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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @01:26PM
>Thankfully we have Linux .... which will exist forever.
Systemd
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @05:05PM
I am so hipster that I have been tinkering with FreeBSD for 10 years: just in case GNU/Linux goes too mainstream.
Did not expect systemd, but looks like my tinkering is going to pay off with a more stable, secure desktop.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @06:56PM
There have been a number of end runs on open software going on. Only time will tell if the forks will show that openness sees this all as damage suckessfully routes around it.
opensolaris -> illumos
Java -> openjdk
Openoffice -> libreoffice
Mysql -> mariadb
Firefox -> palemoon
Thunderbird -> fossamail
Debian -> devuan
So there's presidence and the wishes of a stong or corporate minority need not have control over the future of a project even if they control the existing infrastructure and brand assets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 26 2015, @08:35PM
For folks who want something a bit more mature, antiX [freeforums.org] has been around since 2006.
It was originally spun off of MEPIS.
It's on the list. [without-systemd.org]
It will run on just about anything. [google.com]
Since MEPIS' chief developer abandoned that project, to fill that void, anticapitalista and the antiX guys have spun off a distro that is bulkier[1] than their main, lightweight, effort.
That is called antiX MX.
The 2nd release, MX-15, was just announced after they did some development releases to wring it out.
Both of these use sysVinit and are compatible with Debian software repositories.
[1] antiX once tried a DVD-sized ISO and got a lot of grief from users.
The devs have gone back to a CD-sized ISO.
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