Windows 10?

[Ernesto75]

According to Microsoft :

Microsoft Band SDK gives developers access to the sensors available on the band, as well as the ability to create and send notifications to tiles. Enhance and extend the experience of your applications to your customers' wrists.

But according to Marie Jo Foley :

Microsoft's Band fitness device looks to be at the end of its run.
The cross-platform Microsoft Health service is where Microsoft is focusing its efforts.

More details at :
http://www.zdnet.com/article/dont-ex...or-maybe-ever/

So IMHO it means that programmers who are tempted to develop Health applications or Fitness applications should think twice before taking risks with using this Microsoft SDK.

[Batthews]

I did not like Windows 10 when I first installed it, but found the recent upgrade seems to have improved it tenfold.

[Oswald]

I have Windows 10 and I just had a major upgrade which took 90 minutes to install on my laptop. What I have noticed now is that my FF occasionally stalls and I receive a message saying 'Firefox is unresponsive'. Fair enough it only lasts a few seconds, but it is still annoying.

[philll_77]

In a nutshell.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/s...20160922114239

[DTravel]

I recently had my own Win10 experience. The employer supplied workstation I use to telecommute and connect to my client's VPN to access and work on their systems was up until very recently still running XP. But a couple months ago the two different options we use for online meetings both stopped supporting XP. So the rest of my team that work from home and I had to have new workstations shipped out to us, which turned out to be Win10 machines. And for a couple weeks things went okay. I mean, all we really use our computers for is as dumb terminals hooked up to the client's network.

But then about 11am on Monday (09/19/2016) my remote desktop started slowing down and kept slowing down until it effectively ground to a complete halt. Now, the Director of Operations at the client is a penny-wise, pound-foolish, squeeze a turnip for blood kind of guy when it comes to paying for anything, so the VPN that they use is old and not very good. Combined with the fact that their IT guy frankly knows nothing about networking and the VPN software, we've had trouble with their system for years. So of course I assume its a problem with their setup, again, and I spend the rest of the day on the phone with the client's IT guy getting nowhere. Finally just before the end of the work day, all the issues go away. Okay, fine. Then I find out from my ISP that a transit in the client's area had gone bad or crashed or something that day. So okay, its the internets fault.

Tuesday was okay. Wednesday starts okay, then a little before 10:30 my remote session starts slowing down and grinds to a halt. This time I call my ISP. I'm on the phone with them until 2pm, trying this, trying that, unplugging things from and plugging them back into my modem/router. Finally the ISP tech and I come to realize that it is the Win10 workstation that is the problem. It was conducting some kind of MASSIVE data transfer, literally swamping my broadband connection. The ISP tech tells me that 35% of the packets from his simple pings of my modem are being lost.

Windows 10 had been sending and/or receiving enough data to use every bit of bandwidth my broadband connection had for MORE THAN 9 HOURS OVER TWO DAYS.

Shut the W10 machine down, unplug and disconnect it, bring the XP machine back up and hey! What do you know! Everything runs just <censored> fine!



So the next day (Thursday, aka yesterday) I open a ticket with my own company's IT department, telling them they need to connect in to the W10 machine after I'm done for the day (because I'd already lost the equivalent of an entire day and the entire team was buried in an avalanche of work that we couldn't keep up with even WITHOUT me being out) and fix this.

You know how we all hate those India based tech support call centers? The US company I work for is a subsidiary of one of the largest Indian outsourcing companies, including tech support call centers. Guess what my tech support is like.



So an hour late a tech calls me, we get him connected to the W10 machine, and he asks me what the issue is. Apparently he couldn't bother to read the detailed report that I wrote as part of the ticket. I explain what had happened (again) and then watch this idiot diddle around on the monitor for most of an hour, occasionally changing a setting here or there. Usually one of the same ones he'd already flipped more than once before. And that's with me not really paying attention because by this time I'm eating dinner. Then he says he's done and disconnects.

So this morning I get an email from tech support asking me to tell them the issue is resolved so they can close the ticket.



I wrote back that I don't know if its resolved and won't be able to tell for several days because I need to see if the issue comes back.

I'm guessing it hasn't been resolved. Anyone want to make a bet?

[GailFan]

Well, Windows has always assumed unlimited resources. Unlimited memory, unlimited processor cycles, unlimited HDD space. Now, I guess they assume unlimited bandwidth as well.

[Billiwog]

Originally Posted by DTravel

So of course I assume its a problem with their [VPN software] setup, and I spend the rest of the day on the phone with the client's IT guy getting nowhere.

When troubleshooting, it's a big time-saver to first check the things that are most likely to be causing a problem.

1. Microsoft
2. Everything else

[Ernesto75]

Originally Posted by Billiwog

When troubleshooting, it's a big time-saver to first check the things that are most likely to be causing a problem.

1. Microsoft
2. Everything else

Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
That's what Shakespeare wrote in his Comedy of Errors in 1592.

Now we could adapt this and say:
Beware poor user of a computer.
Beware for Microsoft and Satya Nadella are waiting to pounce on your purse.

[beutelwolf]

Our uni has now installed W10 on all its public machines. Yesterday I had my first day of teaching with this...

Issues: the Windows key (of all keys) was sometimes not working - according to a colleague it's a W10 bug; and some students were permanently blocked out of their accounts, for no apparent reason I could fathom. So they have to go back to the IT helpdesk and have their accounts unblocked. It's going to be a busier than usual freshers week for the helpdesk.

[Oswald]

I recently had a massive Windows 10 update which took 90 minutes to download and install. What I have noticed is that when I play a video the sound and action are permanently out of sync. This also occurs when I'm watching videos on YouTube.