Hey there Ted, I completely understand about your posting this original thread as Info - and not your personal opinion.
My main CG workstation at home has Win7. And, I have been wondering about the whole upgrade to Win10. The author actually claimed " Microsoft has two great modern OSes: Windows XP and Windows 7 ". This leads me to believe that maybe I should just Stick w/Win7 and I will be fine. Win7 does what I need, for the most part it just works. Although - I will admit - my workstation has been having BSOD's for a while now. I even spoke to folks at BOXX this past week while at SIGGraph (the big Graphics conf.) - and they suggested I contact them for support - even though my machine is like 2 years old now. One comment the author made, really makes me wary about Win10: " As if it wasn't enough, Windows 10 gets downloaded automatically if you run Windows 7 or 8.1. We are talking about 3 gigabytes of data some people absolutely do not need." Is he serious? Does that mean at some point my Win7 machine will Automatically Upgrade itself - without my permission - to being Win10? Or - does it just mean that it does the full download of the Install - but, only RUNS the Install when I decide to actually Upgrade the OS? I suspect it's the later... -K- -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Why Windows 10 Sucks.. Just in case you are just joining this thread, already in progress, I want to point out that "Windows 10 Sucks" was an article title, and not the personal nor professional opinion of the humble original poster, moi. Windows 10 is "where you want to go today" if you're on the MS bandwagon, or being dragged along, kicking and screaming, by your clients. I have no doubt we'll be receiving support calls soon from clients who are running brand-new machines who may or may not be aware they're running Windows 10. "Yeah, but that doesn't make any difference to you, does it?" I'm just hoping for a heads-up if there's a new font technology, screen enhancement (Aero, for example), directory changes (abandoning Program Files, for example, or finding things moved to User/xxxx/LocalSettings), ODBC changes, etc. that might break the many apps we have out in the field. Any help would be appreciated. Before we slip off into OT-land with privacy and such, getting back on the "Windows 10 Issues" track, ZDNet was busy over the weekend, Woody Leonhard (the owner of the "Hacker's Guide" trademark, and a mentor on our first HackFox book) looks into his crystal ball and prognosticates: "The first six changes Microsoft will make to Windows 10" (Prognosticate is latin for "make stuff up in the slow two weeks before Labor Day," I think, though I am no scholar): http://www.infoworld.com/article/2957313/microsoft-windows/the-first-6-changes-microsoft-will-make-to-windows-10.html "Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10" http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-quietly-rewrites-its-activation-rules-for-windows-10/ (This would be nice if done the right way, which I doubt MS would do. I needed to rebuild two machines over the weekend that were originally Action Pack OSes. The old activation keys would no longer work, leaving me in a tough spot, with OSes no longer the current supported ones, nor were keys for sale from MS. Complete Freemanize (tm) and reinstall from scratch, restore from backups. I miss the old MSDN at a reasonable price and with far more reasonable restrictions. Activation screws over the unlucky, while pirateers no doubt can work around it.) "Windows 10 makes diagnostic data collection compulsory" http://www.computerworld.com/article/2968288/microsoft-windows/windows-10-makes-diagnostic-data-collection-compulsory.html Because, you know, what you're doing on your machine, when you're doing it, and how long you worked on any particular document, as well as random bits of documents, data, bookmarks, shortcuts, clipboard contents, etc. are helpful to Microsoft, and whichever "partners" they choose to share it with. This sounds like it should automatically disqualify Windows for any confidential work: HIPAA, stock trading, banking, government work, etc. [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/80838f1ca795b14ea1af48659f35166f22c...@drexch02.corp.globetax.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
