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1) I personally really enjoy the UI of windows 10. I have windows 7 at work. I had a windows 8 machine for a year or so. But Windows 10 is the best of both 7

by bargl 11y ago

1) I personally really enjoy the UI of windows 10. I have windows 7 at work. I had a windows 8 machine for a year or so. But Windows 10 is the best of both 7 and 8 to me. The touch interface is good. The shortcuts are great, and they have re-introduced a start like menu. 3) OK I'll guess at this one. Space. If they are retaining a bunch of information it may take up a significant amount of space they can free by getting rid of it. But I don't know for sure. It might just be that 31 days is a standard tech return policy period and they can. 2/4) I think you can turn the notifications off. And if you are going to learn a new OS it makes sense to learn the one that you are going to be moving to no the one you are going to be moving from. http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/disabling-windows-10-upgrade-notification http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/disabling-windows-10-upgr... 5) This is opinion and people disliking the new direction of Microsoft. You get new features (Like Cortana) but it costs you in privacy. How much is that cost? Only Microsoft really knows... But you can always set up a dual boot or something to address some of those issues. MANY Linux distros are almost easier to get used to than Windows 10 (from windows 7). And win 10 even stole some features from them. <soapbox> I just want to let everyone know that anything you post here (on the internet) is already being gobbled up by the NSA, just about anything you do on your phone, and now anything you do on your pc (presumably). Lets focus on changing the law, because Linux is not a viable solution for 99% (that stat is made up) of people, which means that your parents, friends, and everyone else aren't protected even if you are. While changing the law is ridiculously hard, if you are concerned about privacy mention it to friends and family so they know and evangelize. Microsoft is no more evil than anyone else. I presonally think that at their core they don't want to give this data to the NSA, they want it to figure out how users are using the OS (what every dev wants). So they've tooled it to the Nth degree and it's only a privacy issue because they aren't clear what they collect (but they let you turn it off) and we don't trust them to let us turn it off. </soapbox>

shostack 11y ago
Given that the "telemetry" update was backported to Windows 7, can it be assumed that Win7 now has a similar level of tracking as Win10?
- yuhong 11y ago
  No, not the same thing. There is a good TechNet article on the telemetry levels: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85).aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85...
mark-r 11y ago
86% of statistics are made up.
jmnicolas 11y ago
" I presonally think that at their core they don't want to give this data to the NSA" A philosophy teacher once told me "you are not what you think, but you are what you say and what you do". Nobody cares what they or don't want, it's what they do that counts. And what they do is not pretty, in fact in think it's despicable. And I'm not "one of those Linux guys". I'm a C# dev that would be perfectly fine with Microsoft products as they are now if they didn't fuck their efforts with "telemetry" updates. I'm trying 3 Linux distro this week-end to see the one I can live with.

by bargl 11y ago

shostack 11y ago

Given that the "telemetry" update was backported to Windows 7, can it be assumed that Win7 now has a similar level of tracking as Win10?

yuhong 11y ago
No, not the same thing. There is a good TechNet article on the telemetry levels: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85).aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt577208(v=vs.85...

mark-r 11y ago

86% of statistics are made up.

jmnicolas 11y ago

" I presonally think that at their core they don't want to give this data to the NSA" A philosophy teacher once told me "you are not what you think, but you are what you say and what you do". Nobody cares what they or don't want, it's what they do that counts. And what they do is not pretty, in fact in think it's despicable. And I'm not "one of those Linux guys". I'm a C# dev that would be perfectly fine with Microsoft products as they are now if they didn't fuck their efforts with "telemetry" updates. I'm trying 3 Linux distro this week-end to see the one I can live with.