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The Education edition of Windows lacks Cortana.

mcny 9y ago
> The Education edition of Windows lacks Cortana. Personally, what bugs me the most is the constant reads and writes to the hard disk. I have 8 GB of RAM. I just have a web browser open. Windows, you don't need to do everything at this very moment. Why can't Windows Update be as simple as this? https://tr3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2015/05/29/0cfbdde4-cc21-4d7e-9dc6-821074570be3/49f58bac6fcc3e9f2d671a739c0f1e00/fedora2220052915.png https://tr3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2015/05/29/0cfbdde4-cc21-4d... https://i.imgur.com/7IWTX2q.png https://i.imgur.com/7IWTX2q.png Instead what I get (even with Windows 7) is a spinning wheel that says "Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes...". Happens every time I want to use Windows (which is more of a reason to stay in the Linux partition tbh)
- vanderZwan 9y ago
  > Personally, what bugs me the most is the constant reads and writes to the hard disk. I have 8 GB of RAM. I have 64 GB of RAM, and even tried turning off the swap. Still see that HDD light blinking. I don't know what is going on.
  - rasz 9y ago
    Its gathering telemetry, running live traces on your software, gathering statistics, everything gets packaged and uploaded to the mothership regularly
    - mcny 9y ago
      > Its gathering telemetry, running live traces on your software, gathering statistics, everything gets packaged and uploaded to the mothership regularly but GP has 64 GB(!!) of memory. They don't need to write the information to disk. They could just ship the data from the memory straight back to the mothership, no? I mean Office 365 has a heartbeat and nobody complains about the near constant network chatter. It just makes Microsoft look insidious (is that the right word?) that they're collecting all this data. The fact that gaming mode [xbox on youtube] exists makes me think that Windows is driving with one hand tied behind its back when not in game mode. Why would they do this? [xbox on youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-ka42BMls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-ka42BMls
      - rasz 9y ago
        but what if you crash? precious personal data gets lost, have to flush everything to HDD immediately.

mcny 9y ago

> The Education edition of Windows lacks Cortana. Personally, what bugs me the most is the constant reads and writes to the hard disk. I have 8 GB of RAM. I just have a web browser open. Windows, you don't need to do everything at this very moment. Why can't Windows Update be as simple as this? https://tr3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2015/05/29/0cfbdde4-cc21-4d7e-9dc6-821074570be3/49f58bac6fcc3e9f2d671a739c0f1e00/fedora2220052915.png https://tr3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2015/05/29/0cfbdde4-cc21-4d... https://i.imgur.com/7IWTX2q.png https://i.imgur.com/7IWTX2q.png Instead what I get (even with Windows 7) is a spinning wheel that says "Failure configuring Windows updates. Reverting changes...". Happens every time I want to use Windows (which is more of a reason to stay in the Linux partition tbh)

vanderZwan 9y ago
> Personally, what bugs me the most is the constant reads and writes to the hard disk. I have 8 GB of RAM. I have 64 GB of RAM, and even tried turning off the swap. Still see that HDD light blinking. I don't know what is going on.
- rasz 9y ago
  Its gathering telemetry, running live traces on your software, gathering statistics, everything gets packaged and uploaded to the mothership regularly
  - mcny 9y ago
    > Its gathering telemetry, running live traces on your software, gathering statistics, everything gets packaged and uploaded to the mothership regularly but GP has 64 GB(!!) of memory. They don't need to write the information to disk. They could just ship the data from the memory straight back to the mothership, no? I mean Office 365 has a heartbeat and nobody complains about the near constant network chatter. It just makes Microsoft look insidious (is that the right word?) that they're collecting all this data. The fact that gaming mode [xbox on youtube] exists makes me think that Windows is driving with one hand tied behind its back when not in game mode. Why would they do this? [xbox on youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-ka42BMls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-ka42BMls
    - rasz 9y ago
      but what if you crash? precious personal data gets lost, have to flush everything to HDD immediately.