Between this (okay, it’s only an annoyance for an Ixquick user) and...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3333285/posts
Don’t check that box! Windows 7 patch KB 3083324 sneaks in (a patch for Windows Update??)
InfoWorld ^ | Sep 4, 2015 | Woody Leonhard
and...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3331984/posts
Microsoft backports data slurp to Windows 7 and 8 via patches (Win 10 spyware comes to 7, 8.1)
The Register ^ | Sep 1, 2015 | Andrew Orlowski
...makes me wonder exactly how much more crap or long it’s going to take before folks (like me, for one) just decide to skip the remainder of the silly circus act and dump W7, W8.1, W10 and all else Microsoft in the nearest sh**can.
If it only takes some more money to do so, I can justify going full Apple, and if Linux costs me some time and tests my patience, I’ll just do that in place of a couple rounds of golf.
I’m just about pushed as far as I’m going to go by this current Microsoft craporama. (...and that’s coming from someone who has used the system back to the damn Stone Age.)