Windows 10

[Dedman]

Something I've learned in the past 15yrs dealing with computers...when something is "free" YOU are the product. Your info is being sold. Now some people may not have an issue with that but when you run a business from a computer it becomes very important. Windows 10 is a huge spyware package, yes you can change all those settings BUT by the time you do that it's too late "no file left behind" Windows 10 already has everything they wanted, why do you think they are set to "on" as default?. Yes Windows 10 is free, but how long before you get a bill for a service pack that must be installed or Windows will cease to operate?
Paranoid? maybe. Experienced? Yes.

[DrNomis_44]

Something I've learned in the past 15yrs dealing with computers...when something is "free" YOU are the product. Your info is being sold. Now some people may not have an issue with that but when you run a business from a computer it becomes very important. Windows 10 is a huge spyware package, yes you can change all those settings BUT by the time you do that it's too late "no file left behind" Windows 10 already has everything they wanted, why do you think they are set to "on" as default?. Yes Windows 10 is free, but how long before you get a bill for a service pack that must be installed or Windows will cease to operate?
Paranoid? maybe. Experienced? Yes.

That's actually not much of an issue for me because technically, I'm not using my computers to run a business, I use them for running my music making software, running my games software, browsing the internet, or watching movies, I remember paying $260.00 for my Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium Installation DVDs, so getting Windows 10 free was a bonus for me, my Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop came with Windows 8.1 pre-installed on it, but I had to pay about $807.00 for the Laptop itself, so technically Windows 8.1 cost me about $807.00, having being used to Windows 7, I didn't like Windows 8.1 much, my biggest issue was the Metro User interface taking up the whole screen on bootup, to get to the desktop I had to look through all the Metro icons and find the small desktop icon, now, with Windows 10 it boots straight to the desktop, and I am actually liking the new start menu, I'm finding Windows 10 a lot more intuitive than 8.1 was.

Having said that, my attitude is basically "Each to their own", not everyone is going to like Windows 10 and they should just continue using what works for them, after all, it'd be a very boring world to live in if everyone used the exact same things in their day to day lives, wouldn't it?


For sure, and I agree, Microsoft shouldn't be aggressively forcing people to install their latest operating system on their computers, people have a basic right as humans to use whatever operating system they like, in whatever way they see fit, and I think Microsoft are forgetting that, considering that each User has paid their hard-earned money for their computer hardware and are technically the owners of the hardware.