With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

Post by bad_user » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

plantocorp wrote: post #135

0xmohit wrote: post #2

Some highlights: Microsoft installed an app in users’ system trays advertising the free upgrade to Windows 10. Not satisfied, the company eventually made Windows 10 a recommended update so users receiving critical security updates were now also downloading an entirely new operating system onto their machines without their knowledge. This is essentially equivalent to saying: You've been running whatever version of Win…

As a Microsoft employee, this W10 force upgrade things is the single thing that pisses me off the most by far... It goes against everything that we are trying to promote/change. Sometimes I'm really wondering if we work for the same company (I'm not in the Windows division). I feel like all the effort we put in investing in open source, being more open, and just generally a more empathic company is totally destroyed…

Post by creshal » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 9:56 PM UTC

Grishnakh wrote: post #220

creshal wrote: post #55

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> Too bad. If you sign a contract with your builder allowing him to do this Did we? There's a quite a bunch of lawsuits going on right now regarding that topic.

There's some lawsuits over MS forcing/tricking people into "upgrading" to Windows 10. This is something entirely different; this is MS not providing software updates in the way that some people would prefer. Customers don't have a right to tell their vendors exactly how to provide ongoing services. If you don't like it, find a better vendor. Also, the only successful lawsuit I've heard of against MS recently was the…

Post by legodt » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 10:04 PM UTC

r00fus wrote: post #242

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And yet the game Overwatch doesn't have an OSX port so I have windows 10 setup as a dual-boot option. It seems that Microsoft has correctly deduced that users don't really give a fuck. They'll throw a hissy fit, they'll make all sorts of blog posts, but at the end of the day the majority are still staring at a windows 10 installation screen and dealing with it.

Once you stop playing games (it happens eventually for many of us), your need to have Windows around will drop considerably. Are there any killer apps other than games to have Windows around @home?

Post by CJefferson » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC

graycat wrote: post #104

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If you have a wired connection, there is no toggle for that setting. There is probably a registry value you can change to do so though.

> There is probably a registry value you can change to do so though. Thanks, but with "probably" I sense that I'm about to get into what I call "mud wrestling" or hours or days of just throwing wild guesses against a wall to see if any appear to stick. I've only got 365 days a year, and I've given away far too many of them to such mud wrestling. GOD knows I do NOT want to do more of that. For physical things, say, an…

Post by kaybe » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 10:18 PM UTC

wlesieutre wrote: post #118

native wrote: post #25

Not shocking. I'm writing this out of my Ubuntu partition and I'm running Windows 10, forced down my throat to begin with, and it just does what it wants when it wants to. I've had times when I've gone for a break and my laptop has rebooted and installing some updates I wasn't even aware of. And I'm running Windows out of sheer necessity for the time being because I need Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.. But Microsoft ha…

I was thinking of dual booting and relegating Windows to gaming, have you had any trouble with your setup? Especially with Windows updates messing up the boot settings or wiping partitions that they shouldn't? Seems particularly risky now that MS is pushing out regular "major updates" like the anniversary update, which get handled like a system reinstall.