OOPS!!! WTF???
OOPS!!! WTF???
WINBLOWS....
What a coincidence. My 14yo just pointed out to me tonight that I could upgrade to Windows 10. He showed me how to do it. I suppose that means he upgraded Windows on his computer.
And now I come here and see this article.
Are you seriously that dysfunctional?
The Family Safety feature is still available. It got moved into Windows, whereas previously it was a seperate product you had to install. You do need to go back in and set it up again. Also, on my wife’s computer it didn’t uninstall the old family safety feature, but left it in a state aftet the upgrade where it would generate an error message every time she booted the computet. Annoying, but I think the feature will work better as part of the OS
will never be using windows 10 on my computers.
I don’t think this is an error; I suppose it would have been great to have some form of migration for the system, but since this one is completely different and works on any Microsoft device the child signs into, I’m not sure how it could have been migrated.
From what I can see, the greatest advantage is that now parents have full control from anywhere. They can extend time if a child’s working on a report, white list a website they might need, and keep track of activity from anywhere. Plus these controls are in place wherever they sign in and those controls go away when they sign out and someone else signs in.
All in all, I think the benefits far outweigh the negatives.
As for the change, I’d be curious to see if Microsoft actually sent out repeated warnings in emails to parental control accounts - I’d find it very strange if they didn’t. Far too often people ignore these messages, then complain about the change that they were warned about for months ahead of time.
From the end of the article:
“Defending Windows 10 and Microsoft, a spokesperson told us: “We will continue to roll out new Windows 10 Family features over time. We designed Windows 10 as a service, and we’ll keep listening to our customers. If there are ways to make improvements, we will do so.”
Because it’s a service vice a product, you are installing an operating system with an unstable interface configuration that the developer feels it can change without notice anytime the 50 lb. brain geniuses and their bosses in Seattle feel like adding a new feature (regardless of its utility to you). Ditto for the new Office suite.
Whether or not you get the same application in the same configuration as it was yesterday will be a crapshoot every time you turn the computer on.
This is why I’ll be keeping my Windows 7 for the foreseeable future.
Hmm, last year I watched a couple of videos about Windows 10. There were supposed to be fantastic floating holograms in your living room.
Don’t hear anyone talking about them now.
Anybody got holograms?
“And exactly who thought this was a good idea??? “
NSA.
Child settings help conceal the identity of the user. Not a feature that the government is interested in.
You don’t really think you’re living in a free country, do you?
And it tells you right away after upgrading and give you directions on how to restore them. This isn’t a big deal.
Because parents are too busy to be parents.
I am not up on all that has been said about win10, but in case this has not been said:
Have you heard, Win10 hitchhikes-like on your or anyone’s internet connection, using somebody’s bandwidth in order to do their thing with the next computer it wants to connect to.
[ Sorry if I didnt use the right words, hope you get the idea what I was trying to say. Heard it on that o/n pgm that shall not be named by an IT guy. ]