Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Posted on 09/19/2015 6:05:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What?
Thanks for posting,. Shame on MS for making p2p distribution the default.
Other than the privacy issues, W10 has been very good, fast and solid.
Of course, MS still is nowhere near as aggressive as Apple, Google and Amazon in gathering personal data. Those companies own their users, lock stock and barrel.
I find it incredible the number of people who will trade privacy for convenience.
Win7 users should turn off Customer Experience Improvement Program, if they don’t want MS intrustion.
Start»Search»CEIP
“I had one that didn’t make the transition, but when I re-loaded it, it worked.”
I tried that and still get a message that says “Incompatible program”
Microsoft is still on the give list to the Clinton Foundation for Global Corruption and Money Laundrying.
Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Did you read Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy"? The Galactic Empire continued, indeed thrived, even while the periphery crumbled and broke away. The megalith called Microsoft will continue, even while Apple and Linux and others eat away at its empire.
Microsoft is not dying, not by a long shot. Windows, or whatever Windows becomes in the next few years, is so much a part of how companies do business that it would take the collapse of American business for it to get loose.
I have doubts that anything can take Microsoft's place in the enterprise anytime in the next two decades, maybe more. And what does take its place will likely be an outgrowth of Microsoft, not something else. Certainly not Apple or Linux, and nothing else is on the landscape.
Now if you were to ask me whether I like that or not, well that's a different question. I'm just commenting on the degree to which Microsoft rules American business, not whether I personally like that fact.
Yup. That's what folks said about Apple in, what, 1998 1999?
Windows 10 lasted for about a day in our house. One of the programs we use every day doesn’t work on windows 10 unless you get the new “app” version, which is subscription based instead of straight purchase or free.
Nope not gonna happen
I’m very happy with Win10.
In light of some things Microsoft has been doing since Balmer it may get to be liked a lot more.
Part of that is the fact that there are many other companies with many other product lines and OSes that are good.
Another part is that they need to acknowledge that their customers have noticed they're not the only game in town, although they're still the biggest.
Wife has a laptop with 8.1 on it. She absolutely hates it. Enough that she had me put linux on it in a dual boot setup. Now she uses linux for most things, and windows only when she has to. She wants to go back to the simplicity of one OS though. Thinking about buying a copy of 7 outright, wiping everything and starting from scratch. 10 is kind of that dark horse, do I dare risk it, or would she hate it as much as 8.1....
He is one of the Apple fanboi fanatics, ignore him.
Now that the FReepathon is over, the Apple spam is off the wall. Good way to ensure the next one goes even slower.
Windows 8 is no filthy sandwich. It's better than Windows 7 in lots of ways, including performance and gaming. And Windows 10 is an excellent operating system.
OK, I’ve got to know the name of this supposed program that somehow doesn’t work just because you installed windows10.
I use an old copy of Paint Shop Pro from 1999, that I run from a thumb drive and a strategy game I’ve been carting between computers since Windows 98 and both work completely fine.
If this is some win32 program it seriously isn’t actually telling you it isn’t working.
I can't even talk about people who, as you said "will trade privacy for convenience". Their ignorance is shocking.
That's the Microsoft internal code name for this major update. It will likely be called Windows 10 November 15 Update; if Microsoft had used the old naming convention, it would have been called Windows 10 Service Pack 1.
> Got 7, and keep hearing 10 is not only buggy but seriously intrusive.
Intrusive?
How about this?
The default install allows Win10 to setup a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network connection (both internal network and external internet) and use your PC and bandwidth to push out updates to the entire internet. If you are on a limited byte-counting plan, this will cost you money and let you hit your byte-limit early. They put this P2P stuff in a couple different places, so if you go and turn it off in one place, you might still miss it elsewhere.
Agreed. I've never done Facebook, very frightening. That's not even about convenience. Vanity, perhaps?
NSA couldn't have dreamt up a better gift.
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