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I turned a Win7 machine on yesterday for the first time in over three years, and it's been "checking for updates" for the last 15-1/2 hours...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So, still a long way to go. 
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It's having trouble updating you to Windows 8.0 and Office 365 with Clippy. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Had the same problem. If I remember correctly it's a bug in the updater caused by an update...
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I have a win10 machine that I packed into storage last October that will see the light of day in July, I imagine the update will take some time and a months bandwidth.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's probably trying to update to winio.
Yours won't be the first machine bricked by that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My XP Embedded machine took 20 minutes and 2 reboots to get the last 8 months of updates installed
Director of Transmogrification Services
Death Defying Database Dude
Professor of the Yoda Conditional
Shinobi of Query Language
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It might never end - I tried this after 24 hours and was up and running again in less than an hour:-
How to Update Windows 7 All at Once with Microsoft’s Convenience Rollup[^]
The update service had been running on my system for weeks consuming 13% system resources and achieving nothing other than raising the CPU temperature until I installed this. Windows update now runs normally...
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OriginalGriff wrote: that's a fair ways off
Don't count on it. First they wanted it ready last year, then january, then it was this month and now it's autumn.
Berlin is probably going to have a new airport[^] before we can watch this show. And the ship is so ugly that it could have been designed by Mickeysoft.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Autumn ... that's a fair ways off ...
 It wont be autumn as autumn is nearly over for me and I haven't seen it released yet
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RossMW wrote: OriginalGriff wrote: Autumn ... that's a fair ways off ...
It wont be autumn as autumn is nearly over for me and I haven't seen it released yet
What's Autumn?
And no I don't mean Fall either.
Yes, we do have 4 seasons here too: Summer, Summer, Summer and one slightly more rainy Summer.
Even in that rainy Summer rarely rains more than an hour a day (with spectacular lightning), but then again always seems to happen when you want to do something outside or go somewhere.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Meh.
To quote someone from elsewhere... JJ Abrahms cured me from Star Trek. I just can't get excited about it anymore.
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I know what you mean - and Disney is trying to cure us all of Star Wars as well - but ... The Federation universe has such potential that I'll have to watch Discovery just to see if it's Star Trek or Star Truck ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: and Disney is trying to cure us all of Star Wars
I guess you'll just have to let it go 
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What! Surrender to the Evil Mouse Empire! Never! 
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Yes, yes... Let the hate flow through you... Darth Maul Mouse agrees
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OriginalGriff wrote: Disney is trying to cure us all of Star Wars as well
Remember who is also behind Episode 7...
At least, personally I never was much of a SW fan.
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I have a friend who's a carp on the set.
Of course, he is sworn to secrecy - but, reading between the lines, I would venture to predict that something that took an elephanting lot of time and money to construct is destined to asplode.
whoddathunkit.
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As a giant plus, I heard that Michelle Yeoh was out, and get to be pleasantly surprised.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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A couple years ago I wrote a game in WPF and Silverlight (in parellel). The WPF version works fine, but it used one feature of WPF never implemented in Silverlight.
However, now that Silverlight is dead, I'd like to move it to some platform where I can finally put it on the web.
So, what platform out is will best let be leverage the C#/XAML code I have?
Truth,
James
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UWP
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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OP: A couple years ago I wrote a game in WPF and Silverlight (in parellel). The WPF version works fine, but it used one feature of WPF never implemented in Silverlight
Stephen Gonzalez wrote: UWP
...and a couple of years later you will be asking the question again.
ms is trying to force the web onto it's [buggy] platform, even going so far as to ramp up their FUD about anything that's not w10/edge/uwp/windows store.
Trying to force pc's onto a phone platform when their own phone failed in the market,
trying to force everything through their store, so they can monetise from YOUR work (to pay for w10),
and once again tellin us the next best thing is just around the corner
Their latest act of kindness was a patch for older unsupported systems against the ransomware trojans, or was it really because they had just done such a piss poor job even they couldn't leave it unfixed?
uwp will improve cosmetically, behind the scenes though it'll still be a cpu/memory hog feature poor hack (and because have to use their store itself in effect a ransomware on your apps and your machine) that offers no advantage over lighter better current well supported platforms.
I would caution against uwp because:
1. it's still not finished - missing features - but you also expect some current features to go away,
2. it's buggy as hell - even common apps like twitter fail regularly on anything beyond light usage,
3. ms will one day demand your first born plus a pound of flesh as payment
Sin tack
the any key okay
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