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  (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-15 19:01 -0800
    Re: (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 Flasherly <Flasherly@live.com> - 2016-01-15 23:10 -0500
    Re: (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-01-16 12:13 +0700
      Re: (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 Flasherly <Flasherly@live.com> - 2016-01-16 00:59 -0500
    Re: (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 09:34 -0500
      Re: (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2016-01-16 13:20 -0200
        Re: (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 Flasherly <Flasherly@live.com> - 2016-01-16 19:15 -0500
        Re: (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 19:42 -0500
    Re: (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 Dewey Edwards <deweye@gSTRINGmail.com> - 2016-01-23 07:49 -0500

#252336 — (OT) Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10

Read about it here:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/

Comments to this article are here:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/?comments=1

The word "trust" comes clearly to mind here, as in "A consortium of
independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the
production and distribution of a product or service."

I notice that no mention of Linux is given in the article.
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#252339

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:01:03 -0800, John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I notice that no mention of Linux is given in the article.

*NIX is just a scab living off directions and movements the
hard/software industry per force cohabit for a means of making a
living [living for idealistic capitalism is a fortune permitted within
facilitative regulatory standards and agencies];- ipso facto, so
strictly and utilitarian or nonprofit alternative, as a freeware *NIX
OS, therefore must pickup the crumbs leftover for adapting to those
changes as they occur.

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#252343

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:01:03 -0800, John Corliss wrote:
> Read about it here:
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/
> 
> Comments to this article are here:
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/?comments=1
> 
> The word "trust" comes clearly to mind here, as in "A consortium of
> independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the
> production and distribution of a product or service."
> 
> I notice that no mention of Linux is given in the article.

Upgrade to Windows 10 or else?

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#252345

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:13:30 +0700, JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> wrote:

>Upgrade to Windows 10 or else?

Of course not.  There's nothing hardcoded into an Intel MPU by
Microsoft and Windows 10;- stretching monopolization policies only
goes so far before the boundaries of evident "fair play" begin to take
upon populist vestiges of a Machiavellian down spin, one which
Microsoft is most certainly no stranger to in national courts of law
spanning culture as it embodies wider globalization.

What surprised me (in the article) is that USB3 is not yet implemented
by Windows 7 (but a faux Win8.1 if not proper 10). I wonder how it is
that veritable logical manifestations, (id est zeros and ones), a
manifest wonder of consequence imparted to our glorious technological
age, could be reduced to so simplistic a formulae only for Intel and
Microsoft to guide the pathways permitted from Pacific
Rim.manufacturers of motherboards. 

Short of the invention of copyrights, I'm stupefied, dumbfounded and
thunderstruck by the past years, given what course increasingly for
computers and services are permitted within an interoperability never
before seen by man except on WWW.

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#252364

On 01/15/2016 10:01 PM, John Corliss wrote:
>
> I notice that no mention of Linux is given in the article.

Or AMD.

-- 
Mark Warner
MEPIS Linux
Registered Linux User #415318
...lose .inhibitions when replying

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#252368

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:34:36 -0500, Mark Warner
<mhwarner.inhibitions@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 01/15/2016 10:01 PM, John Corliss wrote:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/
>>
>> I notice that no mention of Linux is given in the article.
>
>Or AMD.

	Reading glasses - quick:

"Next generation processors, including Intel's "Kaby Lake", Qualcomm's
8996 (branded as Snapdragon 820), and AMD's "Bristol Ridge" APUs
(which will use the company's Excavator architecture, not its brand
new Zen arch) will only be supported on Windows 10."
	;)
	[]'s
-- 
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy  - Google 2012

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#252429

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:20:25 -0200, Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:

>On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:34:36 -0500, Mark Warner
><mhwarner.inhibitions@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 01/15/2016 10:01 PM, John Corliss wrote:
>
>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/
>>>
>>> I notice that no mention of Linux is given in the article.
>>
>>Or AMD.
>
>	Reading glasses - quick:
>
>"Next generation processors, including Intel's "Kaby Lake", Qualcomm's
>8996 (branded as Snapdragon 820), and AMD's "Bristol Ridge" APUs
>(which will use the company's Excavator architecture, not its brand
>new Zen arch) will only be supported on Windows 10."
>	;)
>	[]'s

At least AMD MB drivers are available for some MBs -- not all and I
don't know the percentages of those that do -- namely XP
drivers;...not to incur the inevitable groans, but more pointedly that
it's a bare minimum of W7 for any presently manufactured
Intel-socketed MB.  Long live AMD [famous last words].

Of course with software emulation as platform-based object to a
virtual machine, there would be broader applicability across formal OS
builds.  A more expensive machine, for any practical approach, but the
hardware [support for newest MB/CPU standards] and quality of the
build would be deserving of an advanced skill likely present when
setting one up, smoothly built to surpass present recidivist limits
and separatist impositions for what one isn't then solely limited to,
say at with Microsoft freehandedness or a *NIX paucity, i.e. to better
draw across multiple resources [given within the VM] for the right
tools, so to speak, for the right job.

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#252442

On 01/16/2016 10:20 AM, Shadow wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:34:36 -0500, Mark Warner wrote:
>> On 01/15/2016 10:01 PM, John Corliss wrote:
>>>
>>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/
>>>
>>> I notice that no mention of Linux is given in the article.
>>
>> Or AMD.
>
> 	Reading glasses - quick:
>
> "Next generation processors, including Intel's "Kaby Lake", Qualcomm's
> 8996 (branded as Snapdragon 820), and AMD's "Bristol Ridge" APUs
> (which will use the company's Excavator architecture, not its brand
> new Zen arch) will only be supported on Windows 10."

I hate it when that happens.

-- 
Mark Warner
MEPIS Linux
Registered Linux User #415318
...lose .inhibitions when replying

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#253185

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 19:01:03 -0800, John Corliss <q34wsk20@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Read about it here:
>
>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/
>
>Comments to this article are here:
>
>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/skylake-users-given-18-months-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/?comments=1
>
>The word "trust" comes clearly to mind here, as in "A consortium of
>independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the
>production and distribution of a product or service."
>
>I notice that no mention of Linux is given in the article.

Maybe skylake needs 18 months to upgrade.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/01/intel-skylake-bug-causes-pcs-to-freeze-during-complex-workloads/

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