| The BS about spyware is just.....BS.

You can say that you think it's "BS" for people
to be concerned about privacy and security....
though it would be nice if you could be a bit
more articulate.

But you clearly haven't looked
into the actual facts, so you have no basis for
your opinion about there being a spyware aspect
to Win10. That's actually a surprisingly common
reaction: ostrich logic -- "I don't want to know
about it, because I don't want to make an effort,
therefore the problem is not there."

For anyone who cares about the actual facts,
in order to make their own *informed* opinion,
first there's the new privacy policy, which MS
changed with the release of Win10:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/priva...t/default.aspx

The non-business EULA says you agree to their
privacy policy. The privacy policy, in turn, says,
you will be spied on in numerous ways and not all
of them can be blocked. In other words, Microsoft
themselves are saying in plain language that Win10
is spyware, and that you must agree to that in order
to use Win10. It's part of the longstanding tradition
of writing mickey mouse licenses for software and
justifying it with the claim that you are not buying,
but licensing, the product.

Further, even the parts that can allegedly be
turned off may still be in surveillance mode after
being disabled. Anyone who wants to know the
basic issues can look at these links:

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...he-new-normal/

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...-to-microsoft/

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/29/wind-nos/






Just stay off the net if you
| "feel" that way.
|
| MSFT is going to try to create an on-going revenue stream,
| but I think they'll fail.
|
| I suspect smart IT departments will just opt to stay with
| older releases (I run XP on my workstations and there is
| nothing that I need to do that I *can't* do -- efficiently!)
|
| The disincentive for doing so is the lack of "support"
| (drivers) for old OS's on new hardware.
|
|
| I suspect large corporations will migrate to Windows 10.
| The don't like pain.
|
| Ultimately, they'll be a smaller company.
|
| That's pretty obvious.
|
| Smaller in employees, market cap, revenues?
| I don't see them losing market share in the desktop market any time
| soon. They're selling easy to use does-it-all software to the masses.
| Not until somebody can cover the bases as well as MS does.
| They may improve sales in the cell phone, tablet area, but I know
| nothing about them.
| Besides, I don't buy the notion that Windows 10 is "the end."
| They'll have more versions to take advantage of new technology.
|