Windows 10: What You Need to Know

[Rockin Robbins]

Windows 10 continues its slow march to desktop domination


With undisguised admiration for Microsoft's thuggish campaign to dominate you, this author extrapolates current "adoption" rates to predict Windows 10 majority in two years' time. He has failed to consider a couple of factors:

• The low-hanging fruit, the low information basic users, have already been picked. What is left is us power users who insist on control of our own systems. We paid our money to build what we want and will not compromise.
• If Microsoft means what it says (itself very doubtful) the "free" "upgrade" to Windows 10 will end in July(? Who actually cares?). After that, forced upgrades are not a voluntary contract and under the Interstate Commerce Act (in the USA), as an unsolicited delivery, users have no obligation to pay for it and can keep it or dispose of it for free, no questions asked.

My money is on 2020 before Windows 10 nears the market share of Windows 7. Microsoft could hasten that by sabotaging Windows 7 through the upgrade process to make it an unusable operating system. Never rule that out as a possibility. Remember Windows XP, which I continue to use on a laptop with no problems whatever and it remains untouched by malware after being online continuously for three months.

Unless Microsoft buys a vowel I'll be a Linux user when the options run out and Microsoft is very busy "dominating" the market. They make Darth Vader look like a hero.