Windows 11 (WTH?)

WHY did I get my hopes up? - Windows 11 Announcement  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFCeCPpfnhQ , https://www.youtube.com/c/LinusTechTips/videos

Gaming on LEAKED Windows 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odZSCdNTFPw

Windows 11 has been announced! What are the features you should know about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stY62SfDsxA

Why did Microsoft HIDE this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHEWhTaYZC0

Every Windows Version Ever! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRsqjy-qqag , https://www.youtube.com/c/Techquickie/videos

Windows really should have gotten better with every new addition. Now its so late in the game.

Windows 11 Hardware Compatibility Chaos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20mmuOkpbow , https://www.youtube.com/c/BradSams/videos

Windows 11: Problems Microsoft should FIX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZuM-9S2vP8 , https://www.youtube.com/c/CNET/videos

Windows 11 vs MacOS Monterey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwbXNb-VDY , https://www.youtube.com/channel/CNET/videos

This is an absolute classic!

Steve+Jobs vs. Bill Gates. Epic Rap Battles of History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njos57IJf-0 From 2012 June 14  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Windows+11

Microsoft warns of Windows ‘PrintNightmare’ vulnerability that’s being actively exploited

 https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22560435/microsoft-printnightmare-windows-print-spooler-service-vulnerability-exploit-0-day

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/vulnerabilities/windows-print-spooler-flaw-could-make-a-bad-compromise-much-worse/

There is always something new to be concerned about.

https://www.techradar.com/news/printnightmare-zero-day-leaves-windows-servers-vulnerable-to-attack

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2021/07/02/new-critical-security-warning-issued-for-all-windows-versions-as-printnightmare-confirmed/?sh=1f016b147d04

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/exploits-and-vulnerabilities/2021/07/printnightmare-0-day-can-be-used-to-take-over-windows-domain-controllers/

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252503494/Should-I-be-worried-about-PrintNightmare

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/researchers-accidentally-release-exploit-code-for-new-windows-zero-day-bug-printnightmare

https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-printnightmare-vulnerability-being-actively-exploited-according-microsoft

Why can't Windows get IT together?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2021/06/19/new-windows-10-security-shock-as-1000-vulnerabilities-revealed/?sh=6382a47f36b9

https://www.forbes.com/cybersecurity/?sh=43545afd26cc

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/category/exploits-and-vulnerabilities/

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/vulnerabilities/

Windows 10 Warning For Millions As New Hack Goes Viral

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2021/08/28/new-windows-10-hacking-warning-for-millions-of-users/?sh=1601dd9a1bb7 , https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder

Of course there are always alternatives to W10.

https://www.g2.com/products/windows-10/competitors/alternatives?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_osbEp6KTvp9BPF9rJNWWffMHvan__Ye_LLZk.axbbtk-1630543570-0-gqNtZGzNAlCjcnBszQh9

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-alternatives-to-windows-operating-systems/

https://www.techradar.com/news/best-alternative-operating-systems

https://alternative.me/windows-10

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3412309/windows-10-alternatives-best-free-open-source-operating-systems.html

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/89257/thinking-windows-10-alternatives

Windows 11 is already full of bugs, but you shouldn't worry about it (WTF?)

 https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-11-problem-have-already-appeared-heres-how-to-fix-them

I would take Windows_7 over W 11 any day.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynerash/2021/06/29/microsoft-withdraws-windows-11-compatibility-checker-issues-clarification/?sh=2a823476190d

https://www.wepc.com/news/windows-11-known-issues-preview-build/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/the-known-windows-11-issues-and-how-you-can-fix-them/

https://wccftech.com/complete-list-of-windows-11-known-issues

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Windows+11

Microsoft and Windows

"Allen worked on a simulator for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter, and it worked flawlessly when they demonstrated it to MITS in March 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#1972-1985:_Founding  

Paul-Allen really is the Idea_Man of technology...

https://paulallen.com/Futurist/Microsoft.aspx

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/history/history-of-microsoft-1975

The Windows, Microsoft_Logo is a little similar to the 4 corner states on a map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#1985-1994:_Windows_and_Office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7 , 

https://www.cnet.com/pictures/microsoft-logos-through-the-years-pictures ,

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-unveils-new-logoheres-a-history-of-the-designs-evolution-2012-8

The Four_Corners area have been a special place for government research, like the IBM_Roadrunner & other corporate entities for the past several decades. Officially, the W7 logo doesn't symbolize the four-coners-of-earth. The 4 corners of a Sphere is an old mystical & religious concept. Even today, not that many people think beyond the parameters of their 3-D world. Thus, so many don't fully realize the implications of an Oracle or a crystal+ball. How did people in ancient times get the idea of seeing 3-D & even 4-D images in a sphere? There was no reference to movies & HDTV back then. Yet, somehow the ancient human mind could ponder the concept of seeing visions inside of an imaging sphere. This W7 logo just happens to look like a crystal ball with a fluctuating 4 Quadrant grid.

{Paul Allen was hired into MITS,[27] and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque.[27] Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.[27] Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#BASIC - http://wiki.oldos.org ,

http://os-history.de/windows/3x.html , http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?tag=trunk;popular ,

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-365230.html 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4846874/oracle-crystal-ball-excel

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/05/31/magic-mirror-hosted-web-app 

https://www.slashgear.com/windows-10-now-has-a-magic-mirror-hack-of-its-own-02442451/

https://newatlas.com/microsoft-magic-mirror-build/43619

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+crystal+ball

New Windows AI PCs take screenshots of everything you do

 https://www.dexerto.com/tech/new-windows-ai-pcs-take-screenshots-of-everything-you-do-2733115/

Unfortunately, there is always a push for the dystopian side of technology. So of course the computer, TV & phone would become like a surveillance Telescreen. 

https://www.komando.com/security/stop-smart-tv-tracking/544540

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc

Why you should cover your laptop camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycZwIMMEZus

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-recall-ai-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen#Origin

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuckerberg-tape-webcam-microphone-facebook Just some old news, but look at what's happening today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/technology/personaltech/mark-zuckerberg-covers-his-laptop-camera-you-should-consider-it-too.html

https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0623/Why-Mark-Zuckerberg-covers-his-laptop-s-camera-and-microphone

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mark-zuckerberg-puts-tape-webcam/story?id=40040340

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36596070

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/laptop-camera-security-tape-1.3649678

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/mark-zuckerberg-seen-covering-up-his-webcam-in-picture-celebrating-instagram-milestone-a7094896.html

Bill Gates is REELING as Windows 11 Turns Loyal Microsoft Users Against the Brand

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8BafVawRGc 

Such corporate greed, data mining and manipulation. 

Installed Linux Mint on a Brand-New PC… Windows 11 Never Had a Chance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvkcRg7cbg

The Death of Windows – And What Comes Next https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ65kBnZl6k

The future of Internet Explorer on Windows just ended

 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/05/19/the-future-of-internet-explorer-on-windows-10-is-in-microsoft-edge./

Did people just use IE simply because it was there, or was IE a very useful digital tool, in some ways?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/15/23167121/microsoft-internet-explorer-end-of-support-retirement

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Internet+Explorer

Linux Will Work For You. Time to Dump Windows 10. And Don't Bother with Windows 11

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ2r8RwcKhY

Microsoft Windows (KB971033)

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000681.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Windows

email-privacy-concerns

"A new feature in Google Inc's Gmail will result in some users receiving messages from people with whom they have not shared their email addresses, raising concerns among some privacy advocates."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/gmail-privacy-concerns-flagged-over-new-feature-1.2491370

Although anything can on line can be traceable or track-able, this doesn't seem like a good feature. People should always have the choice to determine how pubic or "private" their communications are.
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-encrypt-your-email-and-keep-your-conversations-p-1133495744

"Some privacy advocates said Google should have made the new feature "opt-in," meaning that users should explicitly agree to receive messages from other Google+ users, rather than being required to manually change the setting." http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/gmail-privacy-concerns

The default setting should always be on the most private setting & then each user can determine if they want to have a wide open public setting. Sure, you can give out your email address, just like your phone number. It could become semi-public, but its not necessarily wide open as would be the case if it were on your website. http://email.about.com/od/staysecureandprivate

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/07/14/lavabit-is-probably-the-most-secure-private-email-service-right-now,
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2013/aug/15/gmail-google-email-privacy,
http://www.kabissa.org/about/news/how-can-i-make-my-e-mail-private-and-secure

Some people like to have a less public phone number & an email address that isn't meant for everyone to know about. Again,at the highest level, everything remains intercept-able and traceable.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518056/why-e-mail-cant-be-completely-private,
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046962/nsa-dodging-mail-service-explains-why-email-can-never-truly-be-private-and-secure.html

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-08/what-are-your-options-secure-email,
http://gizmodo.com/why-kolab-might-be-the-best-secure-email-service-still-1171618005

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-secure-encrypted-email-providers-online,
https://www.hushmail.com

So much data goes over the mobile phone networks now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system),
http://bgr.com/2014/01/07/intel-android-windows-dual-os

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_(Apple)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system#Windows_Phone

http://www.zdnet.com/windows-and-android-on-one-pc-heres-how-amd-and-intel-plan-to-do-it-7000024942

Why Windows 11 requires a TPM

 https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-windows-11-requires-a-tpm-and-how-you-can-get-around-it/

Samsung customers are complaining to the company over spoiled food after an update bricked AI smart fridges

 https://fortune.com/2026/09/25/samsung-customers-complain-spoiled-food-after-update-bricked-ai-smart-fridges/ 

This is utter foolishness and stupidity!

https://www.techspot.com/news/113978-samsung-confirms-faulty-update-bricked-smart-refrigerators-promises.html 

https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/home-appliances/fridge-stuck-on-software-update-and-now-is-not-working/td-p/9102225

How to Factory Reset ANY Brand Refrigerator (Amana Samsung Whirlpool Kenmore Maytag LG Beko Hisense) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVj5iS_xFuI 

If only it could be this simple. https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1ov5wl1/concept_idea_android_snapshot_a_full_system/

How to reset a refrigerator. How to factory reset a Samsung, LG, a KitchenAid, whirlpool refrigerator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYlR58J6_jI 

By now, any AI appliance not only should have an effective reset feature, but a restoration point to at least the previous firmware setting.  

https://community.smartthings.com/t/firmware-rollback-how-to/173188 

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/Appliances/Quantum_Spark_R82.00.X/AdminGuides_Locally_Managed/EN/Content/Topics/Backup-Restore-Upgrade-and-Other-System-Operatons.htm 

Computer components can be as big as a data server facility, or just on a desktop or in a laptop and tablet. Of course the big advancement was to have a computer inside a mobile phone. 

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255419986 

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/apple-support-system-restore-previous-time-79881.html 

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1lxs9o/does_mac_osx_have_a_system_restore_with/ 

Any appliance with firmware and AI access really should have a proper system restore setting.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/point-in-time-restore?tabs=csp , 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/experience/backup-recovery/system-restore 

A new dangerous Gmail scam...

 https://thedigitalhacker.com/stay-away-from-the-new-dangerous-gmail-scam 

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1483800/Gmail-outlook-warning-new-threat-scam-kaspersky

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/07/31/apple-iphone-users-delete-google-gmail-app-after-tracking-backlash/?sh=7937781c4e95

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/08/28/stop-using-google-chrome-on-windows-10-android-and-apple-iphones-ipads-and-macs/?sh=504edd8d4a97

Whether its g or i, or any digital system of codes and algorithms, there is always the potential for interception and corruption.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/08/14/apple-iphone-warning-as-dangerous-photo-threat-gets-serious/?sh=13c16e247d1f

L.A. Peeping Tom is still on the loose

 https://ktla.com/news/local-news/los-angeles-woman-prowler-peering-through-windows/ 

Even if this guy is just lurking around, he has been going into peoples yards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeping_Tom_(1960_film)#Themes 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Serial+peeping+Tom+in+Los+Angeles

ZeroTier raises $13.5M to help avert CrowdStrike-like network problems

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/26/zerotier-raises-13-5m-to-help-avert-crowdstrike-like-network-problems/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206719/microsoft-windows-changes-crowdstrike-kernel-driver

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/26/crowdstrike-outage-solar-storm-internet/74534529007/

CrowdStrike Update: Latest News, Lessons Learned from a Retired Microsoft Engineer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHrayP-Y71Q

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=CrowdStrike

Is Windows 11 a Lost Cause?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C44iCr6czAo

Before and after the Inception of Bing

"The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)#Windows_Live_Search

- "REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 11, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release from beta of Live Search and of Live.com in 47 markets worldwide, and final availability of Live Local Search in the U.K. and the U.S. Microsoft also announced that Live Search will now power the Web search capability on MSN®, the company’s media and entertainment portal, attracting more than 465 million unique users worldwide per month."

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/sep06/09-11WLFinalVersionsPR.mspx ( http://www.live.com/ )

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http://tekkieblog.com/hackers-of-all-time/comment-page-1

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2010/09/internet-explorer-9.html , 

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2010/07/data-center.html , 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Internet+Explorer

CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=CrowdStrike

Apple warns about spyware vulnerability

 https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/09/14/apple-warns-about-spyware-vulnerability-on-eve-of-expected-new-phone-announcement/

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212807

Unfortunately, no digital system is 100% secure all the time.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2021/09/13/ios-148-update-now-warning-issued-to-all-iphone-users/?sh=456bbb941a08

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyber-arms-dealer-exploits-new-apple-iphone-software-vulnerability-affects-most-2021-09-13/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/watchdog-cyber-arms-dealer-exploits-apple-iphone-software-weakness.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-iphone-mac-watch-security-flaw-software-fix-released/

Vulnerability from cyber_attacks and data_breaches is such an ongoing problem. 

https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/apple-warns-of-3-ios-zero-day-security.html

https://thehackernews.com/2021/09/new-0-day-attack-targeting-windows.html

https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program/significant-cyber-incidents

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=iPhone