Katherine Albrecht: Windows 10 Is Full Blown Electronic Tyranny

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it could be that by offering it free initially will prompt more people to adopt it and thereby save Microsoft countless millions of $$$$ by not having to support as many aging OS's.
There are a lot of sound financial reasons for adopting this strategy to roll out a new OS. Remember it's only free to individual users, not enterprise installations, so they will still make a buttload off revenue of the corporate sector.
especially when Microsoft is still the top dog when it comes to corporate and small business solutions. Any offering Apple has made in that arena are a pitiful joke. Once they lost the Motorola RISC processor, any edge Apple had in any production applications quickly disappeared. Now they are all Windows apps running in a shell on an Apple box full of Intel parts, so why buy Apple at all?
but I am meandering off again.......
I do agree part of the strategy is to counter other competing operating systems.
As long as Apple maintains their bullshit approval system for new software they will always be lagging in terms of the number and variety of applications that they can support and windows will be around.
In short a lot of developers do not care for Apple's bullshit and controls over software.
fuck look how long it took them to address security issues because everyone thought Apple systems were immune to attack, even the morons who write the OS believed their own bullshit hype, that's why it took many, many weeks for them to come up with a solution.......LOL

Nor do I see Android being able to break into the corporate computing arena either.
Right now, for 500 seats or less, Microsoft products are still the best option and often the only one.
when you start getting into 1,000's of users, then a unix backbone for the network infrastructure, but most likely you will still see a MS operating system and production apps on the workstations, if for no other reason than worldwide compatibility.

when you get bigger than that it is worth it to have software custom written for your needs, but that is godawful expensive.


everything isn't always a part of some nefarious plot to control the world.....MUUUHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

 

Apple doesn't continue support for very long. I had someone bring me an older Mac running snow leapard. Claimed that the person they had bought it from didnt tell them the password (not sure about this but its none of my business) ... anyway Snow Leapard was and still is vulnerable to shell shock so exploiting that to change the password was a joke. And theres no chance in patching things because even though the App store has updates it wont actually let you install them (or a newer OSX for that matter) because apple decided to stop supporting the hardware (they rather you buy a new mac). You could probably install a newer shell, but it would be a hack. At least MS lets you install any version of windows on any machine with compatible hardware ... Windows 10 would have installed just fine on that Mac but not the latest OSX.

 

I'm sure someday I'll be forced to uprape my PC to Win 10. Just because some third party conspirator application tells me it can't run on window 7, just because...
Forced obsolescence for corporate gains.

By then I'm also sure there will be popular apps and procedures to block Microsoft servers and workaround most of the annoyances and limitations.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-tool-to-hide-or-block-unwanted-windows-10-updates/

Microsoft releases tool to hide or block unwanted Windows 10 updates

 

I love Windows 8.1 so i will be sticking with it for a long time, until of course Windows 10 gets over it's hiccups.

 

The only reason it wouldn't run is because it's dependencies have been deprecated and no longer exist in current windows. AFAIK Microsoft doesn't force these things on users, unlike Apple which does do exactly this kind of thing.

 

Yes, I will be pissed if it forces hardware updates. Most often the hardware drivers MS gets and bundles with updates are a revision or two old and I have NEVER had an Nvidia update through Microsoft that didn't fuck up my system, so I never download hardware updates from Microsoft, why when it is often simpler to get it from the hardware maker instead.

 

It's really the third party force outs that I'm most worried about. The only single reason I'm using Win 7 right now is because my motherboard does not support XP. I guess there is also some update in XP SP3 that causes a blue screen on install of newer Athlon motherboards. I've been meaning to try an older XP install with SP1 or 2 and see if it works.

 

Windows 10 machines are likely part of a large botnet. Microsoft is also backporting telemetry features from Win10, so that users still running Win7 and Win8.1 can have their privacy invaded too.

 

by whom? microsoft?

 

Microsoft probably created the botnet at the request of the NSA and hands the keys to them.

 

NSA won't find much of interest here...they will be bored......lol

 

But you're machine could be used by them as part of a cyberattack on Russia ..