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To: Bob434
Three things, primarily, are stopping me from upgrading from Win 7 to Win 10:
  1. MSFT's over-intrusive telemetry.

  2. I no longer have any say about what updates are applied to my machine.

  3. MSFT's increasingly snooty attitude:

    • "Bend over here it comes whether you're ready or not."

    • "We'll decide which processors will support our software."

I'm using Win 7 with all updates turned off, good firewall and AV software installed. Make daily and weekly backups. Clone the system drive once a week. Careful where I go on the 'Net. Delete, without opening, suspicious emails I'm not expecting.

No problems.

47 posted on 03/16/2017 11:45:41 PM PDT by upchuck (U have not lived today until u have done something for someone who can never repay u ~ John Bunyan)
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To: upchuck

I’ve done the same,

New i7 system, Win 7 x64, updates disabled.

It is this sort of thing that turns us geeks against MS.


64 posted on 03/18/2017 5:22:24 PM PDT by KEVLAR (Liberty or Death)
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