Oh I almost forgot. Windows 8.1 had Family Safety which was local to the machine. Windows 10 now forces you to make a Microsoft email address as well as your children and everything is managed online. Stuff that for a joke.
Pretty much everything is moving to the cloud. Get used to it. Pretty soon, home infrastructure will be in the cloud. We have countless VMs and network appliances already in the cloud. I use the term "infrastructure as software" for some of it - it's VERY nice!
It doesn't have to be a MS email address. I've personally used my Gmail address at home. At work, it's our corporate Office365 arrangement that we use.
and Raj it does just install itself, I got machines that have no human interaction they just install windows patches automatically for security reasons, no optional patches are installed only things flagged as moderate up to critical and when they reboot as part of the process once a month, ####ing BAM, windows 10 is installed ####ing everything up, its ####ing retarded in a corporate environment where specific windows operating systems are required for specialised software.
If it was just flagged as an optional software update that is deselected by default like all the other optional updates it wouldn't be an issue, but having this **** automatically install and update is nuts, it installs itself like spam then follows through like a virus, downloading itself and installing into an environment.
I know of companies pending legal action against Microsoft for the loss of data and revenue because of it.
OK, let's be clear here. Originally, Windows 10 was an OPTIONAL update. Fine for everyone, opt in only. MS changed the update from OPTIONAL to RECOMMENDED. Still an opt in for everyone with one major HOWEVER. If your Windows Automatic Update settings are set to automatically download and install RECOMMENDED updates, then you have already opted in for whatever MS recommend you install. Not a great practice and certainly not something that a corporate environment should be set to do. Corporate environments (our MOE included) should be configured to automatically install critical updates and security patches ONLY. All other updates are evaluated by our MS team prior to deployment.
Legal action will gain nothing. Why? Because you had to have a setting that you automatically wanted MS recommended updates to install without question for Windows 10 to install as part of Windows Updates. It's not set to critical or security update, it's recommended. If you have already said you want recommended updates then you've already agreed to it if MS recommend you install Windows 10. Poor sys admin practices if corporates are affected and most likely a certain degree of naivety for home users. And regarding lost data, that's just plain BS. Windows 10 retains all data. Backing up before hand is always recommended but I've lost count of the Windows 10 updates I've done and not a single issue.
I think people think they aren't happy with Windows 10 because they've been made to feel stupid. Not because it's not a great product.
Windows 10 is far superior to Windows 8 and better than both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. I still don't get why you wouldn't want a flagship product FOR FREE!
