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In one of my companies, of the windows machines, half are Win7, half are Win10... Often we wish we could buy Win7 to delete the Win10 on the Win10 machines. W

In one of my companies, of the windows machines, half are Win7, half are Win10... Often we wish we could buy Win7 to delete the Win10 on the Win10 machines. Win10 somehow, is less reliable, often doing weird things, updating without permission, sending strange data out, have security update that kill half of our online bank apps, our another update that make the keyboard stop working, or nag about Cortana at same time Cortana is not available in our country, show ads, etc... The only reason the Win10 machines are still Win10 is because Win10 was part of the deal when buying said machines...

ocdtrekkie 8y ago
If Windows is updating without permission in one of your companies, there's an issue with whoever manages IT for that company. Even without an Enterprise license, it's trivial for a domain environment to control update behavior. Group policy handles the majority of these concerns easily. Even if you could install Windows 7, you would be very mistaken in doing so, as it would put your company at significantly greater risk. Even while security updates are still available, the differences in the platform already lead to scenarios where large malware infections tend to be almost entirely on machines which weren't running Windows 10.
- patentatt 8y ago
  I agree. I always read these horror stories about windows, specifically win10, and I have just had a completely different experience. On personal machines, work machines, servers, large deployments, domain controlled and not ... I’ve just never had these problems.
  - ocdtrekkie 8y ago
    To be clear: I've encountered plenty of issues on Windows 10. But most have been addressed, the rest can be managed if you know what you're doing, and running out of date operating systems is not a safe or viable way to operate, especially as a business. If someone really just doesn't like Windows 10, my advice is to switch to Linux. Continuing to run obsolete operating systems just isn't okay. :)

ocdtrekkie 8y ago

If Windows is updating without permission in one of your companies, there's an issue with whoever manages IT for that company. Even without an Enterprise license, it's trivial for a domain environment to control update behavior. Group policy handles the majority of these concerns easily. Even if you could install Windows 7, you would be very mistaken in doing so, as it would put your company at significantly greater risk. Even while security updates are still available, the differences in the platform already lead to scenarios where large malware infections tend to be almost entirely on machines which weren't running Windows 10.

patentatt 8y ago
I agree. I always read these horror stories about windows, specifically win10, and I have just had a completely different experience. On personal machines, work machines, servers, large deployments, domain controlled and not ... I’ve just never had these problems.
- ocdtrekkie 8y ago
  To be clear: I've encountered plenty of issues on Windows 10. But most have been addressed, the rest can be managed if you know what you're doing, and running out of date operating systems is not a safe or viable way to operate, especially as a business. If someone really just doesn't like Windows 10, my advice is to switch to Linux. Continuing to run obsolete operating systems just isn't okay. :)