{"id":128449,"date":"2015-10-28T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/meanwhile-in-windows-10-news.html"},"modified":"2015-11-04T23:16:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:16:14","slug":"meanwhile-in-windows-10-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/meanwhile-in-windows-10-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, in Windows 10 news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got notice that I could install it.<\/p>\n<p>I installed it.<\/p>\n<p>Um &#8230; the Earth continues to spin with nary a wobble.<\/p>\n<p>The installation process was pretty painless, aside from annoying &quot;So by default we&#39;re going to set these various built-in apps as your default for stuff unless you click on a little button and then uncheck them all&quot; shenanigans and a screen full of &quot;How much information do you want to send to the mother ship&quot; switches. But after that, everything looked pretty much as-was.<\/p>\n<p>At least until I opened the Start menu, which was also full of attempts to use Microsoft apps. As are occasional popups. And Microsoft really wants me to login to the Internet with an account to save my settings globally &#8212; including to my (snicker) Windows Phone. <\/p>\n<p>But that kind of ratcheta-ratcheta aside, it was a pretty effortless transition. Kudos to the kids from Redmond.<\/p>\n<p>[Note: I have no idea how long the actual upgrade took. I went upstairs and did some errands, and it was all done by the time I came down a few hours later.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6210543007616336225\/6210543019431005730'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-dxpRdJqu69Y\/VjBH-Kd3jiI\/AAAAAAADa9s\/ZdfcUh-EXPw\/ox838%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/5UQNbW8fNqc'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got notice that I could install it. I installed it. Um &#8230; the Earth continues to spin with nary a wobble. The installation process was pretty painless, aside from annoying &quot;So by default we&#39;re going to set these various built-in apps as your default for stuff unless you click on a little button &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/meanwhile-in-windows-10-news.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meanwhile, in Windows 10 news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ox8385B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131735,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/06\/little-tech-assist-needed.html","url_meta":{"origin":128449,"position":0},"title":"Little tech assist needed","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Oct-16 6:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So I am the primary computer support person for my mom, even though (a) I am many hundreds of miles away and (b) I stopped getting paid for hands-on desktop support decades ago.Mom apparently hit some sort of glitch with one of those oh-so-convenient Windows 10 updates that left her\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Superman%2Bdrinking.gifimgmax%3D660.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":44256,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/08\/forcing-ie-upgrades.html","url_meta":{"origin":128449,"position":1},"title":"Forcing IE upgrades","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Aug-14 8:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"On the one hand, this sounds like a good policy change from Microsoft.'As we note each month, while the majority of Chrome and Firefox users are all using the newest version of those browsers, Internet Explorer has a large user base that's using old versions. 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