Windows 10

[DiscoSteve]

Well I've made it after using the MediaCreationTool, downloading the whole darn 6Gb twice, fighting with some HP Protection Tools, and manually installing out of a ~Windows.WS folder (or something like that)

 

[quiet_riot]

Thanks for that, luckily enough most the privacy stuff is only if you use a Microsoft account! I avoid that shit like the iCloud, stuff just doesn't become personal with shit like that!

Agree - one thing that never sat right with me about 8 was signing in with an MS account, it was a while before I saw you could sign in locally.

 

[Centurions]

It says that's for a previous version of windows though, will it still work on 10?

Sorry, I missed that not being on 10 yet.

I think you should be fine trying it.

 

[Pride_In_Battle]

It says that's for a previous version of windows though, will it still work on 10?

All programs designed for 7 or 8 should work without problem

 

[blue mash up]

I updated the wifes laptop to 10 last weekend and last night she used it for the first time since i did it. Let's just say i sat there holding my breath while she fired it up and tried her programs it was very nerve wracking but i came through OK so cheers Bill.

 

[Centurions]

Just got my invite through within the last couple of hours, got to go out shortly but I'll give it a shot later I think.

 

[Centurions]

Well that was easy, 21 minutes to install. I'll have to check on my drivers and such but couldn't have been easier. It helps that I've got a desktop with all standard components I suppose, laptops seem most prone to hiccups.

 

[bluesking]

Could somebody please advise me. I have a bent version of Windows 7 on my pc. Should I install Windows 10 on it or not bother?

 

[yorknomore]

It would probably be better installing it over a bent version of 8.1, it worked for me.

 

[Damocles]

http://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html

Windows 10 is Malware

Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user. (This does not include accidental errors.) This page explains how Microsoft software is malware.


Malware and nonfree software are two different issues. The difference between free software and nonfree software is in whether the users have control of the program or vice versa. It's not directly a question of what the program does when it runs. However, in practice nonfree software is often malware, because the developer's awareness that the users would be powerless to fix any malicious functionalities tempts the developer to impose some.


Type of malware

• Back doors
• Sabotage
• Surveillance
• Digital restrictions management or “DRM” means functionalities designed to restrict what users can do with the data in their computers.
• Jails—systems that impose censorship on application programs.
• Tyrants—systems that reject any operating system not “authorized” by the manufacturer.

Microsoft Back Doors

• Microsoft Windows has a universal back door through which any change whatsoever can be imposed on the users.
  
  More information on when this was used.
  
  In Windows 10, the universal back door is no longer hidden; all “upgrades” will be forcibly and immediately imposed.
  
  
• Windows 8 also has a back door for remotely deleting apps.
  
  You might well decide to let a security service that you trust remotely deactivate programs that it considers malicious. But there is no excuse for deleting the programs, and you should have the right to decide who (if anyone) to trust in this way.
  
  
• Windows 8's back doors are so gaping that the German government has decided it can't be trusted.
  

Microsoft Sabotage

• Microsoft informs the NSA of bugs in Windows before fixing them.
  
  
• Microsoft cut off security fixes for Windows XP, except to some big users that pay exorbitantly.
  
  Microsoft is going to cut off support for some Internet Explorer versions in the same way.
  
  I think a person or company has the right to cease to work on a particular program; the wrong here is Microsoft does this after having made the users dependent on Microsoft, so they are not free to ask someone else to work on the program for them.
  

Microsoft Surveillance

• Microsoft uses Windows 10's “privacy policy” to overtly impose a “right” to look at users' files at any time. Windows 10 full disk encryption gives Microsoft a key.
  
  Thus, Windows is overt malware in regard to surveillance, as in other issues.
  
  We can suppose Microsoft look at users' files for the US government on demand, though the “privacy policy” does not explicit say so. Will it look at users' files for the Chinese government on demand?
  
  The unique “advertising ID” for each user enables other companies to track the browsing of each specific user.
  
  It's as if Microsoft has deliberately chosen to make Windows 10 maximally evil on every dimension; to make a grab for total power over anyone that doesn't drop Windows now.
  
  
• Windows 10 requires users to give permission for total snooping, including their files, their commands, their text input, and their voice input.
  
  
• Spyware in Windows: Windows Update snoops on the user. Windows 8.1 snoops on local searches. And there's a secret NSA key in Windows, whose functions we don't know.
• Microsoft SkyDrive allows the NSA to directly examine users' data.
  

Microsoft DRM

• DRM (digital restrictions mechanisms) in Windows, introduced to cater to Bluray disks. (The article also talks about how the same malware would later be introduced in MacOS.)
  

Microsoft Jails

• Windows 8 on “mobile devices” is a jail: it censors the user's choice of application programs.
  

Microsoft Tyrants

• Mobile devices that come with Windows 8 are tyrants: they block users from installing other or modified operating systems.