Why does my start menu contact the Fucking internet? The biggest hate I have for Win10 is that they are trying to push a mobile interface onto a desktop PC. Mobile users and desktop users are two different breeds of end users who use their 'computers' for different tasks.
Lol. "You can open this with Pages" "Sign in with your MobileMe" "Would you like to try Safari instead?" Windows 10 is about as intrusive as Snow Leopard, which was 5 revs ago for OS X. Uhhhhh.... who's still selling operating systems? Apple? Nope. They gave that up with Lion. Red Hat, I guess? But how many flavors of Linux are free? When Windows 10 hit without a price tag, that was post-Ballmer-era Microsoft recognizing the economics of the situation they were in. Why do you think they pushed so hard into Hardware? Anyone who googled it? Seriously. As a recent returnee to Windows, y'all are some alarmist, delicate little flowers. XP was a piece of shit, Vista was a piece of shit, 7 was a confusing piece of shit, 8 was an abominable piece of shit, and 10 is a piece of shit that doesn't cost anything. And oh holy fuck has the world changed since. Microsoft got busted for bundling Explorer with Windows. The App Store? Sure, no problem. That says more about how the world has changed than how shady Microsoft is. If Microsoft is "disgustingly sneaky" then how is it you can turn off ALL this shit without resorting to any hacking?"these are suggestions", "this is a promoted app", "we thought you'd like to know that Edge uses less battery than Chrome",
When Windows 10 first hit computers without a price tag, questions were asked about what the hidden cost might be.
Seriously... who would think that in order to hide the OneDrive ads, you'd need to flick a toggle labeled Show sync provider notifications?
Microsoft has found itself in court on more than one occasion for anticompetitive behavior with Internet Explorer,
I get a pop up every few weeks shucking Edge or whatnot but I rarely see advertising. If you don't change settings than Windows 10 is pretty obnoxious. Disable Cortana and than it allows you to disable web search, presto! Vanilla 10 is totally obnoxious and it's the only version 99% of users will ever see.
Did you disable Cortana in settings? I've seen a few pop-ups telling me how fucking awesome my life would be if I re-enabled it but otherwise it seems to be slain. First thing I did in both my 10 installations was to neuter all the extra "functionality" like Cortana, Candy Crush and anti-privacy add-ons. I haven't had that many complaints after that. Operating systems should just be there to run applications. 10 is a bloated, obnoxious attention seeking whore if you don't fiddle with settings for an hour or so. If Cortana were an exacutable application instead of baked in spy/bloat wear I might give it a chance.
"It ain't half bad once you turn off the Fisher-Price interface." - A technician describing the then-new Windows XP to me in 2002 Any of the big companies are gonna bundle a bajillion bits of bullshit into their OS. i've got a folder on my phone full of crap Google won't let me delete off Android. It's much like the folder full of crap Apple wouldn't let me delete off iOS. On the desktop you can kill stuff and hopefully it won't break things... but I mean, on the Windows side of things, iTunes is an optional virus. On the OS X side of things it's in the finder.
Earlier in the day I was reflecting on how almost all the Google crap on my Android is either opt in or I was giving the chance to opt out of it during set up. It's gunking up my phone but in a pretty minimal and uninvasive way. Windows opts users into a great deal of crap upfront. Savvy users can opt out of most of it in settings. As a semi savvy user I receive a subsidy from all the users that either live with it or actually enjoy the crapwear. I paid more for Windows professional on the PC I built in hopes that I might have a bit more control over it, so I probably shouldn't get to excited about my subsidy. The vile Lenovo crap on my laptop is worse than Windows 10. I should just tear it all out but I honestly have no idea what some of it does and don't want to fix the shit I might break. Operating systems should almost exclusively be only platforms for running applications and supervising networks. I could go Linux on my built box but I really only built the thing so I'd be ready to play Mount and Blade 2 when it comes out so Linux is off the table. I'm not crying about it because 10 isn't all that bad. I don't really think any of their other OS's were all that bad after service packs. They aren't a fantastic company and they violate every single ethical rule I was taught in my small handful of programming classes but oh well.
I turned it off. I am pretty happy with Windows 10, actually. It doesn't seem too mobile too me, as I have my start menu and file explorer to get about. I agree that mobile and desktop should have separate UI's. One is for production, and one is for consumption.
I'm a little confused. This was well-known long before MS stopped the free upgrade program, so why are people only now complaining? What would the breaking point look like, exactly? They've already got millions of copies installed. What are you going to do, give Microsoft more money to go back to 7 or 8, which will then not work with newer hardware?It's as though Microsoft is trying to see just how much it can get away with before people reach breaking point.
It looks like the author is making a call to arms that this is the breaking point moment that everyone knew was coming. It's time for things to change, but will Microsoft listen? Maybe people will get fed up. But it's more likely to happen if there's one big problem instead of many tiny niggling problems.It might feel as though we're going over old ground here, and we are. Microsoft just keeps letting us (and you) down, time and time and time again.
That I agree with. But I again wonder what "giving up" will actually look like.