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Not surprised. Some of us have been predicting this for years, but we tended to get shouted down for committing the Slippery Slope fallacy.

by s_kilk 11y ago

gargravarr 11y ago
Least we get to point and say 'told you so', right? :)
mhurron 11y ago
> Some of us have been predicting this for years Ever since Ubuntu did it.
- jasonlotito 11y ago
  Apple does it right now.
exodust 11y ago
Predicting what exactly? 1. New spotlight feature = on; 2. Toggle "fun facts and more" = on; You know that images will stream in from the internet along with "fun facts and more" whatever that is. And when a Tomb Raider image appears, you're suddenly in Orwellian future shock mode? The day MS takes away the toggle so you can't switch ads off, is the day to be outraged. Not before.
- CamperBob2 11y ago
  The day MS takes away the toggle so you can't switch ads off, is the day to be outraged. Not before. GWX certainly qualifies as an "ad." Just curious, where is the "toggle switch" in the "settings" that I can turn "off" to disable GWX? Oh, there isn't one? I thought so.
  - exodust 11y ago
    Okay... that would annoy me too. I'm still on Windows 7 and haven't seen anything like that. Not one Windows 10 ad, and I've been doing Windows updates (manual ones from time to time). On both my laptop and desktop - Win 7 and Win 8, I have yet to see any GWX ad. Maybe I will see it one day.
    - vic-traill 11y ago
      This is interesting. In my experience any off-domain (i.e. workgroup) Win 7 installation which is taking Windows Updates (required, not optional) gets the GWX update. The relevant Update is KB 3035583. "To install this update, you must have April 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (2919355) installed in Windows 8.1. Or, install Windows 7 SP1" [0] Apparently it also does not apply to Enterprise Edition. [0] [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/3035583 https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/3035583

Not surprised. Some of us have been predicting this for years, but we tended to get shouted down for committing the Slippery Slope fallacy.

by s_kilk 11y ago

Not surprised. Some of us have been predicting this for years, but we tended to get shouted down for committing the Slippery Slope fallacy.

gargravarr 11y ago

Least we get to point and say 'told you so', right? :)

mhurron 11y ago

> Some of us have been predicting this for years Ever since Ubuntu did it.

jasonlotito 11y ago
Apple does it right now.

exodust 11y ago

Predicting what exactly? 1. New spotlight feature = on; 2. Toggle "fun facts and more" = on; You know that images will stream in from the internet along with "fun facts and more" whatever that is. And when a Tomb Raider image appears, you're suddenly in Orwellian future shock mode? The day MS takes away the toggle so you can't switch ads off, is the day to be outraged. Not before.

CamperBob2 11y ago
The day MS takes away the toggle so you can't switch ads off, is the day to be outraged. Not before. GWX certainly qualifies as an "ad." Just curious, where is the "toggle switch" in the "settings" that I can turn "off" to disable GWX? Oh, there isn't one? I thought so.
- exodust 11y ago
  Okay... that would annoy me too. I'm still on Windows 7 and haven't seen anything like that. Not one Windows 10 ad, and I've been doing Windows updates (manual ones from time to time). On both my laptop and desktop - Win 7 and Win 8, I have yet to see any GWX ad. Maybe I will see it one day.
  - vic-traill 11y ago
    This is interesting. In my experience any off-domain (i.e. workgroup) Win 7 installation which is taking Windows Updates (required, not optional) gets the GWX update. The relevant Update is KB 3035583. "To install this update, you must have April 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 (2919355) installed in Windows 8.1. Or, install Windows 7 SP1" [0] Apparently it also does not apply to Enterprise Edition. [0] [0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/3035583 https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/3035583