This was how you could prevent Cortana and some other stuff from being automatically reinstalled when Windows forced if. Uninstall the app via appx, or just delete the folder instead if it’s not in use, and then replace it with a file with the same name so it can’t remake the folder.
It was slowly being replaced by vagrant in some courses and I think after I left I’m pretty sure they replaced whatever hardware it was on with something running Linux.
I remember it was mildly annoying because the Java compiler on it was a bit old and different in some way, though I can’t really remember how.
Cortana was released nearly 12 years ago and I’m not sure the Solaris box lasted much longer. It was the only box that connectable remotely at the time and you put your assignments on it to be marked by TAs. The computer labs were all Linux and Windows though.
I suspect it was around because it mostly just worked and probably some greybeard had scripted it all up to connect to the various student systems and automatically provision accounts and things.
This was how you could prevent Cortana and some other stuff from being automatically reinstalled when Windows forced if. Uninstall the app via appx, or just delete the folder instead if it’s not in use, and then replace it with a file with the same name so it can’t remake the folder.
Cortana being reinstalled after I “deleted” it was the impetus for me to swap to Linux in the first place.
That and I was a CS student and our assignments had to run on Solaris which is closer to Linux than Windows.
Northern Scandinavia??
No Canada, and even then it was a bit of a relic.
It was slowly being replaced by vagrant in some courses and I think after I left I’m pretty sure they replaced whatever hardware it was on with something running Linux.
I remember it was mildly annoying because the Java compiler on it was a bit old and different in some way, though I can’t really remember how.
You used Solaris when cortana was already a thing? That’s great! :D
My university ditched Solaris like 20 years ago. Still have fond memories of cde lol
Cortana was released nearly 12 years ago and I’m not sure the Solaris box lasted much longer. It was the only box that connectable remotely at the time and you put your assignments on it to be marked by TAs. The computer labs were all Linux and Windows though.
I suspect it was around because it mostly just worked and probably some greybeard had scripted it all up to connect to the various student systems and automatically provision accounts and things.
I’m sure it’s all Linux now.