Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10

Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10 by nmeofthestate on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:55PM (#15853818)

"Windows 10 is no more secure than Windows 7"

Two paragraphs later.

"what do you call it when Microsoft fixes security holes in Windows 10 that it doesn’t patch in Windows 7? I call it really, really stupid."

So Windows 7 has security holes that Windows 10 doesn't, but Windows 10 is no more secure than Windows 7. Right.

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Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10 by vintagedave on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:39PM (#15854361)

He is most likely saying that Windows 10 does not have a more significantly inherently secure design. That is, Win10 is not less likely to have security issues than Win7.

Whereas what you are pointing out is that when issues are found, they are left unfixed in one of those OSes. That's a different thing.

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Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10 by coverband on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:29PM (#15854931)

But Win10 _does_ have an inherently more secure design[1], so much so that sometimes you have to turn them off in order to install stuff like VMWare.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/threat-protection/o...

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Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10 by jrs95 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:51PM (#15855159)

Built-in anti-virus and Edge as the default instead of IE are pretty big improvements themselves, for the average user.

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Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10 by dragontamer on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:44PM (#15854411)

> So Windows 7 has security holes that Windows 10 doesn't, but Windows 10 is no more secure than Windows 7. Right.

Windows 7 was released in 2009 and has received free support for years. In contrast, when did Ubuntu 9.04 (also released in 2009) lose security backports?

Perhaps Ubuntu 9.04 isn't a "fair" comparison, since most Ubuntu releases aren't designed for long support and the community recognizes this fact. But even then, the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release (long-time support) was in 2010, and its support ended in 2015.

The mindset of "blame Microsoft" is quite annoying, when every darn Linux user is basically subjected to the "forced upgrade cycle" way faster.

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Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10 by oneweekwonder on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:14PM (#15855363)

CentOS 5 was released in 2007 and had maintenance updates till march this year[0].

Nobody forces gnu/linux users to upgrade. I know of happy CentOS 4 users; atleast they have the source to their os.

You are only forced to upgrade if you want the latest features and support for security fixes.

Microsoft is getting "blame" because it leaves you with binaries and a broken upgrade path.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule

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Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10 by slrz on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:20PM (#15856112)

If you care about long support times, you'd use an "enterprise" distribution and get exactly the same support periods (about 10 years) as with Windows or Solaris. This is no coincidence.

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Re:Thanks, Microsoft, but I’m still saying no to Windows 10 by inkubus on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:37PM (#15854329)

'99 little bugs in the code, 99 littles bugs. Take one down, patch it around, 117 little bugs in the code'

i prefer Win10 over Win7, btw

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