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Posted on 01/22/2017 6:23:39 PM PST by dayglored
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So much for “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”.
Thank you sir!!!
“And Windows 10 has made some decent inroads thus far: it now accounts for somewhere around a quarter of PCs accessing the internet”
They basically did most of it by force. This is like someone raping drunk unconscious girls then bragging they get a lot of women.
Windows 10 is basically digital date rape. Half the installs happened automatically when someone was asleep.
F. Microsoft.
Indeed. Updated my stepmoms machine in September and trashed it.
Agree with that.
I only lost a few things (software/peripherals) switching from XP to Win 7.
I tried Win 10 on an extra hard drive and hated it.
I have no intention of every re-trying Win 10. I bought a Linux laptop a few months ago. If/when Win 7 becomes inoperable, I may go full Linux. Until then, I am babying my Win 7 laptop and desktop and have Windows updates turned OFF on both of them.
In that case, I may have to change my tagline to "Proudly sticking it to the control freaks at Microshaft for 6 years and counting!"
I’ll give up my Windows 7 when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I’ve been running Win 10 for about six months. I’ve tamed most of its excesses - which means it looks and acts much like Win 7.
Microsoft’s biggest problems are old and familiar ones: they’re cheap and they’re lazy. Windows needs a rebuild from scratch which nobody at Microsoft wants to do. The registry approach is fraught with peril as we’ve seen in incidents from the trivial to the catastrophic. In an age where even casual users might have 1 TB internal HDD and/or 5 TB external HDD, Win 10’s performance in file searches is shockingly bad and so slow that such searches are an exercise in futility.
The marketing tail long ago began to wag the technology dog at Microsoft (aka Steve Ballmer disease) but their bludgeoning of their audience with MS-branded rubbish (Cortana, Bing, the Edge browser, OneDrive) is a turnoff and a disincentive to adopt any new OS. In other words, the market is savvy enough to spot a sales pitch.
Microsoft needs to get the tech community back on side and make them advocates of Windows rather than critics. But the only way to do that is to improve the OS.
(Memo to non-MS OS users: I know about Mac OS and Linux and have machines that run them too. Tell your dog about them, not me).
I’ve been running Win 10 for about six months. I’ve tamed most of its excesses - which means it looks and acts much like Win 7.
Microsoft’s biggest problems are old and familiar ones: they’re cheap and they’re lazy. Windows needs a rebuild from scratch which nobody at Microsoft wants to do. The registry approach is fraught with peril as we’ve seen in incidents from the trivial to the catastrophic. In an age where even casual users might have 1 TB internal HDD and/or 5 TB external HDD, Win 10’s performance in file searches is shockingly bad and so slow that such searches are an exercise in futility.
The marketing tail long ago began to wag the technology dog at Microsoft (aka Steve Ballmer disease) but their bludgeoning of their audience with MS-branded rubbish (Cortana, Bing, the Edge browser, OneDrive) is a turnoff and a disincentive to adopt any new OS. In other words, the market is savvy enough to spot a sales pitch.
Microsoft needs to get the tech community back on side and make them advocates of Windows rather than critics. But the only way to do that is to improve the OS.
(Memo to non-MS OS users: I know about Mac OS and Linux and have machines that run them too. Tell your dog about them, not me).
I suspect most of the uptake so far has been comprised of:
Downloaded Windows 10. EDGE still won’t let me open any pages as it always says “We can’t get there from here”. It still can’t make up it’s mind if I am in Denmark or the USA.
Must open everything with Mozilla Firefox, and the only way I did that was to download Mozilla on another computer, put it on a thumb drive, then install it on my laptop.
Windows 10 also wiped out my DVD player so I had to download another portal in another computer, load it on a thumb drive, and install it on my laptop.
I need to add:
I have Win 7 updates turned OFF, but I still get ‘critical updates’ auto-installed.
Some of those ‘critical updates’ cause programs and I have to do a system restore to get things working again.
Why, just why should someone totally happy with Win 7 jump to 10?
Two years ago I bought a new 64 bit Win 7 desk top with 64 bit CAD and video editing software to go with it. It all works to perfection. I stopped updates when Microsoft tried to force Win 10 on us. Zero problems.
If users are happy running such an antique and insecure operating system they'll probably keep using it until the hardware gives up or the Sun expands to finally vapourise the Earth, whichever is sooner. i have an XP box and a Win7 box, both have their purpose and yes i will run them both till the sun expands
Second, Microsoft did a good job encouraging people to move away from Windows 8... what, by releasing it??? nobody wanted it and they couldn't have make it any suckier if they tried
I bought a new laptop with Windows 7 purposely before they disappeared.
I do not want Windows 10.
You Are Not Alone.
What can one do on Win10 that can’t be done on Win7?
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