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To be fair the 90 IQ is the combined one of the product managers/marketers, the engineers are more or less as intelligent as they were before, only they are asked to produce nonsensical and predatory programs. jaclaz Yeah, I really don't see Windows 10's stupidity being the fault of the engineers. Windows 10 is about as stable as Windows 7/8, stability is not the issue that Windows 10 has. I feel really bad for them, actually. They probably dislike Windows 10 as much as we do, it's just upper management is forcing them to put out this trash. That is, if these are the same engineers that worked on Windows NT4, 2000, XP and 7.

It doesn't matter how much they "improved" the task manager if half the time it doesn't even OPEN. On one of my upgrade test VMs, the Task Manager would lock up every time it was opened, while the Win7 one worked fine. (Which I would promptly use to kill the locked up TM)

It may not applicable, given your requirement that it be a server OS, but here's my anecdote: I put a Win 7 Ultimate install on my brand new Dell PowerEdge T20 small business server a few months ago. It serves two Subversion repositories. I couldn't be happier. It runs unattended sweetly for weeks at a time between Windows Updates that require reboots! Easily saturates gigabit Ethernet with file data. -Noel Server 2008 R2 would also be a good choice, as it is pretty much Windows 7 Server.

Well, this is interesting... Microsoft will list Windows 10 update details just for 'significant' improvements It seems our worst fears are becoming reality.

I'm now really interested in installing a modem on a test Win10 machine and finding out what it does with it. I plan to stay with Win2k3 until the last browser supports it, then move to 7 and do the same. During this time, I will try my best to create a Linux installation that closely replicates the Windows Classic theme, and if I succeed, I will switch and stay there for as long as I can.

I guess the only way to totally disable Cortana and telemetry is to find those IPs and implement a router-based firewall blocking those IPs. Unless MS is truly evil and hosts Windows Update and Microsoft.com on the same IP range, but that can be seen as both a curse and a blessing.

And so it begins... Windows 10 cumulative update causes 'reboot loop' havoc for some users

Holy mother of Postulate a couple of ridiculous "givens" like the above, then work into an expose of how Windows is just going to be the world's most successful adware. The givens MUST be true, then, eh? This is unhealthy for the people of the world. -Noel That IS pretty sad. Regarding the description of Win10 as "beautiful," I can't fathom why anybody would think that flat buttons and gray/white blandness all over the UI is somehow beautiful. There's no accounting for taste, but it makes me wonder what sort of plain-vanilla, generic existence they prefer to lead. But by far the worst part of it is that they seem to be OK with foisting that blandness on every Windows user out there. Now that is a significant break from what Windows was like historically. --JorgeA Exactly, everyone complained when XP came out about the "bozo the clown theme", but it took literally three clicks to turn it off and go back to the classic Win9x/2k theme. How much would it kill Microsoft to include the Classic and Aero Glass themes? Oh, I forgot, it will kill their new "hip and modern" image.

Even if they were to drop Windows 7 support, I don't see Windows 7's market share dropping that much more then it will now with support in tact and the upgrade (read: downgrade) available. Most, if not all, third-party developers will continue to support Windows 7, as they currently do with XP. The only application developers that would most likely not support Windows 7 in this scenario would be Microsoft.

I found a few interesting things here: 8 Reasons Not to Upgrade to Windows 10 It seems the general population is starting to pick up on what Windows 10 really is, just look at the comments section here: Does Windows 10 attract or repel you?

I'm starting to lean more towards SeaMonkey now, since Firefox changes their UI every year and with additions like Pocket and Hello. Once uBlock supports it, I will fully convert.

This is exactly why I love things like Greasemonkey and Firefox's userContent.css. On the Windows side, however, its 1,000,000x harder.

Apparently they want to make sure that people won't miss the scrollbar when reading the EULA, but they don't care about that issue with the rest of the OS. “Our EULA, updates, and cheap visuals are very important; your work, not so much,” is a message Windows 10 sends loud and clear. Not only that, but the default WiFi option will also "securely" (and secretly) share with all your contacts the WiFi passwords for every network your computer knows how to connect to. So, your private home WiFi network, your sensitive protected work network, your friends' home networks—you name it, your contacts will be able to silently connect to them—by default. For the first time, when build 10240 installed itself on my PC, I was presented with these options, and this was turned on. I had previously turned it off, so I can confirm that the default is ON. Not to mention that Microsoft will have that information and who knows what they may do with it in the future. (Techie007 envisions government agencies getting and hackers stealing that information from Microsoft and using it to hack into private networks people thought were protected by their router. Once on your network, a man-in-the-middle attack is extremely easy to accomplish. There are powerful WiFi antennas that would allow a hacker to attack pretty much any WiFi network from up to about a mile away.) It's getting to the point where I am considering barring all Windows 10 devices from my wireless network at home.

Source: Why Win 10 Upgrades Automatically On Win 7 And 8.x, by Gordon Kelly Does "there's no free lunch" ring any bells? I do have to say, the left sidebar of that article is probably my favorite part. "'Free' Windows 10 Is A Nice But Stupid Microsoft Idea", "'Free' Windows 10 Has High Cost To Windows 7 And Windows 8 Users", "'Free' Windows 10 Upgrades Kill Priceless Windows 8 And Windows 7 Features", and my personal favorite, "'Free' Windows 10 Will Be Late And Expensive For Millions" So I guess we aren't the only ones who see the sh*tstorm approaching...

Is the upgrade EULA even out yet? I want to read it and see if it is possible to reinstall 7 with your COA key.

Interesting read. I think the part that stuck out most for me is this: By the looks of this, we may get less support time with Windows 10 than older versions. The oldest desktop I currently have is from 1998, has 256MB of RAM (upgraded) and still works, I used Win2k on it last night, it also has Win98SE. If Windows 10 were to be "supported for the lifetime of the device", I should be getting updates longer than a decade, as this PC has clearly lasted longer than a decade.

I found a thread over at ThinkPad forums where somebody got the classic theme running in Windows 8. The download included a desk.cpl in the source folder, which I decided to try out in Windows 10, but I think that an old desk.cpl from NT4 or Win2k will work, from any directory. Thanks, that was interesting. Neat idea, to graft a control panel element from one OS onto another. I'll give this a shot when there's a good block of time. --JorgeA You actually don't need to replace your current desk.cpl. The one I am using for this is in a folder on my desktop.

I found a thread over at ThinkPad forums where somebody got the classic theme running in Windows 8. The download included a desk.cpl in the source folder, which I decided to try out in Windows 10, but I think that an old desk.cpl from NT4 or Win2k will work, from any directory.

I recently made an interesting discovery with Windows 10... If you start Firefox in XP compatibility mode and modify your system colors using the registry or an old desk.cpl from NT4 or Win2k, you can restore some sanity to it:

Who at MS signed off on this decision? The fact that we have to go through all of this to restore a feature in place since Windows 1.0 is just sickening.

That sender domain doesn't even look right. "e-mail.microsoft.com" I haven't seen email hyphenated in a long time, and I don't think MS ever did it.

This. Definitely this. I can't tell you how many people laugh at me for still owning a landline, but when I'm calling somebody who also has a landline, we can hear each other as clear as day. You can't say the same thing about cell phones...

That's exactly what I need, and what I had wanted for a while. Make a Windows OS with all of the consumer garbage removed, with Classic and a sane update model, and allow me to download (usually better IMO) third-party applications for any consumer features I need (VLC and Winamp for media, Firefox for browsing, etc)

since in about a month time (or a little bit more) we will have no more 8/8.1 meaningful/relevant data (I forecast something like maybe the current around 2% Vista has right now ) and most probably a sensible reduction of 7 installs (all the pople that will have been tricked into the Windows 10 free upgrade transformation ). I expect that by the end of August (or as soon as the data for it will be available on netmarketshare and similar) a lot of people will tag Windows 10 as "the OS that overtook XP" (instead of "the OS that definitely killed 8/8.1"). jaclaz The thing is, I really can't see XP's share going anywhere anytime soon. The people and companies that use XP are here to stay at this point, as anyone that needed to migrate has probably already left. I can see 7 and 8's percentage fall, while 10's rises, but I feel XP's percentage will remain if not constant, very little change.

I will only use Windows 10 if I get paid at least minimum-wage HOURLY for every hour I waste doing something that was quicker, easier, and more convenient in Windows XP or Windows 7. The minutes add to hours... the hours add to days, and if this is to be MS's last OS, I will become a rich man. And about the Samsung thing... I think it's a really bad idea, UNLESS they're only blocking KB3035583 and the other Win10 updates. I am also surprised that MS hasn't terminated their OEM agreement yet... Netscape as the default browser, anyone?