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After much discussion within the core team, early production users, and the broader community, we’ve identified a number of improvements we’d like to make over the course of the next year or so, falling into three categories. Is one of them a name so I think of a different Neil Young album?
Or at least stop thinking about decay?
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A huge part of Microsoft's strategy for Windows 10 hinges on what it calls "Universal Windows Apps." Why rewrite it if it ain't broke?
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It wouldn't be so bad if they were not abandoning every "legacy" part of the OS and push the new stuff exclusively. I mean, it's hard to find a reason why you should install Windows 10 when you only use traditional Win32/.NET applications, except for the newer underlying kernel and some performance improvements maybe. There hasn't been any new major API in Win32/.NET since Windows 7. The Windows Runtime is thought to be the modern replacement for it, but it's too limited to build powerful software on it and only really usable from within an App container, Desktop applications can only access a very small portion of it, so they are more and more left out from the progress. Plus: The Windows Runtime is not available on Windows 7, so even with the free upgrade to Windows 10, using it today means you're still massively restricting your target audience.
The question is: How is Microsoft going to deal with the productivity side of the story? In times of Universal Apps, what about the applications?
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Can't agree more.
We had (and still have) more problems about the OS turnover, than about our apps development/reliability.
Our customers still have XP and don't want to switch to any newer version, despite our advises, bonuses, and whatever else. They simply ask us: "why should I change if the app works great? What the newer Windows have more than our current platform?"
Our answer is often disappointing...
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Another point is that the only edition of Windows 10 that would be really appealing to anyone who doesn't care for the App side of things - that is, Enterprise LTSB N - is not available to individuals. I'd go for that version because it won't suffer from the possible feature-itis coming in the next months for the normal editions, you can defer upgrades and updates, it doesn't have any Universal Apps pre-installed (not even Cortana and Edge), it even comes with the good old Win32 calc.exe. Except for the Start menu it looks a like it would make for a good Windows 7 replacement.
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Interesting.
Just wonder whether old VB6 apps would run fine on that platform, since they don't run anymore on Win8+ (and I was in HUGE pain two years ago)...
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"any new major API in Win32/.NET since Windows 7"
DirectX 12 and more.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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IMO DX12 has nothing to do with Win32/.NET. DirectX was never really accessible from .NET, at least not officially, and since it's pretty low-level and built directly upon the HAL, you cannot really put it in the Win32 category either. Sure, you can still use it in traditional game development based on a classic Win32 application, but if you look at MSDN it's clear that Microsoft is really trying to push you to use the Universal Windows App platform in the future.
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A 'Universal Windows App' to run on every device with Windows OS, must conform to the lowest common...Not all devices able to do all - it's a simple technology boundary...So if you want an application, with very clear specifics, you have to go for some legacy solution...
The problem is that Microsoft didn't learned from the internet development - there too, there is no one for all when browsing a site...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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For the next few years, we’ll be getting not just Windows 10 updates and patches, but new improvements and features. This is possible because Microsoft built this version very differently from all its previous releases. "The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it."
Don't be started by the big "VB" when the page is loading
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It’s been over a year since the launch of one of the biggest ever releases in Java history. With plenty more elements coming and going in the Java 9 release next year, there’s one question you may find yourself asking: Does Java need all this change? "When you're finished changing, you're finished."
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Programming languages, by there very nature, have a really big legacy/backwards compatibility issue. This is why (in my opinion) innovation is best achieved by layering good tooling over a language rather than adding rafts of new keywords and syntax constructs.
Also one of the problems with programming languages is how difficult it is to take features away when they are superseded. For example I'd like to see a version of C# that didn't support declaring something as "object" and didn't allow non-generic lists etc...
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There’s almost no way to get through a given week without being faced with some kind of update notification. A cry to stop moving the cheese!
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The Windows Insider program is still running as Microsoft continues to ask for feedback. But the company faces accusations of not only failing to listen to the feedback it asks for, but deleting from the Feedback app and forums any suggestions it does not like. La-la-la Nothing to fix here
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And I was expecting they will fix that brightness issue on my laptop. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Use sunglasees 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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For eye.
For battery, direct AC supply. Good solution! 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Isn't that a hardware problem? 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Nope, all worked fair enough until Windows 8.1. Now in Windows 10, I have to reconfigure the system, re-install the drivers when Windows Update occurs. Perhaps Windows 10 does all the messed up things, behind the scenes.
Being-specific: The AMD driver doesn't work after every occurrence of Windows 10 update.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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It's hardly news, you know!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: In a statement to BetaNews, a Microsoft spokesperson said:
After the launch of Windows 10 and in preparation for continued flighting of PC builds to Windows Insiders, we have taken the opportunity to clear out the older feedback that we received early on in our product development cycle from the search results that get returned within the Windows Feedback app.
If true, that's a major change from what they've been doing with VS feedback for years. You can still find ancient long since denied change requests in the VS feedback system.
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
modified 17-Aug-15 11:01am.
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So no hope for a comeback of my beloved menu in Office
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Anonymous former employees: company sought to punish rivals for "stealing." Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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"Amazon is where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves." Can I get free shipping on that work/life balance?
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Of course... how long did you say you still need to retire?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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