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A reader has sent along the results of his script-based analysis of the top feedback requests for Windows 10 in the Windows Technical Preview. And it won't surprise you to discover that the most popular requests are an interesting mix of common sense ideas and superficial changes. "Make a beautiful boot screen"?! Priorities, people!
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Well, that betta fish was just too cute, wasn't it? 
But, seriously: "1. Let us move or disable the new search and/or taskview buttons." I mean, what? OK, there's not need for the search button as there is already the search option in the Start menu, but taskview? They finally bring the Desktops feature (virtual desktops) into the core OS, and no one likes it? 
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Multiple desktops seems to be a love or hate feature. I'd estimate about 1/3rd to 1/2 of my penguin friends love it; the remainder don't care. Personally I've never seen the need; but then again I've always preferred just having enough space on the taskbar (multiple big monitors FTW) that everything is available at one time. OTOH I'd change my mind if I had the option on my main system instead of just a VM/live CD/etc that I elephant around with every once in a while. On the gripping hand, assuming I could pry more ram out of corporate IT, I think I'd be more likely to benefit at work when I'm working on multiple projects in one week. Sadly I doubt they'll be upgrading off Win7 until EoL starts looming in another 4ish years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Remember the days when you would head out to the store to pick up the latest version of Windows, on DVD, for something like $130? Or if you were unlucky enough to not qualify for upgrade pricing, maybe even $239? Those days might seem in the distant past, but in reality Microsoft is still charging for upgrades between major versions even as of Windows 8.1. "Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose"
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Quote: Imagine Windows 10 was made free for all users from Vista and up – the install base would quickly shift to the latest version (just like OS X users, or iOS users flock to the latest release), meaning less legacy support for Microsoft and the ability to tout larger numbers. The company could simply have a separate version and a requirement for those using Windows in business scenarios.
Pushing free upgrades all the way down to XP would be a good idea; but until the average sheeple gets a PC with automatic new version installation enabled by default I don't see the upgrade latency significantly improving. Installing the initial upgrade would be too much work and too scary.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Chakra now has a highly streamlined execution pipeline to deliver faster startup, supports various new and augmented optimizations in Chakra’s Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler to increase script execution throughput, and has an enhanced Garbage Collection (GC) subsystem to deliver better UI responsiveness for apps and sites. "We can make him better than he was. Better...stronger...faster."
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Instead of JavaScript engine, they need to make IE better. I am pretty sure JavaScript would run much much better.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Quote: need to make IE better
What is wrong with IE now in v11? It is fast, pretty much standards compliant... I would be interested in it's current lacking.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's well behind[^] Google and Mozilla's latest efforts; and was behind when it first launched[^] as well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I don't see any standard-required advantages of the other browsers in your list - only extra, non-standard features which have been the problem with all browsers from the beginning. I work on cross platform development and I have the most problems with Firefox, Safari and Chrome (in that order) as far as proper behaviour is concerned. Since IE 11, I have had little or no issues compared to the others.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's still lacks a proper ad-blocking solution. I know, that's not a fault of the browser per se, but just like Anti-Virus software is now build directly into Windows from Windows 8 on, I see this as such an essential feature nowadays that shouldn't require any additional software. I mean, it would already help a lot to have the ability to select to block or remove certain elements on specific sites, for example.
Firefox outbeats IE when it comes to ad blocking, due to better support of AdBlock Plus, which is just a joke on IE. The tracking protection lists are good, but in certain situations they don't work out well. They fail to filter CSS-based ads, for example, and with TPLs enabled some sites have the habit of putting even more ads on their pages in some vengeance manner (and I'm not talking about some dubious ones here where you expect such behavior).
Since third-parties don't seem to have any motivation to improve ad-blocking support in IE, I see it as Microsoft's duty to provide a better solution.
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Ad-blocking doesn't seem to be mentioned in the W3C standards... 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yet a browser should bring a little more value than just standards support. The point was that IE's support for standards improved a lot over the past releases, but it lacks features in other areas, compared to other browsers. What good is it for having optimal performance and standards support if I have to fallback to other browsers because of annoying ads? It's the only reason I still use Firefox, which is not as performant as IE but it has better support for ad-blocking (thanks to third-parties, but they have no interest in getting this stuff over to IE).
I mean, it's almost a wonder we got a popup-blocker and tabs in IE today, features that are so essential, and yet it took ages for IE to catch up on them. Now, bringing proper ad-block support would make it perfect. I mean, let's face it: The web experience has become so bad because of all that stuff without the ability to block it that ad-blocking has become quite a mandatory feature to get a distraction-free view.
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Since I am using and developing the JavaScript to support browsers on our intranet more than the internet I suppose ad-blocking ability is not that important to me. For the internet I use Chrome - with AdBlock.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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 That's the point here, Nimrod. Making IE better. Javascript, after all, runs in the browser. So making the Javascript engine perform faster & better makes the browser better. All good.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It's good to know that they are improving.
The JavaScript engine in current IE 11 (under Windows 7, 64bit) is significantly slower (greater then ~3 times) in computation (i.e. in calculating hash values) compared to the ones in, like, Firefox or Chrome.
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Maximilien wrote: Don't ask for a raise, have faith, trust your karma!!![^]
And the other shoe drops.
Like a 10 ton anchor.
Well, at least he's not looking like a wannabe heart attack shouting "Karma! Karma! Karma!"
I suspect Nadella is about to experience his own "fate."
Marc
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Yeah trusting in Karma and their own fate has worked real good for them so far.
I think his Karma might be close at hand?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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Finally the Real explanation!
"Ten" is a typo!
It should be "Windows Zen"!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah just wonderfull. I am one of these women, who wont ask for a raise. I am fully aware that I get less than my colleagues who are men even if I do more work. For example the previous month my firm should've had a yearly employee revision where we get a small raise.Except that The Hr told me that I should get each 6 months of work a small raise. Well and what happened? This year we didn't have the annual employee revisions and 8 months passed since my last small raise. I will never go and ask for why, I will just find myself a new job for more money.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Microsoft researchers have figured out a new way to keep data and applications secure in the cloud, by cordoning them off in memory from the underlying infrastructure. Step 1: add sandbox, Step 2: remove sandbox for performance, Step 3: add sandbox
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Kent Sharkey wrote: by cordoning them off in memory from the underlying infrastructure.
Isn't this what you call "write only memory" ? Of course it's secure. By cordoning it off, you can't access it (as in, duh, you need the underlying infrastructure to access the memory.)
I assume something got lost in the "translation".
They use a technique called “shielded execution,” which protects the program and associated data from the platform on which they run, including the cloud provider’s operating system, administrative software, firmware, and other software that supports the application.
I remember when I wanted to "shield" my data, I simply removed the floppy disk from the drive.
Marc
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Go get em boys!
Secure / internet.... pfft.
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