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Thanks to Windflier for the ping!!
Posted on 02/02/2016 9:28:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
tried it and it almost destroyed my computer. It took a week to clean it up.
Microsoft is gun-ho on Windows 10 because it is loaded with spyware. I suspect they have been ordered by homeland security to add the spy feature and not disclose this to the public.
I would use it in a heartbeat if my system had RAID drivers that worked with it, but it doesn’t, so I continue with Windows 7.
Feel free to post proof of your FUD. There’s nothing in Windows 10 that can’t be turned off.
No longer free? It has issues, but if not free people, like me, will not add it with all the issues and costing money. I’m planning on going to win 8.1 till win 10 is fixed.
One more time, for the record: Windows 10 is not a required update for Windows 7 and 8.1 users. It is now recommended. Users who do not want it can just say no.
Attribution and article by Mary Jo Foley, All About Microsoft.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-starts-pushing-windows-10-as-a-recommended-update/
Even if you shut off everything you can shut off, I must assume they have backdoor ways of accessing the material that the user agreed to let them access by accepting the EULA. Microsoft isn't going to say, "drat, we can't get at this guy's emails because he shut off Cortana!"
There’s a saying we use in our office: never put all your bits into one byte. When it comes to home operating environments, if you’re relying on Microsoft for everything, you get what you deserve.
You should be using some sort of firewall on your home router. If you’re not, I recommend downloading and using DD-WRT. Learn how to firewall yourself from Redmond. It’s really not hard.
AND, I want to point something out to you... if you read EULAs, read the EULA for Azure. Windows 10 relies HEAVILY on Azure and cloud tech. If you’re using a Windows 10 machine behind a firewall, you’re gonna have problems. Windows 10 as a core OS is solid and seems to have passed muster. If you’re like many of the latest generation of kids, you want everything in the cloud, everything “social.” That’s Windows 10’s audience.
If you want privacy, turn off telemetry, disable firewall rules in the Windows firewall, turn off Cortana, turn off Location Services. Microsoft reserves the right to access any and all information IN YOUR CLOUD STORAGE. They can NOT traverse a firewall to your home machine to compromise your system. It just does not work that way.
Same thing happened to me last July.
Recently (about a month ago) I mistakenly started the "update" again and my initial attempts to stop it were unsuccessful. Knowing what I did before to finally roll back to Windows 7, I decided to wait for it to install 10 and then roll it back again using my experience from before.
It downloaded and installed so quickly that I decided to give it another shot. I haven't had any problems since
Indeed.
Win 10 is a non starter for me personally and no plans to purchase ANY as replacement for the 600 machines I manage.
8 and 8.1 were so bad for the 40 or so we bought we aren’t doing any 8/8.1/10.
When the laptop i purchased in June 2015 dies, i am of the opinion that Windows 10 just might be finally fixed by then!
Is that headline designed to scare us into updating to 10 before we have to pay for it?
bfl
BFLR
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Thanks to Windflier for the ping!!
BTW, all, Windows 10 stops being a free upgrade in July 2016, not before then.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/
You have to click "Expand" to see most of it.
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