Microsoft has ended free Windows 10 upgrades through Assistive Technologies

#5512871 Posted on: 01/22/2018 07:54 AM

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I think it depends on age.

1990's: "In the future, our PCs will be wiretapped and spy on us 24/7."
2010's: "Hey Wire Tap, search for pictures of cats eating pancakes."

Younger people accept this as normal, because they never used devices before that were not wiretapped. It's normal for them that there's lists out there containing what books they buy, what movies they watch, what websites they visit, where they go when they leave the house, who they meet, who their friends are, what people they know, etc.

These lists make it possible to completely profile you. People like me on the other hand who grew up in the 80's or 90's, think that nobody in the world should own such lists. Personally, I consider the existence of such lists a violation of human rights.

#5517271 Posted on: 02/05/2018 10:14 AM

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You don't have to play the "privacy card" to show Win10 is a "bad OS".
Imagine the following stuff from a business perspective:
- You are unable to control the updates you get, except you use WSUS, which brings other problems but is unsuitable for most SMBs.
- There were updates which fu**ed up your system to an unbootable state. Not only once, but a few times. The time until an "update fixing update" was made took some time.
- Cortana and some other components send data to M$. Let me introduce you to German Data Protection laws: That is forbidden if you cannot control the data flow. (short one, eh?)
- Windows 10 does only need a simple key press to unlock the lockscreen, no CTRL+ALT+DEL needed. Any key gets accepted => login mask!
- Windows Store is something you do not want to have in a business infrastructure.
- All "apps" are somewhat not needed.
- You are not able to uninstall some default programs (Win10 Pro example: XBox support), even though they are definitely unneeded. You have to find reg hacks or something for that. But that could break your computer, some program you use or something else, because this is unsupported and undocumented. Good luck raising a ticket at M$ for that.
- A nagging Windows Defender which re-enables itself is the worst you could encounter in a production area with CPU/GPU-intense programs running difficult calculations or something where an interruption is critical and could result in the 4-day-crunch-job to be done again.
- Driver release control is another thing to be considered. WU installs the newest driver. We had the case where this lead to a not working LAN card (Realtek). The card was working with the drivers from release control, but were overwritten by WU ones, which kicked two servers out of the net.

So please tell me again why Win10 is the best OS so far.
Yes, I stick to Win7, even in business (if I can). And no, I do not know what I will do when the ext. support of Win7 ends. But yes, I think there will be an option, because we have two years to go. Remember when Win8 came out. Almost the same, but this time, the support time for Win7 is shorter.

I think it depends on age.

1990's: "In the future, our PCs will be wiretapped and spy on us 24/7."
2010's: "Hey Wire Tap, search for pictures of cats eating pancakes."

Yes, it does, 80's here. ;-)
But be honest, in the 80's / 90's we didn't have this stress at all: modems were slow as fu**, no "normal user" used the internet because of tremendous prices for a 14k dialup and the cats were ASCII art, so not much joy at this time. OK, with 320x240 pixels porn wasn't online either. "Oh yeah, these two pixels could be the head, OH WAIT, THESE TWO ARE THE B**BS!! LOOK AT THOSE BIIIIG PIXELS!!" *lol*

#5517275 Posted on: 02/05/2018 10:48 AM

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If you complain about Win 10's telemetry and still use Google, Facebook or any other social media then you're quite the hypocrite.

#5517294 Posted on: 02/05/2018 12:05 PM

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I don't use Google. Nor Facebook.

But if I did, neither one of those things is scanning my disk drives and sending unknown information to someone. That's just not possible.

#5517664 Posted on: 02/06/2018 07:04 PM

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I don't use Google. Nor Facebook.

But if I did, neither one of those things is scanning my disk drives and sending unknown information to someone. That's just not possible.
Well good for you, you're not a hypocrite.

#5521862 Posted on: 02/22/2018 01:19 AM

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Only thing is, I am. Bioshock Infinite and similar games and certainly, there were other instances. Reported on here too. Are you some kind of stupid or just jealous? Very sheepish behavior.

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/bug-report-involving-atidxx32-dll-on-64-bit-7sp1.403912/

Whole major browser fixed because of my reporting too:

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/amd-radeon-software-crimson-relive-17-9-1-driver-download-discussion.416723/#post-5470173

Haters are some of the most disgusting people going. I suggest trying not to be one.

What are you, 12? Claiming your report alone among thousands was THE report...I guess there are a lot of things I should be taking credit for...hmm. What an odd duck you are.

#5521863 Posted on: 02/22/2018 01:21 AM

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The evidence that they are tracking people is right in the EULA. To suggest this OS does not contain spyware services is ludicrous. It is amazing that people try to claim otherwise. Also, for those on Windows 7 who refuse to accept their privacy being taken away, these telementry "updates" should be removed as well.


KB2952664
KB2977759
KB2990214
KB3015249
KB3021917
KB3022345
KB3035583
KB3068708
KB3075249
KB3080149


Yes it is right there that Windows has telemetry. Sometimes even a window pops up ASKING if you'd like to send....holy cow...