harlock wrote on May 11, 2015, 08:23:Simon Says wrote on May 11, 2015, 06:12:
What I meant was acting as a peer to upload the version to other clients..
it has to be whitelisted
eRe4s3r wrote on May 11, 2015, 09:49:
And who has a SSD powered off for a year? ^^
MindStalker3 wrote on May 11, 2015, 08:29:NewMaxx wrote on May 10, 2015, 14:42:
For those curious on here about how long SSDs retain data without power in the "consumer" situation, it's over a year. As a side note it is a good policy to clone and re-apply an image of any SSD drives once a year.
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NewMaxx wrote on May 10, 2015, 14:42:
For those curious on here about how long SSDs retain data without power in the "consumer" situation, it's over a year. As a side note it is a good policy to clone and re-apply an image of any SSD drives once a year.
Simon Says wrote on May 11, 2015, 06:12:
What I meant was acting as a peer to upload the version to other clients..
Vio wrote on May 11, 2015, 05:21:PropheT wrote on May 11, 2015, 00:27:What security gap? You mean disabling updates and never updating?Simon Says wrote on May 10, 2015, 19:50:
Please let this be opt-in and not opt-out and/or can be disabled easily. With low caps and sky high prices, if I can't disable it, I'll have to stick to Win7.
That's unlikely, considering the security gap that it creates. It's one of the main reasons to handle the updates in that fashion in the first place.
PropheT wrote on May 11, 2015, 00:27:What security gap? You mean disabling updates and never updating?Simon Says wrote on May 10, 2015, 19:50:
Please let this be opt-in and not opt-out and/or can be disabled easily. With low caps and sky high prices, if I can't disable it, I'll have to stick to Win7.
That's unlikely, considering the security gap that it creates. It's one of the main reasons to handle the updates in that fashion in the first place.
Simon Says wrote on May 10, 2015, 19:50:
Please let this be opt-in and not opt-out and/or can be disabled easily. With low caps and sky high prices, if I can't disable it, I'll have to stick to Win7.
DangerDog wrote on May 10, 2015, 19:55:As I see it for the PC market most people won't put up with it. You can get away with it in the business market, but I sure don't see your average PC user going that way. Especially PCMR folks, who will jump to a free alternative.
Yeah, I guess I was reading into it that future versions were going to be some sort of "computing in the cloud" Windows 365 type service.
DangerDog wrote on May 10, 2015, 18:14:eRe4s3r wrote on May 10, 2015, 17:33:
That MS news is pretty interesting.. last stand alone Windows OS release.. so I guess Windows 10 update is not exactly optional either. Fine by me considering the price seems fair (for once).
It's not the last stand alone OS, they're just not going to stamp version numbers to the end. Might as well just call it Windows X.Instead of releasing an entirely new and different version of its desktop OS every few years, Microsoft is taking an Apple-like approach to subsequent Windows releases, standardizing on Windows 10 as its Cupertino-based rival has done with OS X. Under this new strategy, Microsoft will deliver regular improvements to Windows through software updates.
eRe4s3r wrote on May 10, 2015, 17:33:
That MS news is pretty interesting.. last stand alone Windows OS release.. so I guess Windows 10 update is not exactly optional either. Fine by me considering the price seems fair (for once).
Instead of releasing an entirely new and different version of its desktop OS every few years, Microsoft is taking an Apple-like approach to subsequent Windows releases, standardizing on Windows 10 as its Cupertino-based rival has done with OS X. Under this new strategy, Microsoft will deliver regular improvements to Windows through software updates.