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MilesAhead:
I think you're right, Miles; eventually it will of course be their best operating system so far - which is why I for the first time ever was maneuvering to be first in line.
BUT the comparison in my head is the car company launching a new model, and when people ask why there are no passenger seats, or why this or that obviously is missing, the answer is something like "Oh, we will add them eventually". Setting a fixed date for launching a new model is by itself foolish, or what the proper term may be, because it puts a date above fixing errors, and therefore also puts a date above both the customer and the company's trustworthiness / credibility / reliability / integration / honour / something ...
Well, I am the poor one, and they are the ga$illionaires, so who am I to speak.
-Curt (August 01, 2015, 12:16 PM)
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I agree wih you that the new distribution model, having people hang online while the system updates, necessitates having beefed up servers to handle the deluge. The coders cannot push back the deadline just because of a few orders of magnitude of bugs/unfinished features. :) So they push ahead.
Also I am waiting for the "mandatory update" system to break thousands of computers at once. It seems inevitable.
I am usually skeptical of new Windows releases. I think this is fed by the insistence on hiding the settings every time they change the name of the Windows flavor. But after I get done dragging my feet I usually like it. I hope it is also true this time. :)
Innuendo:
I've been through all those, and they only control whether or not the notifications show up in the Action Center. No combination I could think of - even after an Outlook restart - would result in the old style informative behavior.-Stoic Joker (July 30, 2015, 06:29 PM)
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Have you tried lengthening the popup interval time in Outlook to something crazy long like 10-20 seconds?
Stoic Joker:
I've been through all those, and they only control whether or not the notifications show up in the Action Center. No combination I could think of - even after an Outlook restart - would result in the old style informative behavior.-Stoic Joker (July 30, 2015, 06:29 PM)
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Have you tried lengthening the popup interval time in Outlook to something crazy long like 10-20 seconds?-Innuendo (August 01, 2015, 05:52 PM)
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I hadn't thought to try that, but I strongly suspect the behavior is by design to showcase the all new - Whoop-De-Do - Action Center.
At any rate, I've managed to encounter a more pressing and completely baffling issue after upgrading my home machine to 10 this afternoon. It seems that for some delightfully insane reason the system has chosen to report that only 3 of the 4 GB of RAM in the 64-bit machine are "usable". Why it has decided to pull this shit I haven't a clue, but it's a - Microsoft Listed Windows 10 Compatible - Asus Commando motherboard with the latest BIOS installed (it was a condition of computability) a few weeks back to be sure it didn't flake on its own (which it didn't).
Sure it's a bit of an antique...but it's all I got to work with at the moment.
4wd:
So, next machine to get upgraded was my x86 TV recorder, (ZOTAC 8200-ITX WiFi).
Painless upgrade again, just a few small (possibly) bugs to iron out today, took about an hour for it to upgrade.
Cons:
* TV recording no longer works even though the correct drivers were installed/carried over from 8.1Pro for the USB device - I suspect this can be fixed by reinstalling the capture program and Java.
* Outpost Pro Security Suite was uninstalled, which I expected.
* ClassicShell was disabled - also expected.
* Edge became the new default browser, which shouldn't have happened IMO (default was Pale Moon).
* Viewing the Desktop directly on a Dell Pro monitor and the fonts are blurry - so have to play with the Display settings.
Pros:
* Old Canon LiDE 20 scanner still works, (using old XP/Vista/7 drivers) - actually works better now since its TWAIN driver disappeared under 8.1 but now it's back under 10, so I can use any program again rather than Canon software.
* Conexant USB fax/modem still appears to work.
* All the other software installed, (HDD Sentinel, Paragon HDM, MegaSync, iDrive, VPN, etc), still appears to work.
If I can't get the TV recording to work, it'll get rolled back to 8.1 Pro.
Addendum: Turns out it was the tuner drivers: Driver is not intended for this platform. So, rolling back to 8.1 Pro on this machine until the drivers get updated.
Innuendo:
I hadn't thought to try that, but I strongly suspect the behavior is by design to showcase the all new - Whoop-De-Do - Action Center.-Stoic Joker (August 01, 2015, 07:43 PM)
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The only reason I suggest it is that qbTorrent will throw up notification bubbles that hang out for quite a while. Maybe this is something that has to be hard-coded in the program. Regardless, Office 2016 is just a few months away and then we'll forget all about O2K13's problems because we'll have a new batch of crud to deal with.
Why it has decided to pull this shit I haven't a clue, but it's a - Microsoft Listed Windows 10 Compatible - Asus Commando motherboard with the latest BIOS installed (it was a condition of computability) a few weeks back to be sure it didn't flake on its own (which it didn't).
Sure it's a bit of an antique...but it's all I got to work with at the moment.
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Well, my motherboard *is* an antique...a Gigabyte running an X58a chipset. I have no idea if it's on Microsoft's special list or not, but I just checked. My 6 GB of RAM is being reported correctly.
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