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Re: Windows 10 forceful update?

From Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: Windows 10 forceful update?
Date 2016-02-19 10:27 +0100
Organization Me, Myself and I
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In article <na5ot8$k57$1@dont-email.me>, Dan Espen  <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
>Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
>
>> In article <na4sh9$2jn$1@dont-email.me>, Dan Espen  <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
>>>
>>>> In article <na4jn2$u6g$1@dont-email.me>, Dan Espen  <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>>"gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Will the attempted forceful update of Windows 10 sound the death-knell
>>>>>> for MicroSoft and drive all reasonable people onto Linux?
>>>>>
>>>>>That happened a long time ago.
>>>>>
>>>>>There is a world wide shortage of reasonable people.
>>>>
>>>> Cool it.
>>>
>>>Ah, someone using Windows.
>>
>> Just barely. I haven't fired it up so far this year.
>
>Month and a half, okay!
>
>>>> These things are tools. Some are like cheap drills, but
>>>> others are like DeWalts. A good craftsman will have many of them, 
>>>> of different types and quality grades.
>>>>
>>>> Ditto for the IT experts. Linux, in half a dozen distros, at least
>>>> 3 BSDs, a windows or two, perhaps QNX and MacOS, and the iOS
>>>> and android ones. In about this proportion.
>>>>
>>>> Windows is a sideshow in all the projects I have been involved in, 
>>>> but admittedly I am working in a rather narrow niche.
>>>
>>>Sideshow meaning you aren't writing any Windows code?
>>>So far, no Windows coding for me either.
>>
>> No, mostly seeing that webpages still work in ie.
>
>Made me giggle.
>
>I do a LOT of web page documentation.
>I can't be bothered to check IE.
>I ask why they aren't using Firefox, don't they want to
>browse safely?
>Of course a few people don't see the humor, they repeat the corporate
>"Standard Browser" mantra.

This is for consulting for operators that have large numbers
of private customers. 

We have to support the default browsers for mac and windows, 
plus iPhones and android. But they only need to show simple
text and forms, and not format stuff totally outragously.

But it will need checking.

They have recommended browsers. Chrome or firefox/seamonkey. 
Stuff is required to look good there.

But the customer is always right, so the minimal functionality
will have to be there. Even in IE.

>I recently got fancy and did a bunch of hierarchy charts using SVG.
>When someone using IE said they couldn't see all of it, I said too bad,
>I guess you have to wait until corporate lets you use a working
>version of IE.
>
>But this documentation is "extra" to the job.
>I can get away with doing what I want.

-- mrr

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Windows 10 forceful update? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-02-18 11:25 +0000
  Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2016-02-18 11:52 +0000
    Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2016-02-18 12:16 +0000
    Re: Windows 10 forceful update? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 10:27 -0600
      Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-18 11:51 -0500
        Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 05:42 +1100
  Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-18 11:31 +0000
    Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-02-18 12:01 +0000
      Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-18 16:04 +0000
    Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 18:02 -0500
  Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-18 09:18 -0500
    Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-18 16:43 +0100
      Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-18 11:49 -0500
        Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-18 21:49 +0100
          Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-18 19:53 -0500
            Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-19 10:27 +0100
  Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-18 09:08 -0700
    Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-02-18 11:50 -0600
  Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-02-18 11:52 -0600
    Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-19 14:04 +0000
      Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-02-19 15:32 +0100
        Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-19 10:19 -0500
          Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-19 17:40 +0000
            Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-02-19 19:01 +0100
            Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-02-19 11:30 -0800
      Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-19 14:57 +0000
      Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2016-02-19 15:51 +0000
        Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-02-19 18:42 +0100
          Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-02-19 13:56 -0600
            Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-02-19 23:57 +0100
              Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-19 15:17 -0800
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-02-19 18:27 -0500
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-02-20 00:38 +0100
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-19 19:41 -0600
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 14:46 +1100
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-02-20 15:18 +0000
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 03:32 +1100
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-20 19:38 +0100
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 06:04 +1100
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 14:29 +1100
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-20 06:35 +0000
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-02-20 13:54 -0500
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-20 20:51 -0800
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-21 13:43 +0000
          Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-20 09:59 +0000
            Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-02-21 07:46 +0000
              Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-21 13:42 +0000
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-02-22 07:12 +0000
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-22 14:27 +0000
              Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-21 16:43 +0100
              Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-02-21 11:52 -0800
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-22 11:34 -0800
                Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-02-22 12:40 -0800
  Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 05:47 +1100
  Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-18 16:20 -0800
    Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 13:35 +1100
      Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-18 20:43 -0800
        Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 05:53 -0500
        Re: Windows 10 forceful update? "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 04:28 +1100
    Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-19 10:17 +0100
  Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Jan van den Broek <fortytwo@xs4all.nl> - 2016-02-19 10:06 +0100

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