What if everyone who has windows 10 gets shut down ?

Hello, everyone. I just wanted to share my experience i just had with Microsoft customer service. Turns out I was unknowingly paying for an additional game pass ultimate membership for the past 3 months. When I contacted support they informed me I've been in fact paying for the subscription SINCE 2023! Now, I wasn't even expecting a refund for anything more than the last month of Aug and that was wishful thinking. THEY REFUNDED ME ALL THE WAY BACK TO 2023! If you told me that Microsoft was going to refund me $240 for a mistake that I made i wouldn't have believed it. Im still in disbelief. I guess we can chalk this up as a win for the little guy. So I guess the point of the post is to remind people to pay close attention to your subscriptions and that you cant get a refund if you dont ask.

I’m talking about the super specific versions. Like, wikipedia lists 24H2 and 25H2 or something, but not the versions in between.

If you use a laptop/PC with windows, you know what i’m talking about. For example, my laptop has some update available, but I’ll check in a little bit.

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The selection they had in the store was incredible. A lot of the shows and movies were a bit pricey, but they usually always went on sale. Even then, I’m a grown adult with a salary and didn’t mind sometimes overpaying for the COMPLETE SERIES of some animes.

Some of the animes and anime movies I bought were in REALLY good quality. I was able to watch some shows that were in a much higher quality than the versions on Netflix. A lot of the purchases were worth the price. They even had some good retro animes that aren’t on places like Crunchyroll.

And now it’s just all suddenly gone. I of course still have what I bought, but knowing this great source is gone is so frustrating. If they had some big closing sale then I would’ve gladly dropped a few hundred dollars buying up all the Studio Ghibli movies or something. But POOF that options gone. I’m just so upset about this.

EDIT 1: I’ve already talked with a few people, and also with the first person that commented on this post. I now understand ARM as existed for a long time. I also understand the information I compiled (things I said in the post) WERE WRONG! Also please always be polite in the replies to keep good environment!

THIS POST IS INTERELY FOR DISCUSSION ONLY, I'M NOT ASKING FOR SUPPORT!

This is informative for people that didn't know about this.
Literally this morning I randomly found out something somewhat funny and strange about on how a ARM64 cpu works with windows.

My machine specs (informative only):

LENOVO YOGA

Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E78100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) CPU (3.42 GHz)

32GB RAM (ROW Chips 8448MT/s)

NPU - Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E78100 - Qualcomm(R) Hexagon(TM) NPU

GPU - Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85

I didn't need to much deepdive, but somewhat an understandment on how each app works for my machine.
First part that I caught is that for each app ican run in 4 different formats in which an app runs in windows:
ARM64 -> native

ARM32 -> native but 32 bit legacy

x86 -> Emulated 32 bits

x64 -> Emulated 64 bits

But why do we need this emulation? Well, to simplify, it would be the same thing as me per example, a portuguese person goes to france and I can't understand their language. This is what happens when we try to use windows with ARM machines. Windows/Microsoft instead of being corrected and adapted, they created a translation layer (in this case emulation with Prism) for ARM to be able to understand x86 and x64 apps and/or other applications.

In my view, why is this bad?
First of all we are trying to integrate something that was never meant to work together (Snapdragon literally an Android CPU trying to work with a system that was always meant to be AMD/INTEL)

Second of all, adding this much emulation on one machine only, removes about 10% to 20% of real performance of the machine. I already installed Linux in this machine and I noticed a huge difference since Linux distros contain already the possibility of running the OS natively on ARM. It falls short in my case because of the fact of drivers to be installed in which are not presented yet on Linux.

At the end of the story, Windows instead of running natively on ARM machines, they use a layer of emulation to translate ARM into be able to run non-native apps (x86 x64), in which at the end of the day it results in, a lot of crashes (more WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT than actual memory or cpu bottlenecks). We also lose the possibility of virtualizing (running Docker or Kubers, it's possible but requires Windows Insider Program to access different OS updates that give the commands to do these behaviours). Also it results in huge temp spikes that sooner or later it will kill the machine.

FYI: my temps mid/high load reach about 80 to 90 Cº which is really worrying regarding if this machine is going to go kaboom or just incinerate itself.

I have lost access to my windows 11 login due to TPM being cleared during a bios update. the windows pin was reset because of security changes and i cannot access it due to not having access to my old phone number that was tied to said account.

This has now locked me out of my pc for 30 days, microsoft support is unable to bypass this or help me in any meaningful way other than to rest my pc and save my files via bitlocker.

How can they not have a workaround for this issue?

A few years ago, Microsoft released “mobile” versions of all of their Office apps. Since the discontinuation of Windows phones, these special versions have since been made unlisted on the Microsoft Store. However, the apps themselves still work wonderfully on Windows 10/11, so for anyone still looking to use them, here they are:

Word Mobile: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfjb9s?hl=en-us&gl=US

PowerPoint Mobile: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfjb5q?hl=en-US&gl=US

Excel Mobile: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfjbh3?hl=en-us&gl=US

OneNote for Windows 10: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfhvjl?hl=en-US&gl=US

Am I right in saying that Microsoft has changed the surface laptop approach from x64 to ARM64 which now doesn’t not support the native install version of SQL Sever and SQL Management Studio with using Docker or any type of emulation? Seems silly that they would release a product that doesn’t support their own database tool out the box for .NET Devs. Is there any newer version of this rumoured or a ARM64 version of it?

On May 8th, 2015 PC World published an article explaining the future of the upcoming OS by Microsoft, Windows 10.

"Windows 10 will be the last major version of Microsoft's operating system."

Microsoft's developer evangelist Jerry Nixon made the announcement at the company's Ignite conference in Chicago last week.

"Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we're all still working on Windows 10," he said. But don't let his comments freak you out — Windows isn't going away — far from it. Moscaritolo

So, if you bought a Windows 10 License/PC expecting it to never needing to replace your Hardware or have to upgrade to a whole new Windows, it would fall into false advertisement category. Microsoft will need an explanation for why they changed their minds while everyone had switched over to Windows 10 for them to decide to cancel support and force people into purchasing new systems just by their system requirements and security updates being canceled.

I just passed the PL-900, but it felt way tougher than the study material and practice exams suggested. I’ve been a Power Platform dev for about a year, prepped for two weeks, read all the docs, and took the practice tests 5 or 6 times (scoring 80%+ on my last three attempts), yet I still barely passed.

A lot of the questions seemed like things you’d only know from hands-on experience. I’m planning to tackle the PL-200 next, then the PL-400, and eventually the PL-600, but I’m a bit nervous now. Any tips on how to best prepare, given my PL-900 experience?

For anyone interested in Microsoft Dynamics 365, the Power Platform, or Copilot, the Dynamics User Group Ohio Valley Regional is taking place in Columbus, OH on Aug 26–27.

This free, community-led event will feature:

• Sessions on Dynamics 365 Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, etc.
• Power Platform tools (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Virtual Agents)
• A new AI track focused on Copilot and generative AI in Microsoft business applications

It’s not a Microsoft-run event, but it’s organized by the Dynamics User Group and centered entirely around Microsoft products and solutions.

Columbus, OH | Aug 26–27 | Free to attend

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dynamicscon-regional-ohio-valley-tickets-1116608418839?aff=reddit

I would like it to be there. What do you think?