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Article #721097Re: Ha-ha, Hindustanic Windows (aka 10) in action:
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:02
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:02
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:40:59 -0700, Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote: >On 8/6/2015 8:55 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:20:31 -0400, Rin Stowleigh >> <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> The only people who really seem to be bad mouthing it are the people >>> who don't use it. >> >> That's a ridiculously trite statement. Of course the people who aren't >> using it are "badmouthing" it; they aren't using it are because they >> don't like what it offers. Most of the people who /are/ using it are >> doing so because they actively made a choice to upgrade because they >> presumably like what they saw. But even that isn't true, because there >> are a number of people who have made the upgrade who find the OS >> unsatisfactory and are vocal about it as well. The number of people >> "forced" onto Windows 10 (because that is what came with their new >> computer) is vanishingly small at this point. >> >But growing quickly. The latest news is that SysAdmins are complaining >that even after MS told them they would control if/when all their >Enterprise installations upgraded their networks are being slowed to a >crawl by automatic downloads of the Win10 upgrade files. Apparently all >the pre-install files come to some 2 or 3 gigabytes for each and every >machine. When these are being pushed by MS to a LAN of 100+ >workstations, even the fastest network is brought to a standstill for >anything else. Haven't they been doing that a bit at a time for many months though? And I believe it is only where the sysadmins have left the update policy to default on those machines. I'm sure there are a lot of organizations with way more than 100 workstations being upgraded. But yes, Windows 10 adoption will be much faster than prior versions. There are always going to be some folks standing in the train tracks demanding that the oncoming train come to a halt, but that's why they call them technology roadkill.
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