Be Excellent To Each Other

I actually don't remember. The setting was in the charm bar on win 8, so it may be in the fake control panel in devices.

The calculator app asked me to rate it last night. Oh dear.

'Good with numbers, would use again.' 5 stars.

"Certainly pushed my buttons, can't wait for the next time!" 4/5

(1x12)/6+4 out of 10

"Not as good as Windows 7's"

Only if you were straight-up lying, sir.

I shall have my second write to yours.

Very true. Windows 7 calculator can work out the difference between two dates. Windows 10 calculator cannot.

I use this function quite a lot.

I could have used that chance to tell Microsoft that, but I didn't because I was in the middle of working out fare horizons and was in the middle of a sum. And it's the freaking calculator app.

I spend half my life trying to work out how to get things to work out the difference between two dates. It's a lot more difficult than you think.

I can't believe the MS fanboy didn't know that.

Only if you view time as a linear construct. I used to think like you, but after listening to the concerns of those with malleable chronotypes I have come to see how such views, and society as a whole, affects them. We must work to end this narrow view and we could end it by half past yestermorrow.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... _b-gdntech

Win 10 to start downloading as part of automatic updates.

I don't believe it!

Looks like it's time to move to manual checking for, downloading of and installing updates then, or just turn Windows Update off and move to third-party AV.

Or you know... Download Windows 10?

There's nothing about it I want, and it might break things or be a hassle in some way.

This GWX thing looks pretty good - http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/0 ... emove.html

Kill Windows 10 nagging without affecting anything else.

All six computers in the house are now fully up-to-date with Windows Update as it is at the moment, and have subsequently been dropped down to these settings.

Going forward I'll review updates as they appear following a manual check, and approve or deny them based on how I like (or not) the cut of their jib.

As new computers come into the house I'll purchase them with Windows 10 (or whatever it is at the time), but for now we'll just go into Windows 7 Extended Support mode until 2020 (when I'll review the situation), or machines actually die and need to be replaced, in which case Windows 10 will invade early.

"When it comes to Windows 10 privacy, don't trust amateur analysts" http://www.zdnet.com/article/when-it-co ... -analysts/

Brilliant takedown of sensationalist Forbes bullshit.

Wow. That's an evisceration.

Someone send him an invite to the forum.

I know Ed fairly well, we follow each other on Twitter. He's a great writer.

The original story seems to have been updated with this mealy-mouthed nonsense:


So his entire citation for the SHOCK story is 'you should be worried because there exists an argument on an obscure website between a load of anonymous people'. If that was a cause for concern then none of us would ever get out of bed in the morning.

I've just been using the Windows calculator and I KNEW it was different to Grims... See? I don't have the option to work out the difference between two dates. It's just not there as far as I can see.

How odd.

You must have a different version somehow. Not sure how though, there's only one Microsoft calculator on the store and it's the one I've got.

Have you tried using that scroll bar?

Good idea, that never occurred to me!

Seriously though, this is what I see when I scroll down... The time calculator just converts minutes into hours etc.

Maybe Grim... has Pro? or came from 7 Ultimate?

I can't find the day one either (home version)

I was thinking that as I have the home version... I think.

Lulz home lusers.

UPGRADE NOW TO WINDOWS 10 PROFESSIONAL AND GET THE MEGA CALCULATOR.

That can't be a difference between Home and other versions, surely?

I'd check myself as I have Windows 7 Ultimate except of course I haven't 'upgraded' it and NEVER WILL.

Knowing how precious they are of their media center, quite probably !

I am a Home user and one of the chosen, clearly.

Then WTF?

Microsoft hate you JC. It's the only explanation.

Version 10.1601.49020.0 stats fans.

Version 10.1601.49020.1 won't look like shit. We can only hope.

10.1601.19020.0

With no date function.

Well I Googled "Windows 10 calculator date calculation missing" and nothing.

I'm running Windows 10, build 10240.

BOOM SUCKERS! Eat it. Eat it all up.

I will once I've untwisted my head from looking at that pic.

One day computers might have the power to rotate an image through 90 degrees.

Just convert to epoch time in your head then use the subtract function

And me!



Same as me.



Living the dream!

I too have the function available and am on version 10.1601.49020.0 of the app running Windows 10 Home. Weird that some people have an older version. I did notice that it came up as a 'Trusted Windows store app' and I'm logged into my PC using my actual MS account. Is it possible that there's an older version of the app that comes packaged with the OS and the new version only gets rolled out from the app store if you're logged into your MS account? Just a thought...

Calculator confusion. Only Windows 10 makes it possible.

UPGRADE FOR FREE. TODAY!

(And if you don't, we'll probably just make you do so when we feel like it anyway.)

I'm running Windows 10 pro AND logged in to my MS account.... Yet I haven't got that feature on my calculator.

How strange?

For what it's worth, my desktop has better calculator. Laptop doesn't.

Main difference is that the desktop had a fresh install, laptop is still on the upgrade from windows 8.1.

I can see that that could make a difference.