With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy
I upgraded willingly so the deceptive upgrade practices, while deplorable, didn&#x27;t really affect me. What does affect me is that Microsoft refuses to let me control my computer.<p>- If you turn off Windows Defender Real Time Protection it explicitly tells you &quot;You can turn this off, but if it&#x27;s off for a while we&#x27;ll turn it back on&quot;. It turns itself on upon next reboot, it seems.<p>- You can&#x27;t turn off Windows Update. It will always end up downloading new updates.<p>- Once an update is scheduled for a restart you can only delay a few times and it will then force the restart.<p>- You can&#x27;t remove worthless apps like Microsoft Groove and OneDrive integration.<p>- They are continuing to try to weasel the Windows Store into my life by buying up or forcing exclusives (games), with all the drawbacks of UWP.<p>Microsoft, I promise I know what I&#x27;m doing and the risks and benefits of each action I want to perform. I own my hardware, I&#x27;d like to control the software I licensed. I am well aware of other OS options and I use Linux &amp; OS X often, but neither can compare to the gaming library available on Windows which is my primary use case for my desktop.