If You Don't Like Windows10?

All these experts on Win 10 and it's not even released yet.

8.1 Van wrote:
Why would anyone prefer 8.1 over 10 ? What is the attraction ?

Other reasons may come out after 10 gets fully released and in wide usage, but just one factor we already know would keep me from even considering upgrading to 10 from 8.1: forced updates.

W10 is getting a lot of good reviews from the folks that are part of the MS Preview program. It is not all good.

W10 updates are not optional and cannot be delayed except for a very limited time, not sure the download aspect can be delayed. Enterprise customers who have a different license can delay. Perhaps someone will find a solution but I'm hoping MS gets enough flak from all of us that they will provide a delay option at some point.

chuckbear wrote:
There are many question with the Windows 10 upgrades that haven't been answered yet, so you might wait a bit. You have a year to upgrade and you might want to wait and see how many bug reports there are once W10 is released and especially what happens to all of your existing programs and drivers with the new upgrade. We don't yet know what will and won't work. Chuck

I think I'll follow your advice & wait. I also wish to thank the other respondents on this thread for their assistance.

8.1 Van wrote:
Why would anyone prefer 8.1 over 10 ? What is the attraction ?

Why would anyone prefer 10 over 8.1? What is the attraction?

They're both OSes and do the same things.

We have 2 laptops and plan to phase those out over the next couple years and go to 2 Hybrid tablets, which will not have Windows OS on them. I am super tired of the multiple updates chewing tons of bandwidth. Our Droid Turbo, Android 5.1, phones have had ONE OS update over the last 8 months and have NOT had any problems with malware or virus like the laptops.

Why would anyone prefer 8.1 over 10 ? What is the attraction ?

8.1 Van wrote:
I bet most here did not know that Microsoft makes billion$ from Android.

Microsoft gets $2 billion a year in Android patent fees

It's possible folks here are more informed than you think. Yes, did know that. They couldn't create a phone OS anyone wanted, so they hired a fleet of lawyers to tap into the successful Android money stream.

I bet most here did not know that Microsoft makes billion$ from Android.

Microsoft gets $2 billion a year in Android patent fees

And it's #2 in cloud services behind Amazon so Microsoft is doing better today than 10 years ago. After using Windows 10 since last year there is no way I am staying with 8.1.


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1775 wrote:
I finally found out on Win 8.1 on my laptop how to shut off all updates and when we travel I now do just that - after one trip where to read email I had a two hour session of automatic updates to wait through before I could shut down. I expect that Win 10 will have the same thing - or, if not, someone will come up with a way to turn off automatic updating. I will not update my Win 7 pcs to Win 10. If MS wants to stop supporting Win 7 they will further be shooting themselves in the foot. I will update the Win 8.1 laptop to Win 10 as I do not like 8.1 and before that happens I will have a final complete backup of the Win 8.1 computer to restore it to if Win 10 stinks even worse.

Then there is always Linux which if not using Windows specific software packages - runs faster, and has open source software duplicating just about everything needed in software - including compatibility with Windows file formats.

I had Win 7, liked it, then when I bought a new computer, did not like 8.1 either. The solution is simple: download "Classic Shell", a free software. It makes 8.1 look like 7, but 8.1 is much faster, so now I'm fine with 8.1 (since it looks like 7). Google Classic Shell and you'll find it. It's extremely popular.

There is no way I will ever be updating to Win 10, not a chance.