Posted on 10/09/2018 10:23:42 AM PDT by dayglored
My new pc is twice as powerful as the old one and was an "upgrade" in OS yet runs half the speed. Microsoft Parasite 10 is nothing but spyware. With all the recent talk about busting up monopolies I couldnt help but to notice Microsoft being lrft out. Remember when they "were" a monopoly until Bill became a globosocialist? Time to look at that situation again.
I don't know about "less than 10 words". But my take is this:
Microsoft had the world by the short hairs with MS-DOS and all the Windows releases through WinXP. Up until maybe 2002, there simply was no competition worth talking about. MacOS/OSX machines were a few percent of the market; Linux and everything else was another maybe percent or two.
Microsoft made two huge errors of business judgment which affected Windows, though not immediately:
Win7, in 2009 -- a decade ago -- was the last really good version of Windows. As Linux and MacOS continued to demonstrate that viable alternatives existed, Windows went straight downhill with the "Metro" UI (user interface) of Win8. That was basically the end of Windows as the presumed default operating system, because regular people flocked to MacOS and even Linux picked up a sizable following among regular users.
Since then, Microsoft has basically stumbled from release to release, relying on flawed advice from focus groups, and producing a series of poor UI designs. They have lost their way, and are stumbling through the woods, caught in the underbrush, stepping in sinkholes, walking into tree trunks.
It's a trainwreck in slow motion. They still have the lion's share of the market, but their hold on it has broken, and the house of cards built around the idea that "Windows is the only operating system worth discussing" is collapsing.
This current disaster scenario of humongous, unavoidable Windows 10 Updates that break things is just the latest indication that the Behemoth of Redmond has passed its time of power and is headed for The Fall. It's a damn shame, in my opinion, and it didn't have to happen this way.
Sorry, way more than 10 words.
As far as I am concerned they should yank win 10 altogether and restore win 7.
Is there a way to stop Windows updates?
My laptop had a message on the screen:
“Due to critical updates, you cannot continue”
or something to that nature last Friday, so I STUPIDLY clicked the button to continue.
It updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I wasn’t told what the update was other than CRITICAL.,
This should be illegal, now everything is screwed up and I’m now getting a message that my Windows is not activated, I’m not clicking on that button. I HATE MS and WINDOWS.
Fingers crossed that you have a backup; a full image is best.
They’re trying to put everything for everybody in one package. Most of the W10 annoyances for desktop users are “mobile friendly” changes.
They’ve also taken away control of the OS to provide security. Following Macintosh’s example.
I prefered Windows because it was “between” Linux and Mac in user control. No more- I have no control, or even idea, of what goes on in my PC anymore. Also makes it harder for third=party SW to run on it.
Instead of catching up they should try leaping ahead.
The file deletion problem (which is quite real and fairly widespread) occurs if you relocated any of the special User-Profile folders (e.g. the "Documents" folder) to some other place using the tools Windows provides to do so.
If you used the Windows folder relocation tool, but there were still files in the original default folder location (this would usually be the case), those files are the ones that get deleted.
This is a major screwup, because:
And this one you'll have to copy/paste/go because we can't link to it:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsoft-suspends-distribution-of-latest-windows-10-update-over-data-loss-bug/
Mine syncs automatically, and I still back up to a separate SD drive. I don’t have a high degree of trust for One Drive.
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