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WINDOWS 10 IS UTTER BULLSHIT<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are several issues with Windows which, at present, make Spyware\/Malware\u00a0OS 10 inappropriate and even outright dangerous for a lot of people. The most egregious, of course, is a total abandonment of any form of privacy and control.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Firstly, Microsoft openly stated that pervasive data collection will be present in any Windows version starting from Windows 10 and as a host of research on the Internet shows, this data collection cannot be disabled using official means. If you decide to disable total tracking (including keyboard scanning and voice recording) you’ll have to disable over a hundred different Internet addresses and then no one guarantees that a new Windows update doesn’t add new hosts because Microsoft surely is not interested in losing such a lucrative feature meant for Big Brother agencies. Read the rest of the article for official Microsoft statements and for various information on how Windows breaches you privacy and how you might try to control it (it’s almost futile btw).<\/p>\n

Secondly, Microsoft has stripped us of controlling Windows updates. It was ostensibly done to improve the user experience by keeping the system up to date and perhaps malware free, but the truth is that a built-in antimalware protection in Windows is simply horrible (according to various AV comparisons Microsoft Essentials misses over 20% of in the wild malware) and said updates mean nothing for security because over 90% of infections happen due to the user actions (like downloading and installing dubious applications). No Windows update can prevent such a behaviour.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, as Microsoft has stated multiple times, Windows 10 will not have any service packs, Windows 10 is the final version of Windows, because Windows 10 has become a service, it will be updated over time to bring new features and remove the old ones. Windows 10 you might have updated to in July 2015 will be a different OS than Windows 10 plus all its updates a year later.<\/p>\n

Let me say that I’ve always been a big fan of Windows because Microsoft does care about compatibility vs. many other tech companies which break backward compatibility all the time. However I’ve always felt that there are no resources or articles on the web which dig deep into Windows’ problems and therefore I wrote this very concise essay. Mind that it was not created to say that Linux is better (it’s\u00a0definitely<\/a>\u00a0not). It was created to stop Microsoft fans roaring in regard to Windows 10 and how it’s better than Windows 7 in every regard – it’s actually worse in most regards aside from DirectX 12 (which is actually hidden from the user and it’s only exposed in games).<\/p>\n

You may probably want to know why Windows 10 feels so buggy. Here’s a very nice\u00a0quote<\/abbr>:<\/p>\n

Full Disclosure: I worked at M$ from 2014-2015.<\/p>\n

MS has some very talented programmers. They’re not very common, but they exist. The problem is that the entire company is completely and totally focused on developing an absurd number of new features and products, giving them completely unrealistic deadlines, and then shipping software on those deadlines no matter how half-assed or buggy it is.<\/p>\n

The idea is that everything is serviceable over the internet now, so they can just “fix it later”, except they never do. This perpetuates a duct-tape culture that refuses to actually fix problems and instead rewards teams that find ways to work around them. The talented programmers are stuck working on code that, at best, has to deal with multiple badly designed frameworks from other teams, or at worst work on code that is simply scrapped. New features are prioritized over all but the most system-critical bugs, and teams are never given any time to actually focus on improving their code. The only improvements that can happen must be snuck in while implementing new features.<\/p>\n

As far as M$ is concerned, all code is shit, and the only thing that matters is if it works well enough to be shown at a demo and shipped. Needless to say, I don’t work there anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a new, not that unexpected, turn of events Microsoft now\u00a0foists ads<\/a>\u00a0as part of … security updates for Windows 7 and 8\/8.1 (KB3139929 which says nothing about this new “feature<\/a>“). People were afraid but never believed it would happen. It now has.<\/p>\n

So, there are two kinds of issues with the Windows operating system created by Microsoft. The first kind is the issues intrinsic to every Windows version starting from Windows Vista (XP is out of circulation and support so let’s forget about it).<\/p>\n

Problems which are present in every version of Windows for PC<\/p>\n