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Right now, Microsoft is inspiring horror stories with "forced upgrades" and/or incessant nagging to upgrade to Windows 10. Yet more horror stories are being generated with the invasive "telemetry", and the personalized advertising found within the OS.
In recent weeks, the wife has complained about the Windows 10 nag. She runs Win7 Home Premium, and got the nag until I "fixed" it. I run Win7 Pro in my virtual machines, and I don't get the nag. I got the telemetry updates, but not the nag.
Those of us over a certain age remember the original separation between enterprise grade Windows NT (NT3, NT4, Win2000) and the consumer grade Windows (Win 1, 2, 3, 3.11, 95, 98, 98SE and Millenium) until they were joined together with WinXP. With WinXP, we saw the same OS used for consumer and enterprise, with advanced features enabled in Pro and Enterprise, and the same features disabled in consumer versions.
So, here we are today, with MS trying to phase out Win7, and force feeding Windows 10 to the world.
Going forward - is MS also going to force feed Win10 to the professional/enterprise world? Or, will they send the consumer and enterprise OS's down divergent paths? Are we going to see insecurity built into the consumer line of products, and better security and features built into the professional lines?
What does the future hold? Any guesses?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 26 2015, @01:51AM
-cies so as to maximize shareholder value.
Why don't business people just say "In the future"? Are they ever "going backward"?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @02:20AM
Out of abundance of caution.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday December 26 2015, @03:26AM
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(Score: 3, Touché) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday December 26 2015, @03:43AM
anti-crapflood measures have no effect on me.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @03:40AM
"Henceforth" would be a better translation than "In the future", as "In the future" doesn't indicate more-or-less immediate commencement.