I have decided to publish my Talking Points for the show here on my blog so that interested listeners can easily follow links to other websites with much more detailed information than can be explained on air.
Windows
8.1 rolls
out Oct 17.
New
Windows 8 computer?
I use and set up "local account" ONLY!
Don't use Microsoft account! (privacy vs. convenience)
More info: What Exactly is a Microsoft Account
Either way MS tracks all searches, local & internet. (NO to Bing)
Turn off Smart Search
Use Classic Shell (free) or Start8 ($5)
Install VLC media player (MS removed Media Player!)
I use and set up "local account" ONLY!
Don't use Microsoft account! (privacy vs. convenience)
More info: What Exactly is a Microsoft Account
Either way MS tracks all searches, local & internet. (NO to Bing)
Turn off Smart Search
Use Classic Shell (free) or Start8 ($5)
Install VLC media player (MS removed Media Player!)
Recent
Windows Update
problems:Mostly caused by pre
existing registry corruption. Quote:
On Windows 7 . . . Registry cleaners might be at fault.
Those utilities were helpful with Windows XP, but they might
easily cause more problems than they fix in Windows 7 (or Win8).
Micro$oft
had to
re-issue
updates from
Sept. 9th.
Instead
of registry cleaners
run sfc /scannow
as administrator. See MS Support article 929833
for instructions on SFC and other advanced troubleshooting tips.
Can't
boot your game disk (CD or DVD) on your brand new Windows 8
computer?
Thank Micro$oft's and UEFI's Secure Boot. For details on the difference between
BIOS and UEFI see this article: The pitfalls of Windows 8′s Secure Boot
Thank Micro$oft's and UEFI's Secure Boot. For details on the difference between
BIOS and UEFI see this article: The pitfalls of Windows 8′s Secure Boot
Windows
8 lures the
user into
MS accounts
and into MS cloud
services.
The
rest of the world and Windows 8:
Yes it's true; Microsoft wants us to massively migrate to Microsoft based cloud services. But in my country that will not happen as Microsoft wants it, especially because these "virtual cloud services" are to 85% physically located within the USA.That is for most foreign people simply unacceptable. It's not only for reasons like privacy, piracy, taxes, company secrets - there is also a difference in mind-sets.What if our sensitive data sits there in a physical data center somewhere in the US of A, and bad things really start happening, like for instance war, wide spread diseases, natural disaster, terrorism attack, you name it - anything could happen anywhere.Foreigners don't trust CIA/FBI/NSA that much, we learned from the past months.My customers are saying..., even refusing, to migrate their financial and sensitive business data to somewhere in the 'Microsoft' or even the 'Amazon cloud'; abroad, unknown where it really is, in a far away foreign country, and nobody knows, or even checks what is happening to their data. It may be leaked to the NSA, via a built-in back door when Micro$oft sold this opportunity to the NSA/US-Government.No, sorry, not with us! We aren't like that!We even don't come close to this kind of behavior.
Java
needs
to be kept up to date! As of Sept.15th
2013
it is version 7.0.40
Adobe
Flash and
Adobe Reader
need to be kept up to date! Even
businesses fail to do this!
Still
running Windows XP?
Time to buy a new computer! (with very few exceptions only!)
Time to buy a new computer! (with very few exceptions only!)
New,
massiveky
exploited
flaw in Internet Explorer! Don't use IE!
Adobe's
computer systems have been hit by numerous
"sophisticated attacks"; information
of 2.9
million customers compromised,
the source code of Adobe products accessed.
End of "WTKM Talking Points for October 7th 2013".
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