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The more I read about the future of Windows development, the more confused I become.
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I'm starting to think that's the plan.
TTFN - Kent
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So it's another case of the New Way of Doing It (tm) being a new project/solution type that apparently doesn't have an automagic (tm) way to convert existing applications to use (assumption based on the xaml islands style interop reference[1]); and with an unspecified old versions of windows compatibility status. The latter makes me suspect it'll be as much of a dumpsterfire as MSes last few efforts[2] where the whole doesn't work on old versions of Windows thing was a huge impediment to getting developers to support it since they would either need to abandon a chunk of their customers or maintain the legacy app indefinitely in addition to the new one.
[1] Previously this allowed embedding bits of WPF inside a WinForms app; and might have allowed something similar with WPF/WinForms and UWP. Not sure, I never had an opportunity to play with it.
[2] Win8 apps not working on Win7, UWP not working on W7/8, and UWP feature updates being tied to W10 updates.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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As folks are aware we added a new kind of heap in .NET 5 called the POH (Pinned Object Heap). "Oh Pooh, you silly old bear"
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Is this a game of "pin the tail on the donkey"?
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Windows 10X, Microsoft’s Windows-based Chrome OS alternative, is expected to make its debut on education-focused devices very soon. Because that branding worked out so well for Coke
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I predict that this isn't going to end well.
I just don't understand why Microsoft thinks it will be different this time. As I mentioned before on the subject of 10X (see The Insider News[^]), they've done it (the VERY same thing) before[1] and it didn't work because people who buy Windows and Windows machines inevitably want... well, actual Windows apps. Calling it or marketing it as "New Windows" won't help when people want "Classic Windows"... or just "Compatible Windows".
If Microsoft are serious then I think they need to leave the Windows name behind for operating systems or devices that are not in reality Windows-compatible. If they hadn't used 'Surface' as the name for their portable devices I'd have said that 'Surface' would be a great name for a new touch-centric operating system with no Windows compatibility.
Footnote:-
1: Windows RT, Windows 10 S, and Windows Phone.
modified 1-Mar-21 10:00am.
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Agree completely. I've been saying that "W10X" should be pronounced as "Windows Ten Times Worse" for a while now.
Mostly because the rumor mill has implied that unlike Windows 10 S(tupid); Windows 10X (Worse) won't have the ability to be converted into a full normal Windows install. Meaning when our less tech savy friends/family members buy a machine with it because they don't know any better we won't be able to fix it for them. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Dan Neely wrote: Windows 10X (Worse) won't have the ability to be converted into a full normal Windows install. Meaning when our less tech savy friends/family members buy a machine with it because they don't know any better we won't be able to fix it for them.
Yes, I definitely see this happening in the future. I think there will be some very unhappy 10X device buyers.
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The only ways I can see it not being a disaster are if they relent and allow converting to standard Windows; at which point it's no more of a dumpsterfire than Win 10 Stupid was; or making it an education/enterprise only product not available to normal consumers. I could see some people in those groups wanting a chromebook equivalent that they could administer using their existing active directory infrastructure.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Dan Neely wrote: I could see some people in those groups wanting a chromebook equivalent that they could administer using their existing active directory infrastructure.
I have to admit that that might make sense with web apps.
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Microsoft tapped GitHub's CodeQL to discover whether its source code had been modified in the SolarWinds supply chain attack. It automates closing the barn door after detecting horses leaving?
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When Google users browse in “Incognito” mode, just how hidden is their activity? But I would not feel so all alone. They'll track you when you're there all alone. Everybody must get tracked.
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Microsoft has fixed a Windows 10 bug that could cause NTFS volumes to become corrupted by merely accessing a particular path or viewing a specially crafted file. One down, a few more to go...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: One down, a few more to go...
You cut one head, two come to replace it.  
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?
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A company called MyHeritage who provides automatic AI-powered photo enhancements is now offering a new service that can animate people in old photos creating a short video that looks like it was recorded while they posed and prepped for the portrait. And they're not creepy - at all!
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Animating based on a photo.
So not anything near their psyche; not addicted, not violent. Just an animation based on a photo.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yikes. Fake memories 'r' us.
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The dream of autonomous vehicles is that they can avoid human error and save lives, but a new European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) report has found that autonomous vehicles are “highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks” that could be dangerous for passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles. Anyone not expecting that is in management at Tesla
And the other companies doing "autopilot and connected to the internet" that I'm too lazy to look up now.
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No problem... they are bringing update-over-air to patch things up...
what could go wrong?  
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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A team of scientists have successfully tested a solar panel prototype that can theoretically send electricity from space back to anywhere on Earth, CNN reports. Ooops, we missed the receiver again. Sorry about that.
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I remember such ideas from when I was a boy. That is long ago...
They have been repeated at irregular intervals ever since. One issue that more or less was solved is that of aviation: Air crafts used to follow fairly well defined paths. (Is 'paths' what the aviation people call them? I am not a pilot!) Power could be beamed down where there were no such paths. To increase air space capacity, this has been relaxed in recent years. Planes may to a much higher degree go 'wherever they like' ... such as right through a megawatt microwave beam. I am not that worried about the power blackout it could cause; we can handle that.
A 10 watt microwave beam is not a problem, of course. But the cost per watt is not enough to justify it.
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trønderen wrote: Planes may to a much higher degree go 'wherever they like' ... such as right through a megawatt microwave beam.
Don't forget the birds, already being decimated by wind turbines, feral cats, and environmental destruction.
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Marc Clifton wrote: birds
and solar farm heat rays
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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