Windows 10???

Using 10 on my work pc and my laptop with no issues. I'm not tracking with hard drive data loss discussions here. It's 2015 and it's all in the cloud! I run my entire business in the cloud and shut off the server. I'm an old dog but I slowly embraced it. Quick Books online, google apps, itunes, and a cloud based scheduling tool. The real benefit is that I can access everything from any internet device anywhere. I can create a spreadsheet or letter and share it in the shared folder for everyone to use. No more paper.

The OS is irrelevant to the tasks as long as you have a browser! I have two internet feeds to the building with a hotspot option from any cell phone as a third option. If you think you can exist without the net, I challenge you to unplug it and try to function for a day.

 

I'm of the all-connected generation. Yet being offline for a few days till a full week is not the least of an issue.

Work-wise that's different of course, but even there (been there, done that), being offline for a day or two there's still plenty of work left ;-)

 

You need to delete windows update kb3035583 to make it disappear.

 

I have had two HP computers die in the past three weeks. One was running Vista, the other Windows 7.

Bought a new PC, figured that I may as well go with the latest, so I got one with Windows 10.

VERY DIFFERENT.

It has everything needed to play games, use social media, shop, look for long-lost friends, be fed news selected by progressives, see the weather, have your every move tracked, buy any app. ... you get the idea.

The email application is a POS. Have to buy an app if you want a decent one. They steer you to leasing their new office suite, but if you are persistent, you can find where to buy it.

I dealt professionally with new technology for a long time, and I enjoy learning about and applying new technology to create unique solutions for problems. Windows 10 is not about new technology. It is about monitoring your actions, and selling information to marketers, and, perhaps, the NSA or some other clandestine organization.

But it is likely soon to be all that is available from Windows.


BJC

 

:roll:

 

Ain't that the truth! That POS mail app started with Windows 8. We bought Outlook, but could never get it to work right on W8... set it up, use it during that session fine, but leave the computer for awhile and come back to it and you have to delete the Outlook account settings and set up a new one each time before it will connect.

 

I know. Doesn't mean that I like it.


BJC

 

On the other hand...

To play devil's advocate, even the NSA lackeys working on their groundbreaking tinfoil-hat-penetrating brain probes will have their info available to the powers that be, if win10 spyware becomes ubiquitous.

 

Anything involving Syndrome is.

 

You have something like 30days to revert back to Win8/Win7 if you dont like Win10.. It doesnt simply over write the old OS like anymore..

 

I'm going back to Linux as soon as I get my new computer. Ubuntu. I love it and hate windows. I don't own a smart phone or any of that other electrojunk... kinda old school, a flip phone with a one inch screen. And that is going as my next new years resolution (into the same lake I threw my Blackberry) Intrusive, unnecessary junk. IMHO

 

The real question is whether the system really does stop spying when you tell it to. Considering Microsoft's previous record I very much doubt it.

 

Is Forbes.com good enough for you? Forbes Welcome. Sorry, the button bar is not showing up today so I have to give the link raw.

 

Computer security is part of my job. I started on mainframes long before microprocessors came along.
Tablets & Smart Phones are the big market today & MS has less than 2.5% of that.