Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on more PCs

Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by dimino on Thursday June 02, 2016 @06:45PM (#11826742)

Their support is telling you to upgrade (for FREE) to Windows 10.

They never said how they would offer you support.

Edit: Also, I'm not entirely sure there are any support contracts for Windows by itself, I think you need to buy a contract from Microsoft for something like that.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by pritambaral on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:40PM (#11827138)

> They never said how they would offer you support

Did they not say they'd offer "security fixes", and not "complete UI changes, deprecation of perfectly working runtimes, shoving of new runtimes". The former is support; the latter, is finalization of misleading marketing.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by dimino on Thursday June 02, 2016 @08:30PM (#11827459)

They did not do this, no.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by pritambaral on Friday June 03, 2016 @03:18AM (#11828848)

So, you're saying, that when one installs Windows (not just 10, or 8, even 7) on their system, they give up full control of their system to Microsoft? To do as Microsoft pleases?

In effect, you're agreeing with RMS. (I'm thankful I don't use Windows, precisely for this reason that Microsoft may do whatever they want with my hardware and my data, and without even playing fair to get my consent.)

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by dimino on Friday June 03, 2016 @11:21AM (#11830821)

...or there's a rational middle ground that you're completely ignoring because this is the Internet and you're trying really hard to push my argument into a corner, where you can then disregard it and continue to be a selective extremist.

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