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Microsoft has essentially forced me to turn off Windows Update on all my Windows 7 machines/partitions and migrate everything I can to Linux. All I am waiting f

by bitL 11y ago

Microsoft has essentially forced me to turn off Windows Update on all my Windows 7 machines/partitions and migrate everything I can to Linux. All I am waiting for is SteamOS delivering AAA games to Linux and I won't need to touch future Windows ever again. How can you justify using Windows for enterprise work if due to new policies you can't be assured you can keep anything you work on secret? I am not willing to keep the possibility open of sharing my competitive advantages with whomever is in bed with Microsoft's management to capitalize on my ideas. Can somebody please tell them to get back to their senses and become trustworthy again? Do I need a dedicated NUC running super-secured *BSD/Qubes filtering out traffic towards known Microsoft servers while using Windows 10?

AlexandrB 11y ago
> Microsoft has essentially forced me to turn off Windows Update on all my Windows 7 machines/partitions... Same here. It's very annoying that they're trying to force a major upgrade. I don't like Windows 10 - I don't like its frankenstein UI and I don't like its privacy implications and I find myself in the odd position of having to jump through hoops to keep it off my PCs.
yuhong 11y ago
Corporations would use Win10 Enterprise (which has the None/Security level as an option) and set most of the privacy options using Group Policy.
Quiark 11y ago
Wait, how do I prevent automatic update to Win10? I actually like the UI but the system Does Not Work (tm) on my hardware (I tried). I'm finding it hard to believe MS is going to auto-brick my laptop overnight.
- mindcrash 11y ago
  They will when Windows 10 becomes a preferred update. Before that head into Control Panel > Windows Update > Change Settings Oh, btw: if you have let Automatic Updates run until now it's probably best to do a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 or Windows 8, because they retrofitted almost all of Windows 10 telemetry services in those operating systems in a series of "updates" released around August. Which gave me enough reasons never to trust any update from Microsoft ever again.
  - yuhong 11y ago
    They did not retrofit "almost all of Windows 10 telemetry services". I recommend that you read the TechNet article.

by bitL 11y ago

AlexandrB 11y ago

> Microsoft has essentially forced me to turn off Windows Update on all my Windows 7 machines/partitions... Same here. It's very annoying that they're trying to force a major upgrade. I don't like Windows 10 - I don't like its frankenstein UI and I don't like its privacy implications and I find myself in the odd position of having to jump through hoops to keep it off my PCs.

yuhong 11y ago

Corporations would use Win10 Enterprise (which has the None/Security level as an option) and set most of the privacy options using Group Policy.

Quiark 11y ago

Wait, how do I prevent automatic update to Win10? I actually like the UI but the system Does Not Work (tm) on my hardware (I tried). I'm finding it hard to believe MS is going to auto-brick my laptop overnight.

mindcrash 11y ago
They will when Windows 10 becomes a preferred update. Before that head into Control Panel > Windows Update > Change Settings Oh, btw: if you have let Automatic Updates run until now it's probably best to do a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 or Windows 8, because they retrofitted almost all of Windows 10 telemetry services in those operating systems in a series of "updates" released around August. Which gave me enough reasons never to trust any update from Microsoft ever again.
- yuhong 11y ago
  They did not retrofit "almost all of Windows 10 telemetry services". I recommend that you read the TechNet article.