As the old saying goes, nothing in this world is for free. Seems MS are going to rip the pee out of it tho :nope:

The next logical step will be that MS tries to install Windows or gain control for pushinging rights on PCs that connect to the web and have not even Windows running as their OS.

No, I am not joking. I just continue on a straight line the course they have plotted in the past 2 years, starting with W8. Mark my words.

Windows 10 and Silent hunter IV and V
 

I will share my sad story. I attempted the upgrade a week ago. The games will start and run but sadly I learned that my video card manufacture did not write updated drivers for windows 10. The generic driver made the game run hideously slow. So I fell back to windows 7. Its an old machine and I only use it for gaming. So my advice if you also run into this problem is to wait till you get all the last updates to windows 7 . Burn an imagine disk for windows 7 and hang on till you get a new machine.

all the best C6owboy

Welcome aboard!
 

Welcome to SubSim c6owboy :sunny::sunny:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/310...ate-grows.html

Just for those of you on Win10.

Installed on 2 of 3 computers running Windows 10, no problems, except the System Restore issue which is easily corrected by turning it back on.

So Windows 10 scores a massive own goal with its new features update.
This up-date downloads then installs then downloads and installs and then again and again and again in a never ending loop.
This slows you computer down and also you keep getting asked to restart.
Any saves you make seem to go missing and in the end the system ties itself in a knot.
This is a real kick in the ass for all those who stood by Windows 10 and put
themselves out to fix all the little problems with it from the start.
Back to Windows 8.1 for me

GAME OVER FOR WIN7/8.1

Looks like our fight back against the evil MS is about to to be delivered a blow this October.

Win7 and 8.1 to get cumulative updates – you no longer control your Win7 or 8.1 machine

https://www.askwoody.com/2016/win7-a...ative-updates/

Well thanks a bunch MS you have just reinforced the known fact you don't care, you want to rule the waves and you will walk over us to do it.

As much as I strongly disagree with what MS are doing I must say I am hardly surprised.

Actually their idea is a good one if, you ever need to reinstall your operating system. Only one cumulative update to download instead of hundreds of separate ones and, if you only want the security updates you can get just those all in one separate download. Of course, there will always be those who hate anything Microsoft does.

End game.

Few will remember, but I predicted somethign like this in the days when the first hard informations about what Windows 8 would look like made the rounds. Most of you guys called me Cassaandra and laughed.

I commented on the above linked blog entry at Woody's site, under the name "Marc", and I have nothing to add to those remarks. You can recognise it easily by its length and my usual typos. :)

Getting locked out from your unconditional right to command your system, never is any good. Even less so when the perpetrator has such a prominent record of releasing broken oatches, opatches disabling systems, and abusing his access possibilities for profiliung and spying.

I use an archive DVD of patches, status late summer last year, when reinstalling Windows 7 these days, I do not trust MS and will never allow my system again to vastly connect to their servers. Too much brown smelly stuff has been intentionally mislabeled and lied about, and got pushed on people'S systems under fraudulent claims and lying explanations.

I am convinced that the massive update scanning problems of the past weeks and months have been intentionally designed and left the way they are in, to make the experience unpleasant for people and pushing them to abandon old W7, and get W10.

But I assume people with W10 finding that thei mahcines do not work anymore due to the latest flow of prkioed W10 updates, hardly is any more pleasant. Its a very bad opütion to allow Microsoft poushign its sh!t onto your HD at their will, neitherneeding your "Yes" anymore, nor caring for your opinion and intention.

But if you excuse all that and find words to comfoprt yourself - okay, yopu time yopu waste with repairing your system. You reap the fruitis you have helped to sowe. These fruits here now are black, stinking, and poisonous.

P.S. I have ended my commenting at Woody'S blog with today's posting, and I also stop posting in this thread now. Windows is dead. Out.

Before October I will be cleaning up my PC and removing all stuff that is private and not for sale if you get my drift. Looks like next year I will be on the hunt for a pre-installed OS that is not microsoftcrime.

Going for a preinstalled Linux is a good idea because then the manufacturer/seller can and must guarantee the compatability of all hardware components, and their proper support with Linux drivers. Some brands do better in this than others, some boycott Linux more or less actively by having signed alliance contracts with Microsoft. The Kraken unfortunately casts a shadow in Linux land, too.

And why would one give up Windows just to move to Apple or Google? Thats out from the frying pan and into the fire.