This week on TWiT – Windows Weekly, Chris Capossela, Chief Marketing Officer of Microsoft said:
“… Getting too aggressive in pushing out of the Windows 10 free upgrade. We know we want people to be running Windows 10 from a security perspective etc., but finding the right balance where you’re not stepping over the line of being too aggressive is something we tried and for a lot of the year I think we got it right, but there was one particular moment in particular where you know the red X in the dialog box which typically means you cancel, didn’t mean cancel, and within a couple of hours of that hitting the world, with the listening systems we have we knew that we had gone too far and then of course it takes some time to roll out the update that changed that behavior. And those two weeks were pretty painful and clearly a low-light for us. We learned a lot from it obviously.”
Start listening about 16:00 into the video. The text above starts about 17:40:
Good to see someone at Microsoft knows what’s up.
And on a side note. Uh, excuse me, Um, what “listening systems” are we talking about?
Quick Network Scanners
A reader wrote to ask me if and what I use for network scanners for my home network. I thought some of you might find this info useful.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Went and saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story last night.
Saw it in IMAX 3D. Packed house, good movie. Recommended. Don’t want to say anymore and ruin the movie for you.
I’ll be going back again to see it in standard. They gave these out:
Privacy Badger 2.0
Patch Tuesday
Time To Run Windows Update?
All supported Windows versions have received updates.
Microsoft’s permanent beta OS, otherwise known as Windows 10, has been updated to version 14393.576.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2016
Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 update history
Firefox 50.1.0
“security fixes”
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Google Chrome
Updated to 55.0.2883.87 last Friday.
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Adobe Flash 24.0.0.186
APSB16-39 Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player
Flash for IE
Flash for other browsers
Main download page
CCleaner 5.25
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– Added support for Firefox Web Extensions
– Improved Firefox History and Cache cleaning
– Improved Chrome and Opera Session cleaning
– Improved Edge Extensions management
– Improved DPI awareness and support
– Minor GUI improvements
– Minor bug fixes
O&O ShutUp10
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Version 1.4.1386
New Settings
– Disable Microsoft from conducting experiments on the system
– Disable Tips, Tricks und Suggestions while using Windows
– Disable occasional app suggestions in the Start menu
When closing, message about Restart after Windows updates
Bug fixes
– Restoration point will only be created when changes need to be executed
– Closing via the file menu now also displays a dialog about restarting the system
Available in German, English, French, Italian, and Russian
– Language will be automatically selected based on settings in Windows
Other Software
EMDB (Eric’s Movie Database) 2.62
Paint.net 4.0.13
The Best Android Music Player
A music player for my Android smartphone. I’ve searched. For years I’ve searched. I gave up…
A few days ago I started searching again.
Google searches, articles, reviews. Downloaded, installed, and uninstalled 1/2 a dozen apps I hadn’t tried before. By now I’ve tried too many to remember.
None of them fit. [Read more…] about The Best Android Music Player
Random Weekend Stuff…
I Can’t Drive 55
Actually I guess I can drive Chrome 55. But, it’s cool song that is responsible for many a speeding ticket and I couldn’t resist.
Anywho, now blocks flash on most sites, uses less memory…
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Wise Disk Cleaner 9.33
Off Topic
Stephen Hawking says technology will devastate the middle class
Well that’s just depressing.
Apple just sent the strongest hint yet that it’s working on a self-driving car
They will claim it runs like a Hennessey Venom GT, it will look like a Porsch 911, but it will have a 1970 AMC Gremlin engine.
Yeah, I’ve worked on a few PC’s…
Cleaning and organizing my PC room.
I was staring down at this drawer and it just dawned on me the amount of computer work I’ve done over the years.
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Firefox and Tor Updated
Firefox and Tor have both been updated to patch the zero day flaw. Thanks Tim C. for the heads up.
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Download Tor:
https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en
Random Wednesday Stuff…
Are You Going Rogue?
Got my tix!
Your upcoming movie
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE
Thursday, December 15 at 7:00 PM
Quote Of The Day Week Month Year
“Saying an August release of Windows 10 is only now ready for businesses should be a warning sign to everyone who installed it back in August”
I Just Found It Hard To Believe
Last week “reports” surfaced around the net that Microsoft was giving customer telemetry data to a security company called FireEye.
I just couldn’t believe it was true even though I trust Microsoft about as far as I can throw an elephant.
The reports turned out to be bull squat.
Ed Bott takes aim at this fiasco: Fake news: It’s not just for politics anymore
Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 376.09 WHQL
Software Updates
EMDB (Eric’s Movie Database) 2.60
Mp3tag 2.80