Windows 10

8.1 Van wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
I opted out as well and now that I am being told that the block doesn't block downloads I am likely on the sidelines again. I know, set my connection as metered and it won't download (or will it?) but, for now, I'm out.

XP is looking better every day..

Really ? I would not touch that 14 year old OS with a 10 ft pole IMHO.

So.. I take it that you are OK with MS randomly downloading AND installing Adware, bloatware and perhaps if you are lucky an update that does not brick your PC?

The recent “Win10 nag updates” that MS dumped onto MILLIONS of Win7 and Win8 PCs disguised as “updates” should be a very loud and clear warning that MS HAS the potential to overstep some boundaries with forced updates.

With this change MS NOW has a very captive “audience” which has the possibility of being ABUSED. Imagine how much money MS could generate in “ad” revenue if they sold the update process as a revolving paid ad “service” That YOU CANNOT REFUSE??? They COULD do this and you would get to enjoy every day getting ad nags from toothpaste, diapers, to feminine products, to meds or even your favorite “ed” med..

This forced update also VIOLATES a very important principle of “security” which is to NOT ALLOW REMOTE ACCESS to your PC. All it would take is for MS update channel to be spoofed or corrupted and the whole house of cards will come crashing down.

You now have a greater chance of getting unwanted stuff than if you used XP or any of the older OS’s!

Just because a OS is “14 yrs old” does not mean that it cannot SAFELY function, there are tens of thousands of embedded DOS, 95,98,2000,Vista and yes XP systems STILL in use today quietly performing the task they were setup for and some in life or death situations WHILE BEING CONNECTED TO SERVERS AND THE INTERENET.

Imagine some day when you have a pacemaker and the tech is accessing your pacemaker with a Win10 PC to check and make changes to the program to YOUR life support and the PC suddenly shuts down and reboots due to a forced update corrupting YOUR pacemaker.. Not a far-fetched scenario, pacemakers ARE remotely checked and reprogrammed.

A real life scenerio.. We had hired a new employee, shortly after he was hired he started to be noticably late every week.

After a few months of excuses of the alarm not waking him up I mentioned that perhaps he should buy a new alarm.. I asked what he was using..

wait for it..

HIS WINDOWS PHONE!

What we determined was his Windows phone would reboot during the night after getting updates. When that happend it TURNED OFF HIS ALARM!