How Windows 10 became malware
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How Windows 10 became malware
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#2Scary
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#3This is exactly why I'm now looking for a good Linux laptop. Patch Tuesday has become a crapshoot of whether I have to manually remove the Windows Updates that want to install Windows 10. Of course, I've already uninstalled and hidden them before. I've also disabled the option "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates". But, they keep coming back.
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#4I'm probably just projecting from my own experience, but I think Microsoft pissed away a lot of accumulated goodwill with this severe pivot back to the dark-side.
I'm still amenable to Windows -- I play a lot of games -- but at this point there's no way I'll willingly upgrade to Win10 without some important changes, ex:
1. Upgrading to Win10 needs to be on my schedule, not yours. I'll do it when I buy new hardware, so if you really want me to switch, give me some kind of key I can use at a time of my choosing.
2. Fix the schizophrenic UI where various Windows settings are missing or sometimes hidden away.
3. Stop lying about updates and hiding trojan code in them.
4. No sneaking ads onto MY computer.
5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser.
6. Allow power-users firm control over when patching occurs, because data-loss is not acceptable.
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#5Scary
Indeed its scary. First I was fine with a small box letting me know I can upgrade to Windows 10 on my computer but I can't believe how much more intrusive it became.
Luckily I used this http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
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#6Shouldn't this be a feast for class action lawsuit lawyers? Pretty sure someone who bought win7 or 8 didn't agree to this, even if it's somewhere hidden in the terms of use (at least in most European countries hiding anything significant there is not binding in court, not sure about the US).
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#7I'm probably just projecting from my own experience, but I think Microsoft pissed away a lot of accumulated goodwill with this severe pivot back to the dark-side. I'm still amenable to Windows -- I play a lot of games -- but at this point there's no way I'll willingly upgrade to Win10 without some important changes, ex: 1. Upgrading to Win10 needs to be on my schedule, not yours. I'll do it when I buy new hardware, s…
5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser.
The rest of your points are good, but I love this one the best. Because Apple has now done the same thing, Spotlight searches now go to the Internet by default.
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#8I'm probably just projecting from my own experience, but I think Microsoft pissed away a lot of accumulated goodwill with this severe pivot back to the dark-side. I'm still amenable to Windows -- I play a lot of games -- but at this point there's no way I'll willingly upgrade to Win10 without some important changes, ex: 1. Upgrading to Win10 needs to be on my schedule, not yours. I'll do it when I buy new hardware, s…
5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser. The rest of your points are good, but I love this one the best. Because Apple has now done the same thing, Spotlight searches now go to the Internet by default.
http://i.imgur.com/k7CQTim.png
Seems fine to me? ;)
(hit start, start searching for something, gear on the left.)
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser. The rest of your points are good, but I love this one the best. Because Apple has now done the same thing, Spotlight searches now go to the Internet by default.
http://i.imgur.com/k7CQTim.png Seems fine to me? ;) (hit start, start searching for something, gear on the left.)
AFAIK it actually dates to Win8.1 too.
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#10I'm probably just projecting from my own experience, but I think Microsoft pissed away a lot of accumulated goodwill with this severe pivot back to the dark-side. I'm still amenable to Windows -- I play a lot of games -- but at this point there's no way I'll willingly upgrade to Win10 without some important changes, ex: 1. Upgrading to Win10 needs to be on my schedule, not yours. I'll do it when I buy new hardware, s…
Win10 does allow limited control on the time Windows updates are installed, BTW.