“And I HATE Windows 10. BING sucks!! And Cortana annoys the #### out of me. AND they charged me 20 bucks so I could watch DVDs!!!”
Windows 10 is the worst. The Explore file manager is insane. Desktop tiles flipping and flopping all over the place. What’s up with that? Kids might like it, I guess. Too many horrible features to write. Through Amazon I bought a small netbook laptop with Windows 7 on it and use that more than the new expensive HP laptop with 10.
I disabled Cortana. Why do you have to pay to watch DVDs?
Windows 10 is just ok. It’s like they overlayed an Apps page on top of a scrambled version of Windows 7 plus all the unwanted bloatware. Personally I use a few Apps on my iPhone but almost never on a the laptop running 10. I have dabbled some on Macs but not sure I need one but I won’t switch from IPhone IOS to Android.
I agree. Windows 7 was the last of the coherent Windows interfaces, in my opinion (and many corporate/governmental/military operations).
The Windows desktop interface reached it’s peak in ease-of-use with XP. After that was behind-the-scenes codebase changes, like 32-bit to 64-bit processing, etc.
Windows 8 and 10 just took that interface and defenestrated it. Of course the interface didn’t work well for mobile devices; it was never meant for them. Microsoft should have just made a different interface for mobile devices, one with tiles and silly flipping nonsense like you now see on desktops today.
And let’s not forget the inability to teach Grandma and Grandpa how to use Windows 10. So you want to completely cut off a userbase that has disposable income and a demand for connections with the outside world via e-mail, videos, and other wonders of the Internet? Then tell old people to get bent and make an interface that is practically useless to them, with stupid eye candy and moronic app names.
For them, there is a market:
Intel PC with Linux-based touch-enabled interface, that is the much ballyhooed Internet appliance, instead of a confusing jumble.
My kids and grand kids all use Mac, IPad a IPhone so they don't have much of an opinion one way or another on Windows. LOL... That said, I'm about 99% satisfied with Windows 10 AFTER I spent some upfront time to tweak it to disable all the prying ET Call Home “features” and Apps and set it to use the Windows classic desktop and www.duckduckgo.com as the default search engine.
I've found MS Edge to be the most stable browser MS has ever put together. And I am comfortable with this position as I have been a power computer user dating back to pre-DOS days, much less Windows. Edge's lack of JAVA and restricted Active X probably contribute to this stability with the bonus that my firewall and antivirus alerts have gone from seldom to a very rare event. Malwarebytes has never had to kick in to remove anything as well. I double up on the antivirus/firewall aspect out of caution though by simultaneous having both Defender and Trend Micro running full time.
When my current HP laptop bites the dust, I will revisit MAC laptops again but the last time I was replacing a computer in 2013, the MAC Air (emphasize this was 2013 level tech) that was optioned up was not compatible with the mathematical/statistical software that I heavily run, which relies on the graphic board's coprocessor for number crunching. Hope for my next computer a MAC model that the budget will support can also support my number crunching software requirement because MACs are sweet machines.
With respect to obsolescence, the 12-24 month lifetime I have seen tossed out there by one of the posters really only applies if a person has the urge to always have the latest greatest or is using lower end build computers that are invariably at the lower end of the price point scale. IMHO of course, LOL! My laptop is a HP that was configured to be a gaming unit, not a business unit or light duty home unit. This makes a difference in service life expectation and stability in Windows 10. In addition, it has the RAM, hard disk capacity, CPU, GPU etc. to handle OS upgrades without bogging or annoying.