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A really straightforward and damned-fast file synchronization tool.
It might have been great, but it was abandoned. Reproducibly nonfunctional.
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Abandoned
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
What Linux did in the 90s, Microsoft is doing in the 2020s.
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(on Wikipedia)
This is just a placeholder page for notes that may or may not work in later versions of Windows.
Released 2009-10-22
First, an advertisement to Windows 10 got baked into Windows 8.1, probably via its update service. Sigh.
It appeared as a tray icon.
The resulting window, which doesn't tell me nearly enough, has "Learn more on windows.com" at its top-right.
That leads to
www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade?ocid=win10_auxapp_LearnMore_win10
.. which does not exist. [ 1 ] what I saw · what I should have seen
Footnotes
Oh hey, Microsoft changed some of their legalese. Let's interpret.
Just some random brainfart.
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Windows Legacy is an open-secret long-term support version of Windows XP.
- 2013-12 - I migrated to Windows 8.1.
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While using this, I also dual-booted into Linux.
- At this point, it was probably Lubuntu (version not recorded)
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I used to use Windows XP.
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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/mouse-and-keyboard-center-download-f5b10905-7887-eedb-2f1c-d0737a36a3b2 [ 1 ] was https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/d/sidewinder-x3-mouse
Microsoft SideWinder X3 5 Buttons USB Wired Laser 2000 dpi Mouse
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Entertainment > Games >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us
A procedurally generated survival game with shitty graphics, which became popular because it was first-to-market and took advantage of nostalgia.
Unfortunately, Minecraft was never completed and the author fucked off with the money to make another game. Even with extraordinary success, the author didn't make good on promises and the game was never finished.
I loved this game, and even bought it twice to support the developer, but because it was Java it would bring a computer to its knees. Being sold out to Microsoft (for their upcoming virtual reality stuff I'd bet) was bafflingly insulting.
I would try it again years later, and it hasn't had basic improvements.
