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So much for “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”.
“And Windows 10 has made some decent inroads thus far: it now accounts for somewhere around a quarter of PCs accessing the internet”
They basically did most of it by force. This is like someone raping drunk unconscious girls then bragging they get a lot of women.
Windows 10 is basically digital date rape. Half the installs happened automatically when someone was asleep.
F. Microsoft.
Agree with that.
I only lost a few things (software/peripherals) switching from XP to Win 7.
I tried Win 10 on an extra hard drive and hated it.
I have no intention of every re-trying Win 10. I bought a Linux laptop a few months ago. If/when Win 7 becomes inoperable, I may go full Linux. Until then, I am babying my Win 7 laptop and desktop and have Windows updates turned OFF on both of them.
In that case, I may have to change my tagline to "Proudly sticking it to the control freaks at Microshaft for 6 years and counting!"
I’ll give up my Windows 7 when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I’ve been running Win 10 for about six months. I’ve tamed most of its excesses - which means it looks and acts much like Win 7.
Microsoft’s biggest problems are old and familiar ones: they’re cheap and they’re lazy. Windows needs a rebuild from scratch which nobody at Microsoft wants to do. The registry approach is fraught with peril as we’ve seen in incidents from the trivial to the catastrophic. In an age where even casual users might have 1 TB internal HDD and/or 5 TB external HDD, Win 10’s performance in file searches is shockingly bad and so slow that such searches are an exercise in futility.
The marketing tail long ago began to wag the technology dog at Microsoft (aka Steve Ballmer disease) but their bludgeoning of their audience with MS-branded rubbish (Cortana, Bing, the Edge browser, OneDrive) is a turnoff and a disincentive to adopt any new OS. In other words, the market is savvy enough to spot a sales pitch.
Microsoft needs to get the tech community back on side and make them advocates of Windows rather than critics. But the only way to do that is to improve the OS.
(Memo to non-MS OS users: I know about Mac OS and Linux and have machines that run them too. Tell your dog about them, not me).
I’ve been running Win 10 for about six months. I’ve tamed most of its excesses - which means it looks and acts much like Win 7.
Microsoft’s biggest problems are old and familiar ones: they’re cheap and they’re lazy. Windows needs a rebuild from scratch which nobody at Microsoft wants to do. The registry approach is fraught with peril as we’ve seen in incidents from the trivial to the catastrophic. In an age where even casual users might have 1 TB internal HDD and/or 5 TB external HDD, Win 10’s performance in file searches is shockingly bad and so slow that such searches are an exercise in futility.
The marketing tail long ago began to wag the technology dog at Microsoft (aka Steve Ballmer disease) but their bludgeoning of their audience with MS-branded rubbish (Cortana, Bing, the Edge browser, OneDrive) is a turnoff and a disincentive to adopt any new OS. In other words, the market is savvy enough to spot a sales pitch.
Microsoft needs to get the tech community back on side and make them advocates of Windows rather than critics. But the only way to do that is to improve the OS.
(Memo to non-MS OS users: I know about Mac OS and Linux and have machines that run them too. Tell your dog about them, not me).
Downloaded Windows 10. EDGE still won’t let me open any pages as it always says “We can’t get there from here”. It still can’t make up it’s mind if I am in Denmark or the USA.
Must open everything with Mozilla Firefox, and the only way I did that was to download Mozilla on another computer, put it on a thumb drive, then install it on my laptop.
Windows 10 also wiped out my DVD player so I had to download another portal in another computer, load it on a thumb drive, and install it on my laptop.
Why, just why should someone totally happy with Win 7 jump to 10?
Two years ago I bought a new 64 bit Win 7 desk top with 64 bit CAD and video editing software to go with it. It all works to perfection. I stopped updates when Microsoft tried to force Win 10 on us. Zero problems.
If users are happy running such an antique and insecure operating system they'll probably keep using it until the hardware gives up or the Sun expands to finally vapourise the Earth, whichever is sooner. i have an XP box and a Win7 box, both have their purpose and yes i will run them both till the sun expands
Second, Microsoft did a good job encouraging people to move away from Windows 8... what, by releasing it??? nobody wanted it and they couldn't have make it any suckier if they tried
I bought a new laptop with Windows 7 purposely before they disappeared.
I do not want Windows 10.
What can one do on Win10 that can’t be done on Win7?
I miss Windows 7 a lot. Had to get Windows 10 with my new computer purchase, and am not happy.
Didn’t we just upgrade to Win-7? LOL
I know that we’re working on compatibility issues, both hard and software - but mostly software. It cost us millions of dollars to upgrade non-compatible apps last time around and Win-10 is no different in that respect.
Our timeline is aggressive but we’re at least another year away from the first round of upgrades (we usually hit all the vanilla machines first to get a win on the board for management ;’}
The German government has banned ALL Windows 10 operating systems from running on government computers.
Why do you think this is?
Hint. Windows 10 was created by Microsoft on the specific orders of Barry Soetoro to be used as a continuous 24 hour information gathering spy machine for the NSA. The moment Windows 10 is turned on, it begins sending messages to the mother ship in Redmond WA, and then from their to giant warehouse database servers in Utah.
They telemetry device driver cannot be turned off. EVER. It is hardwired right into the CPU and network card.
Windows 10 is what George Orwell warned about. It is big brother, right in your home.
Windows 8 was such a fuctercluck that anyone on 7 is not going to go to 10 if they can keep running 7. It’s really that simple.
I guess I must be in the minority. I’m running the 1607 build on 4 devices in my house...all of them over 5 years old. I’m quite satisfied with it. IMO, Win 10 performs better than Win7 on older hardware. All I’ve done is disabled Cortana & OneDrive, as well as created a fixed pagefile 1.5 times total memory. Since build 1607...I’ve also started using the Edge browser and find it to be much closer to the functionality of IE.
Like Adam and Eve in the Garden, Microsoft coveted the Apple.
They were intensely jealous of how Apple had been able to push everyone from their operating system onto their app store, exploit the move to mobile phone apps and harvest private user identity data without people noticing too much and getting bent out of shape.
They were already on thin ice, and their Windows 10 shenanigans frittered away what little trust they had left with consumers.
I’d bet their approach did a lot to spur people to look into Linux.