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That mindset is why every tech product is turning to shit. They're not consumer focused. All Nadella cares about is making the stock price go up and extracting value.

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agildehaus

8 minutes ago

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Through Azure, Office, LinkedIn, gaming. Not so much Windows.

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jack_pp

4 minutes ago

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They're fucking up even gaming, that awful gamebar is a pain to disable. Had to do it from powershell and even after it's gone Alt + W won't work in games.

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ranger_danger

20 minutes ago

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I'm assuming they were referring to a non-monetary goal.

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mschuster91

16 minutes ago

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Windows 10 is decent if you have the Pro version. 7 is good but is a PITA on touchscreen or HiDPI devices, although I have to say even 10 still has its bugs. Never tried 11 though, I'll keep riding 10 on my machines.

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Krssst

10 minutes ago

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Windows 10 was the start of the forceful push towards use of Microsoft accounts and telemetry, dark patterns to achieve that and weird features nobody wants like like Bing search in the menu or the help opening bing in Edge rather than an actual help or your browser of choice, all that to improve random KPIs without considering user satisfaction.

Compared to that, Windows 8 was misguided but not a strong attempt at disrespecting user consent.

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merpkz

17 minutes ago

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Going to get this and install it on my old Asus core2duo laptop from circa 2008 - damn thing still is going strong, despite plastic becoming so brittle it has not one single panel left without cracks in it. Currently it has XP on it, but that is missing whole bunch of drivers, like touchpad not working and BIOS AHCI has to be in compatible mode otherwise it will bluescreen. It's going to be nostalgia machine where all the games I used to play back in the days are installed.

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SpikedCola

55 minutes ago

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And it downloads at ADSL speeds for the full experience (although Cloudflare in front of the ISO kind of breaks character).

https://imgur.com/a/HEjIEVn

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honeycrispy

45 minutes ago

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I have 24h left on the download. Is anyone who has the file willing to create a torrent to share? I can't click on the twitter link for some reason.

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Am4TIfIsER0ppos

39 minutes ago

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Twitter links via xcancel https://xcancel.com/TheBobPony/status/2014011109406105858 https://xcancel.com/TheBobPony/status/2012654119811432608

Archive.org link in the first has a torrent link.

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alexandrehtrb

31 minutes ago

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Waiting for the torrent for the Win7 ISO

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haunter

26 minutes ago

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He posted it on Twitter, not on Archive.org yet

https://dl.bobpony.com/windows/unofficial/Win_7_ESU_AiO_x64_...

The Vista torrent is there already https://archive.org/download/en_windows_vista_sp2_with_updat...

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SpikedCola

11 minutes ago

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Thank you!

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honeycrispy

38 minutes ago

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Thank you

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g947o

48 minutes ago

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> Bob Pony, a known enthusiast in the Windows community

I am 100% sure this guy has all the good intentions, but from a security perspective, I don't know if it is any better than a completely unpatched Windows 7 ISO.

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gjsman-1000

42 minutes ago

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Unpatched Windows 7 is vulnerable to WannaCry/EternalBlue, among other well-known weaknesses.

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WithinReason

56 minutes ago

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Security updates up to 2026? If I knew this I wouldn't have upgraded to Win11 recently :)

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macrocyclo

13 minutes ago

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Only the ones after it got bad

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mschuster91

13 minutes ago

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From a security perspective, I'd really really like not just a pre-baked image, but also instructions on how to replicate that using only files and tools with known-good hashes and/or digital signatures.

I too distinctly remember the times I earned my money cleaning up malware, and a few times the root cause was someone using pre-cracked install media from some shady torrent.

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ranger_danger

53 minutes ago

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Infinite captcha loop for me. Not using a VPN/proxy/1.1.1.1/anything like that.

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majorchord

26 minutes ago

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Piracy is allowed on HN now?

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blell