Microsoft Is Disgusting

~ Clarissa

Does anybody have an explanation why Microsoft is so eager to make people download Windows 10 that it employs such disgusting, low tricks one hasn’t seen since the 1990s?

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  1. I hope to God I never have to deal with such nonsense. I actually tried to upgrade to Windows 10 when it popped up on my computer in the first place. When I did so, the compatibility check stated that I couldn’t upgrade because my BIOS wasn’t supported (translation: my computer is too old). But instead of halting the upgrade, it continued attempting to install Windows 10 and uninstall Windows 7, to the point where I couldn’t start my computer because there was essentially no operating system to start with. I had to pay almost a hundred dollars to reset my system to factory settings and save all my files. It took me another week or so to track down all the software I had downloaded before the crash, too. I haven’t seen a popup for Windows 10 since, but at least now I know that if I do I need to close the window via task manager.

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  2. Free advice that nobody asked for:

    There are cheap backup programs available (Acronis True Image, for example) that will allow you to to a TOTAL, exact-copy backup of your internal hard drive to a separate external hard drive. The sector-by-sector backup is an exact duplicate of your internal hard drive, with everything on it (your OS, customized programs, data files, etc.). You can create the backup in a very short time (10 to 30 minutes, depending on the size of your system.)

    If ANY disaster strikes your internal hard drive (unwanted Windows 10 upgrade, lethal virus attack, ransomware, whatever), you can use an Acronis rescue disc that will reformat your internal hard drive, and then restore it perfectly from the backup copy on the external hard drive in less than 30 minutes.

    If you update your backup once a week, then you’ll never lose more than a week’s work of new data using this method.

    No, I don’t own stock in Acronis — but this software has saved my computer system many times over the years.

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    1. Interesting. I’ll check it out. I’ve got a Seagate external backup as well as Dropbox. You say Acronis saves program files, too? Everything’s online now, so it’s pretty simple to reinstall and recover my subscription keys. But it is a pain, especially with larger programs like Mathematica, or program suites like Microsoft Office. Thanks for the info! 😀

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      1. Acronis does an EXACT duplicate of the active partition on your hard drive, just as if you took a digital “photograph” of it. Since it copies SECTOR-BY-SECTOR instead of individual files, it can’t make errors like dropping or corrupting files. It’s a pass-fail process: You either get a perfect copy, or — this happened to me once out of hundreds of uses — a failed copy that can’t be accessed at all. When that happened, I ran the program a second time, and the new copy was perfect.

        It really is as simple as it sounds. I highly recommend looking into the program. You’re welcome.

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  3. Microsoft is never innovative, sometimes stupid, and often arrogant. In this case, facing issues with revenue and stock price, Microsoft placed business issues ahead of customers. They want to eliminate the costs of supporting obsolete versions of Windows by standardizing customers on one version. They then chose the most obtuse, insensitive method they could to make that happen.

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  4. It’s a secret plot by open source fanatics who have infiltrated Microsoft in order to convince them that Microsoft is so utterly evil that they will finally make the switch to Linux.

    Ok, so not really, but if only…

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  5. Of course, you’re aware that Windows 10 is the result of collaboration between Microsoft and Homeland Security. They want to make sure that it gets on as many people’s computers as possible.

    “By default Windows 10 Home is allowed to control your bandwidth usage, install any software it wants whenever it wants (without providing detailed information on what these updates do), display ads in the Start Menu (currently it has been limited to app advertisements), send your hardware details and any changes you make to Microsoft and even log your browser history and keystrokes which the Windows End User Licence Agreement (EULA) states you allow Microsoft to use for analysis.”

    http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2015/11/alert-microsoft-admits-windows-10-automatic-spying-cannot-be-stopped-2754152.html

    In the future, when Putin Bro, President for Life Trump doesn’t like your stand on the Ukraine, he can mess with you easily. Time to switch to Linux.

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