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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 Hairyfeet on Saturday December 26 2015, @09:44AM
What has AMD done? Can you name one example? Because all I've seen them do the past few years is embrace the four freedoms [amd.com] and open all their software to the community.
As for MSFT? They will either change or they will die, simple as that. The fact they are trying to force Win 10 (which is giving plenty of business to guys like me to disable the MSFT infection, thanks Redmond) shows that they are desperate and Windows 10 is gonna end up their third flop in a row,and when this inevitably fails? My guess is Nadella will "explore other opportunities" (translate you are fired, pack your shit and git) and the next guy will bring "the return of classic Windows" which will be....drumroll...Windows 7 with a few extra bells and whistles.
Because the spying bullshit is out of the bag, its hit the MSM and YouTube which means I have little old ladies coming to me thinking Windows 10 will listen in to their phone conversations and hand out their CC numbers. When it reaches that point, when the crazy conspiracy shit is reaching the little old ladies? Yeah stick a fork, its over, hit the lights on your way out. Windows 10 is really not gonna go any higher, those that wanted it have it and the rest don't, so its either accept its a flop and move on or the big OEMs left will end up getting together and backing some flavor of Linux as the default install as I'm sure they are seeing sales of systems with Win 10 tank just like they did Windows 8.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @01:31PM
Intel has a hardware backdoor / vnc server in VPro/AMT.
Pulls from frame buffer.
Don't know about AMD. Some of their chipsets have remote management, some do not.
With intel it's all of them, and remotely re-enableable.
They want to catch men who like young girls.
This is a feminist world.
A cunt state.