Windows 10

[Nefaro]

Screw this nonsense. I'm sticking with Win 7.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/05/windows-10-charging

Yes, surprising as it might seem, Microsoft has announced it will actually charge users a monthly subscription to play Solitaire – a free staple of Windows releases since Windows 3.0 in 1990

LOL wut? 



As I predicted... they're aiming for micro-transaction nickel & diming for a lot of stuff.

[mirth]

Who the hell is going to pay for solitaire? I'm sure there's a gajillion free solitaire apps available. Or you could just buy a deck of cards  ::)

[Staggerwing]

Wait until the critical updates cost $1.99 each.

[mirth]

Wait until you need to reinstall the OS in a year and have to pay for it then.

[mirth]

By the way if you don't want to have Win 10 try to auto download every time you run updates for Win 7 - http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-stop-windows-10-upgrade-downloading-your-system

[Nefaro]

KB3035583 huh?

I've always kept my Windows updates set to manual & used to check some of the more mysterious KB's descriptions to pick & choose if I felt the need.  Most were okay, but the occasional one has reeked of spyware in recent years.  I've gotten behind on checking them, though.

I should probably disable this one, just so I don't accidentally hit the "reserve upgrade" crap.  Sounds like once you enable the Win10 option, you have to disable it in the Windows registry to get it to stop.  Damn thing is like a Terminator once it gets the green light.  :))

[bbmike]

Lower your firewall and surrender your hardrives. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

[mirth]

I was fighting with it last night because everytime I tried too download Win 7 updates, the updater was first trying to download Win 10. I started looking at the Win 7 updates and they had some boilerplate message about "resolving issues with Win 7". When I clicked the more info link, turns out that they had stuff to do with installing Win 10 - prepping the OS, etc, etc.

Win 10 is friggin Malware to me at this point.

[OJsDad]

I've noticed that with Edge, when I'm reply to a thread here that clicking any of the smiles or text format buttons, it never works. 

[Nefaro]

I've noticed that with Edge, when I'm reply to a thread here that clicking any of the smiles or text format buttons, it never works.

Must have some kind of script blocking built in.

Hopefully you can disable it for specific pages/sites, like the Firefox add-ons.

[bob48]

I'm getting the problem with smiles and text format buttons as well.

[Staggerwing]

Best thing right now is to install Chrome and use that for the forums until the button issue is resolved.

[mirth]

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-much-will-windows-10-cost-this-time-next-year/

[Bison]

Well I've jumped in an updated to Windows 10.  So far no issues and I've turned off some the more obvious areas of concern.   I actually like the new layout. 

[bbmike]

Yeah, so far I'm happy with it.