@scottalanmiller Seems like more has happened with Hyper-V in the last 12 months, than it ever has in development. I'll be excited to see what happens in the next few years, especially with RemoteFX and VDI (setting up some Raspberry Pi 2's from Amazon for $70, and Raspberry Thin PC download). Tried it out over this last spring in a VMware Horizon View environment, and all I can say is wow. That install has pretty much every remote protocol. You can harden the client by locking out the docks/settings/etc once you're all done setting it up. Not perfect, but nearly there.

Ouch, that is pretty serious. That explains why they were so quick to release a tool for cleaning it up!

Of course I visited the Lenovo table while at SpiceWorld to get my card punched.... so they called/emailed me afterwards.

I wrote them a nicely composed email indicating that in light of the several points of consumer privacy related issues with their systems, I could never buy or recommend their equipment again.

I was really hoping for some sort of response, but sadly I didn't get one.

@gjacobse said:

One thing I think they missed is the ability to select what updates you want to do. All Windows 10 updates are forced as I have seen... I think that while many updates are great to have,... there are some I just don't want....

Like BING or Edge...

This sucks because I know one update that broke the ability for SolidWorks to do calculations. It was a non essential update, so if you have it SolidWorks pretty much was useless. Once you uninstalled it, everything was fine.

Yeah I see this effecting all levels of their operating systems.

I expect them to start with businesses, and making desktop licensing free.

And that seemed to do it. Installed that, restarted and there ya go. Saw the card, and imported 180 photos.

OK that's just weird!

There was a contact us email address in VLSC. I wrote them, included my license key and business information. They wrote back today indicating that they would create my key and I would receive it in a separate email. Additionally it would be added to my VLSC account.

I actually received the email with the KMS key before this email, and sure enough, the KMS key is now in my VLSC account.

I love the concept of the one device and I have been waiting for this for several years. By the time that I start looking for a new phone (about two years away), then I should be able to afford it.
 
I see it as very helpful for the road warriors and anyone who hot desks.

I use my Ipad all the time. I can work from it in a pinch.

I would think it should be close enough - like you said,.. assuming it is like most companies.

I do have another fall back option.. just a matter of coordinations.. Former co-worker has the same laptop (it's his fault I bough this thing).. so push comes to the last line,..I might be able to get it from him.....

Maybe.

It's a part of the Office 365 suite currently.

I actually tested the install on my work computer. There was no additional licensing that had to be dealt with. Download from the 365 portal and call it done.

I doubt that they will be making any "visible" Linux products for some time, at the least.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller posted an almost click bait worthy title claiming that Azure was down. Azure was never down and there was no outage. He lost access to services because Microsoft closed or deleted the account improperly.

That's still Azure down. To us and our customers, Azure was completely down. All servers offline. It's an outage same as any other. It's localized in its impact to an account based "region" rather than to a datacenter-based region or whatever, but it is an outage just the same. The system was supposed to be up, and it was down and Microsoft was unable to bring it up. Even to Microsoft's own technical team it was an outage that they could not fix (for half a day.)

They maybe tied to the admin account you had.

Skype is up and working now :P)

Only so shocking, Microsoft was making UNIX systems before they got into Windows. Xenix was the original Microsoft UNIX.

@gjacobse said:

Well we can call it a moot point now as the supervisor told him to 'deal with it'..

That works.

Got it solved. I started pointing them at a new server (basically starting from scratch). Still got some inconsistencies but that was resolved by toggling the agent to the new server (after I already pointed it at it). Then I fixed the last couple with a disk allocation mod. What a mind-blowing, super frustrating piece of software.

@scottalanmiller said:

We need to understand where and when it is happening and why it potentially makes sense and if and where potential concerns exist. But that data is being collected itself is not a major concern.

Agreed. I want a list of what they collect & why & how it's used & who can use it. Then I'll quit sharpening my pitchfork and disperse the mob.

Edit: I may settle for less explanation if they get super specific about what they collect.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

If you learn a language just to do this, Python would be my recommendation. Specifically well suited to learning, good for doing small scripts of this nature and good for list processing like this. It's just a good fit. But yeah, if you know some other language already, definitely go with that.

I dislike any whitespace delineated language.

I do hate that aspect of it, very Fortrany, but it does make readability a clearer priority for the newbies and can have benefits, especially when working in teams of non-full time programmers.