Sooo kind of a rant but wanted to see what others though. WTF did MS do to Windows 10. I was semi ok with Windows 8, wait......... no i wasn't. As a experienced IT Technician it blows my mind as to what MS is doing.
Let's review Win10 from a technical troubleshooting standpoint. First, read this: http://www.networkworld.com/article/...agreement.html
- Let's plaster the desktop / start menu with ads and stuff the user does not want or need
- Let's fill the OS with bloatware
- Let's make it hard to install the OS without linking it to a MS account
- Push to use the cloud or MS One Drive(cloud)
- Cannot disable WU (yep, great idea here. Because all WU work perfect from the first install! = not)
- OS filled with data collection tools which are turned on by default
- WiFi sharing enabled by default
- The MSSE collects data and every app you install to "protect" you
The last straw for me was having a user I know show me a laptop he bought. It had a 20GB HDD in it, 1.3Ghz CPU and 2GB of RAM. It cost him over $500. Not to mention his office was trial, his AV was trial, and he had 4 programs that asked him what he wanted to do when he inserted a USB stick (auto launch programs).
His laptop:
- Windows account is linked to his hotmail account (so if you have no internet you cannot login / cannot verify credentials to the server)
- MS One Drive (cloud) stores all his documents, pictures, and info on the cloud (technically he does not own this data anymore)
- Office 365. His actual office install is online, runs from online and stores all cache / data required online
I told him to return that POS and go buy a real laptop. The sales guy told him this laptop was top of the line.
But besides the major OS changes i just cannot fathom why a company that has bread their users into using a START MENU since the early days of Windows has now ditched it for this spam "Metro" BS they call a Start Menu.
And I get it. They want to be apple. They are taking advantage of today's generation of kids who don't read EULAs and just accept everything. Like the new FB phone app, no-one cares what privacy they give up as long as they are "in the now". Sad.
And from a technician troubleshooting standpoint. Absolute garbage!
- Let's have the system configuration utility now open msconfig
- Let's integrate the OS into the MBR so no-one can easily get rid of it
- Let's get rid of the cdrom and all ports previously used so we don't have to make actual DVDs anymore (but not decrease the price of the product)
- Let's have users require a hotmail pass to install office products
- Let's make people search for what they want although they may not know what its called
- Let's make everything harder to do unless you simply use the internet and email
Not to mention that they used the same Metro interface on their Server 2012 OS editions. W..T..F...., that is just wrong!!.
And what bothers me the most is how they push this to the user. For the simple users wanting to buy a PC, no option of Win7 (although the hardware supports it), pushing Win10 advertisements as security updates, and just the amount of trickery involved in the OS.
I had a user try to downgrade from Win10 to Win7 as he upgraded accidentally and it ended with a format.
If all of this keeps up I'm going to have to find a new career.
Let's review Win10 from a technical troubleshooting standpoint. First, read this: http://www.networkworld.com/article/...agreement.html
- Let's plaster the desktop / start menu with ads and stuff the user does not want or need
- Let's fill the OS with bloatware
- Let's make it hard to install the OS without linking it to a MS account
- Push to use the cloud or MS One Drive(cloud)
- Cannot disable WU (yep, great idea here. Because all WU work perfect from the first install! = not)
- OS filled with data collection tools which are turned on by default
- WiFi sharing enabled by default
- The MSSE collects data and every app you install to "protect" you
The last straw for me was having a user I know show me a laptop he bought. It had a 20GB HDD in it, 1.3Ghz CPU and 2GB of RAM. It cost him over $500. Not to mention his office was trial, his AV was trial, and he had 4 programs that asked him what he wanted to do when he inserted a USB stick (auto launch programs).
His laptop:
- Windows account is linked to his hotmail account (so if you have no internet you cannot login / cannot verify credentials to the server)
- MS One Drive (cloud) stores all his documents, pictures, and info on the cloud (technically he does not own this data anymore)
- Office 365. His actual office install is online, runs from online and stores all cache / data required online
I told him to return that POS and go buy a real laptop. The sales guy told him this laptop was top of the line.
But besides the major OS changes i just cannot fathom why a company that has bread their users into using a START MENU since the early days of Windows has now ditched it for this spam "Metro" BS they call a Start Menu.
And I get it. They want to be apple. They are taking advantage of today's generation of kids who don't read EULAs and just accept everything. Like the new FB phone app, no-one cares what privacy they give up as long as they are "in the now". Sad.
And from a technician troubleshooting standpoint. Absolute garbage!
- Let's have the system configuration utility now open msconfig
- Let's integrate the OS into the MBR so no-one can easily get rid of it
- Let's get rid of the cdrom and all ports previously used so we don't have to make actual DVDs anymore (but not decrease the price of the product)
- Let's have users require a hotmail pass to install office products
- Let's make people search for what they want although they may not know what its called
- Let's make everything harder to do unless you simply use the internet and email
Not to mention that they used the same Metro interface on their Server 2012 OS editions. W..T..F...., that is just wrong!!.
And what bothers me the most is how they push this to the user. For the simple users wanting to buy a PC, no option of Win7 (although the hardware supports it), pushing Win10 advertisements as security updates, and just the amount of trickery involved in the OS.
I had a user try to downgrade from Win10 to Win7 as he upgraded accidentally and it ended with a format.
If all of this keeps up I'm going to have to find a new career.
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