So, VanDeKoik, how many of your tech illiterate friends would have thought they HAD to upgrade, either “now” or “tonight?” It’s their own fault, you might say, but having your copy of Windows seemingly force you to make a choice, would you not say Microsoft was being a “bad apple?” That prompt choice really put a nail in Microsoft’s reputation, in my book. It’s worse than malware, because your computer gets completely redone, and may come back not working.
Oh, and what about making Windows 10 install automatically via Automatic Updates? After telling my customers and coworkers for years to have updates set to that (for all who can’t be assured of staying up on every little patch), my old advice would make their computers go through the upgrade.
Oh, and that’s not all. Microsoft has been extremely obtuse with their updates, often providing such general information about a patch that you really can’t know what it is.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/21/microsoft_will_explain_only_significant_windows_10_updates/
VanDeKoik, you may think all of this cr@p is an excellent thing, but the rest of us see this in a very different, dare I say, much more informed and intelligent, light.
Eat that.
“So, VanDeKoik, how many of your tech illiterate friends would have thought they HAD to upgrade, either “now†or “tonight?†“
If they can read? None.
” but having your copy of Windows seemingly force seemingly force”
Again, it isn’t, but playing victim of “M$” is seemingly a badge of pride by some on this site.
“That prompt choice really put a nail in Microsoft’s reputation, in my book. It’s worse than malware, because your computer gets completely redone, and may come back not working.
Take a second to read and you wont “install” anything. Win 10 requires you to multiple times hit buttons giving user permission. Again, you want to hide behind laziness to play victim of some nefarious plot.
“After telling my customers and coworkers for years to have updates set to that (for all who can’t be assured of staying up on every little patch),”
So you encouraged people to pay no attention to what is going on with their machine? Wonderful.
“VanDeKoik, you may think all of this cr@p is an excellent thing, but “
Personal responsibility? Silly me I forgot this is the part of FR where you can go and brag about how little of that you engage in.
“Eat that”
How edgy. Can’t take time to pay attention to what you are doing, and it’s someone else’s fault. Better write Obama so we can get a government program to prevent that.
Excellent post, ConservativeMind. You notice, of course, how hostile and evasive and disconnected from reality that his response was.
The only thing he knows is that Windows 10 is the best OS in the known universe, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong wrong wrong and needs to be punished with harsh rhetoric.
It reminds me so much of how leftists operate. “You are wrong, a bigot, a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, an Islamaphobe, and should shut up about anything you’ve observed or read.”