x superchipset that CAN DO LAPTOP DUTY RIGHT NOW WITH THE RIGHT OS PRODUCT TO DRIVE IT.  

Intel is not looking good at the moment.

Neither is Microsoft, after being forced by reality to backtrack 180^o on their big Win 10 "do or die" push.