#win8 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #win8, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@NetscapeNavigator/116169828606745897
My first exposure to a computer was #XP. Kept using it until the 6th grade.
Skipped #Vista since my PC couldn't handle it.
Got my first laptop in 7th grade, #Win7. Loved it.
When #Win8 came out, I started to see the OS I loved turn to shit. 8.1 was only a mild improvement.
10th grade, dualbooted #Win10 with #Ubuntu until Year-4 of Uni.
When #Win11 came out and I decided to fully commit to #Linux.
Tho I'm happy I jumped ship early on before this crap, can't help but mourn my childhood #OS.
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I was given a HP Stream 7 tablet yesterday, Originally it ran Windows 8 - Which must have been highly optimized for this. It only has 1gb ram, and 32gb storage. With an #Intel #Atom Z3235G quad core. So I tried to install #linux on it. The biggest frustration I'm having with it thou, is the #EFI only supports #32bit boot. And I've only found #Antix to actually install, but I can't get wifi to work, or sound. I think #Lubuntu might work but it fails at installing grub i386.
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Windows 8 build 8129 in arm32 in the PrereleaseARM variant has leaked today!
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Nergahak Font Pack
This package containing all Windows 11 fonts and some extras like Fira, Noto and IBM Plex for Windows 2000 and later.https://www.mediafire.com/file/cumqlj2a6cxrqiu/FontPack_Setup2.exe/file
⚠️ Installer updated and tested only in Windows 2000 and XP.
#Win2000 #WinXP #WinVista #Win7 #Win8 #Win81 #Windows2000 #WindowsXP #WindowsVista #Windows7 #Windows8 #Windows81
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Wake up, more of 8061's partner drop leaked.
Also includes an ADK for another build, this time, 8054 winmain
#microsoft #windows #woa #win8https://archive.org/details/win8_8054_adk
https://archive.org/details/win8_8061_full -
A few days ago, I got a surface rt, sold as broken (battery was “dead”).
After some troubleshooting, I successfully fixed it, and here it is, running good old 8061:
#microsoft #windows #win8 #woa #windows8 -
https://archive.org/details/9200.16384_win8_gdr_soc_SYMBOLS
https://archive.org/details/fbl_woa_8422.0.120524-2000_No_AppsI have uploaded the original partner drop of Windows 8 build 8422 and the debugging symbols of the win8_gdr_soc_* compiles of the RTM build to archive.org
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So...
I got (read - paid for) #ProWritingAid not long ago to help improve my #writing.
The last update wouldn't work.
After a few emails exchanged with their Help center, I was informed that from the last update, #Win8.1 is not supported anymore.
This information was not available anywhere on their site when I purchased the program. It wasn't there when I downloaded the latest update either.
The information is not on the site at all, not even now. I searched for it.
There is no mention of supported OS versions when trying to purchase the app.
Don't get me wrong - I love the program, it's quite helpful.
But this is bad. This is not how you manage/update/sell a program to customers.
Every self-respecting vendor informs customers well in advance when they stop supporting a specific OS version. And that information is clearly mentioned on their site.
I am disappointed.
Never mind that I paid for a year, and more than half of it I will not get any updates.
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#Browsers are ending their support for Windows 7 and 8.1 in 2023. Vivaldi dev and security expert Yngve Pettersen explains the challenges faced by browsers as to why they end support of various operating system versions.
Being based on Chromium, the updates removing support for #Win7 and #Win8.1 will be coming in #Chromium 110 which will be the foundation for the next #Vivaldi release after v5.6 - will we be able to maintain support?
Read more:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/pulling-the-plug-on-expired-operating-systems/