diamond.g
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I do find it funny how it is MS fault that Samsung app broke samsung pc's.
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maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Yes, because they're the ones that rolled out the update that broke the app/pc.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
It is still Samsung's fault not microsoft's. It's the samsung connect app that broke things. If you never had connect on your samsung laptop it would be fine. People love to sling hate and MS, but this one is 100 percent on samsung.
Samsung's solution was to roll back to the previous stable version of their program. Reminiscent of nVidia drivers where they seem to break things around December every year.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Microsoft drops an out of band hotfix for bluetooth. More sloppiness from MS
Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth
Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Windows 11’s free video editor Clipchamp now requires OneDrive
Since you can only install windows using a microsoft account, and that does come with onedrive, it seems to be an indirect way to force people off the free tier of onedrive (5gb of free space).
I understand there's still work arounds to installing windows 11 without a MS account but seems to be getting harder and harder.
Since you can only install windows using a microsoft account, and that does come with onedrive, it seems to be an indirect way to force people off the free tier of onedrive (5gb of free space).
I understand there's still work arounds to installing windows 11 without a MS account but seems to be getting harder and harder.
You can just search it on YouTube; people are always posting updated videos on how to do it, mainly on virtual machines. But you can just watch the piece on how to do it without watching the whole video. I've been doing it for well over a decade and it's not a big deal.
I'm still using iMovie on my iMac Pro. If I'm traveling, I just make the video and edit it when I get back home. I'm not going to learn another editing program as, for me, the content is more important than the presentation.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop Windows 11's mandatory Microsoft Account requirements during setup
I'm not holding my breath, but this would be great if they actually do this.
I'm not holding my breath, but this would be great if they actually do this.
boswald
macrumors 68030
Windows has such negative publicity lately. Likely won't effect the bottom line at MS in the grand scheme of things, but with Linux on the rise (slowly) and macOS becoming more accessible (Neo), they might actually have competition for a change. One can hope, anyway.
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eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
It's such a weird hill to die on anyway. I bet 95% of installs are cloud based. I know I don't bother with local account only anymore. And of that 5%, the vast majority of those will probably never see the internet in that state anyway.
Let it go, Microsoft. (And I think they will...) I think Microsoft is just, barely, starting to climb out of the stupid they have been in for a few years now. Apple (when it finally adds AI this year) will just be continuing the descent. Very few people want this crap on there desktop OS--and they can always add it if they do.
I'm in the Apple ecosystem and just need Windows for some things so I've no need for Microsoft's cloud. I think that people running both are a pretty small percentage of consumers overall but the absolute numbers are probably pretty big. There are so many videos on how to run with a local account on YouTube that it seems to be popular even though the percentage is low.
diamond.g
macrumors G5
So they are going to allow folks to skip patch install during first setup. While it would be nicer to get to your desktop faster, it will be interesting to see if W11 has the instant own 0-days like XP had during the end of it's life, where if you were connected to the internet without SP3+ patches your computer basically compromised immediately.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Looks like Recall has been cracked again
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Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image So @xaitax has cracked Microsoft Recall, he's got access to the encrypted database and has automated dumping of screenshots and all text from screenshots. I've looked at most recent Recall and yep, you can just read the database as a user process. The database also contains...
cyberplace.social
diamond.g
macrumors G5
I'm curious if it was done as the user that created the data or as another. I'm not sure a database that is created by a user shouldn't be accessible to them, that seems weird.Looks like Recall has been cracked again
Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image So @xaitax has cracked Microsoft Recall, he's got access to the encrypted database and has automated dumping of screenshots and all text from screenshots. I've looked at most recent Recall and yep, you can just read the database as a user process. The database also contains...
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
One the changes Microsoft employs with recall is to encrypt the data, that wasn't originally the case, but when they heard all of the complaints they went back and made some changes. Looks like those changes are not as encompassing as MS had thought.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
The one person using Recall is very angry about all of this! 😀
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
There's a new report out stating that Recall can be hacked easily. Will be turned off on my pc's that can use it.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
Only a problem for the 1 percent of PCs that are Snapdragon based. And yes, definitely disable it if you are in that 1%.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Yep, just scroll up a bit. I already mentioned it 😉
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Microsoft just can't out of its own way when it comes to rolling out updates
Microsoft pulls Windows 11 update after widespread install failures
Again, I attribute this to them laying off all of the experienced and talented (and expensive) developers and used copilot to write the code.
Microsoft pulls Windows 11 update after widespread install failures
Again, I attribute this to them laying off all of the experienced and talented (and expensive) developers and used copilot to write the code.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
Yeah they are going to have to cave and start hiring those devs back. Amazon already has.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
As far as I know, this is already started at MS as well. Who knew an untelligent Ai could not compile code correctly.
I've looked around and all I've seen is Microsoft hiring back former employees as contractors.
What I saw yesterday is that Oracle had 10K layoffs and more to come. The target is 20K-30K. Layoffs via email and a lot of stories on Reddit and TheLayoff.com.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I think the rehires are in the AI area
Microsoft Hiring Freeze Highlights AI Focus And Raises Questions For Investors