Posts by Comunicate Manifest

Remix OS: China's take on an Android operating system – but for PCs

Re: The Chinese government would like an Android OS...

LOL "Have fun decrypting it yourself" and that's the attitude they all should have taken to totalitarian regimes years ago.

Millions menaced as ransomware-smuggling ads pollute top websites

Re: Checks for anti-virus?

... or Windows with a good hosts file.

I use a nice hosts file too; and browsing is nicer, much quicker, less risky, and a more enjoyable experience because of it.

Microsoft's done a terrible job with its Windows 10 nagware

And it's their own fault. They took a flippant approach to their customers' choice and privacy. Now adoption has slowed to 1% per month.

They need to fix the privacy issue, and the patch and driver issue, and they need to do it without sulking.

They probably should come out with a Windows 10 SE (or Windows 11) to make the break clean.

How to increase adoption rate for Windows 10

I think the real answer why Windows 10 is resisted is that everyone thinks it is more spyware than operating system. Fix that and make people know Microsoft has fixed it, then Windows adoption would pick up. As it is, every time Windows 10 is mentioned, except with well censored fanboi sites and in their articles, the privacy - or lack thereof - issue is brought up.

Microsoft should:

1. Change the EULA so that it is clear that no right to privacy need be forfeited to employ Windows 10. Delineate use of Windows 10 from all the online services.

2. Change Windows 10 so there is a privacy switch which turns off all the data sending WITH the option to turn off all data sharing except that which is specifically needed for security updating and bug patching - don't play games - don't punish or sulk - use the ol' noggin.

3. Make driver patching user controllable in the case of non-security issues with drivers. When a driver has a security issue make it clear the patch is a security issue.

4. Make the prompt for Windows 10 upgrade on Windows 7/8.x systems more polite.

5. Make it well known to the public that you have fixed the privacy issue.

Watch adoption rates rise.

Hey Windows 10, weren't you supposed to help PC sales?

Re: Maybe if ...

No, you do not need to go on. Here I actually like the way Windows 10 looks, and if I didn't there's always Stardock's Start10 which looks beautiful on Windows 10. As for your other points: Microsoft should beware, pride and arrogance before a fall.

Privacy Issue

Microsoft should fix the privacy issue without sulking or attempting to punish its customers:

1. Delineate the operating system from online services in the EULA, making it possible to employ Windows 10 with out a forfeiture of the right to privacy.

2. Provide a switch to "one stop" turn off the data sharing with servers, for everything but security patches in Windows 10, and for everything in Windows 10 Pro. Make it so that once sharing is switched OFF, users can then go back and manually set individual items to share should they want to restore specific online services.

3. Microsoft needs to make non-security patches for the OS and drivers OPTIONAL.

4. Make sure to inform the public widely, so that the public's confidence in Windows 10 is restored. As it is, every man (made male and female) and her/his dog thinks of Windows 10 as probable spyware.

Chrome trumps all comers in reported vulnerabilities

Chrome * is * the vulernability

It's spyware from Google, plain and simple.

Microsoft adds 'non-security updates' to security patches

Tempest in a Teapot

Until you know what this update does, what's the point in getting hot under the collar?

For all you know, it just makes sure that should someone decide to (up-side-down)grade to Windows 10, that the settings etc. of IE 11 on the older install get properly carried over to the newer one.

Moreover, some aspect of the IE patch may be a indeed be a security improvement regardless.

So while I get that people don't like the aggressive promotion of Windows 10, this particular incident seems innocuous until proven otherwise.