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1 posted on 11/03/2015 12:12:19 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

I like my WIN7 Prof and new laptop. It should last at least as long as the newest gem in the MicrostuffIT product line.


2 posted on 11/03/2015 12:15:27 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Swordmaker

I’m sorry Dave, I cannot allow you to disconnect me.


3 posted on 11/03/2015 12:16:21 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: dayglored; ShadowAce

Dayglored, Shadow Ace gave me a heads up on this. . . this needs a ping to your Ping list ASAP. Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore admitted that users cannot disable the tracking installed on Windows 10, even if they turn off all the user options for such tracking. “core data collection simply cannot be stopped. . .” Translation: you will be watched. OOPS! I wonder if one can just turn off WIFI, disconnect Ethernet, Bluetooth, etc., do all that, will MS Windows 10 just refuse to operate??? LOL!


4 posted on 11/03/2015 12:18:29 PM PST by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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I guess I should go to Linux mint or Ubuntu. The only thing I really use windoze for is to run Sony Vegas for video editing and watching DVDs.


6 posted on 11/03/2015 12:19:48 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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Winston Smith please phone home. Or better yet, stay where you are cause MS knows where you are and what you are doing.


8 posted on 11/03/2015 12:20:59 PM PST by Purdue77 ("... shall not be infringed.")
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They’re are making it hard to embrace 10, even though it’s possibly their best os yet. So much bad pr as far as the eye can see. Their dumb moves are similar to mistakes made with Xbox 1 rollout, which is falling further behind the ps4 by the month.


10 posted on 11/03/2015 12:22:57 PM PST by catbertz
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FUGates


13 posted on 11/03/2015 12:26:57 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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I stopped it using Red Hat


14 posted on 11/03/2015 12:31:19 PM PST by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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To: Swordmaker

Turn the computer off. Voila!


15 posted on 11/03/2015 12:33:29 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped

Sure it can. Go back to XP or upgrade to Linux.

19 posted on 11/03/2015 12:53:44 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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No more Windows 10+ machines for me. I also have a mac which I will use more and more.

For PC users, install Ubuntu and learn Linux.

God, I hate Microsoft. I want to to like them, but stuff like this makes me hate them so much...


22 posted on 11/03/2015 12:55:43 PM PST by doomtrooper99 (Mr Truman, you did not finish the job)
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Can’t be stopped by the sheeple but it sure could be stopped by MS.


24 posted on 11/03/2015 1:00:01 PM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Swordmaker

LINUX? I heard Ubuntu is not bad, any advise?


25 posted on 11/03/2015 1:01:12 PM PST by nomad
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Checked out 10. Didn’t like it. They removed the ‘classic’ theme from one of the early beta versions and never put it back.

The new themes are crap.

Menues are difficult to read, slide/scroll bars are not even present until the mouse pointer moves toward an edge and they are narrow, making them difficult use. The frame borders are so narrow that it is difficult to see where one frame/window ends and another begins.

MS can take Win10 and file it alongside VISTA and 8. Put back the ‘classic’ them (fully) and it might be worthwise. Until then, it isn’t.


28 posted on 11/03/2015 1:02:30 PM PST by TomGuy
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http://www.linuxmint.com/


29 posted on 11/03/2015 1:06:05 PM PST by Ray76
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Exactly what spying and transmitting back to Microsoft is going on with Windows Ten? If eveyone is so pissed off at then exactly what info is being beamed back to the Microsoft mother ship?

For example — Are your internet searches and websites you visit being sent back? I doubt it. Windows crashes info being sent back? Maybe. How much time each day you use your computer? Maybe


33 posted on 11/03/2015 1:24:23 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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Does anybody know if Win10 will stop working if you just block that Microsoft IP address at your router, so it can’t get to MS? (Except when you periodically re-enable it to occasionally get updates?)


34 posted on 11/03/2015 1:25:56 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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The gov’t will know all your files whenever say the democrats or corrupt republicans or you local gov’t or Barney Fife person wants to blackmail you say in the time of an election. If they can see they can download any files as well.


35 posted on 11/03/2015 1:29:38 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2997213/privacy/microsoft-doesnt-see-windows-10s-mandatory-data-collection-as-a-privacy-risk.html#tk.rss_windows


41 posted on 11/03/2015 1:39:02 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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Guess they are trying to push me to use Linux. All I do is surf the net & write documents (rtf), so there isn’t much that says I NEED Bill Gates...


44 posted on 11/03/2015 1:41:31 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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