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Dear Microsoft - you elaphanters are done. With Windows 10 you've decided to push out sh*t bricks of updates that break installed software. What won't run? Ah yes, some exe called outlook.exe.
You are rapidly accelerating to the dust bin of please just go away.
for those of you on Windows 10, the next wonderful, we'll make your world safer by elephanting up what works update, it ain't so wonderful.
Don't ask me how I really feel.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Still on W7 
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Just SHUT UP! What's your beer? 
Where is John Simmons when you need him? Holy f***, I cannot believe this steaming pile of dooky.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Where is John Simmons when you need him?
He's still using W7...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Okay, upvoted
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Me too. 
/ravi
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...and holding fast!
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How do you feel, really ? 
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*Grabs popcorn and sits confortably* 
M.D.V.
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I've been on W10 both at home and work for ages without any problems 
So tell me, how do you "really" feel today 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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to be honest w10 vs w7, I don't see the benefit of the 10:
- it's no longer faster,
- it's no longer safer (some would even say less so),
- there's no absolute must-haves in it,
and conversely:
- it's having a hell of a lot more problems with each and every update,
- a lot more problems with 3rd party software,
- a lot more problems defining ones own choices of certain applications
...so why?
Please provide a GOOD reason.
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"The 10 in Windows 10 stands for perfection. As in prefect 10.", Marketing folks.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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No weird registry view issues.
It does run faster, and has a smaller footprint.
It is decidedly safer. Properly configured Secure Boot makes a mockery of rootkits.
And yeah, the software library is a mild issue, though proper use of compatibility mode will mitigate a multitude of issues.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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no idea bout registry view issues, so far seems same to me.
doesn't run faster, tests show equivalence. Of course ms "tests" shows a tuned 10 vs basic 7 (often not even equivalent hardware), but elsewhere truth comes out. 7 is more tunable than 10 (stopping services etc).
rootkits is only 1 form of attack, and less common these days now there are tools to protect (even for xp).
software compatibility, how about ms continuously changing people preferences? Just wastes peoples time putting things back they way THEY want THEIR system.
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So it looks to me like the real issue lies in the YMMV factor.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Drivers problems if you buy a new computer... 
New Hardware is not being supported in Win7 anymore (probably because windows is paying to make manufacturers help them to port users to win 10, or not paying them for win7 drivers to which manufacturers say "screw you", at the end of the day is still a business and no profit means no work)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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that's just crap, new hardware is being supported in 7, drivers are out there.
Sure windows update ignores them but every vendor is putting out windows 7 drivers on their own site. You think vendors are going to cut off over half their market because ms asked them?
It's not even wise to use windows update for drivers except for perhaps the most common equipment, they always run behind the manufacturers updates. (Even some intel drivers wu can be 2 - 3 versions behind.)
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What pissed me off is that Redmond appears to have pushed out an update that broke one of my VMs. A critically needed please stop crashing VM. Of course, this update was one of those "would you like to update?" Not now MS, not now. Okay, I'll wait till you're not watching.
Of course, I didn't connect the dots until I went over to reddit. The VMware group over there has far better support than the communities on vmware.com, others griping as well.
Last night, MS again knocked on my laptop to update something and "tada!!" it all works now.
Oh wait, office is broken. Hmm, dig around, it's not the first time. In fact, I think the Office team is so used to being hosed by OS updates, they've written their own little utility to put all the pieces back together. While reading, one of the useful idiots from MS posts "we're sorry you're having trouble, but software is complicated."  It occurs to me that I think MS has an AI answering user rants in the forums.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: It occurs to me that I think MS has an AI answering user rants in the forums.
Really? I think it would be cheaper to have a stupid human doing it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Really.... and here's why - every response is formed into some mealy mouthed whine of concern. And the answers are so general and vague.... but I said it mostly as a joke.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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i.e., Bangkok ... And I missed it: [^], [^].
Wish I had gone just to enjoy the wonderful, positive, energy that Thais emit/induce when they are collectively involved with something they care about. But, at this point (health reasons), fascinating, feral, Bangkok is not for moi.
p.s. a Naga [^] (Thai: phyanaak) is not a dragon, but a river serpent, considered in Thai/Buddhist cosmology as rain-maker, and protector of Siddhartha => Buddha during his achievement of enlightenment.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Too Much
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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No brief description of content == no-see-um
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Right. Because I'm new here and no one know me
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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