[catfish1957]

After owning PC's for 33 years, I've finally broke down and bought an Apple. Didn't really want to, but I finally got sick and tired of the time I was spending fighting off malware / viruses.

If MS was serious about holding market share, they'd figure how to deal with this permanently. And btw I do know iOS isn't immune to these problems, but they sure appear to be a lot less prevalent.

[CharlesOConnell]

The prime point is: Can Win10 escape “the dark side” of Win 3.1, Vista, 8, 8point1, into “the light side” (sunny side) of NT, 2000, XP & 7?

[LouAvul]

Somebody besides me still has XP? And even that on a limited basis. I did a reformat and reinstall on two computers with XP, only now when I open a webpage heavy in graphics, like fleabay or amazon, it loads so slowly as to be locked.

[rarestia]

Ping to the list. Typical Windows bashing thread.

[OrangeHoof]

Most businesses with THAT type of market share wouldn’t need to continually reinvent it’s OS. Windows 7 is perfectly fine except it probably doesn’t have the latest in government-approved spyware and Hollywood piracy detection.

I went to the point of buying a backup copy of Win 7 in the event that I’ll need to reformat someday after Microsoft has abandoned the OS.

[Fledermaus]

Of course when you stop supporting XP.

[onyx]

I despise Windows 8.1.
Well, I despise this laptop that has Windows 8.1.