Let’s hope they can’t be suborned as easily and effectively as their American counterparts.Ī couple of months ago I swapped the HDD in my aging laptop for an SSD. For example, a few months after voting to allow Comcast, an oligopolistic media distributor, to acquire NBC Universal, an oligopolistic media content provider, FCC commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker resigned and became Comcast’s top in-house lobbyist, increasing her pay from under $170,000 a year to what is likely over $2.7 million a year.) I think the only place we’re likely to see any action at all is from European antitrust and consumer protection agencies. (The US uses unlimited, unequal, private election-campaign financing and has extremely weak conflict-of-interest rules for public officials. (Only a couple of days ago, a US District Court relied on an individual mandatory arbitration clause in AT&T’s terms of service to dismiss a class action suit against the company for throttling data in “unlimited” mobile-phone data plans.) As for the US Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general coming to the rescue, corporate influence over Congress, state legislatures, and public agencies is at an all-time high and public enforcement of antitrust and consumer-protection statutes is at an all-time low. US courts have unfortunately routinely upheld these clauses, even in contracts of adhesion between grossly unequal parties. Microsoft’s EULAs ban individual lawsuits and class actions, leaving end users with individual mandatory arbitration - always heavily slanted in favor of the company - as their only private recourse. “As sure as the Earth orbits the Sun, we can expect major lawsuits against Microsoft to arise from this behaviour.” So, Mani, that is why Win 7 STILL has nearly 60% installs on PCs and Jason: Why? Because of the telemetry links which upload users PRIVATE information to hundreds of MS sites. Win 10 has become Malware with built in Trojans. MS has NOT ONCE but TWICE downloaded and installed Win 10, destroying users work, without any notice.Ĭlick on the link to Reddit in the first line of Martin’s article. EG CAD/CAM, MRI scanners, CT scanners, etc. It does not support older, expensive, equipment. ![]() It deleted original hardware drivers and replaced them with MS generic drivers which did not work. “Security” updates have caused innumerable problems by installing incorrectly.īuild 1511 deleted Third Party software, which caused problems for users. It does not work very well in serious work environments.Įdge still does not have extensions or plugins, after 8 months Win 10 (and Win 8) is actually designed to work with touch screen smart phones and tablets. ![]() MS gave it away free in the hope that users would forget the Win 8 debacle. Win 10 first release was the poorly tested Alpha release. “Win 10 is better, more stable version, of OS”. Install the excellent GWX Control Panel application which has been designed to block Windows 10 on machines running Windows 7 or 10 is fast,fluid and secure”.Click on the link for instructions on how to do that. Set the preferences DisableOSUpgrade and DisableGWX in the Registry to block the upgrade to Windows 10.You can use the built-in hide functionality to block the installation of updates you don't want installed on your machine.Īdditionally, you may want to do the following to improve the blocking further. This requires that you go through the list of updates manually whenever they are presented to you to select those you want installed. ![]() Windows will notify you about updates but won't download or install them automatically anymore. Switch from "install updates automatically" to "check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". Step 3: Locate the "important updates" menu on the page that opens and click on it. Step 2: Click on "change settings" when the Windows Update Control Panel opens up. ![]() Step 1: Tap on the Windows-key, type Windows Update, and hit enter. Here is how that is done (the screenshots have been taken on a Windows 7 machine, but the methodology is the same on Windows 8). So, instead of having the system set to install updates automatically, you configure it to inform you about new updates so that you can decide whether to install them or not.
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