[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

And that is why it is so despicable that we can't trust Microsoft not to push advertising on her, spy on her, secretly download all the installation files to Windows 10 so that with a click she can get the whole dose of adware/spyware that it is. When 11 "updates" are not updates at all, but adware and spyware snuck onto our machines, Microsoft has roundly turned the corner from having our back to putting knives in it.

Until the "dirty 11" (so far) updates, Windows 7 was working for our benefit. We could trust that when we pushed the start menu we wouldn't be bombarded by animated rectangles hawking who knows what for us to buy. The start menu was to help us control our computers. No longer, with Windows 10. Now it's an advertising vector. How long before there's porn on there?

In the old days, with Microsoft's former definition of an update, putting Windows 7 on automatic update was a perfect solution for people like your wife. Now it's putting her out for the slaughter as Microsoft sells updates for whatever brings money their way, regardless of harm to customers.

How about a computer that kids also use. Click on a cool animated start menu tile and buy an Xbox game for an Xbox they don't even have for $50. There is so much potential for harm here. I don't want that stuff in my face. My operating system is not a vector for advertising that I can't shut off.

Fortunately my W does everything on her Android phone. That is a whole other story.