Tag archives for Microsoft
When being European pays the bill: Win10 has one more year
As reported by Bleeping Computer, the consumer protection organization Euroconsumers has managed to determine Microsoft to provide one more year of free security updates to consumers in the EEA, without…
😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
Yeah, I know, the title seems written by a chatbot. Rest assured, the content is not. As announced almost four weeks ago, it's time for me to bid Linux farewell…
Don’t blame Microsoft for your suicidal SSD!
According to a Japanese report on X, the KB5063878 Windows 11 update is allegedly causing SSDs to become non-functional after large files are being written to them in quick sequence.…
There’s more than one Windows: More “secret” editions
In an unexpected post on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024, I described two special, yet official editions of Windows that have some…
This is how stupid Microsoft is
At first, after having learned about this, I thought: “This cannot be. It’s impossible for a presence of an empty folder to add any kind of security, unless Microsoft is…
Azure AI: I’m too old for this shit, but Whisper works—locally
I'm not a fan of “everything in the Cloud” dogma. I prefer local apps, because otherwise why would we need anything else than Chromebooks, if everything is hosted on Azure,…
Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?
Strange things are happening: I wanted to try Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC (which is still horrendous, because it's Win11), and I learned about Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021. As…
How does a LLM work? These videos won’t help that much ➕ Microsoft hallucinates!
All the YouTube videos about how AI works, with stress on the chatbots based on LLMs, are superficial. It can’t be otherwise for two reasons: any such presentation is popularized…
Searching with or without AI’s aid?
I still couldn’t find the time and motivation to even start writing a blog post about the so-called AI, but I want to share a one-off experience I just had…
The tiniest Windows bug I’ve ever encountered
This is something that Dedoimedo should have noticed, among the so many cosmetic and non-cosmetic issues he keeps noticing, such as this stupid Windows LAN routing problem in which a…
UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage
I'm fundamentally against UEFI, against Secure Boot, against encrypted partitions and against a number of other modern obsessions. But let's talk a bit about the way Microsoft recently broke GRUB.…
The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose)
People stopped using Windows 7 not because Microsoft ceased offering security updates; they had to do it because more and more programs that they needed suddenly started to require “Windows…
Microsoft + CloudStrike = Death
The culprit for the current global Windows outage that affected banks, airlines, hospitals, and many other services and industries since the early morning of Friday, July 19, CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor,…
SJVN made my day!
Please excuse the thumbnail for this post. I just couldn't use anything else, in the light of having read SJVN's latest article in The Reg. I also cannot quote from…
Is there a midway between Long-Time Support and quicksand?
Before trying to explain the question, I can already tell you that the answer is negative. The so-called midway was possible when people were using Win98, WinXP or Win7. Nowadays,…
The most annoying bug in Outlook 2016
Microsoft is the most annoying pest that overtook our planet: the amount of bugs in their Office suite is appalling. Here you have a description of the most outrageous bug…
Microsoft, the keyboard repeat rate and sleeping: how to work around their idiocy
Some laptop keyboards have physical defaults that are so appropriate that there is no need to adjust the repeat rate—Microsoft's keyboard driver's defaults and the keyboard are offering a good…