Windows 10 [2014 - 2017]

[Blazkowicz]

What was real, over a decade ago at least is that if you didn't connect to Hotmail for like 6 monthes (or was it 90 days?), you came back to an empty mail box. That's it, deleted your mail and didn't accept or discarded new mail.
Thanks, Microsoft. I guess I still have that old account around (I logged to it a few years ago), the practice of deleting your customer's mail has ended obviously. It had thousands junk mails and still is growing I believe.

BTW that mail account was from when it was mandatory to get on MSN.
MSN suffered poor security, eavesdropping. But it wasn't a "social media" and you could use any software client you wanted.
I don't feel like creating a Skype account these days (or a Microsoft, or an Outlook or whatever it's called)

 

[nutball]

Really? That don't sound real.

No. I made it up. However, if they were to do that, how much complaining would there be?

 

[tongue_of_colicab]

What was real, over a decade ago at least is that if you didn't connect to Hotmail for like 6 monthes (or was it 90 days?), you came back to an empty mail box. That's it, deleted your mail and didn't accept or discarded new mail.
Thanks, Microsoft. I guess I still have that old account around (I logged to it a few years ago), the practice of deleting your customer's mail has ended obviously. It had thousands junk mails and still is growing I believe.

BTW that mail account was from when it was mandatory to get on MSN.
MSN suffered poor security, eavesdropping. But it wasn't a "social media" and you could use any software client you wanted.
I don't feel like creating a Skype account these days (or a Microsoft, or an Outlook or whatever it's called)

The new outlook.com won't even work on a non IE/Edge browser.

 

[Rurouni]

Right now I'm opening outlook.com from chrome and it is fine, but I'm on Windows 7.

 

[Cyan]

The new outlook.com won't even work on a non IE/Edge browser.

What OS, PC and browsers do you use? Opera is my favourite browser and Outlook works perfectly fine regardless of the OS and browser, at least for me.

I even recently created an Outlook account for my brother on Opera, because he wanted to copy his Android and iOS contacts to an email account but had lost his old Hotmail account. and it was a very easy process.

What was real, over a decade ago at least is that if you didn't connect to Hotmail for like 6 monthes (or was it 90 days?), you came back to an empty mail box. That's it, deleted your mail and didn't accept or discarded new mail.
Thanks, Microsoft. I guess I still have that old account around (I logged to it a few years ago), the practice of deleting your customer's mail has ended obviously. It had thousands junk mails and still is growing I believe.

BTW that mail account was from when it was mandatory to get on MSN.
MSN suffered poor security, eavesdropping. But it wasn't a "social media" and you could use any software client you wanted.
I don't feel like creating a Skype account these days (or a Microsoft, or an Outlook or whatever it's called)

I have a bit of everything. I keep a quite old Hotmail.com account too, and it is my main email account, for spam and stuff. I have another account to use basically for Xbox Live and Paypal, almost no one knows that one.

Then I have more Hotmail accounts and also yahoo, gmail, and many others. The processs to create a Hotmail account is very easy anyways, just like on any email client nowadays.

 

[Cyan]

On a different note, I found this great program yesterday and wanted to share. If you want to capture your screen and capture video from your own PC, I think there is nothing better than this, that I know of -free, at least-. :smile2:

It's the Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 with Service Pack 2 (SP2), which includes Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 and Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 Screen Capture. Highly recommended!!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27870

 

[Albuquerque]

The new outlook.com won't even work on a non IE/Edge browser.

Yeah, as has been pointed out twice before, this really isn't true.

One of the things Microsoft has really done right on the Office / O365 front is peeling themselves away from the Windows ecosystem, and I firmly believe A: it's an obvious win and B: it's paid immediate dividends for them. One of the ways they're hitting this home is moving to HTML5 as their native web platform, which entirely solves (within browser compatibility limits) the OS / appstack challenges.

During TechEd 2014, Microsoft was demonstrating a pure HTML5 version of Outlook client, complete with offline, cached connectivity as a pure browser page-based app. They showed it on IOS Safari, Android's Chrome or whatever the native browser is, and showed it on PC Firefox. They didn't even bother with an IE-related browser, because they knew it shouldn't be considered a primary target. Insofar as I'm aware, that HTML5 version of Outlook and the other Office suite apps are the core of the web-versions of the O365 suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote) which is also what powers Outlook.com.

Of all the things Microsoft has gotten and continually gets wrong, this is at least one very specific thing they're getting right.

 

[Albuquerque]

@Cyan... One of the other best kept secrets of Win7 and later is the Microsoft Problem Steps Recorder.

Ever taught one of your family members how to do something, and then a week later they've forgotten and are asking you again? This built-in tool is the bitchin'est thing ever.

I recently taught my mother how to build rules in Outlook 365, and despite the fact she has some technical aptitude, it's still not exactly easy to get to the rules section of O365 for a 60+ year old grandmother I fired up PSR, recorded me walking through the web browser from the inbox all the way to the rules section of settings, recorded myself building a simple rule, went back to the inbox again when I was done, and then finished the PSR recording.

Sent her a ~400kb MSHTML file that has a picture of every page, highlighted places where I clicked, menus, even has a "verbal" walkthrough along with each picture.

Friggin' awesome for service desk sorts of jobs where you need to document a simple process for a simple end user

 

[Malo]

Wow two great MS tools I can really use. Thanks!

 

[hoom]

Holy crap, I wish I'd known about those a couple of years ago.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

OK, that problem steps recorder is awesome. Hell, I'll use it myself for some of those obscure settings that you have to mess with once every 2 years or so. Better than looking it up or writing down all the steps. Just record it and store the recordings in a safe location. Fantastic.

Regards,
SB

 

[Cyan]

@Cyan... One of the other best kept secrets of Win7 and later is the Microsoft Problem Steps Recorder.

Ever taught one of your family members how to do something, and then a week later they've forgotten and are asking you again? This built-in tool is the bitchin'est thing ever.

I recently taught my mother how to build rules in Outlook 365, and despite the fact she has some technical aptitude, it's still not exactly easy to get to the rules section of O365 for a 60+ year old grandmother I fired up PSR, recorded me walking through the web browser from the inbox all the way to the rules section of settings, recorded myself building a simple rule, went back to the inbox again when I was done, and then finished the PSR recording.

Sent her a ~400kb MSHTML file that has a picture of every page, highlighted places where I clicked, menus, even has a "verbal" walkthrough along with each picture.

Friggin' awesome for service desk sorts of jobs where you need to document a simple process for a simple end user

That's so useful, thanks!! Not only for tutorials, but also for fixing bugs, being able to replicate any user steps when a program crashes, for instance. I want to be a programmer in the future and things like that might come in handy. That utility is quite descriptive, in fact. Thanks!

 

[Cyan]

Windows 10 running on a old PC with 192MB of RAM.

 

[Deleted member 2197]

Microsoft Flash Player Patch KB3132372 Causing App Issues on Windows 10

Adobe rolled out an out-of-band patch in late December to fix security flaws in Flash Player and because Microsoft integrated it into its own browsers, the company had to deliver the same fix via Windows Update for all its users. Including those running Windows 10, that is.

It turns out, however, that the patch the company released to Windows 10 users, labeled as KB3132372, is actually causing issues on these computers.

Some apps are no longer launching after installing this update, while others crash all of a sudden, users report. For the moment, no workaround is available, so the only option is to completely remove KB3132372 from your Windows 10 computer.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/micr...causing-app-issues-on-windows-10-498319.shtml

 

[Cyan]

Microsoft Flash Player Patch KB3132372 Causing App Issues on Windows 10


http://news.softpedia.com/news/micr...causing-app-issues-on-windows-10-498319.shtml

that's kinda sucky. I have always had disabled Flash Player ever since the OS came out, except for when I was forced to use it, but starting this year, Adobe Flash is likely to go early this year, and the Adobe we know is very different from the Adobe of old,

 

[orangpelupa]

Yeah Microsoft have lots of obscure free software that is truly awesome.

Want super smooth time lapse recordings? Microsoft hyperlapse can work on its magic to your recorded videos or live record. It available on Windows pc and android phone.

Want to make panorama photo? Use Microsoft something something (forgot the name lol)

Want to make music automatically? They also have it and I also forgot the name.

Editing video? Movie maker still works fine and it's easy to use.

Seriously, Microsoft need to make new 'Microsoft packs' like the old days of Windows 95. They have so many useful apps, for free, that is unknown to the majority of people.

 

[tongue_of_colicab]

What OS, PC and browsers do you use? Opera is my favourite browser and Outlook works perfectly fine regardless of the OS and browser, at least for me.

Windows 7 and the latest Firefox. You can login but whenever I try to open an email its just white.

 

[Blazkowicz]

Want to make panorama photo? Use Microsoft something something (forgot the name lol)

I think that's from Microsoft Research, I remember an article. Cool advanced stuff that somehow fills voids, straightens up stuff etc.

 

[Cyan]

I think that's from Microsoft Research, I remember an article. Cool advanced stuff that somehow fills voids, straightens up stuff etc.

Office Lens? I use it for studies and take photos of documents, transform it to PDF, but never heard of Panorama something

 

[Albuquerque]

The panorama is Microsoft Photosynth.