On 05/13/2016 10:31 AM, trader_4 wrote:
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Though I don't use Win10, I am evaluating it.


They don't make it easy but it can be tweaked to turn off automatic
updates and huge portions of the default spying can be disabled.

When I do chose to use Windows, I'll be sticking with Win7 for many years.

I looked at the demos for Win 10. From what I can see it's different
enough from Win 7 to be annoying, but not so different that you can't
get it to be close to Win 7 and learn how to use it. A friend said that
was his experience, he had to spend time changing some things around, etc.

On the other hand, I see no new features, benefits to me. The only
neat thing I saw was that you can mark up a webpage and then send it
to someone. For example, you could circle a couple of things on a
page. On the other hand, I don't have the need to do that. And even
worse, that only works with a touchscreen device.

So, for me the only real advantage would be to be able to move to
Win 10 for free and be on a new product that has a longer support
life than the Win 7, which is now 3 1/2 more years. I'll probably
move before the free upgrade runs out soon. But I also wouldn't be
surprised if they extend that.



I decided to take one of my many "stand by" machines and update it to Win10.

It all went OK. probably won't use the machine unless I have some kind
of a minor emergency...but if it's a few years from now, at least I'll
have a newer OS on hand.