So it's happened; mom's venerable Dell has bit the dust and I'm being called on to find her a new laptop. Everything I've seen here and elsewhere says Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare and we're trusting Microsoft's forced automatic updates to not break the computer. Dell is still offering computers with Win 7 and 8.1, but Microsoft is pushing the OS upgrade hard and heavy. I'd love for her to let me set her up with Linux but she's devoted to Google Picasa (Google not porting their apps is another rant) and I'm not sure how often she's going to be calling me with some Windows only program she needs. And then there's Apple, which makes my fingers itch to type, but it's looking better and better. So, what is the collective wisdom of the Soylentils*?
*Irony duly noted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @06:48PM
Why not just get win10 home oem then you are done for a few years? And since you have a business just write it off as an expense... In fact MS said this is 'the last windows the rest are upgrades'. So you are pretty much set for awhile...
This is a one time cost. Dont sweat it. Its 60-90 bucks. Probably less in a few months... windows home OEM is the key words.
If it is windows 7 already just let it upgrade and that is a free to you monetary cost?