Windows 10 Collusion complaint / class act

[DonJuane]

By the same token someone doesn't like it when their house is painted and someone comes along and tells them the color no longer is approved for the neighborhood and they must re-paint. Windows 10 is a ridiculous re-facing for the same old Windows NT background that has simply been resurfaced and sold again over and over for several decades. The only reason that Windows 10 came to pass and was forced down everyone's throat is that Microsoft had made too good a product with Windows 7 and 10 wouldn't sell without their strong-arm technique to force down everyone's throats. Windows 8 and 8.1 were complete jokes and proved this because everyone back-leveled to Windows 7 even if they had to pay a hundred bucks. Microsoft saw that 10 was also destined to fail so they lobbied to force Windows 7 off the market and strong-arm vendors to no longer provide Windows 7 drivers. And if anyone can't see this, then they don't know much about this operating system.

All Windows 10 offers is more "services" that I can purchase and that I have no desire for, plus a stupid smart-phone looking interface that I have to work hard to get around to find what I am familiar with and where I can "get back to business". I personally don't want a desktop that looks like a smart phone because I go to my desktop as often as possible because a smart phone is simply inadequate for things that I do a lot, such as mapping, video watching, video editing, photo editing etc.

I think Doyle's concern is what matches mine and that is you cannot keep Windows 7 without eventually being forced off of it. There are a few things working against you and first is the browsers that constantly update and demand more horsepower whether you want them to or not. Use an old version and you are forced off the network with nothing working any longer, upgrade and you need a new computer every 3 years because the browser slows it down too much. The other factor is antivirus which can take up to 50% of computer power and that grows in size greatly to force you on to larger systems as well. You can get around the antivirus scheme by just turning it off, adding a phenomenal backup system like Acronis and have constant backups, then restore from yesterday when a virus hits. If you keep the backup encrypted, then the thing like ransomware can't touch the backups if they are hidden Acronis volumes. Still the bottom line is you don't have the option to stay with the old Windows 7 and I think that is the concern that has been presented, that we all are forced to pay for something we don't really want or need.