How Windows 10 became malware

Re:How Windows 10 became malware by Terr_ on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @09:31PM (#11859389)

I'm probably just projecting from my own experience, but I think Microsoft pissed away a lot of accumulated goodwill with this severe pivot back to the dark-side.

I'm still amenable to Windows -- I play a lot of games -- but at this point there's no way I'll willingly upgrade to Win10 without some important changes, ex:

1. Upgrading to Win10 needs to be on my schedule, not yours. I'll do it when I buy new hardware, so if you really want me to switch, give me some kind of key I can use at a time of my choosing.

2. Fix the schizophrenic UI where various Windows settings are missing or sometimes hidden away.

3. Stop lying about updates and hiding trojan code in them.

4. No sneaking ads onto MY computer.

5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser.

6. Allow power-users firm control over when patching occurs, because data-loss is not acceptable.

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Re:How Windows 10 became malware by PhantomGremlin on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:34PM (#11859608)

5. Allow power-users to reliably disable telemetry and "helpful" web-integration. I want to search my hard drive, not the internet. If I wanted to do that, I'd actually open a web-browser.

The rest of your points are good, but I love this one the best. Because Apple has now done the same thing, Spotlight searches now go to the Internet by default.

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Re:How Windows 10 became malware by Litruv on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @11:10PM (#11859729)

http://i.imgur.com/k7CQTim.png

Seems fine to me? ;)

(hit start, start searching for something, gear on the left.)

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Re:How Windows 10 became malware by Terr_ on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @11:37PM (#11859825)

How much do you want to be there's some other search-system (current or planned) where Microsoft does not honor that setting and makes you hunt for more? :p

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Re:How Windows 10 became malware by yuhong on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @11:21PM (#11859772)

AFAIK it actually dates to Win8.1 too.

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Re:How Windows 10 became malware by yuhong on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @11:23PM (#11859778)

Win10 does allow limited control on the time Windows updates are installed, BTW.

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Re:How Windows 10 became malware by yaegers on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @03:20AM (#11860585)

Featured word being "limited".

How on earth would that be sufficient for a professional user or even for a poweruser of the consumer version of an OS.

If they just need to stifle, they should have come out with a Windows Kiddie version. There they could do all the automatic, "helpful" or "cool" stuff they want. But no, they decided it's much more fun to screw regular people over.

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Re:How Windows 10 became malware by yuhong on Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:07PM (#11870696)

I think it is called "Windows as a service" for a reason.

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