Windows 10: Today Microsoft Starts the Most Aggressive Windows 10 Upgrade Campaign

They are the owners of these O/S,s....you are only entitled to use them under licence, on their terms.
As they are not making it obligatory to upgrade, just the nag nag....difficult to see how action could be taken....they have given a final support date for each O/S, so ignoring the nag nag is the only solution if you wish to continue using 7/8.1 O/S,s.

 

On that, I totally agree!*Smile

 

And who may I ask apart from yourself made this remark?
I prefer those made by Einstein and Stephen Hawkins, both eminent gentlemen.

 

I have using windows 10 now for about 2 months and all I have had is one problem after another and my opinion is that Microsoft has idiots for programmers, because I don't think that they even tested windows ten. Anytime you write a new program or even updates for an exiting program you need to test the program or test the update for a program. I am going to reload Windows 7 and find a way to get rid of the Windows 10 upgrade icon that they put the task bar. In my opinion Microsoft has gotten worse with every os they have come out with since Window XP. I am just ranting know so I will stop, enough said.

 

Can't say but I seriously doubt I am the first.*Roflmao2

It doesn't take an Einstein or a Hawkins to see the obvious. All this rhetoric about change, this is all manufactured change for the benefit of a major corporation. Microsoft made their bed with the various OS Life-cycles and now they must sleep in it and they don't like and they want to move on. Too Bad MS. No!, I don't hate MS. Windows 7 and 8.1 are fine OS's but I abhor the tactics MS is using with W-10. It's just wrong!

And this is a description of Microsoft's Nag tactics.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Guess Who?

 

Here is a Real-Life example of why the W-10 Upgrade process will not be free for many.

CerTec Software is a major supplier of Point of Sale (POS) to the small business community. In many situations even a planned upgrade will result in some costs whereas an unplanned upgrade could be devastating.

From CerTec Support:

CerTek can assist you, but the is not a free service since it is not a requirement for Artisan nor are there any Artisan specific advantages. Unless you have a PREMIUM Support plan, we will bill you (hourly) for time spent to get you up and running again. Please expect $100-$200.

http://certek.com/kb4/windows-10-rea...e-you-dive-in/

 

This is irrelevant.

I have a device which works fine in Windows 8.1, but crashes in Windows 10, due to lack of drivers from the manufacturer.

How would being more intelligent (apart from knowing how to revert to 8.1, although that's knowledge rather than intelligence) help me with my driver issue?

The people who like Windows 10 are basically those who got lucky with drivers - which is admittedly a lot of people, and I have a computer which works fine in Windows 10.

But to foist Windows 10 on people when the driver support isn't there is unreasonable behaviour by Microsoft.

 

Windows 10 has been tested. By MS and those of us that are in the Insider Program. IMHO, MS hurriedly released Win 10 to the public so they could distance themselves from Win 8. Win 8.1 should have been the first release of Win 8. Cortana wasn't ready, Edge wasn't ready and their Windows as a service(forced updates) wasn't ready. All these and a few other things need a lot more improving. I just hope MS didn't ruin Win10 by releasing it to early like they did with Win 8. I like Win 10 and don't plan on going back to a earlier Windows version. I just think MS should have held off releasing Win 10 to the general public until a few more things was ready.

 

Of course that quote comes from someone with just an opinion like everyone else. Funny how you want to constantly tout that "haters gonna hate" thinking, yet you feel free to insult those opposed to you.

 

No no I completely agree with that. Just the second comment in this thread bugged me that's all. But I'm good. *Smile

 

The above post is what I was expecting when I made that comment.

I think that he needs to describe his experience as a programmer before he tosses stones at anyone at MS.

 

If you don't want W10 and want to be safe from some sneaky update, install a W10 in a virtual partition. That seems to be the remedy and they will then leave you alone.

 

If you don't want W10 and want to be safe from some sneaky update, just don't leave more than about 4GB of free space - i.e. less than the size of install.esd plus the applied updated windows setup files - on on your main windows partition - you can always mount a volume in an empty ntfs folder in your <username> folder to give yourself additional data storage space, which will not be available for upgrading your system.

 

I am a W7 aficionado and more than likely will be there a while longer. I am also on ios because I was'nt waiting for msft, all those years ago.

 

Really holding my water over this silly . . .*Zip