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Re: Windows 10 Release

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierre-Alexandre Braeken)
Sat Aug 1 11:15:39 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Jvdi3bR----0@tutanota.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 11:11:07 -0400
From: Pierre-Alexandre Braeken <pabraeken@gmail.com>
To: nick@foobar.org, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

Pay attention to your account because it is still possible to reveal the
passwords
http://sysadminconcombre.blogspot.ca/2015/07/how-to-reveal-windows-10-password.html
 and https://twitter.com/pabraeken/status/627493309674573824

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 10:44 AM, <tqr2813d376cjozqap1l@tutanota.com> wrote:

> 1. Aug 2015 10:05 by nick@foobar.org:
>
>
> > On 01/08/2015 03:27, Keith Medcalf wrote:
> >> It just means that you cannot use the crappy apps or the crappy app
> store.
> >
> > which is fine until Microsoft ties in future software upgrades to the app
> > store and you find that you can't upgrade without tying yourself into a
> > Microsoft account.
> >
> > E.g. just like they did with the Windows 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade.
> >
>
>
>
>
> It's been a while but I'm near certain that they did not require a
> microsoft
> account to download the 8.1 update - you just had to use their sucky
> application to start the process
>
>

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