Windows 10: What You Need to Know

[Skybird]

That is a new dimension of planned obsolescence.

[propbeanie]

It's also how you "delete" the competition...

[Rockin Robbins]

The photo is a link. Here, according to Greg Keizer of Computerworld magazine, is the scoop. At 28 months before Windows 7 death, the majority of Windows computer users still use Windows 7. In fact, over the past 16 months, Windows 7 has actually GAINED .6%. With 28 months to go, XP was at 3 points lower percentage use than Windows 7 is now.

The reason is commercial use. Since Windows 10 is not secure and cannot be made secure, with its telemetry collecting your proprietary data and sending it who knows where twice a day, businesses cannot accept Windows 10 as an operating system. It just isn't going to happen.

Microsoft's refusal to bow down to customer needs will bear the same result as Walmart's closing of checkout lanes and insertion of self-checkout trying to force shoppers to cooperate with their plan of firing cashiers, and monopoly cable companies now looking to rip $200 a month from you for their "economical" bundle. There is a breaking point and suddenly, before they even have time to react, those companies will find themselves bankrupt.

I'm getting ready to fire Spektrum right now after they raised their most economical bundle over $160 per month. I'll buy internet only until competition comes along. Then they can whistle Dixie.

We are Customer. We are King. Serve us or die.

[Skybird]

They are not dying, they are doing too strong in server and cloud business. Their stocks are soaring. Also, their loobbyists are strongly connected in our corrupted politics and public administrations. Finally, I take it for granted that they have strong support by the US foreign and trade ministries. For these, MS spreading its OS is a weapon of economic warfare and espionage.

[mapuc]

When reading Skybird's comment I remembered a question

Some of you don't like Microsoft and other things related to this company. Some of you have on several occasion posted stories about Microsoft near death

Is this, due to your anti-Microsoft standpoint, a wishful thinking or do you have knowledge that tell us Microsofts will soon be history ?

We all have things we don't like and hope it will disappear or die fast(not human or animal) but sometimes its nothing more than wishful thinking.

Markus

[Skybird]

Mapuc,

just follow this thread and the links to various entries from tech blogs/sites in the past two years, and then draw your own conclusion.

Same about the market analysis linked here or in those blogs and essays.

Also in some other threads in this forum.

There are no new wrongs in Microsoft's policies and Windows recently. Only those old ones that people always want to forget.

[l02turner]

Read the thread about the MS abuse of privacy issues with interest. I resisted W10 as long as I could. I had to buy another laptop because the old one died and all I could find were machines with W10 loaded. I figured no problem, if need be I can load a copy of w8 I have the discs for. The problem I could not get around was that W8 would not recognize the drivers for the newer hard drives. And unfortunately W10 is such a monster it requires a large HDD just for W10. In frustration I gave up and lived with w10. but with all of these horror stories about the privacy issues I am sorry i did. Thanks for the education. When MS installed a major update without my permission I realized what a monster they are. Time for me to see if the SteamOS or Linux will help with my situation...

[Skybird]

l02tuner,

cant tell for sure on the 32Bit download of yours, but regarding your Windows 8 anmd laptop, you can improve your situation:

If your hardware allows, buy a second HD or SSD and put it in.

If not possible, take the one HD yo have, decrease the partition with Windows and games to what you need, make sure oyu have some reserves, then free the remaining space and form a second partition on it.

On this separate partition install Linux. You then have a dual boot system.

Use Linux for all your surfing, emailing, photoediting, twittering, text-writing, whatever it is. Use your Windows for just launching your games, nothing else.

Might need you to get yourself some educaiton on Linux, but trust me, it is not as bad as it sounds. i did that myself two years ago, with Linux Mint, two HDs in my tower. There are some possible traps, but properly prepared you should be able to avoid them. Linux is not as difficult as n on-Linux users think it is. However, it also is njot as pewrfect as Linux fans claim. Have reasonable expectations, then you cannot go wrong - and have reserves for getting positively surprised most likely.

If Windows wants to steal your data and privacy and wan ts to overweatch ever keystroke you make, then do not make data available to it and do not type texts and weblinks under Windows. That way they can only read your savegames, and your Steam account, and what games you play.

If you want to do multiplayer and live voice connection, yiu most accept some more compormise, but still: if you do not surf or work under Windows - not much they can learn aboout you.

You can be hit by bad Windows updates however. And there are many of these, you are no customerl but a beta tester. You pay them for this honour. Thats the deal. Delay updates, avpoiding them you cannot. But I think in W10 Home you canot delay updates without metering your connection.

Dual boot or two separate systems is the way to go now. IMO the only reasonable way. Or to skip gaming alltogether (or going consoles), and so leave Windows behind completely.