I'm not sure what you are getting at. Yes, Microsoft is badgering me constantly to upgrade to Windows 10. Every time I start the machine, and sometimes when it's running, I get these endless pop up windows URGING me to update to Windows 10, and I keep worrying that one day I might accidentally hit that button.
No, I don't want Windows 10. I don't even want Windows 7. (it sucks.) No, I don't need Microsoft "helping" me manage my usage or browsing, what I need Microsoft to do is to leave me the F*** alone apart from providing subsequently discovered vulnerability updates, so long as they don't compromise my privacy.
Yes, Microsoft has become as Fascist as Google. No doubt they look enviously on Google's Data mining operations and wonder how they can force people to give them some of that information goodness!
Well I don't give a flying flip about Microsoft's profits. I hate that company. Everything they do more or less sucks. I hate Google and Apple too, but for mostly different reasons.
I am seriously contemplating telling the whole lot to go to H3ll and switching to Linux. The one thing I am getting sick of in this age of resurgent fascism is other people trying to force me to do stuff that I don't want to do.
“I get these endless pop up windows URGING me to update to Windows 10, and I keep worrying that one day I might accidentally hit that button. “
Well then keep an eye on yourself, because at no point is MS taking your mouse, moving it over, and forcing you to do it.
“No, I don’t want Windows 10. I don’t even want Windows 7. (it sucks.) No, I don’t need Microsoft “helping” me manage my usage or browsing, what I need Microsoft to do is to leave me the F*** alone apart from providing subsequently discovered vulnerability updates, so long as they don’t compromise my privacy. “
Well then dont install it. Like what is it with the constant “I’m a victim” thing? You are an adult. Do adult things like not doing things you dont want.
“Well I don’t give a flying flip about Microsoft’s profits. I hate that company. Everything they do more or less sucks. I hate Google and Apple too, but for mostly different reasons. “
Well then why are you even using computers?
“I am seriously contemplating telling the whole lot to go to H3ll and switching to Linux”
Where at any point you run into an “issue” you can then scream at them (or whomever), because Linux, despite what the people on FR that constantly hawk it say, is no magic OS that free you from all your tech troubles, it just makes those troubles next to impossible to fix because there usually aren’t anyone to run to make it go away easily.