Windows 10!!

Quote by nicola
I clicked the windows button upgrade thingy today, and it told me my video card wasn't compatible, and the upgrade couldn't continue.

Shouldn't Microsoft, with all their billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees, be able to make their operating system work with EVERY single video card, manufactured by the BIGGEST video companies out there? My video card is one made by Nvidia.

Lame My inner geek was most disappointed, for all of 4 seconds.

I guess when I replace my 5 year old laptop, the new one will come with Windows 10 anyway. I don't know what the fuss is about with all these operating system changes, I pretty much only ever use a browser, a graphics program and the MS Office suite anyway. It seems a licence to print money by software companies (genius marketing!).

Quote by Simran_Kaur_Chawla


Well as for the upgrade not working, Microsoft did present to the world a set of system requirements for Windows 10 to work. And as you said, you have a 5 year old laptop, the chances of Windows 10 working isn't that good since there have been changes over the past 5 years in the technology. So as you probably guessed, you have to buy a new one.

Quote by Simran_Kaur_Chawla
Well as for the upgrade not working, Microsoft did present to the world a set of system requirements for Windows 10 to work. And as you said, you have a 5 year old laptop, the chances of Windows 10 working isn't that good since there have been changes over the past 5 years in the technology. So as you probably guessed, you have to buy a new one.

Quote by Verbal
From the Windows 10 end-user license agreement: Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary.

"When we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary" is my favorite part. Whoever wrote this should go into comedy.

Bastards.

The complaints are the second controversy to hit Windows 10.
Yesterday experts already warned of a major security risk in the software.
The feature is designed to easily let people share wifi passwords with friends.
However, experts say the feature actually automatically shares your wifi passwords with all Outlook, and Facebook contacts who also use Windows 10.
They warn new users of the software to 'be vigilant' with the settings, a feature known as wifi sense.
'Wi-Fi Sense automatically connects you to Wi-Fi around you to help you save your cellular data and give you more Internet connectivity options,' Microsoft says.
'It can do a lot things for you to get you connected to the Internet using Wi-Fi, so you don't have to. And you're always in control with it—you choose whether to get on Wi-Fi, stay on, or jump off.'
The Krebs on Security blog says the feature is 'an accident waiting to happen'
'This brilliant new feature, which Microsoft has dubbed Wi-Fi Sense, doesn't share your WiFi network password per se — it shares an encrypted version of that password.
'But it does allow anyone in your or Outlook or contacts lists to waltz onto your Wi-Fi network — should they ever wander within range of it or visit your home (or hop onto it secretly from hundreds of yards away).'
'For networks you choose to share access to, the password is sent over an encrypted connection and stored in an encrypted file on a Microsoft server, and then sent over a secure connection to your contacts' phone if they use Wi-Fi Sense and they're in range of the Wi-Fi network you shared,' Microsoft says.
Experts say the feature was an understandable one to try and include - but a disaster in practise.

Quote by nicola


You've got to be kidding, right?

Haven't the F.I.B. (sic) been doing that for decades anyway? I thought that's also why they set up that large social network designed by smurfs, to make the tracking of individuals even easier?

Windows 10 defaults to keylogging, harvesting browser history, purchases, and covert listening

By default, Microsoft gets to see your location, keystrokes and browser history -- and listen to your microphone, and some of that stuff is shared with "trusted [by Microsoft, not by you] partners."

You can turn this all off, of course, by digging through screen after screen of "privacy" dashboards, navigating the welter of tickboxes that serve the same purposes as all those clean, ration-seeming lines on the craps table: to complexify the proposition so you can't figure out if the odds are in your favor.

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I would like to see an honest end-user agreement that said, "We will do whatever the fuck we want to do with your data, including give it to the government or sell it to thieves, because we have trained all our consumers to never actually read the end-user agreement, but rather blindly click "I agree," like the ignorant sheep-like puppets of capitalism they are."

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Apple shoot themselves in the foot with their pricing.

Quote by Simran_Kaur_Chawla
How many have u used it....whats the review lets everybody know.

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