Hearing experiences in this thread gets my blood roiling. I spent a lifetime on Windows and it used to be a great OS, that respected the user and placed them i

Hearing experiences in this thread gets my blood roiling. I spent a lifetime on Windows and it used to be a great OS, that respected the user and placed them in control. The latest spilth out of Microsoft seems to deliver a more toxic user experience with each release. It's a real shame as there have been some incredible improvements under the hood in the kernel, which get spoiled by awful product and business decisions. People here like to criticize holdouts who refused to upgrade beyond Windows 7, but I don't blame 'em for simply saying NO. Most of the ones I've met rely on other mitigations for security (eg. 0patch, firewalls, fully offline environments), and not a single one has reported feeling more pain in practice from nefarious adversaries than peers on recent versions of the OS have endured from Microsoft.