Windows 10: What You Need to Know

[Rockin Robbins]

Windows 10 is failing us

While Windows 10 is arguably successful from a market share perspective, it is still failing in one big way -- the user experience. Windows 8.x was an absolute disaster, and Microsoft's latest is certainly better than that, but it is still not an enjoyable experience. Quite frankly, the people clutching to Windows 7 aren't so crazy.

[Skybird]

You just don't try hard enough to love it. The love you do not throw at it, is the love it never returns.

[Buddahaid]

Still works for me as well as 7 did. I've been using their new mail app too but I suppose you'll tell me how bad that works for me too.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Still works for me as well as 7 did. I've been using their new mail app too but I suppose you'll tell me how bad that works for me too.

If the e-mail app is one of them "modern apps" translation: turns a computer into a cell phone, Thunderbird beats it in every respect plus a lot more respects than cell phone app doesn't have.

[Moonlight]

^He's no need to tell you that Buddahaid as Microsnot already knows.

[Rockin Robbins]

And if Windows 10 is so great why are one in four intending to switch to Apple in the next six months? How do you explain the graph above showing Microsoft falling off a cliff through Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 without a single hitch, just a straight downward trend?

Microsoft has made a corporate decision to die. Its refusal to alter the downward plunge for six years proves their demise is no accident.

[Buddahaid]

I'm only relating my experience. I can't speak for the whiner generation.

[Skybird]

https://www.askwoody.com/2017/window...ches-continue/

Well.

[Skybird]

What a total mess. I have lost both my two DVDs where I had saved my patch archive for a fresh Windows 7 installation. The original, and the copy - both gone. I included the patches released until SP1, and then the patches from SP1 until summer 2015. It did not include anything later, avoiding most of those messy later patches dealing with Microsoft'S brutal GWX assault-campaign and the earlier attempts of inverse-installing W10-spy technology into Windows 7.

These DVDs were my holy grail. I forsaw the probolems I now have, and knew they were precious therefore. They would have allowed me to reinstall W7 without needing to access Microsoft's infested malware database online.

I desperately searched for an hour now foran old source, website, link, whatever, where I could get such an old patch archive and download it, and not from Microsoft. Two years ago, such places existed, today I find none anymore.

Has anyone a trustworthy link? The problem with PC magazinse' according offeringsd is that they always update their archive to the latest status, so I get all the crap from the past two years with them as well. I want nothing beyond summer 2015 at the latest.

I will never forgive Microsoft what a mess they have turned my gaming life into.

And don'T tell me about W10. I will never get into, period. Also do not tell me about Linux, I use it already for anything else. But the kind of simulations I want to play, and Linux - do not go well together.