For Microsoft Windows, it's do or die

Business Insider ^ | )ct 23, 2016 | Matt Weinberger

[upchuck]

I can’t praise Win 7 enough. Has everything I need.

I’ve had updates turned off since day 1 and have never had a problem.

MSFT can stuff Win 10.

[Campion]

They have the viewpoint that they know what their customers need and want, better than their customers do. It’s a totalitarian mindset that has irked me for a very long time.

It's worse than that. They have the attitude that, although you may have signed the check to buy the hardware, it really belongs to them. They'll give you the "user experience" they want to give you on what is (according to their way of thinking) their computer.

[Gaffer]

I updated up until they dropped that stealth Win10 service pack. I had to hunt for that downloaded update and deleted it. Then I stopped updating.

Look through the downloaded update list for the KB3035583 and KB2976978 updates.

Right click each update and click Uninstall.

[TomGuy]

They have the viewpoint that they know what their customers need and want, better than their customers do.

MS tried that when they first introduced Word/Excel. They were so proprietary that they would not even talk (convert) with other similar programs. Corporate users balked and told them 'make it compatible with the other major software or cram it up your rear.' It took a while but MS got the message -- until they basically ran the competitor programs out of business.

[Excellence]

What don’t you like about it? I have a Surface 3. It’s the least expensive, and frustratingly slow sometimes. Got a Surface pen for my birthday. Very disappointed with that. I don’t draw, so it’s kind of useless, really. But the Surface is good for doing presentations.

[fuente]

Mine continuously freezes and they have virtually no memory. Voice and facial recognition are horrible. It has difficulty determining whether it is in touch mode or keypad mode. Auto correct in touch mode often causes spurious word insertion and doubling of words, and the touch feature to correct the words only will highlight and delete the word...very frustrating to do anything in touch mode. Often the touch mode keyboard covers the text boxes when typing not allowing you to see what is actually being typed. All of these are painful but the freezing over and over and over again are just the worst.

[upchuck]

I don’t have an update list because I don’t accept any updates from MSFT. Updates are turned off.

And, I’m on a metered connection. MSFT updates would cost me $$.

I think the days of MSFT trying to force Win 7 users to upgrade to Win 10 are over. Nevertheless, I run GWX Control Panel to prevent those downloads

[minnesota_bound]

#38 In Control Panel> Personalization you can choose the “Windows Classic” theme and it then will look like XP.

[publius911]

Also, Microsoft abandons EVERYTHING. Why do I want to buy obsolete?

If only it were that simple.

Win 10 is not only a do-everything nightmare, that's only 10% of the disaster.

I wonder how many trillions$ of hardware and expensive software it made utterly useless!

Bricks and unusable PAID FOR software!

[publius911]

Maybe this is a good time to repeat my complaint/wish list...

Give me a solid, glitch-free and reliable BASIC, like the awesome HP basic on their HP80 desktop machines, run by a modern microprocessor 100 times as fast as in the late80s/early90s and I'd be in heaven.

There was no scientific or engineering problem I could not solve with programs I wrote myself!

Why this hasn't happened, I have no clue.

[publius911]

Now I’m a Win 7 forever person. Does everything I want and need. No reason to upgrade. Ever.

I feel the same way, but Win10 blew away my Win7 Pro; gone forever.

Why upgrade?

Modern software.
Like Adobe Acrobat, simple photo software, GoogleEarth and lots more programs no longer available that I bought and can no longer use...