Useless Windows 10 Features
It has been about a decade since I used Windows (XP) as a daily driver, and I am <i>shocked</i>, and seriously disgusted, when I see my friends or co-workers using it.<p>Can I ask why anyone is <i>paying</i> for this pile of crap?<p>There are literally no improvements from Windows 7 vs. Windows 10, that could convince me this level of built-in telemetry, and, God forbid, built-in <i>advertising</i> is worth an &#x27;upgrade&#x27;.<p>For God&#x27;s sake, they are in the freaking <i>start menu</i>, and slow down several of my friends older computers who were force-upgraded.<p>And before you tell me what I already know, that you can &#x27;opt out&#x27; - <i>we should not have to opt out of advertising on an operating system we pay for</i>, especially one that did not have advertising before.<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, for all the talk about Apple&#x27;s &#x27;walled garden,&#x27; folks are so addicted to Windows x86 and x64 apps, and so locked into <i>that</i> walled garden, they are now willing to accept being tracked, and to literally have a slower OS due to the baked in advertising.<p>The failure, and massive financial deficit, that occurred from Windows RT should be more than enough evidence of this. Without its history of apps, Windows isn&#x27;t Windows.<p>Knowing that, Microsoft can pack whatever bullshit it wants, including, but not limited to, tracking and advertising, and we <i>still</i> buy.<p>The only inherently worse-for-the-user OS out there is Android. I will no longer use Google services, even by request. I&#x27;m literally trying to ween myself off YouTube, reporting a post on HN yesterday that was merely a YouTube link to a guy talking about how his wife left him that had somehow snuck it&#x27;s way onto the front page.<p>I pray one year, we will have that &#x27;year of Linux,&#x27; and Microsoft can go back to creating a quality product, instead of focusing on new ways to get information out of users.<p>Edit: I also pray for, and would even contribute code to, a <i>meaningful</i> third party mobile OS solution. I&#x27;m worried Apple will realize they are the last company to respect user privacy to even a reasonable degree, and get greedy.<p>However, there are so, so many issues with a new mobile OS, between devices, carriers, a bootloader compatible with said devices, licensing, and such, that at the moment, I am not seeing any of the projects in the works as feasible. To be honest - the world of commercial operating systems has never looked so grim.