I dual booted the Win10 preview and did not like it. I participated in many conversations on the preview forums, and while some issues got responses from MS personnel (I was downright shocked that they actually read the forums) many, many issues were ignored.
A week before the deadline, I upgraded my PC. I tried to upgrade my 2007 laptop, but the download failed 7 times, so I gave up. I have a retail "Family Plan" version of 7, so by upgrading the one machine I can upgrade 3 under the same license. I will not do so until I am forced to do so.
A lot of people are raving about tememetry, spying and whatnot. I imagine those same people have iOS or Android phones that do exactly the same thing and have done so from the beginning. Microsoft is just trying to catch up with mobile tech in this issue. I don't like it, but this is the way unregulated industry works.
Last Saturday, I moved back to 7. Why?
*Every time I started a game, I saw a message that my camera and mic were turned on and recording so I could share my gaming experience. I don't have a mic or camera.
*The classic games from Win95 to Win7 were removed (Solitaire, Free Cell, Spider, etc.). The possible replacements from the MS store are horrible. In preview, we asked MS to offer the classic games, we even said we were fine with paying for them, but a dev said that they would not, and could not run on 10. (A lie, as I used third party software to install the Win7 games on 10).
*Cortana, constantly running a service to access my mic, which does not exist, and asking me to turn it on. Cortana searching the entire web but not able to find a file on my computer.
*CONSTANT prompts to use touch optimized features and services when I don't have a touch screen.
*Defaulting to battery saving and process saving features when I have an 850 watt power supply and gaming hardware fully capable of running at high speed. I am not on a laptop, but the OS is defaulting to treat my machine like a laptop or phone.
*Forcing defaults to MS programs. I received an e-mail in gmail. Opened it on Chrome. The attachment would not download because Edge could not open. WHY do I need Edge open to download a file from e-mail? The PDF version? REQUIRED to download to OneDrive, NOT on my device. I could not download this document until I went back to 7.
Win10 is a cobbled together mess designed for mobile devices with touch interface that they then threw a few desktop options on. I hate it. If game developers ever port the games I play to another platform, I will never use Windows again.
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