Windows users quietly receiving Microsoft Bing Service 2.0 update that won't uninstall

[THX-1139]

Just a "heads up" for all win 10/11 users: https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-users-quietly-receiving-microsoft-bing-service-20-update-that-wont-uninstall/

[nero355]

PERFECT EXAMPLE of one of the many reasons to leave Windows behind you as much as possible and start using Linux/BSD as much as possible!

The only thing that still bugs me and I use Windows 7 Pro for at the moment :
- Gaming
- Adobe software for my dSLR RAW files...

Everything else is running Debian/Kubuntu/RaspBian/FreeBSD

** Greetings from my Kubuntu laptop!

[Moonchild]

The only thing that still bugs me and I use Windows 7 Pro for at the moment :
- Gaming

Must be old games then. Just about every recent title requires Windows 10/DX12

[Moonchild]

Not entirely sure why such pooha is made about an update to a service that is already baked into Windows 10+
the "bing desktop application" will undoubtedly be suggested as a feature, but Microsoft won't be flat out replacing people's custom wallpapers unless they want to get a shitstorm their way

[Kerebron]

Adobe software for my dSLR RAW files

That's an easy one - darktable and/or RawTherapee. Both available for Windows, as well.

[hujan86]

Powering the Search function in Windows with Bing is one thing. But forcing users to only use Bing wallpapers - exclusively if that is what they are aiming - is messed up. Hopefully the Bing Wallpapers ends up as optional. Trying to force Edge on users is already bad enough.

[Eduardo Lucas]

The only thing that still bugs me and I use Windows 7 Pro for at the moment :
- Gaming

Must be old games then. Just about every recent title requires Windows 10/DX12

Theoretically. There is a lot of stuff still running on 7 in a non-declared way, if i'm not wrong EA is the biggest one on that. It declares newer sports titles as only running on 10 or higher but FIFA 22 as an example ran on win7.

[mtosev]

I doubt that MS Flight simulator from 2020 would run on Win 7.

[fuzzlesnuz]

Let's not forget that Microsoft explicitly declares Bugcrash 10 first and foremost as a "service" in all legal contexts, not first and foremost as an operation system. This is found in hundred or so miles of T&C, other documents to sign away user rights, and in miscellaneous literature on all M$ sites. Installing Bugcrash 10 on your PC instead of a real version of Windows, or buying a Bugcrash-infected computer, is a willful decision to subject yourself to the well-known horror that it is. This isn't the first, or the tenth, or even the 100,000th time that Bugcrash has unconditionally altered itself without reasonable indication. This stopped being a surprise over 6 years ago. Goldfish memory, I suppose.

I doubt that MS Flight simulator from 2020 would run on Win 7.

The only thing that still bugs me and I use Windows 7 Pro for at the moment :
- Gaming

Must be old games then. Just about every recent title requires Windows 10/DX12

Theoretically. There is a lot of stuff still running on 7 in a non-declared way, if i'm not wrong EA is the biggest one on that. It declares newer sports titles as only running on 10 or higher but FIFA 22 as an example ran on win7.

M$'s own 12on7 project is a near drop-in solution in many of these cases. Afaik, the monopolized platforms like Unity and Unreal abstract so much of d3d & ogl and include so many target-specific considerations that a game studio would have to go out of their way and spend several thousand manhours to make their game actually use 12_2 features. The more likely issue is the use of NT 10 kernel functions in third-party libraries, which are often redundant conveniences and can be shimmed as needed.

[Mæstro]

Licences are scraps of paper; governments can override them, and men can ignore them. Germany has endorsed using transferring OEM licences between machines for twenty years. Pirates strip Windows 10 of its telemetry &c at their own risk, and in many nations, there is almost none. Technical ability decides in the end. Windows 10 is an operating system in the end, whatever someone in a suit says.

[Moonchild]

Let's not forget that Microsoft explicitly declares Bugcrash 10 first and foremost as a "service" in all legal contexts

Can you please stop posting stuff like this here that is both false[1] and serves no purpose (other than making it hard to read) by assigning a name-calling term instead of what it's called? The latter is just petty and unnecessary. FTR Windows 10 hasn't crashed on me for a very very long time now.

[1] "MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS
WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM"
c:\windows\system32\license.rtf
It doesn't state anywhere that Windows is a service, either. I invite you to actually go read it.

[mtosev]

I had some problems with Win 10 randomly freezing on my then new Inspiron 7359 notebook. Everything just randomly froze. No response from the computer after hitting control + alt + delete, the only thing that I could do was to force shut down the system. I updated the bios as well installed the newest drivers and did all of the available Windows updates. And the issue was resolved.

[nero355]

/Late reply =>

Must be old games then. Just about every recent title requires Windows 10/DX12

Most of them are or simply do not need any DirectX newer than 11

Adobe software for my dSLR RAW files

That's an easy one - darktable and/or RawTherapee. Both available for Windows, as well.

No it's not that easy sadly : There is no software that can replace a simple Adobe Photoshop + Camera RAW use case

Trust me... I have tried them all...

Everything seems to be aimed at Lightroom users and I am not one of them!

I doubt that MS Flight simulator from 2020 would run on Win 7.

ZERO plans to ever play that game

Like many other new games by the way...

Bugcrash 10

I like this guy as much as I dislike everything newer than Windows 7

[Moonchild]

/Late reply =>

Not sure why you bothered after 7 months

[Mæstro]

Off-topic:
It is nice to see somebody else who knows and uses the (!) for sarcasm.