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I tried to switch from Ptohtoshop. Was uings PaintShop Pro for a couple years. But it did not scale well -- the more layers, the slower it got. Especially problematic when working on artwork meant for print. Professional level printing is one of the reasons I gave up on GIMP. Photoshop is meant for professionals and sold that way. If their main business was hobbiests they would have kept a standalone version of Phtoshop around. The subscription model Adobe is using is not a big deal to businesses, at least once ytou get past SOHO (small office/home office). And the Photoshop + Lightroom cost is not that bad. The full CC suite is too high though unless you use several of the apps (and again, it's target is bussiness, where the price isn't as big of a deal).
I doubt today's news is new to existing enterprise customers. Microsoft usually keeps their best customers in the loop. I do expect MIcrosoft will eventually charge for new features. If they are really cocky, maybe to keep Windows running, but hopefully they remember that whole monoply thing.
Likewise.
If you don't encrypt your hard drive, it takes a few minutes to access your hard drive, even if its passworded. I've demonstrated this to friends, one of which now encrypts his hard drive.
It isn't better encryption with a TPM chip installed. Slightly more straightforward to set up.
You need a professional version or better of Windows (not Home) to encrypt via Bit Locker.
You could use third party versions; Truecrypt and its spinoff Veracrypt for example.
There were issues with SSDs with true/vera crypt; no idea if there still is, as I use Bitlocker on Windows and whatever is included with the distro of Linux.
I'm certainly not paying a subscription to MS, so I'll be going Linux when that happens. Hope Daz works there by then, or its Blender only.
Thanks for the advice and info on encryption everyone - I was blisffully unaware of all of that ... I seriously learn way too slowly.
So do you think VeraCrypt works pretty well?
They do have a standalone Photoshop its called Photoshop elements 14 For a 1 time fee of $59, it pretty much has all the same functions as CC Photoshop minus the subscription.
I use paintshop pro lot of the same features as photoshop and it's just a one off fee that subscription thing for photoshop turned me off that lot more expennsive for aussies btw already pay out enough already for other things so paying out subscriptions for other stuff like windows wouldn't leave me much money if any for my nerdy geeky habits or buying stuff here someone here has suggested several times daz should have a monthly subscription fee for it's programs and downloads from pas if that happened I'd have to give this up and just do cut paste photo manipulations instead again
It is not that Bitlocker encrypts better with a TPM chipset but that it is more secure when you do. Without TPM chipset at one point or another the credentials are loaded in memory and can then be hacked - We've done it and it is pretty easy - It needs to be hacked while there is a running session but then again that happens more often than people imagine. With a TPM chipset the credentials are kept in the chipset and we did not succeed in cracking that chipset - which was what we expected. Just my 2 euro cents.
Oh and just a general comment about encrypting data on a PC: If you do so then encrypt the whole disk system included unless the software you use tells otherwise. Bitlocker does that smoothly. Other products may as well but few of them use the TPM chipset. As a final note like someone said before: BACKUP!
I can't and I won't discuss this more here in this thread. Search on the net. There is plenty information on this subject.
Costs me about 90 € / year - I think it costs about the same in $US. I didn't check though. Microsoft is moving in a global trend where all things connected to the internet or in the cloud will come as a service. Either they will make you pay for it or they will flood you with advertisements= the money has to come from somewhere. As a matter of fact, many of us already use lots of 'services' like Spotify or Netflix and similar. I'm rather a geek myself so I prefer paying for software as a service because you get the bug corrections and new features without having to wait for an hypothetical next version. I can perfectly understand why some people won't accept that model. On the other hand people born after 1990 will be used to it and won't be as reluctant as people are now.
It appears to works the same as Truecrypt, and can read Truecrypt drives. It has been updated though, so the reverse isn't true.
As VeraCrypt hasn't yet been peer-reviewed, there are concerns, but stopping the casual thief from accessing data including bank accounts, email and the like seems to be well within its remit.
OK. I may give this a consideration rather than upgrading to Windows Pro or Enterprise as that would put me in the position to fix stuff here and there on my system after the upgrade and can't do that right now. My other question is, when using this sort of software does it require allot of time to set up and does is require that I log on to my drives each time? I already log in to my Windows machine and that makes me feel somewhat safe but the idea of logging in twice.... YUK! lol