Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on more PCs

Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by heywire on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:23PM (#11826194)

Unless you actively seek out Windows 10 "apps" from the store, you can live pretty much outside of metro. The only times I find myself in any kind of metro app is for some of the settings, but in a lot of cases the equivalent control panel applications are still available.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by 0x0 on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:59PM (#11826449)

Is that an argument for or against windows 10? "You can mostly stay away from metro"? If the switch is inevitable, why not switch to an OS that doesn't force the user to navigate two sets of user interfaces, one of which it sounds like you're almost agreeing is bad?

Not calling out you in particular, but I see a lot of people saying "it's not so bad"... In what world is an upgrade where parts are "not so bad" and "avoidable" an upgrade? :)

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by heywire on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:04PM (#11826878)

I'll admit, I'm mostly just playing devil's advocate for the sake of discussion (I run Arch Linux at home), but for someone who doesn't like metro, Windows 10 can be used almost the same as Windows 7.

I really wish they'd make the LTSB Enterprise version available to consumers as a kind of "stable" version. I've used it at work, and I find it to be nice and lightweight compared to the pro version.

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